Philippe Laulheret - Let’s learn MIPS and Japanese!!!

Let’s learn MIPS and Japanese!!! How to reverse engineer a PSX game and turn it into a language learning tool Philippe Laulheret (@phLaul) For old time sake, we’re going to reverse engineer some element of a good old Playstation game, FF7, the Japanese edition, with a simple goal in mind: extract the text in real time and pipe it into an online dictionary; why not learn MIPS assembly and Japanese at the same time! With no prior knowledge of of the PSX architecture, this talk will cover how we could easily use free and open source software (psx emulator; radare2, …) and a good dose of necromancy on pre-Y2K wikis to achieve this goal in a reasonable time frame. Former Creative Coder and current Research Scientist in Embedded Security, Philippe likes to mess with weird architecture and funky technology to make them do unusual things. Exiled in NYC, Philippe is also always on the lookout for a good excuse to visit his Portland peeps.