Pokémon HeartGold fully decompiled in a month at ~$56k in API costs
Vjeux · x · 2026-10-15
The Pokémon HeartGold decompilation project is complete: roughly one month and $56k at API prices to reverse all 4.1MB of compiled code. The dashboard shows 4,075,354 mapped bytes at 100% C/C++ coverage (97.9% C-only), with the US ROM hash verified and just 0.6% original hand-written assembly remaining.
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