# sm_disassembly: a relocatable Super Metroid disassembly

> sm_disassembly provides a relocatable assembly disassembly of the SNES game Super Metroid, organized into bank files and based on earlier bank logs. Build scripts extract assets from the user's original NTSC ROM and assemble the source with asar 1.81.

- 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/InsaneFirebat/sm_disassembly>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/InsaneFirebat/sm_disassembly/blob/7af131ebc328359e852e923603163a329c7aa7af/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/super-metroid-disassembly-case/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/super-metroid-disassembly-case/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/super-metroid-disassembly-case/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** Requires the user's original unheadered Super Metroid NTSC ROM and Python 3.
- **Prerequisites:** Assembles with asar 1.81.
- **License:** LICENSE.txt states the Zero-Clause BSD license.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/InsaneFirebat/sm_disassembly/blob/7af131ebc328359e852e923603163a329c7aa7af/README.md>
2. <https://github.com/InsaneFirebat/sm_disassembly/blob/7af131ebc328359e852e923603163a329c7aa7af/LICENSE.txt>

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