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Ghidra is the most advanced reverse engineering tool on the market, and best of all it is completly free and open source! Most of the content on RetroReversing will be using Ghidra going forward due to it being much more accessable than competitors such as IDA Pro.Introduction to GhidraThere is no better way to start out the hobby reverse engineering than learning Ghidra, it is an essentail tool that takes much of the headaches out of reversing. Introduction to Decompiling C++ with Ghidra For a good introduction to decompiling with Ghidra check out this post. Console PluginsNintendo Game BoyDownload the Ghidra plugin from GithubNintendo Game Boy AdvanceDownload the Ghidra plugin from GithubAn excellent guide for decompiling GBA games using Ghidra and mGBA is available on StarcubelabsAnother excellent guide is on wrongbaudNintendo DSDownload the Ghidra plugin from GithubNintendo Entertainment SystemDownload the Ghidra plugin from GithubIt even has multiple builds setup for each Ghidra version via Github Workflows!Note that there was another older Ghidra plugin called Ghidra-Nes-Rom-Decompiler-Plugin however it failed to build against latest Ghidra (11.1.2).Super NintendoThere is only one Ghidra plugin for SNES but it is currently not under active development you can get it from GithubNintendo 64Nintendo 64 games can be slightly harder to reverse due to everything being bundles as one large ROM image containing all the code and assets used in the game. Luckily there are a few tools that can help, such as the Reversing Emulator and a N64 Loader for Ghidra. N64 Decompiling with Ghidra If you are interested in Decompiling a Nintendo 64 game with Ghidra check out this post. GamecubeDownload the Ghidra plugin from GithubNote that to build the GameCubeLoader you will need to have gradle version 7 or below installed otherwise you will get an error similar to:FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.* Where:Build file './Ghidra-GameCube-Loader/build.gradle' line: 63* What went wrong:A problem occurred evaluating root project 'GameCubeLoader'.> Adding a Configuration as a dependency is no longer allowed as of Gradle 8.0.On Mac OSX you can install an older version of Gradle using brew:WiiA guide for using Ghidra on Wii games is available on WiiBrewSega Master System/Game gearDownload the Ghidra plugin from GithubSega Mega Drive/GenesisDownload the Ghidra plugin from GithubSega SaturnDownload the Ghidra plugin from GithubSega DreamcastDownload the Ghidra plugin from GithubAlso for GDI support in Ghidra: GithubOriginal XboxDownload the Ghidra plugin from GithubXbox 360Download the Ghidra plugin from GithubPlaystation 1Download the Ghidra plugin from GithubAlso for a guide for using Ghidra for PS1 reversing: tokimeki-memorialPlaystation 2Download the Ghidra plugin from GithubPlaystation 3There are a few useful script for working with PS3 executables on GithubPlaystation PortableDownload the Ghidra plugin from GithubFeature PluginsWhile Ghidra has a large number of features built in, there are a number of features missing that are thankfully available due to community plugins, this section will cover some of the most useful for game reversing.CodeCutCodeCut allows a user to assign functions to object files in Ghidra, and then interact with the binary at the object file level. Functions are assigned to

SAN FRANCISCO—Provocative titles are a sure way to get people to show up to your presentation, even at sober events like RSA. And "Come Get Your Free NSA Reverse Engineering Tool!" is easily the most bombastic title of the conference, and one your humble reporter could not resist. Before I continue: yes, it really was a presentation by the NSA and yes, the agency really did give away free reverse-engineering tools. It's called GHIDRA and is currently available for download on the NSA's website. The talk was headed by Robert Joyce, an NSA senior advisor, who explained that GHIDRA has been in development for years, and would likely continue to be long after release. Future updates are on the way, and a Github repository arrives in the coming weeks. At first it might seem surprising that the NSA would release tools like this on its own. After all, it has been a bit of a bogeyman since former contractor Edward Snowden revealed its massive, global data interception infrastructure. However, signals intelligence is only half of the NSA's mission. The other half is to prevent other countries from snooping on our activities. For example, the agency played a role in the approval of the AES encryption standard for general use. "We have a mission for foreign intelligence and we have a misison for cybersecurity," explained Joyce. "And what we've found is that this has a use on both sides of the house." Internally, the NSA uses GHIDRA to examine all kinds of software, from analyzing pieces of malware on networks secured by the NSA to examining legitimate software for vulnerabilities. "When you look at the amount of malware we have to get through, it's more than we have the talent or the manpower to handle." Hence, a tool like GHIDRA. Releasing the tool will hopefully help national security by supporting independent researchers, and help educate a new workforce for the industry and the NSA, Joyce said. It's also a chance for the NSA to give back. "We built GHIDRA using government funds and where we can, we wanted to give back." The more skeptical readers might think this sounds too good to be true, and suspect that the NSA has hidden some nasty surprises inside the GHIDRA. Joyce insisted this is not the case. "There's no backdoor in GHIDRA, this is the last community where you'd want to release a product

The NSA released the Ghidra, a multi-platform reverse engineering framework that could be used to find vulnerabilities and security holes in applications. In January 2019, the National Security Agency (NSA) announced the release at the RSA Conference of the free reverse engineering framework GHIDRA.GHIDRA is a multi-platform reverse engineering framework that runs on major OSs (Windows, macOS, and Linux).The framework was first mentioned in the CIA Vault 7 dump that was leaked in 2017. WikiLeaks obtained thousands of files allegedly originating from a CIA high-security network that details CIA hacking techniques, tools, and capabilities. Digging in the huge trove of files, it is possible to find also information about the GHIDRA, a Java-based engineering tool.Now the NSA has released the suite Ghidra that could be used to find vulnerabilities and security holes in applications. Ghidra is Apache 2.0-licensed and requires a Java runtime, it is availablefor download here. Of course, people fear the US Agency may have introduced a backdoor in the suite, but the NSA excluded it. The platform was presented at the RSA Conference in San Francisco on Tuesday by Rob Joyce, former head of the NSA’s elite hacking team and now White House cybersecurity coordinator, Joyce has presented the code-analysis suite, he remarked the absence of backdoors.“There is no backdoor in Ghidra,” he announced. “This is the last community you want to release something out to with a backdoor installed, to people who hunt for this stuff to tear apart.”The popular expert Matthew “HackerFantastic” Hickey, cofounder of British security shop Hacker House, noticed something of strange. Hickey told The Register that when you run it in debug mode the suite, it opens port 18001 to your local network that accepts and executes remote commands from any machine that can connect in. Even if the Debug mode is