Comment by andrewmcwatters

> As for the reverse-engineering of the game itself, my biggest achievement so far is managing to unlink the archive code from the game into a relocatable object file and writing an utility that leverages it to extract files from the game data archive. That sounds complicated, but with my tooling I just need to identify and annotate about 30 functions and global variables used in that part of the program to be able to export it, independently of the rest of the program. Then it's just a matter of writing some C glue code, compiling it to a Linux MIPS program and using QEMU user mode emulation to run the utility, without ever having rewritten that archive code in C or figuring out how it actually works.

I figured you’d have to be exceptionally proud of this. I don’t find this specific, yet extremely useful skill, to be common among reverse engineers.

Though you’d wish it was!