Image: quesma.com · Reverse engineering River Raid with Claude, Ghidra, and MCP
River Raid hacked with Ghidra and Claude
An HN comment about a colleague using Ghidra with Claude to modify the Atari classic.
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A Hacker News commenter mentions a colleague who used Ghidra with Claude, through an MCP server, to hack the Atari classic River Raid for unlimited lives, written up on Quesma's blog. Inspired, they ported an old game from PowerPC to Apple Silicon with no prior reverse-engineering experience. They found Claude Code with Ghidra MCPs fabricated a lot of code instead of translating it, and switched to Ghidra's headless mode with Cursor and GPT.
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From a passing comment or social post, so the details are thin.
- Hacker News: Interesting to see Ghidra here! A friend from work just used it (with Claude) to hack River Ride gamHN commenter: staredPosted
The comment with links to the River Raid write-up and the tools tried.
- Hacker News: Reverse Engineering River Raid with Claude, Ghidra, and MCP
- Reddit: Reverse engineering River Raid with Claude, Ghidra, and MCPReddit poster: pmigdalPosted
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