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armvirus/CosMapper

Loads a signed kernel driver which allows you to map any driver to kernel mode without any traces of the signed / mapped driver.

Stack

C++ .NET SDK

Updated: 2021-08-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-08-08
History: 2 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 1 open

403

stars

Forks: 66
Commits: 16 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Boyan-MILANOV/ropium

ROPium is a tool that helps you building ROP exploits by finding and chaining gadgets together

Stack

C++

GitHub topics

#binary-exploitation #chaining-gadgets #exploit-development #gadget #rop-chain #rop-exploits

Updated: 2023-01-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-11-28
History: 2 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 8 open

402

stars

Forks: 45
Commits: 349 commits
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daniel5151/ANESE

Another NES Emulator - written for fun & learning - first implementation of wideNES

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#6502 #apu #assembly #cmake #cross-platform #emulation

Updated: 2022-01-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-10-13
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 6 open

401

stars

Forks: 30
Commits: 204 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

residualvm/residualvm

ResidualVM main repository

Archived

Stack

C++ Android CMake Gradle

Updated: 2024-09-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2003-08-15
History: 3 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 3 open

400

stars

Forks: 108
Commits: 8,224 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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MagnetForensics/SwishDbgExt

Incident Response & Digital Forensics Debugging Extension

Stack

C++ .NET SDK

Updated: 2018-12-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-12-20
History: 2 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 2 open

398

stars

Forks: 96
Commits: 153 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Idov31/Venom

Venom is a library that meant to perform evasive communication using stolen browser socket

Stack

C++ .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#backdoor #cpp #cyber #cyber-security #cybersecurity #infosec

Updated: 2023-09-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2022-12-18
History: 2 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 0 open

397

stars

Forks: 57
Commits: 6 commits
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dumbasPL/fumo_loader

Fumo Loader - All in one kernel-based DLL injector

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#dll-injection #dll-injector #encrypted #fumo #injector #kernel

Updated: 2026-07-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-09-09
History: 2 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

393

stars

Forks: 34
Commits: 79 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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guidedhacking/GH-Offset-Dumper

Scan signatures and netvars. Dumps header files, cheat tables and ReClass files.

Stack

C++ .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#game-hacking #gamehacking #hazedumper #offset #offset-dumper #offsetdumper

Updated: 2025-05-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-10-29
History: 2 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

390

stars

Forks: 84
Commits: 118 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

dingusdev/dingusppc

An experimental emulator

Stack

C++ CMake vcpkg

GitHub topics

#emulation #emulator #macintosh #macos #macos-classic #macos9

Updated: 2026-07-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-07-02
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 45 open

387

stars

Forks: 50
Commits: 2,759 commits
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Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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rolinh/VQMT

VQMT: Video Quality Measurement Tool. Fast implementations of the following objective image quality metrics: PSNR, SSIM, MS-SSIM, VIFp, PSNR-HVS and PSNR-HVS-M.

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#metrics #ms-ssim #psnr #psnr-hvs #psnr-hvs-m #ssim

Updated: 2020-03-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-09-09
History: 3 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 10 open

386

stars

Forks: 107
Commits: 26 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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bavc/qctools

QCTools (Quality Control Tools for Video Preservation) is a free and open source software tool that helps users analyze and understand their digitized video files through use of audiovisual analytics and filtering. QCTools is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Knight Foundation, and is developed by the Bay Area Video Coalition.

Stack

C++ .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#preservation #quality-control #video

Updated: 2026-07-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-07-20
History: 3 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 80 open

383

stars

Forks: 45
Commits: 2,221 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

netxms/netxms

NetXMS - Open Source network and infrastructure monitoring and management

AI dev

Stack

C++ pytest Maven PEP 517

GitHub topics

#ethernet #ethernet-ip #lorawan #modbus #monitoring #mqtt

Updated: 2026-07-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2003-10-02
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 188 open

383

stars

Forks: 74
Commits: 22,607 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

drhelius/Gearsystem

Sega Master System / Game Gear / SG-1000 emulator, debugger and embedded MCP server for macOS, Windows, Linux, BSD and RetroArch.

Stack

C++ .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#bsd #emulation #emulator #game-gear #gamegear #libretro

Updated: 2026-07-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-02-27
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 7 open

381

stars

Forks: 63
Commits: 1,630 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

GlPortal/glPortal

:video_game: Open Source teleportation based first person puzzle-platformer

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#3d #game #hacktoberfest #opengl #physics #sdl

Updated: 2024-10-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-09-07
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 17 open

380

stars

Forks: 115
Commits: 2,079 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

masterfeizz/DaedalusX64-3DS

Port of DaedalusX64 to the Nintendo 3DS

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

Updated: 2022-10-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-04-30
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 105 open

380

stars

Forks: 36
Commits: 94 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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Tinob/Ishiiruka

No description.

