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# IL2CPP metadata
`inspect_il2cpp_metadata` / `inspect-il2cpp-metadata` decodes one selected local
Unity IL2CPP `global-metadata.dat` file and returns its assembly images, type
definitions, methods and named members with their owners, plus managed string
literals, by stable index, namespace, range and count,
with the header sections and serialized index widths. It reads the file without
running it and requires no Unity installation, IL2CPP binary, active target,
Hopper, Ghidra or IDA.
Metadata versions 24, 27, 29, 31 and 39 are supported. For example, Unity 2019.4.41f2
wrote version 24, 2020.3.49f1 version 27, 2022.3.30f1
wrote version 29, 2022.3.62f3 wrote 31 and 6000.4.2f1 wrote 39; other Unity
releases that write these numbers have not been checked. Other versions are
rejected as unsupported. Version 24 decoding covers the 264-byte header layout
used by the cited Unity 2019.4 build; earlier 24.x layouts are not inferred from
the version number and are refused when their header or records differ. The path