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[–] 16451664? ago 

Aren't different ASM languages somewhat mutually exclusive, though? If I learn the ASM for Game Boy, will that knowledge totally transfer to another architecture? Everything I know says otherwise, but I'm not an expert and it's been a long time since I wrote ASM.

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[–] 16452626? ago 

Assembly languages are specific to the hardware architecture, yes. So if you learn asm for gameboy you can't just write the same code and have it work on amd64. But they all have a ton in common, so if you learn asm for one architecture it is trivially easy to learn another. You really just need the spec sheet to reference, all the concepts carry over just not the specific details like how many registers you have and what they are for.