animaone / star-ocean-blue-sphere-source-code

star ocean blue sphere source code

This repository contains an extracted source code from the Gameboy Color game Star Ocean Blue Sphere, the extraction was done automatically using my own dynamic disassembler

% of code documented (code and variables):

Current state of the disassembler:

Some beautiful code:

2020 version released!

sobs_new/ <- 2020 version

Facts about Star Ocean Blue Sphere and the current stage of the disassembler:

• ~= 70000 Lines of assembly source code
• Programmed by 3 persons:
  • Teruki Okusi
  • Naohisa Kamei
  • Natsuki Nishimura
• Yeah. I know a game is not made only by the programmers, there are game designers, graphic artists, musicians, salesperson, logistics specialists, marketing, but... I still am amazed that this game was created by a so small quantity of ninjas, many thanks for this piece of art.

Building:

TO COMPILE: EXECUTE ./sobs_new/buildRom.sh -> you will need wla-gb to compile. wla-gb version used: wla-gb 9.11a

Symbols File:

There is a symbols file that can be used for documenting/debugging purposes: Asmrom.sym https://github.com/animaone/star-ocean-blue-sphere-source-code/blob/master/asmRom.sym

Symbols files are supported in the following emulators: BGB and GearBoy

Previous source code version:

old version for historical purposes (check old source code branch here: https://github.com/animaone/star-ocean-blue-sphere-source-code/tree/old_version)

If you have documented any part of the source code, please provide a symbols file so that we can grow the documentation, which is not possible to be done in an automated way.