#150165 - mojobojo - Wed Jan 30, 2008 8:24 pm
Dose anyone know of a gba, gbc, gb file decompiler. When I make game I like to look at comercial games (to see what makes them tick) and make my own games based on the source code.
#150182 - Dwedit - Wed Jan 30, 2008 10:16 pm
Full decompilers to a high level language (such as decompiling machine code to C) are not feasible.
However, you can use a disassembler to see what ASM code is executed. It can not recover symbol names, so you only have memory addresses to go by.
Some emulators have a Debugger feature to let you step through the disassembled ASM code, and set breakpoints.
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#150208 - bpoint - Thu Jan 31, 2008 7:11 am
| Dwedit wrote: |
Full decompilers to a high level language (such as decompiling machine code to C) are not feasible.
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This is not exactly true -- you should look at Boomerang.
However, AFAIK, Boomerang only currently supports x86 CPU-based executables, not GBA/ARM like the OP is looking for. :)
#150230 - Kyoufu Kawa - Thu Jan 31, 2008 8:34 pm
Same thing with HexRays, a plugin for IDA. IDA can dissemble most any platform's binaries, but HexRays only works for x86. Still interesting though.