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Xbox360 IDA Plugin Update
« on: January 24, 2010, 08:59:00 PM »
Xbox360 IDA Plugin Update
Posted by XanTium | January 24 22:59 EST | News Category: Xbox360
 
From xorloser's blog:
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Here is version 1.5 of the PPC Altivec Plugin for IDA v5.6 which adds support for special instructions that are used by some PPC based devices. This was originally written by Dean Ashton and then updated by Takires.

This is useful when disassembling Xbox360 and PS3 binaries in IDA as they utilise these special instructions that are not supported by IDAs built in PPC disassembler module.

I have done some fixes to instructions that were previously handled incorrectly, as well as adding support for some new instructions. I also fixed an issue where instruction sizes were being reported incorrectly resulting in an incorrect disassembly.

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krukaze

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« Reply #1 on: January 24, 2010, 09:02:00 PM »
What does this mean to the end user?
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Zanzang

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« Reply #2 on: January 24, 2010, 09:10:00 PM »
QUOTE(krukaze @ Jan 24 2010, 10:02 PM) View Post
What does this mean to the end user?
If you have to ask then you shouldn't care.
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Ruiner420

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« Reply #3 on: January 24, 2010, 09:37:00 PM »
Just allows you to disassemble the kernel and see the special instructions, etc. If you don't know what that means, then move along, nothing to see here.

More useful for the devs, not so much the end user, unless you want to have a look, and maybe learn something
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DanXbix

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« Reply #4 on: January 24, 2010, 10:06:00 PM »
Interested in look at this. I have IDA Pro Advanced and copied the above IDA Plugin into plugins directory

When i open xex file it opens as a binary. I then selected processor type PPC and it crashes

Should there be an option to open xbox 360 executable as Xbox 1 xbe is there?

Thanks
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« Reply #5 on: January 24, 2010, 10:32:00 PM »
QUOTE(DanXbix @ Jan 25 2010, 12:06 AM) View Post

Interested in look at this. I have IDA Pro Advanced and copied the above IDA Plugin into plugins directory

When i open xex file it opens as a binary. I then selected processor type PPC and it crashes

Should there be an option to open xbox 360 executable as Xbox 1 xbe is there?

Thanks


You need to have the XBOX 360 plug-in in order to open .XEX files. I believe you can obtain it through the usual places.
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