metroid-disassembly
Commented 6502 disassembly of the NES Metroid that reassembles into a byte-identical cartridge.
Matching decomp Human-led complete playableFacts
- Original
- Metroid (1986)
- Platform
- NES
- Method
- Matching decomp
- Provenance
- Human-led · Started 2019 by a known volunteer team, predating AI coding agents (repository history) what this means
- Status
- complete
- Licence
- none
- Team
- nmikstas
- Started
- 2019-10
- Runs on
- NES
- Needs the original
- Yes: you supply your own legally obtained copy
How to get it legally
Bring your own file. Bring your own ROM or game files: read locally in the browser; no copyrighted data is hosted
This project was decompiled by nmikstas. Facts last checked 2026-10-13.
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