Reverse Engineering

Resources

Articles

• 800% Detail: Tweaking Stunt Island’s 30-year-old 3D Engine - Alberto Marnetto

• Beej's Quick Guide to GDB - Brian "Beej Jorgensen" Hall

• Exploring Tokimeki Memorial - Tetracorp

• Fixing the Loading in Myst IV: Revelation - Anthony Kleine (HN thread)

  • Part 1

  • Part 2

• Hacking AirPlay into Sonos - Stephen Wan

• Hacking Super Monkey Ball - Andrew Eikum

  • Part 1 – Banana Bunch Values

  • Part 2 – Decompilation with Ghidra

• How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70% - t0st (HN thread)

• HOWTO-Reverse Engineering - ScummVM

• Learning about debuggers - Andy Hippo

• Resurrecting a dead Dune RTS game - Tom Mason

• Reverse engineering an illegal IPTV application on the Google Play Store - Chaker Benhamad

• Reverse Engineering Call Of Duty Anti-Cheat - ssno

• Tony Hawk’s Pro Strcpy - I Code 4 Coffee

Books

• Practical Malware Analysis: The Hands-On Guide to Dissecting Malicious Software - Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig

• Reverse Engineering for Beginners - Dennis Yurichev

Cheat Sheets

• A quick guide to Android app reversing

• GDB personal cheatsheet - Liodeus

GitHub Repositories

• Awesome Reverse Engineering

• ghidraMCP - LaurieWired

• ImHex

• Reverse Engineering

• Reverse Engineering resources

• RootMyRoku

Linux Distributions

• REMnux

Tools

• 010 Editor

• angr

• Binary Ninja

• CicoParser - set of tools for conversion of IBM PC DOS applications into modern operating systems

• Cutter

• Dependency Walker

• dnSpy - .NET debugger and assembly editor

• Frida - A world-class dynamic instrumentation toolkit

  • frida-trace - tool for dynamically tracing function calls

• GDB

  • pwndbg

• Ghidra

  • ghidra_psx_ldr - Sony Playstation PSX executables loader for GHIDRA

  • Ghidra Emotion Engine: Reloaded - An extension for Ghidra that adds support for the PlayStation 2

• IDA Freeware

• IDA Pro

• ILSpy - .NET decompiler

• ImHex - Free and Open Source Hex Editor

• OllyDbg

• PE Explorer

• PEiD

• PEview

• ProcDOT

• Process Hacker

• radare

• Resource Hacker

• x64dbg

TryHackMe Rooms

• Windows Reversing Intro

Tutorials

• Android App Reverse Engineering 101 - Maddie Stone

• Nightmare

Websites

• crackmes.one

• GuidedHacking

• RetroReversing - Retro Reverse Engineering

  • GitHub repository

  • Playstation 1 Games with Debug Symbols

• ReversingHero

• RootMy.TV

YouTube Channels

• Nathan Baggs

• Stephen Chapman

YouTube Playlists

• Decompiling Castlevania: Symphony of the Night - Made Up of Wires

• Reverse Engineering with Ghidra - HackadayU

YouTube Videos

• An exhaustive look at extracting graphics from PS1 and PS2 games - Hilltop

• An introduction to hacking video games with Ghidra - Hilltop

• Cicoparser: Full game reverse engineering - Gabriel Archandel

• Cities Skylines II Malware [FULL REVERSE ENGINEERING ANALYSIS] - John Hammond

• How to Extract Sprites and Textures from a PS1 Game - Ryandracus Codes Games

• PS2 game hacking & reverse engineering - Luciano Ciccariello

• Reverse Engineering, but it's 100 Math Problems. - Low Level Learning

• Reverse Engineering 101: How to Dissect and Master Any Platform - LaurieWired

• Reverse Engineering a Classic Video Game (BioForge) - Tim Comport

• Reverse engineering an old DOS game - Fabrice Lété

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  • Part 2 of N

• Reverse Engineering fine details of Game Boy hardware - Joonas Javanainen

• Reverse Engineering/Game Patching Tutorial: Full Res Roller Coaster Tycoon with Ghidra+x64dbg+Python - jeFF0Falltrades

• Self-Learning Reverse Engineering in 2022 - LiveOverflow

• x64dbg Demo | CrackMe Challenges - stryker2k2