# Super Mario Advance 2: a Game Boy Advance disassembly

> Super Mario Advance 2 disassembly reconstructs the Game Boy Advance game as assembly and data source. Its Makefile uses a user-supplied baserom.gba with devkitARM and pokeruby build tools to produce a ROM whose expected SHA-1 is documented.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/atasro2/sma2>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/atasro2/sma2/blob/d261c24a292d6cb708e0d548c2b1f53015321bb4/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/super-mario-advance-2-disassembly-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/super-mario-advance-2-disassembly-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/super-mario-advance-2-disassembly-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** A copy of the original ROM named baserom.gba is required.
- **Prerequisites:** devkitARM, pokeruby-tools and the devkitARM MSYS environment are listed for building.
- **License:** No licence file in the repository.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/atasro2/sma2/blob/d261c24a292d6cb708e0d548c2b1f53015321bb4/README.md>

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