4 comments

  • tombert44 minutes ago
    Maybe with the source code, I'd be able to figure out what the hell happened in the last ~2 hours of the game.
    • 2OEH8eoCRo037 minutes ago
      Dunkey MGS Explained <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=aaLiLRVeaZA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=aaLiLRVeaZA</a>
      • halflife16 minutes ago
        That’s great, now do kingdom hearts
        • 2OEH8eoCRo06 minutes ago
          Dunkey Kingdom Hearts explained <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=8o1ieehttdA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=8o1ieehttdA</a>
    • jwitthuhn15 minutes ago
      I need scissors, 61!
  • AnotherGoodName1 hour ago
    I wonder if it’s a real leak or just an agent recreation of the source from machine code.<p>I’ve been having fun lately with agents and decompilation. You can literally point them at any game and ask them to decompile the game and structure and format as if it was the original source code. Asking them to ensure it compiles works fine.<p>Some proof: i made online save game editors for jagged alliance 3; grandcheaten.com and news tower; thedailycheat.com (.com domains are only $10 so i figured why not).<p>You can do this with any game i’ve found. Older games work best due to the forced simplicity of the source code though.
    • jamesu6 minutes ago
      There is no way you could recreate a convincing enough 90s era codebase of a japanese videogame + its associated tools + scripts and commented out codepaths with current ai tools.
    • whywhywhywhy39 minutes ago
      It’s the real code there is code for known removed content (tanker escape scene and the 9&#x2F;11 removed cutscene). Also AI can’t do what you’re theorizing yet.<p>&gt;and ask them to decompile the game and structure and format as if it was the original source code. Asking them to ensure it compiles works fine<p>lot of people claiming this the end result is the AI downloading an emulator and rom
      • AnotherGoodName33 minutes ago
        &gt;Also AI can’t do what you’re theorizing yet.<p>Did you try the above links? I haven’t shared the full source but all game mechanics listed in the ja3 guide including code snippets where helpful.
      • echelon31 minutes ago
        &gt; It’s the real code there is code for known removed content (tanker escape scene and the 9&#x2F;11 removed cutscene). Also AI can’t do what you’re theorizing yet.<p>There are lots of decompilation community efforts for N64 games, etc.<p>Someone should train a model on this. Giving the decompiled symbols good names, etc.<p>De-minification and de-obfuscation while we&#x27;re at it.<p>It should be easy to generate a ton of &quot;synthetic&quot; (actually real) training data for this by simply compiling sources and using that as (input, output) pairs.
    • defen11 minutes ago
      Whoa, since when is there a Jagged Alliance 3? Is it any good? JA2 is one of my favorite games of all time
    • tuna7413 minutes ago
      How do you verify that everything is correct?
      • AnotherGoodName4 minutes ago
        I’m sure the builds from doing what i’ve been doing won’t generate identical bytecode but it’s fun for the sake of messing with the game or understanding it (eg. The checksum logic for newstowers save game logic was cooy pastable as was the whole save game structure formatting itself and clearly matches the game - it works!). Likewise with all the JA3 mechanics documented in that linked guide.
    • bigyabai1 hour ago
      It&#x27;s (probably) a real leak. There are original comments in Japanese describing cut content and game logic that was scrapped in the final release.
      • jayd1646 minutes ago
        Raw assets are probably the better tell
  • charcircuit39 minutes ago
    &gt;this remains a tremendous milestone for games preservation<p>Clearly if it was able to be leaked it already was being preserved. It is shameful that such a publication tries and celebrate copyright infringement like this.
    • gwern13 minutes ago
      &gt; Clearly if it was able to be leaked it already was being preserved<p>Preserved by <i>whom</i>? Many leaks are done by old or ex-employees who quietly kept a shall we say &#x27;backup&#x27; of their work. More than one &#x27;official&#x27; re-release has been rumored to be an embarrassed company quietly filing the serial numbers off a rogue leak because they realized way too late that their archival practices were inadequate.
    • tfigueroa33 minutes ago
      It’s, what, 25 years old? There have been many sequels, prequels, remastering. The economic benefits of this IP are largely exhausted; that it is now leaked to the commons isn’t an alarming thing.
      • charcircuit15 minutes ago
        The game just had an update to support the Switch 2 only 2 months ago. It is still being used commercially.
    • pdntspa23 minutes ago
      because intellectual property laws are inherently worthy of respect and they are <i>never</i> used against consumers <i>ever</i>
    • unleaded28 minutes ago
      copyright infringement is awesome