Reverse Engineering Tools - widberg/fmtk GitHub Wiki
This is a list of every free tool I have ever used while reverse engineering Zouna games. I like some of them more than others but they have all been useful.
Tools for general use
- Noesis - Scriptable file visualizer, exporter, and importer
- Ghidra - Disasembler and decompiler
- Cutter - Disasembler and decompiler
- CyberChef - Online scriptable data manipulator
- 010 Editor - Scriptable hex editor
- ImHex - Scriptable hex editor and data visualizer
- QuickBMS - Scriptable data manipulator
- 3D Model Researcher - Find and visualize 3D mesh data in files
- Windows Sysinternals Strings - Find and filter strings in files
- findstr - Find and filter strings in files
- Signsrch - Find and identify common byte patterns in files
- signsrch.sig - My personal
signsrch.sigwith a few extra signatures
- signsrch.sig - My personal
- Kuriimu2 - General-purpose game translation project manager and toolkit for authors of fan translations and game mods, it has a great raw image viewer
- ReClassEx - Structure editor
- Detect It Easy - Detect file types and what tools were used to build them
- Hobbits - Scriptable hex editor and data visualizer
- Sandboxie Plus - Run sketchy shit safely
- Beyond Compare - Compare lots of files. It's good to see what changed on discs between regions/versions
- binwalk - Find common file types in large files
- Useful Forks - Find forks of GitHub projects that have had work done on them
- decomp-toolkit - General-purpose decompilation tools mostly for Nintendo consoles
Tools for PC games
- Luke Stackwalker - Capture stack traces and sort by time spent
- x64dbg - x86/x64 debugger
- apitrace - Trace graphics API calls
- Ninja Ripper - Extract mesh and texture data from a running game
- Dependencies - View a tree of dll imports; better version of Dependency Walker
- Process Monitor - Trace Windows API calls
- ScyllaHide - Evade anti-debug
- Frida - Scriptable debugger and instrumentation
- RenderDoc - Debug graphics libraries
- Resource Hacker - View and edit embedded resources in PE files
- Rivatuner Statistics Server - Set framerate cap
- ret-sync - Sync reverse engineering tools
- VMPDump - VMP devirtualizer
- OllyDbg - x86 Debugger
- ODbgScript - Scripting plugin for OllyDebug
- VMProtect 2.0x Unpacker v1.0.txt - OllyDbg script to devirtualize running VMP process
- Process Dump - Dump running process as PEs to disk
- Offbreak - Tool for debugging file access
- Steamless - Steamless is a DRM remover of the SteamStub variants
- ReClass.NET - Formatted memory viewer
- richprint - View PE RichHeader, which contains a list of Microsoft tools used to build the binary
- PEAnatomist - View PE/COFF file data
- objconv - COFF/PE, OMF, ELF, and Mach-O manipulator
- pdbdownload - Download PDB files from the Microsoft Symbol Server easily
Tools for Mac games
- HFSExplorer - Extract Mac partition of game discs
Tools for GameCube games
- gcit - Extract and create GameCube disk images
- Ghidra GameCube Loader - Ghidra plugin for working with GameCube executables
- ghidra-gekko-broadway-lang - Ghidra plugin for the GameCube ISA
Tools for Wii games
- NKit + Wii Partitions - Partitions needed to extract Wii disk images
- wit - Extract and create Wii disk images
- Ghidra GameCube Loader - Ghidra plugin for working with GameCube executables
- ghidra-gekko-broadway-lang - Ghidra plugin for the GameCube ISA
Tools for PlayStation/PlayStation 2/PlayStation 3/PlayStation Portable games
- 7zip or any tool capable of opening ISO files - Extract and create PlayStation disk images
- ghidra_psx_ldr - Ghidra plugin for working with PlayStation executables
Tools for XBox 360 games
- Xbox 360 Image Browser - Extract and create Xbox 360 disk images
- extract-xiso - Extract and create Xbox disk images
- XEXLoaderWV - Ghidra plugin for working with Xbox executables
Databases
- MagNumDB - Magic number database
- The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences® (OEIS®) - Easily searchable list of numbers
- debugging.games - Debug symbols for lots of games