# Super Mario Bros. Meta-Disassembly: six 8-bit engine variants

> Super Mario Bros. Meta-Disassembly organizes six 8-bit Super Mario Bros. engine releases in one assembly codebase. Preprocessor definitions select release-specific code, while extraction scripts obtain assets from iNES or FDS game images. The assembly includes control-flow commentary.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-09
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://gitlab.com/segaloco/smb>
- Primary source: <https://gitlab.com/segaloco/smb/-/blob/3a50368059def1162b2e47110dbf00a8e2a00aa5/README>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/smb-meta-disassembly-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/smb-meta-disassembly-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/smb-meta-disassembly-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** The source lists UNIX-like or Plan 9 systems and the cc65 6502 development suite for building.
- **Prerequisites:** Game images in iNES or FDS format are required to extract assets.
- **Limits:** The author lists remaining cleanup and relocation checks.
- **License:** No licence stated on the project page.

## Primary sources

1. <https://gitlab.com/segaloco/smb/-/blob/3a50368059def1162b2e47110dbf00a8e2a00aa5/README>

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