The Astérix Gaming Guild: modding

PegPeregoGaucho

you call it reverse engineering

Mr.Rubinshtein

ah lmao

Mr.Rubinshtein

right

Mr.Rubinshtein

Mr.Rubinshtein

so there are tools out there which help to look into specific other programs?

Mr.Rubinshtein

or you make it literally from scratch?

PegPeregoGaucho

no

PegPeregoGaucho

you decompile it

PegPeregoGaucho

there are decompilers out there that will translate the machine code to various languages but they are not really perfect yet and often produce bad code

Mr.Rubinshtein

i see

Mr.Rubinshtein

converter for code

PegPeregoGaucho

anyways even if a decompiler gives you something, you will need to edit it to proper C for example

Mr.Rubinshtein

mhm

PegPeregoGaucho

otherwise you will have casts everywhere :PauseChamp:

AdrienTD

Decompilers can sometimes do a good job decompiling stuff, but it can still do mistakes, so you still have to assist/help the decompiler to get it right.

Mr.Rubinshtein

seems interesting stuff you guys do there

Mr.Rubinshtein

even tho its searching and basically recreating the code of game

Mr.Rubinshtein

sounds like fun

AdrienTD

not necessarily recreating from scratch, but understanding the code and describe it in another language

AdrienTD

Here's an example of Ghidra decompiling code for collecting helmets :helmet:

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