Pokemon Emerald (JP) decompilation

Disassembly of the Japanese release of Pokemon Emerald that rebuilds a ROM matching the original checksum.

Matching decomp Human-led stalled

Source code

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Last pushOct 8, 2021

GitHub figures as of 2026-10-14, refreshed daily.

Facts

Original: Pokemon Emerald (Japanese) (2004)
Platform: Game Boy Advance
Method: Matching decomp
Provenance: Human-led · Repo created 2019, predates AI coding tools (GitHub) what this means
Status: stalled
Licence: none
Team: pret
Started: 2019-08
Runs on: Game Boy Advance
Needs the original: Yes: you supply your own legally obtained copy

How to get it legally

This project ships code only. Build or download it from the official repository, then supply data from a copy of Pokemon Emerald (Japanese) you own. Recomp never links to ROMs, discs or game data.

This project was decompiled by pret. Facts last checked 2026-10-14.

Sources

https://github.com/pret/pokeemerald-jp

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