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May 09, 2026 • 00:00
Dragonball Z Budokai 3 - 22 years old password algorithm finally reversed

Dragon Ball Z Budokai 3 is a PlayStation 2 video game released in 2004. The best Dragon Ball game ever, if you ask me :)

After spending countless hours playing it as a kid, and after recently replaying it again, I decided to reverse engineer the game to understand how the character password mechanic works.

The goal of this little project is to understand how the game turns a password into a character, and how it validates it.

#reverse engineering #playstation 2 #MIPS
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