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Developer References

In this section, you can find references that may help you as a developer of Ainex, or as a maintainer of the wiki.

Another great resource you may consider contributing to is the Free60 Wiki. If you have some information about the Xbox 360 you would like to write an article on, please consider sharing it there, and linking it here.

If you find a relevant (public) PDF file, you can add it to the repo for archival purposes and link it here. See the console-refs/documents folder on GitHub.

Tools

Reverse Engineering

Name + Link Description + Author
Ghidra Open source tool for decompiling binary files developed by the NSA
XexLoaderWV Plugin by WarrantyVoider for Ghidra that allows XEX2 executables to be decompiled
IDA Pro Premium closed source tool for decompiling binary files
IDAXex Plugin developed by emoose for IDA Pro that allows decompiling XEX binaries of multiple formats

Xbox 360 Hardware

Name + Link Description + Author
PowerPC Core Instructions Core PowerPC CPU instruction set by IBM
PowerP{ AltiVec Instructions AltiVec Instruction set by Motorola
Name + Link Description + Author
AMD R600 Instruction Set Architecture Official AMD R600 ISA documentation

Xbox 360 Software