boricj’s entropy-increasing blog

Picture this: you’re a DevOps engineer in charge of an on-premises, five-rack datacenter hosting a heavy CI/CD load.

While my biggest affront to computer science to date is ghidra-delinker-extension, it is not the only questionable thing in this field that I’ve done.

What?

It’s been a while.

As the lack of updates might suggest, I’ve taken a break from my Tenchu: Stealth Assassins reverse-engineering/decompilation project.

Previously in this series of articles, we’ve perfected the art of modifying the code of Tenchu: Stealth Assassins on its native platform as if it was made out of Lego™, thanks to the power of delinking.

Previously in this series of articles, I’ve provided a potpourri-style update on this project due to a lack of demonstrable progress.

Previously in this series of articles, we’ve completed the rescue of the debugging data that was nearly lost to the mists of time onto a more tangible vessel.

Previously in this series of articles, we’ve discovered that the debugging symbols file PSX.SYM doesn’t match the PSX.EXE artifact we have on hand.

Previously in this series of articles, we’ve analyzed some leftovers hidden inside the AFS archive of the demo version of Tenchu.

Previously in this series of articles, we’ve messed with the archive code of Tenchu and uncovered some juicy leftovers in the earliest versions of the game.

Previously in this series of articles, we’ve started to tear apart the game, beginning with the memory allocator.