[NTLK] ROM Disassembly online?

[Jake Bordens]

Very nice!

One thing I wanted to mention.  I think I remember Matthias saying his disassembler can detect Binary NewtonScript Code (and Binary Objects?) 

I think it would be really slick if we could pass those through Newt/0 and make them human readable.  (Only problem is then the App becomes 32-bit only, as Newt/0 doesn't run 64-bit)

Also wanted to mention this interesting project, in case you haven't seen it.

	https://github.com/pablomarx/ROM-Soup

Last I checked, ROM Soup only worked on 1.0 ROMs but I could be wrong.

Pablomarx has an interesting approach to decompiling the NewtonScript.  He basically "installs" ViewFrame and the ViewFrame decompiler into a Newt/0 VM and then executes the ViewFrame functions to decompile the binary representation.  Pretty cool.


I know Steven is trying to solve more immediate problems here, so this is just pie-in-the-sky type stuff.  But it might be possible to someday have a ROM viewer that interprets most of the ROM into more readable format. 





On 5/29/15, 1:27 AM, "Steven Frank" <stevenf at panic.com> wrote:

>Following up to my previous message:
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>I forked Matthias' dynee5 repository and built this simple Cocoa app on top of Albert:
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>http://stevenf.com/gfx/rom-explorer.png <http://stevenf.com/gfx/rom-explorer.png>
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>It's simply taking Albert's analysis of the ROM and displaying it in a table rather than dumping it out to the terminal as asm code. 
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>Right now, that table is read-only, but we could tweak it to have editable flags and comments, and export the updated symbol data...?
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>Code is here:
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>https://github.com/panicsteve/dynee5/tree/master/ROM%20Explorer <https://github.com/panicsteve/dynee5/tree/master/ROM%20Explorer>
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>It's not complete.  What would be the most helpful thing to add?  For example, should it Open and Save symbols.txt files in the existing format?
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>Steven
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