Case study

EKIY / Melis reverse engineering: emulating display firmware and decoding UI resources

EKIY / Melis reverse engineering runs the original home-screen firmware of an Allwinner F133-B display in a TypeScript application-level emulator. It documents the observed DATAV1.0 UI format, provides tools to read and rebuild UI packages, and records firmware-specific modification findings using a dump supplied by the user.

Targets: Firmware
Category: Independent reconstruction cases
Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
Sources reviewed: 2026-11-06
Evidence class: C2 code & docs, no demo or download

Stars: 0
Last commit: 2026-10-28
Language: TypeScript
License (GitHub): MIT

GitHub data as of 2026-11-10

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Evidence

Observed: Code, documentation and a demo observed; no download method found.
Checked: 2026-11-08

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Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: A user-supplied firmware dump from the documented EKIY board is required.
Prerequisites: Node.js 22.6 or newer, npm and Python 3; image tools require Pillow.
Limits: The emulator has stubbed services; the brightness and skin changes have been checked in the emulator but not on hardware.
License: MIT.

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BibTeX

@misc{ekiy-melis-re-case,
  title = {{EKIY / Melis reverse engineering: emulating display firmware and decoding UI resources}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/skyfortress/ekiy-melis-re}},
  url = {https://github.com/skyfortress/ekiy-melis-re},
  urldate = {2026-11-06},
  note = {Awesome REA entry: \url{https://awesomerea.org/resources/ekiy-melis-re-case/}}
}

Plain text

EKIY / Melis reverse engineering: emulating display firmware and decoding UI resources. https://github.com/skyfortress/ekiy-melis-re (accessed 2026-11-06). Awesome REA entry: https://awesomerea.org/resources/ekiy-melis-re-case/

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README.md GitHub · skyfortress/ekiy-melis-re · Revision e56e91d
docs/data-format.md GitHub · skyfortress/ekiy-melis-re · Revision e56e91d
tools/README.md GitHub · skyfortress/ekiy-melis-re · Revision e56e91d