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diff --git a/content/posts/girlfriend-of-steel-re.md b/content/posts/girlfriend-of-steel-re.md index f02b56d..35db72b 100644 --- a/content/posts/girlfriend-of-steel-re.md +++ b/content/posts/girlfriend-of-steel-re.md @@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ date = 2026-04-22T20:30:53-05:00 draft = true +++ + + Last year, I started reverse enginering _Neon Genesis Evangelion: Girlfriend of Steel_ with the intention of writing a replacement engine that runs on modern computers. I ended up losing interest, but not before cracking a few of the game data formats. I'm going to document them here, that way anyone who takes a similar interest in restoration or modding can have a head start. @@ -36,14 +38,16 @@ MD5: `536adbefc80a84378b65224fddf122e7` SHA-1: `77a03fb1823cb96189ac50b9afece893 ## Getting around DRM -Special edition is secured with SecuROM. It's completely busted, so you'll need to run the game in a Windows XP VM with 3D accleration. I used VMWare. +Special edition is secured with [SafeDisc](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SafeDisc). It's completely broken on modern Windows, so you'll need to use a virtual machine to run the game. +I had good success with Windows XP in VMWare with 3D acceleration enabled. -Once the game is running in the VM (lots of fiddling, unfortunately) the executable can be dumped with Scylla x86. +Once the game is running in the VM (lots of fiddling, unfortunately) the executable can be dumped with [Scylla x86](https://x64dbg.com/). To save you the headache, here's the dump: [mana01_dump.tar.gz](/files/girlfriend-of-steel-re/mana01_dump.tar.gz)  -Once dumped, throw it in your favorite reverse engineering tool. Here's a function that does something with script parsing: +Although it doesn't run, the dump is a correct PE file. +Ghidra is able to create proper data and code cross-references. Here's a function that parses script keywords:  |