Resurrecting an 11-Year-Old Game via AI Reverse Engineering with GPT-Sol
IrLOL · reddit · 2026-08-14
The author shared a hardcore reverse engineering experience using multiple AI agents to successfully resurrect Ubisoft's 11-year-dead game, Spartacus Legends.
- Toolchain: Combined Ghidra, RPCS3 live debugging, and various AI models including Claude Code, GPT-Sol (Codex), and Grok.
- Breakthroughs: GPT-Sol built its own tools using the PINE protocol to read emulator memory, bypassing a login check that had stalled progress for 10 hours in just 20 minutes. It also successfully reverse-engineered the P2P multiplayer logic to restore online matches.
- Takeaway: The author noted that AI drastically lowers the barrier to reverse engineering. Pattern recognition and logic tracing that used to take months can now be done in days, though it burns through model quotas rapidly.
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