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Unraveling Compiled Code Back to its Origins

Explore the process of decompiling a binary. Discover insights from decompiling a Nintendo GameCube game.

Robin Grundvåg

Robin Grundvåg

Seniorkonsulent i Miles

The compiler is a genious orchestrator of work, parsing thousands to milion lines of codes and outputs a black box we call a binary. Some of you might have tried to open a binary in a text editor to see the ancient hieroglyphs of seemingly random data. In this short talk i want to briefly introduce the world of untangling a compiled binary back to it's original form, something called decompilation. Join me as i share my experiences decompiling an old game for the Nintendo GameCube where we will peek into the minds of the developers and puzzle our way to parts of their original code.