How do you decompile games?

**Mariotroid** · 02-04-2018, 07:15 PM

I' asking this cause recently, my computer broke down. I've been trying to work on Mario the Headless Horseman a bit more and submit it to the mainsite. I have the file, just not able yo work on it atm. Cause the game development file was on my busted computer.

**Hyper** · 02-04-2018, 07:20 PM

If the hard drive content is still intact, try removing it and connect it using some sort of SATA to usb adapter.

If not what is the game engine platform? Decomplier is kinda in the dark-gray area and it might not work for certain game versions.

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**Mariotroid** · 02-05-2018, 04:15 PM

It's Gamemaker Studio 1.4. (This should probably go in developer discussion I've realized.

**VinnyVideo** · 02-05-2018, 04:33 PM

A few years ago, someone made a program that can take an executable created in GM 7 or 8 and convert it back into a .GMK file (with most of the original information intact). Few people would object to someone using this tool on one of their own games, but decompiling other people's games is more ethically dubious (and was a frequent source of controversy in GM circles in the past).

To my knowledge, there's no tool for decompiling games made in any version of GM Studio.

There's also a GM Anti-Decompiler tool that should prevent people from decompiling your games. This tool has the nice side effect of shaving approximately one megabyte off your file size.

As @Hypernova said, if the source code is on your old computer, and the hard drive is still intact, I'd just remove the hard drive and connect it to a working PC using a USB-to-IDE/SATA bridge. Those things are super-helpful.

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**HylianDev** · 02-06-2018, 10:56 AM

As far as your average citizen decompiling games, you'd need to find a program to do it for you.

Since these tools exist, that of course means you could technically make your own decompiler tool, but I'd give it a 0% chance of it being worth the effort to save a fangame file.

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