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