For any serious reverse engineering work on modern Delphi, I recommend moving to (with the DelphiRTTI script) or IDA Pro with dedicated Delphi loaders.
For actual logic (the implementation section), DEDE cannot recover Pascal. Instead, it performs linear disassembly, mapping stack frames and recognizing common Delphi calling conventions ( register , pascal , cdecl ). It labels jump targets and tries to identify VMT calls ( call [eax+$XX] ). Delphi Decompiler Dede
If you do legacy Windows reversing, keep a copy in your toolkit. And if you’re a young reverse engineer, exploring Dede’s output side-by-side with a debugger will teach you more about Delphi’s internals than any book. For any serious reverse engineering work on modern
Have you used Dede or IDR to recover a lost project? Share your war stories in the comments below. It labels jump targets and tries to identify