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Also, I wish there were a guide about how to start from nothing on a new GC game. That's more interesting to me than putting the finishing polish on a decomp project that already "works" functionally.
This is cool as hell. On the first lesson, it tells me there's a target on "the right". There isn't anything to the right, I've in clue where to look.
Are you on mobile? You'll need to switch to the code/review tab to see. I think mobile support is a bit funky, I'll look at fixing that as soon as I can!
Dumb question about reverse engineering binaries: is there a way to only do it piecemeal? I'm eventually waiting for LLMs and harnesses to get good enough to reverse engineer BFME (old Lord of the Rings game that still has an active modding community), but it's a multi GB sized game that would have to be done in bite-sized pieces. Basically; can you reverse engineer in bite sized pieces, and recompile/customize their…
Yes, quite easily. It requires some setup, but the basic idea is that you create a DLL and a simple loader program which injects it into your target process. You can then use a hooking library like MinHook to replace individual functions with your own implementations. If the target application is in C++, you can additionally do vtable hooking and replace functions even easier (though it will always be a combination o…
> If even 1 instruction or bit is off, that's a fail. Does this assume having access to the exact version of the compiler use, or can it be done with a different compiler in practice? And do you care about things like binary layout, or just instruction match? (Does that ever matter in practice?)
Generally bit-for-bit equivalence to the original executable is expected. However I think for some cases where the original executable included debug info (eg. PS2 ELFs) then the unused-at-runtime sections need not match.
I like decomp, but it makes me nervous. Like how safe is it to decompile a game and publish it to like github with all the symbols, addresses, etc..
Love the idea! Assembly has been on my forever-list to eventually learn. I have worked through the warmup exercises, but I doubt I'll have the time to continue much past that. A few points of note: - Not a fan of the purple theme, it screams "AI-generated". It's not a deal breaker, you can keep it if you have more important concerns, but just something to point out - It would be nice to have a "Chapter 0" for a prime…