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Dumping the ROM of a Game Boy Advance game by crashing it
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Dumping the ROM of a GBA game by crashing it
TheZZAZZGlitch
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Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.
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SecurityHardwareReverse engineeringRetro computingEmbedded systems
TheZZAZZGlitch demonstrates how to dump a Game Boy Advance game's ROM by converting its crash sound back into binary data.
Turns out, the GBA crash sound is just the console playing its entire address space as sound data. If we have a clear recording, we can convert it back to actual bytes, thus dumping the RAM and ROM. Used source code is available at: github.com/zzazzdzz/zzazzdzz.github.io/tree/master/crashsoun… Note - this is hardly a ready-to-use solution, and requires a lot of tuning, depending on the source data format.Why it's here
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