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**Exophase** · June 4th, 2009

Why would this be against the rules?

fslynx; If you're looking for a program to conert an N64 ROM to source code in a language such as C then you won't find one. The best you will find is one to convert to assembly language, commonly referred to as a disassembler. There are probably several disassemblers that are compatible with N64's CPU, although it wouldn't necessarily be able to differentiate between code and data so you'd end up with a lot of garbage in the result. Also, all but the best disassemblers (like IDA) will probably not attempt to inject any symbolic labels for anything.

This would also only accurately reveal code for the main CPU (not the RSP coprocessor) and only code that is raw in the ROM and not compressed.

I doubt it'd be very useful for anything you want to do, unless you're ROM hacking.

June 4th, 2009	#3 (permalink)
Exophase Emu author Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Cleveland OH, USA Posts: 1,184	Why would this be against the rules? fslynx; If you're looking for a program to conert an N64 ROM to source code in a language such as C then you won't find one. The best you will find is one to convert to assembly language, commonly referred to as a disassembler. There are probably several disassemblers that are compatible with N64's CPU, although it wouldn't necessarily be able to differentiate between code and data so you'd end up with a lot of garbage in the result. Also, all but the best disassemblers (like IDA) will probably not attempt to inject any symbolic labels for anything. This would also only accurately reveal code for the main CPU (not the RSP coprocessor) and only code that is raw in the ROM and not compressed. I doubt it'd be very useful for anything you want to do, unless you're ROM hacking.