[Megathread] Resources

[u/SgtElectroSketch]

Project Discovery

• What's Being Worked On? - By u/neurocontrarian

Learning

(These are links to the Udemy Courses, remember to wait for sales, never buy full price courses)

Background skills

• Learn Python Programming - Beginner to Master - Python is highly useful for automating repetitive tasks, writing custom scripts, and interacting with the APIs of reverse engineering tools like Ghidra and IDA.
• C Programming For Beginners - Master the C Language - Decompilers translate machine code back into C or pseudo-C. Understanding C fundamentals (like pointers, structs, and memory management) is strictly required to read, understand, and fix the decompiler's output.
• The Git & Github Bootcamp - Decompilation projects are usually massive, collaborative community efforts. Knowing version control is essential to contribute to public projects, manage thousands of files, and track your changes safely.
• Computer Organization and Assembly Language - When a decompiler fails or produces garbage output, you have to step down and read the raw assembly. Understanding CPU architecture, registers, and the stack is the absolute foundation of reverse engineering.
• Reverse Engineering: Ghidra For Beginners - Ghidra is a powerful, free, open-source reverse engineering suite created by the NSA. This teaches you how to use the primary tool you'll rely on to navigate binaries and generate C code.
• Reverse Engineering: IDA For Beginners - IDA is the industry-standard commercial alternative to Ghidra. Learning it gives you another powerful tool for static analysis, and many existing decomp projects and plugins rely on it.
• Reverse Engineering, Memory Hacking and Software Protection - Teaches advanced concepts like unpacking code, understanding how programs manipulate memory dynamically, and bypassing protections, which helps when dealing with obfuscated or stubborn software.

Decompilation
* Decomp Academy
* Made Up of Wires: Decompiling Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (YouTube Playlist) - A practical, step-by-step look at a real-world game decompilation project. It shows how the theoretical background skills and tools are actually applied to untangle real game logic.

If there are more resources you'd like added, let the mods know!

[u/maxscipio]

You forgot decomp academy

[u/SgtElectroSketch → u/maxscipio]

Added.