Reverse Engineering Tools

This is a list of every free tool I have ever used while reverse engineering Zouna games. I like some of them more than others but they have all been useful.

Tools for general use

Noesis - Scriptable file visualizer, exporter, and importer
Ghidra - Disasembler and decompiler
Cutter - Disasembler and decompiler
CyberChef - Online scriptable data manipulator
010 Editor - Scriptable hex editor
ImHex - Scriptable hex editor and data visualizer
QuickBMS - Scriptable data manipulator
3D Model Researcher - Find and visualize 3D mesh data in files
Windows Sysinternals Strings - Find and filter strings in files
findstr - Find and filter strings in files
Signsrch - Find and identify common byte patterns in files
- signsrch.sig - My personal signsrch.sig with a few extra signatures
Kuriimu2 - General-purpose game translation project manager and toolkit for authors of fan translations and game mods, it has a great raw image viewer
ReClassEx - Structure editor
Detect It Easy - Detect file types and what tools were used to build them
Hobbits - Scriptable hex editor and data visualizer
Sandboxie Plus - Run sketchy shit safely
Beyond Compare - Compare lots of files. It's good to see what changed on discs between regions/versions.
binwalk

Tools for PC games

Luke Stackwalker - Capture stack traces and sort by time spent
x64dbg - x86/x64 debugger
apitrace - Trace graphics API calls
Ninja Ripper - Extract mesh and texture data from a running game
Dependencies - View a tree of dll imports; better version of Dependency Walker
Process Monitor - Trace Windows API calls
ScyllaHide - Evade anti-debug
Frida - Scriptable debugger and instrumentation
RenderDoc - Debug graphics libraries
Resource Hacker - View and edit embedded resources in PE files
Rivatuner Statistics Server - Set framerate cap
ret-sync - Sync reverse engineering tools
VMPDump - VMP devirtualizer
OllyDbg - x86 Debugger
ODbgScript - Scripting plugin for OllyDebug
VMProtect 2.0x Unpacker v1.0.txt - OllyDbg script to devirtualize running VMP process
Process Dump - Dump running process as PEs to disk
Offbreak - Tool for debugging file access
Steamless - Steamless is a DRM remover of the SteamStub variants
ReClass.NET - Formatted memory viewer
richprint - View PE RichHeader which contains a list of Microsoft tools used to build the binary
PEAnatomist - View PE/COFF file data
objconv - COFF/PE, OMF, ELF and Mach-O manipulator
pdbdownload - Download PDB files from the Microsoft Symbol Server easily

Tools for Mac games

HFSExplorer - Extract Mac partition of game discs

Tools for GameCube games

gcit - Extract and create GameCube disk images
Ghidra GameCube Loader - Ghidra plugin for working with GameCube executables
ghidra-gekko-broadway-lang - Ghidra plugin for the GameCube ISA

Tools for Wii games

NKit + Wii Partitions - Partitions needed to extract Wii disk images
wit - Extract and create Wii disk images
Ghidra GameCube Loader - Ghidra plugin for working with GameCube executables
ghidra-gekko-broadway-lang - Ghidra plugin for the GameCube ISA

Tools for PlayStation/PlayStation 2/PlayStation 3/PlayStation Portable games

7zip or any tool capable of opening ISO files - Extract and create PlayStation disk images
ghidra_psx_ldr - Ghidra plugin for working with PlayStation executables