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What fun would that be for reverse engineers! It will probably happen sooner than later, but until it does, more puzzles for me!

Glad to help. Thanks for watching!

That's far enough in the future that I don't know for sure. Before SotN finishes I'll probably look at a few other games for comparison.

Glad to have you!

There are dozens of us! DOZENS!

I was patching github.com/tmbinc/bgrep but may need to move over to something else. I have patched `dups` as well, but it would be nice to have a generic tool that can be leveraged here and elsewhere.

I came across github.com/Drahsid/ffvii, but it appears to be abandoned. Not something I have time to look at for now, but I won't say it will never happen.

Why would anyone want to write to someone in the computer when they can use pen and paper and the mailman?

The best I've found is Perl (and a few others) which allow you to make whitespace insignificant in the regex, support comments in the regex, and have multiline strings. That way you don't need to break the regex into multiple pieces (but you certainly can), and can clearly show nested groups and general structure. I know Rust supports multiline strings already, I'll have to check if the regex features are supported.

It's one of those things that seems like a good idea until you hear it dozens of times a day.

Thanks, will do!

An MS even!

Would you recommend this path for someone who loves these things?

The geniuses at UMPG Publishing claimed ownership of one of the CC licensed NIN Ghosts tracks in the background.

@made-up-of-wires oh boy they're already coming....what is a man? A miserable pile of copyright infringement claims.

Thanks!

Yes you are

The Saturn decomp is in very early stages and not being actively worked on. We're primarily working on PS1, PSP, and "HD" (a development build found in the PSP version of the game). I may stream some Saturn decomp in the future, but no immediate plans.

I play the game casually once a year or so. For me it's a lot of map checking and cautious exploration. What kept me engaged in SOTN was that I never felt lost, only that I needed to explore more. I've enjoyed Dr4gonBlitz's videos; JupiterClimb has some good ones as well.

@@made-up-of-wires Awesome. My history with SOTN is mostly collecting ways of playing it. I did own an original PlayStation disc but I sold it. I've never actually managed to play. I'll check out those channels!

Haha, I totally misread what you meant! I first played the PSP version through the Dracula X Collection on PS Vita. All of the modern versions (iOS, Android, PS4) are based on version. I've played through the PS1 version only once, I believe, mostly due to the inconvenience of having the right hardware set up. Some say the Xbox 360 version is the best, it has some bug fixes and runs faster than the PS1 version. Unfortunately, the Konami Classics Collection is the only way to get that version now. Most of the speed runners are playing the PS1 or Xbox 360 versions. The PS1 version has the biggest randomizer community, and those are typically played through emulator. While it has more content than the PS1 version, I've generally heard bad things about the Saturn version. The PSP version (and it's derivatives) ditches a lot of the iconic voice acting from the original and rewrites part of the script, but it's probably the version most people play.

@@made-up-of-wires I think my best chance currently is to play it on PS4. Or perhaps I should dust off my old PSP. Either way, I'll have to get stuck in one day. THanks!

I'll document what I can. PCSX-Redux seemed to be more reliable than Duckstation, but didn't provide GDB with the instruction pointer address or any information about the stack frame. Duckstation would randomly get out of sync and stop working fairly quickly. I'll bring it back when I get a setup that I like using.

This has come up recently in the discord as well, and I don't know if there's a great one sized fits all solution. I started learning C & C++ 25 years ago and they were fairly standard at universities at the time. Since then I read C from projects I like when I need to figure out how to use a library or API I haven't used before. I've found OpenBSD to have just about the cleanest and easiest to read C for their POSIX libraries and tools - github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/bin/echo/echo.c

Generic C/C++ for applications or game development specific? What's your interest? Any experiences with other programming languages? I would probably just check out one of the many coding tutorials on TH-cam. Or Google some basic text-based C/C++ tutorials. If you have no experience you might even get a book from library (or download a PDF) for basics, or sign up for some free online coding course (open universities also), since they usually have a thought out program and good training excercises.

I think he only streams on Twitch and uploads to TH-cam a bit later so you're gonna have to switch platforms.

Yeah, I stream Monday through Thursday and upload a few days later. I'll be taking a week off soon, so try back next Wednesday on Twitch at 11am PST.

This is such a reassuring comment! I've actually stayed away from the Metroid series because of my experience with NES Metroid, and gave Dread a change and it was everything I could have hoped. I'll give Super Metroid a spin in a few weeks and see if it grabs me.

@@made-up-of-wires Awesome, hope you like it!

The context is effectively a header file for the decompiler to use when trying to figure out types for symbols and files. Often the decompiler (m2c) can produce a significantly better starting point with good forward declarations. The context then becomes a header file for the compile stage in decomp.me. All of the declarations could go into the main editor, but keep them separate allows the focus to remain on the code being decompiled.