# Zoids Legacy: byte-matched GBA code reconstruction

> This rebuilds 1,130 code regions of Zoids Legacy for the Game Boy Advance, USA, and compares each region's bytes with the ROM. make verify checks the ROM SHA-1 and does not write a ROM. The translation editor is python3 tools/script_editor.py and listens on 127.0.0.1:5097. English and Spanish text files are dialogue-en.json, scene-translation.json, and the Spanish counterparts. The USA ROM is named Zoids Legacy (USA).gba.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/jmacato/ZoidsLegacyDecomp>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/jmacato/ZoidsLegacyDecomp/blob/16aaa5da8d5dd256cf3efbef07af490c75a00b63/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/zoids-legacy-decomp/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/zoids-legacy-decomp/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/zoids-legacy-decomp/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- Python 3, a C preprocessor, ARM binutils, and agbcc commit da598c1d918402c42c0c0d7128ba14567f3175e9 built with GCC 14. Run make verify with the USA ROM.
- The README names no license.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/jmacato/ZoidsLegacyDecomp/blob/16aaa5da8d5dd256cf3efbef07af490c75a00b63/README.md>

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