64 bit reversing without IDA 6.6?

[temp321]

I don't have IDA 6.6 and I imagine most of you here don't either.

However I noticed all the recent dumps are now 64bit maybe due to Carbine leaving traps for people who use the 32 bit exe on 64 bit windows.

So I open up an older IDA and a realized all the plugins don't work and there is no hex rays of course. C4Decompiler freezes and Rec4studio looks awful, it is full of C statements like _r12 = 0 which is barely any different from assembly.

I try to locate the same code from the 32bit assembly and I find the code is extremely different with function arguments being pushed into random registers instead of the stack, and certain functions are not inlined. It feels like a huge chore to reverse on 32 bit and locate on 64 bit.

How do you deal with 64 bit reversing?

[Midi12]

I only use IDA 6.5 assembler view.

[temp321]

Ah just tried 6.5, rebasing doesn't break the references now unlike 6.1.

However I still miss hexrays and the function string associate plugin.