Stack

C++ Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

Updated: 2023-01-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-07-12
History: 3 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 99 open

375

stars

Forks: 125
Commits: 12,212 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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ByNameModding/BNM-Android

Modding il2cpp games by classes, methods, fields names on Android.

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#android #android-modding #bnm #bynamemodding #il2cpp #il2cpp-modding

Updated: 2025-10-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-04-11
History: 2 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 19 open

366

stars

Forks: 88
Commits: 130 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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glmcdona/strings2

strings2: An improved strings extraction tool.

Stack

C++ .NET SDK

Updated: 2022-05-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-12-17
History: 2 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 6 open

366

stars

Forks: 65
Commits: 22 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

mofosyne/arduino-gameboy-printer-emulator

Code to emulate a gameboy printer via the gameboy link cable

Stack

C++

Updated: 2026-05-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-04-06
History: 2 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 3 open

364

stars

Forks: 45
Commits: 355 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

devinacker/bsnes-plus

debug-oriented fork of bsnes

Stack

C++

GitHub topics

#debugger #emulation #emulator #qt5 #snes

Updated: 2025-03-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-11-26
History: 4 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 101 open

363

stars

Forks: 104
Commits: 715 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

intel/libvpl

Intel® Video Processing Library (Intel® VPL) API, dispatcher, and examples

Stack

C++ CMake pip

GitHub topics

#transcode-video #video-processing

Updated: 2026-07-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-07-13
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 17 open

363

stars

Forks: 106
Commits: 662 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

aregtech/areg-sdk

Distributed C++ services from embedded to enterprise

AI dev

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#cpp #cross-platform #distributed-systems #edge-computing #embedded #fault-tolerance

Updated: 2026-07-19
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-04-24
History: 1 history point
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 36 open

357

stars

Forks: 137
Commits: 1,673 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

OpenGammaProject/Open-Gamma-Detector

☢️👁️ Hardware for a hackable DIY gamma-ray spectrometer using a popular NaI(Tl) scintillator, SiPM and a Raspberry Pi Pico.

Stack

C++

GitHub topics

#arduino #arduino-ide #citizen-science #detector #diy #gamma-ray-spectrometry

Updated: 2026-06-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-10-18
History: 4 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 3 open

357

stars

Forks: 49
Commits: 392 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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BadPlayer555/KernelGDIDraw

The program draws with win32k gdi functions in the kernel while NtGdiDdDDISubmitCommand is being hooked.

Stack

C++ .NET SDK

Updated: 2020-04-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-04-15
History: 2 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 1 open

351

stars

Forks: 77
Commits: 3 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

lukasmonk/lucaschess

Chess GUI

Archived

Stack

C++ .NET SDK pip

GitHub topics

#chess #gui #lucas-chess #python

Updated: 2020-03-08
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-01-14
History: 2 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 63 open

351

stars

Forks: 74
Commits: 110 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

ocornut/meka

MEKA - Sega 8-bit emulator with debugging/hacking tools

Stack

C++ .NET SDK

Updated: 2026-06-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2012-05-27
History: 4 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 74 open

351

stars

Forks: 54
Commits: 391 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

carlren/gSLICr

gSLICr: Real-time super-pixel segmentation

Stack

C++ CMake

Updated: 2024-01-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-02-02
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 14 open

349

stars

Forks: 127
Commits: 65 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

ohwgiles/laminar

Fast and lightweight Continuous Integration

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#continuous-integration #cpp #laminar #lightweight

Updated: 2026-07-05
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-09-13
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 18 open

348

stars

Forks: 63
Commits: 376 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

hackerhouse-opensource/SignToolEx

Patching "signtool.exe" to accept expired certificates for code-signing.

Stack

C++ .NET SDK

Updated: 2026-02-02
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2023-12-29
History: 2 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 0 open

346

stars

Forks: 61
Commits: 6 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Open-KO/KnightOnline

OpenKO is an open source version of the old school Knight Online MMORPG. Specifically designed for version 1.298.

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#directx #game #knight-online #mmorpg

Updated: 2026-05-31
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-01-07
History: 4 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 48 open

346

stars

Forks: 213
Commits: 1,169 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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