Episode Details

A talk discussing how a small team of people have begun to decompile, reverse engineer and rewrite 007: Nightfire, a PS2/Xbox/GameCube game from 2002. It'll have discussion of Nightfire specifically: - What we've learned about the game so far - Pitfalls - link-time optimisation, missing symbols - Ghidra for reverse engineering + transposing knowledge across platforms - The tools we've built so far - Code injection into an emulator for testing - Where we're intending the project will go - What we're still missing / how you could contribute There'll also be discussion about game reverse engineering more generally: - How to start a reverse engineering project from scratch - Importance of community / how much of a time commitment a source decompilation would be - Operating in an intellectual property grey zone / the role of reverse engineering in preservation Concluding with a live demonstration, if the demo gods permit it. Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2026/277-reverse-engineering-007-nightfire