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Re:Ghidra, NSA's reverse-engineering tool on Friday March 08, 2019 @08:33PM (#19343911)
And has a very limited support CPU arch / executable format selection.
Re:Ghidra, NSA's reverse-engineering tool on Friday March 08, 2019 @08:22PM (#19343854)
Biggest limitation in the free version for me, as somebody who likes to tinker with old games as a pastime, is that it does not support any other instruction set than x86/x64 and not many executable formats either.

There are a lot of good and interesting games that were made in the DOS era for PCs which used the DOS4GW DOS extender, and their binaries come in the OS/2 executable format (LE/LX) which is unsupported in IDA's free version. A lot of good and interesting games also happen to run on game consoles which use non-x86 processors.

Ghidra probably won't have plugins to support all of these weird old legacy formats and CPUs which the full IDA package does for a while, but hopefully it'll get there eventually. If it doesn't seem too difficult, I might even try creating a LE loader for it myself.