Hacking arm decompiler released (for IDA)

[zecoxao]

not pointing out where to look for. however i assume this would help the scene tremendously, since 3ds is arm, right?

edit2:removed link

 

[redact]

could you not use arm-linux-objdump...?

 

[zecoxao]

could you not use arm-linux-objdump...?

well, when you have a tool that directly tells you the pseudo-code without needing any reverse engineeering skills. that eases up the process immensely

 

[FAST6191]

Why would you not be able to link it up? Decompilers are fine to link up as long as they do not break other rules.

Anyway I would be curious to see what goes. If you have it and a copy of IDA to hand then please try it with the princess maker game on the DS that came with the source code left in. I would not mind seeing how close it gets.

 

[zecoxao]

Why would you not be able to link it up? Decompilers are fine to link up as long as they do not break other rules.

Anyway I would be curious to see what goes. If you have it and a copy of IDA to hand then please try it with the princess maker game on the DS that came with the source code left in. I would not mind seeing how close it gets.

ok, sure. got a link for that?
edit: i posted the link as permitted. and the release group is the same one as the one who released IDA 6.5

 

[FAST6191]

Princess maker? It is a commercial ROM but the devs left in the source code for it (or the source code that they made -- the DS SDK used precompiled headers so it was mainly .c files).

cvn-prim4.zip aka Princess_Maker_4_DS_Special_Edition_JPN_NDS-Caravan was the game.

Granted you could probably use some homebrew to also test with but I reckon that game would be a good trial run.

Anyway I assume it is https://www.hex-rays.com/products/decompiler/manual/limit.shtml you are looking at. Looking at it I would say it is probably aimed more at IOS/android type things (the limitations mention 32 bit and float, the DS lacks the latter and I see no mention of THUMB). That said it is probably worth a look and I think my next systems to hack will either be android or some odd arcade stuff.

 

[windwakr]

Why would you not be able to link it up?.

It's a stolen copy of the official Hex-Rays ARM decompiler. You know, software that costs over $2000.

 

[FAST6191]

Whoa, I thought you mean can I link up the original author's page. You can't link up pirated software like that.

 

[zecoxao]

Whoa, I thought you mean can I link up the original author's page. You can't link up pirated software like that.

already deleted link. i was kinda dumb when you told me it was ok lol.

 

[Relys]

It was probably for the ARM 1.7 decompiler that got leaked today on exetools.

 

[Thesolcity]

Found it, going to test on a couple things...