Open-source projects in Collections & Awesome Lists that exist because someone reverse engineered a closed product. Most-starred: Corkami pics, awesome reverse-engineering (wtsxDev), android-security-awesome, mendel5/alternative-front-ends, awesome-home-assistant.
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Game Boy development resources, including emulators, disassemblies, hardware research and link-cable protocols
YAML database of open-source remakes, reimplementations and clones of games
Rated list of decompiled, recompiled and reverse-engineered games
PS Vita resource list incl. RE tools, file formats and homebrew
List of emulators for consoles, computers and arcade machines written in JavaScript
Actively maintained open-source game remakes and engine reimplementations
Game Boy Advance development resources, including open SDKs, emulators and hardware tests
Databank of Unreal Engine modding and reverse engineering tools
Curated list of fan-made PC ports of console games via decompilation/recompilation
Visual dissections and posters of binary file formats
Most-starred list of reverse engineering tools and resources
Free reverse engineering course focused on x64 Windows binaries
Reverse Engineer's Toolkit installer bundling Windows RE tools
Huge RE resource list for all platforms: 3500+ open source tools and 2300+ posts/videos
Curated list of reversing resources: books, courses, tools, practice targets
Free book on iOS app reverse engineering techniques
List of IDA Pro plugins
Curated list of Frida resources
List of reverse engineering articles, books and papers
Collection of Android security and analysis tools
Overview of open-source alternative frontends for YouTube, Twitter, Reddit and more
Extension whose config lists ~100 privacy frontends for popular sites
Curated Android RE training, resources and tools
Collection of reverse-engineered unofficial APIs for popular web services
Collection of third-party clients and mods for Discord
🔐🌐 Privacy-respecting web frontends for popular services
Curated list of Android security and reverse engineering resources
Collection of Chinese app and web reverse engineering articles
Documentation of Steam's unofficial, internal Web API endpoints
Curated list of Home Assistant resources and integrations
Curated list of projects related to the reMarkable tablet
Curated resources on vehicle security and car hacking
Curated CAN bus tools, hardware and resources for reverse engineers
Curated resources about embedded and IoT security
List of open-source hardware projects
Collection of IoT device hacks and teardown write-ups
Security-oriented list of resources about industrial network protocols
Commodore 64 reference: commented ROM disassembly, memory map and more
Resources for vulnerability research on embedded devices
AI-driven reverse engineering tools: MCP servers for IDA/Ghidra/Frida, skills, JS RE
Collection of RE tools, case studies and papers for websites, games, apps, binaries, firmware and protocols
Bilingual collection of REA and other AI-assisted reverse engineering cases with source links
List of AI reverse engineering and rebuild projects, noting which ones really used REA
Curated list of AI-assisted reverse engineering: decompilation, recompilation and native ports
Chinese list of AI-assisted RE tools: MCP servers, skills, plugins and agents
Chinese technical research on REA: architecture, evidence model and trust model
Guide to REA in Portuguese, English and Spanish with cases and a test run
Curated list of tools, papers and datasets that apply LLMs to reverse engineering
Unofficial French guide to REA, including the legal framework for reverse engineering