travisgoodspeed/gbrom-tutorial resource

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A step-by-step tutorial for recovering the GameBoy boot ROM from photographs of a decapsulated chip's die, using MaskRomTool to extract bits from via patterns. It walks through photography, bit extraction, and producing a usable ROM file.

Use cases

• extract a gameboy boot rom from die photos
• learn mask rom recovery from chip photographs
• read bits from microscope images of a rom
• dump a gameboy cpu rom without a cartridge
• learn hardware reverse engineering of mask roms
• convert die photographs into a binary rom file

When to choose

• you want a hands-on introduction to mask ROM bit extraction
• you have die photographs of a via ROM and need to recover its contents
• you want to learn MaskRomTool with a small, forgiving example target

When to avoid

• you need to dump ROMs from cartridges or flash chips
• you need a general-purpose ROM extraction tool rather than a tutorial
• your target chip requires delayering or bit staining not covered here

Facets

learning-resource · maturity active

reverse-engineering image-processing developer-tools hardware tutorials reverse-engineering gaming-tools cross-platform cli mask-rom gameboy chip-decapsulation microscopy rom-recovery tutorial desktop

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