Game Cartridge Disassembly Repository

[vicassembly]

I came upon some ROM disassembly archives that prompted me to WISH for a location for game ROM disassembly.

https://eden.mose.org.uk/gitweb/?p=rom- ... 44;hb=HEAD

Is there an archive available or can anyone point me to where some game cartridges have been disassembled in this manner? It would be fun to read through the code.

[srowe]

I don't know of any other dissassemblies but if anyone has any more I'm happy to host them with the others.

[Kweepa]

Not carts but these are superb disassemblies of Speccy games:
http://skoolkit.ca/?page_id=113
For example, this was invaluable for my Manic Miner port:
http://skoolkit.ca/disassemblies/manic_miner/

[Mike]

It would be fun to read through the code.

I think it's for a good reason that mainly the code of VIC-20 utility cartridges has been reverse engineered into source lately.

In those cases, the motivation wasn't merely for the 'fun' to read the code (and maybe take some ideas from it for own projects), but most probably to have a reliable means of relocating the cartridge code to another address (other than a one-off action with the 'new locator' function of some monitor programs, which often enough only does half the job). *Maybe* for more thorough actions as for fixing bugs and extending the functions (wimoos' WimBasic is a more prominent example for this).

(Cartridge) game code tends to be rather specialised and, in the case of text adventures, largely table driven. Without weeks or months spent into understanding the inner interpreter of that data, there not much gained in terms of new programming skills.