pokered
pret's full disassembly of Pokémon Red and Blue that reassembles into the original ROMs. It is the starting point for countless Gen 1 hacks.
Matching decomp Human-led completeFacts
- Original
- Pokémon Red and Blue (1996)
- Platform
- Game Boy
- Method
- Matching decomp
- Provenance
- Human-led · Started 2013 by a known volunteer team, predating AI coding agents (repository history) what this means
- Status
- complete
- Licence
- none
- Team
- pret
- Started
- 2013-07
- Runs on
- Game Boy
- 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 Pokémon Red and Blue you own. Recomp never links to ROMs, discs or game data.
This project was decompiled by pret. Facts last checked 2026-10-13.
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