urde VS ghidra

Metaforce for Metroid Prime is a thing that nobody ever seems to notice exists: https://axiodl.com/

Without source code, someone would have to dig through the 1s and 0s and try to piece together how the developers put together all the algorithms and such in the first place. There are some tools to make this easier, but most of the time it's like solving a completely white jigsaw puzzle with a billion pieces. Check out the "Metaforce," discord where they're decompiling/reverse engineering Metroid Prime if you're curious what this type of project looks like.

Metroid Prime isn't quite ready, but it's getting close.

Here's a link to the github where you can set it up yourself and also has links to the discord: https://github.com/AxioDL/metaforce

Or go a little further with MetaForce: https://github.com/AxioDL/metaforce/

Primehack (here's the downloader/auto-updater) is pretty much the definitive way to play it at the moment (at least until Metaforce goes into beta). Keyboard/mouse controls, dual stick analog controls, original Wii controls, plenty of QOL features, full HD, it's great!

Main page: https://axiodl.com

After playing Trilogy since it came out, I recently played through the original GCN version using Metaforce (a reverse engineering of Prime to run natively on PC) and realized IMHO that the lore was soooo much better. Ignoring entries with plotholes that had later been fixed, the way the Chozo lore was written was a lot more verbose and felt like I was really reading words written by an ancient, transcendent civilization. It was sort of abstract and seemed like the author was peering back from beyond the void to leave behind a message, while the new versions feel a bit plain.

Metaforce (formerly known as URDE)

Let's see what our beloved software reverse engineering framework Ghidra has to show.

Define war machinery. Contributing to Ghidra?

https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra

Binary Ninja likewise is empty and keeps up just fine as well. It's not a coincidence that the two commercial products that are funding it are both confident enough to put their stuff online like this.

And it's no conspiracy theory or intentional sandbagging, you can see the implementation: https://github.com/decompiler-explorer/decompiler-explorer

and if anyone can improve the other tools performance we'd be happy to accept it. We reached out to the Ghidra devs: https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/issues/5228 but they didn't have any silver bullets for us either.

Nice, I'll give it a closer look. My only concern so far is memory hooking (still needed for hardware registers), which on Java side was called by FilteredMemoryState [1]. In memstate.cc it looks like just the simpler MemoryState is implemented [2], and there's no equivalent to MemoryAccessFilter. But it might not be that complicated to add...

[1]: https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/blob/4561e8...

[2]: https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/ghidra/blob/4561e8...