What does decompilation do?
this post was submitted on 24 Dec 2025
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Unless it means something else in this context, decompilation is reversing compilation process.
Basically taking the game and turning it back to source code. With source code it would be easy to fix some issues (if there are any), see how developers implemented certain things, and also be able to run the game on hardware that it never was running on before.
Or patch the game to be run without drm...why? cough i don't know
Rebuild on PC or native to most anything if you have the gumption to do it.
It's literally the process of turning the executable back into actual code (albeit usually much less readable than the original code, since symbols are usually stripped from release builds, so the original variables and functions names are lost), so it can do much more than that.
Once you've fully decompiled something and understand the resulting code, or even some parts of it, you can basically edit the original source code.
Anyone made a good video on how decompilation works?