Homebrew reading code of a game

[Latyana]

how would you open a cia file of a game?? and look over and read its code. i was just thinking on this the other day and i figured to ask to see if anyone knew.

 

[skawo]

Short answer: you can't.

Long answer: It's technically possible, but the code would be in ARM Assembly, and as such not easily "readable" per say. You'd have to do a ton of reverse engineering to even start guessing what it was doing.

 

[MichiS97]

What exactly do you expect to be able to read? The only thing you could get is a decompressed code.bin which you could open in IDA Pro and look at the ASM code

 

[Latyana]

thank you for responding. i just was trying to figure out the best way of going about reading code of a game.