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How do people make patches for closed source software from outside its software company/devs? (lemm.ee)
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You see this with some apps (I think ReVanced is a popular example?) and games occasionally, and I've never been clear on how they do it.

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[–] Lmaydev@programming.dev 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

That's because .net (by default) compiles to IL and is later compiled to machine code by the JIT.

Once compiled to machine code you are unlikely to get anything close to the source. Usually assembly.