Decompilers/modding

[GMG Kurt]

So I was just wondering how decompilers worked, generally and especially C++

most of the link I found on google about C++ compilers were followed by negative comments about throwing away data or something of that nature.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/205059/is-there-a-c-decompiler

Thats pretty much a summary of everything I found
any good decompilers you know of? or information on the subject? I want this knowledge mostly for modding games, or applications

[Gan]

Sometimes decompiling a program doesn't produce much comprehendable code.

[Connors]

I'm guessing it will almost never have the original formatting, or variable/function names, hence there's a lot of guesswork.(is that what you mean Gan?)

Also, can you usually re-compile a program and run it the same or can there be problems?

PS: I hear Mojang is teaming up officially with the Bukkit team and they are releasing an official modding API so if I can learn enough Java this year I'm going to have to try it.

[GMG Kurt]

Yeah I wan't to mod games so bad. I don't know java, but I'm good at C++ so I want to mod some random C++ game, and then u gave me cavestory soooo. :p

[Connors]

Cave Story? Now that I think about it there's got to be some information from people who already modded it. I bet that would be an interesting project.

[Zoo]

Modded cavestory? How does that work? Make Santa actually look like Santa?

[Gan]

I started playing Cave Story. Got all the way to the rolling tank-like boss.
Attempted to beat him 3 times.

Gave up. Probably not gonna try again.

[Connors]

Yeah that one was hard but I got him. Sometimes when I put that game down for a few days and get back to it I can play it better.
Also I usually stand right under it with the Bubbler. Or the Blades. They block a lot of the bullets. The bubbler at level three is great for a shield near the end.
Wait, we were talking about modding? I should look later, I bet people have made custom levels or something.

[davidlocks]

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[Connors]

Nice necro. Also, yeah, people have done Cave Story mods where they worked with assembly and re-wrote boss battles and all sorts of things. It's a popular game to mod because of the great tools for it, like Cave Editor which doesn't even require programming skills.

[Gan]

That is cool. I've been meaning to play Cave Story. I love modding games, just fooling around.