diff --git a/ROM2/Makefile b/ROM2/Makefile
index 38780bfa9582d758ce4fdff80eb0ef8d8c5c8093..4a3721886c96ab8719529632fd3b44d2859d5657 100644
--- a/ROM2/Makefile
+++ b/ROM2/Makefile
@@ -36,9 +36,10 @@ LD = $(DEVC_PREFIX)ld
 
 all: rom2.b rom2.elf rom2.s19
 
-rom2.elf: $(OBJS) memory.x
+rom2.elf: $(OBJS) memory.x check-romsrc.pl
 	$(CC) $(LDFLAGS) -o $@ $(OBJS) $(LIBADD)
 	$(SIZE) $@
+	@perl -w check-romsrc.pl
 
 clean:
 	rm -f *.o *.elf *.s19 *.b *.a rom.tar.bz2 romsrc.s crctab.h m68hc11-gdb gencrctab
diff --git a/ROM2/check-romsrc.pl b/ROM2/check-romsrc.pl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..cf74d0e8d84b35b793d7fe5b9e81c063fca59cac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ROM2/check-romsrc.pl
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+#!/usr/bin/perl -w
+
+# looking for a line like:
+# 00009800 g       .rodata        00000000 _rom_src_data
+
+open(OD, "m68hc11-objdump -x rom2.elf|") or die "Could not open objdump of rom image!\n";
+while (<OD>) {
+	if (/^([0-9a-fA-F]+).*_rom_src_data$/) { $origin = $1 }
+}
+close OD;
+if (!defined $origin) {
+	print "WARNING!!! No bz2 data could be found in the ROM image!\n";
+	exit 1;
+}
+$origin = hex($origin);
+
+open(PL, "src2asm.pl") or die "Could not open src2asm.pl\n";
+while (<PL>) {
+	if (/^\$origin = 0x([0-9a-fA-F]+);$/) { $pl_origin = $1 }
+}
+close PL;
+if (!defined $pl_origin) {
+	print "WARNING!!! Couldn't find origin in src2asm.pl!\n";
+	exit 2;
+}
+$pl_origin = hex($pl_origin);
+if ($pl_origin != $origin) {
+	printf "WARNING!!! The origin of the bz2 data is now 0x%04x. This needs to\n", $origin;
+	printf "           be updated in src2asm.pl (which currently says 0x%04x).\n", $pl_origin;
+	exit 3;
+}
+printf "Origin of bz2 data is 0x%04x and correct.\n", $origin;
diff --git a/ROM2/src2asm.pl b/ROM2/src2asm.pl
index e382f24672f2d1fd51fd524879289a7bd1ca5d7e..0500e789cfe1131bc29488326ea84608426de26a 100644
--- a/ROM2/src2asm.pl
+++ b/ROM2/src2asm.pl
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/perl -w
 
-$origin = 0x9800; # must match address of .romsrc in memory.x
+# keep the format of this next line the same to match regex in check-romsrc.pl
+$origin = 0x9800;
 $hole_start = 0xb600;
 $hole_size = 0x0200;