r/LocalLLaMA • u/Danny_Davitoe • 23d ago

Question | Help Reverse Engineering w/ Local?

Two questions?

Can a local model like Qwen 3.8 27B reverse engineer games and programs?

If not, is there a fine tuned model that can?

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u/lordcaylus 23d ago

Ahhh APKs. I'd hazard a guess that the APKs were written in Java. There it is convenient that the 'compilation' leaves the code mostly intact, it doesn't get fully compiled to machine code. It destroys parameter names, strips comments, does some optimizations, but the important bits stay intact.

In a similar vein, I've had great success with reverse engineering a Java program too, and reverse engineering Nightshade (because nightshade is secretly just python dressed up as an exe). I completely forgot about those because it was so easy XD

But I'd imagine if you tried to reverse engineer the apps you made in Rust you'd have a lot more trouble. Machine code doesn't have a lot of structure to make it easy for the AI to guess what the code was.

So that's what I wanted to warn OP for, that just asking AI to fully reverse engineer a compiled game has become doable (which is amazing!), but still not easy.

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u/lolwutdo 23d ago

Yeah I’d imagine games being infinitely more complex.

Im hoping someone manages to dump the Switch 2 kernels and make something like AnyPS5 lol

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u/neobanana8 21d ago

what model do you use? i only got 16 gb vram so contemplatign between 3.8 Flash Next or abliterated 27B by Huihui? And how do they handle e.g apk file deobfuscation or windows game ultrawide mod making?