Double post, FOR GREAT JUSTICE.
I posted this over at SWS2B:
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Originally Posted by ThunderPX
Right, so a lot of people have been wanting the source code to the game Jazz Jackrabbit 2. The developers don't know where it is, so sometime earlier today, someone opened it in IDA Pro. I did the same, but now I have a question; how accurate is IDA Pro when making a disassembly of .exe files?
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And got this response:
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Originally Posted by Korama
Quite accurate, but probably not 100% complete. That is, some subroutines and data blocks might not be identified as such. That's why it's an interactive disassembler. You, the user, have to improve the entire disassembly manually. But IDA can help quite a bit, with FLIRT, for example. IIRC, Jazz Jackrabbit was made with Turbo Pascal, IDA should be able to recognize and label the library functions of that automatically.
Of course you'll never get the original source code out of the disassembly, I hope that's clear.
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This is pretty good news, but now we need someone who understands this stuff =P
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