Lua Decompiler Hot! Info
If you wrote the code (or legally own the license to the binary), decompiling it is fine. If you are decompiling a commercial game's Lua scripts to extract their minigame logic and republish it, you will likely face legal action.
local function greet(name) print("Hello, " .. name) end
if timePlayed > 3600 then PlayTrack("music/tears_in_rain.bik") ShowText("You have walked these stars for a long time, " .. playerName .. ".") ShowText("The developers are gone. The studio is ash.") ShowText("But we are still here. Thank you for finding us.") end lua decompiler
unluac is a robust, open-source decompiler written in Java. It is the standard tool for Lua bytecode decompilation. Key features include:
for i = 1, 3 do greet("user") end
(The Gold Standard for Lua 5.1–5.4)
A Lua decompiler is a tool that converts compiled Lua bytecode (usually from .luac files or embedded bytecode) back into readable Lua source code or a human-friendly approximation. Decompilers attempt to reconstruct control flow, variable names (often generic), and expressions from instruction sequences in Lua virtual machine bytecode. If you wrote the code (or legally own
The output will have ugly local variables: