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Hacking a 25 Year Old Game to Make It Work [video]

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Re: Hacking a 25 Year Old Game to Make It Work [video]

#6
He just casually reverse engineered and fixed one of my favorite games then proceeded to find and patch back in hidden features. Wow. I love that the first comment says the next step is the network code because that's what I expected him to do next before the video ended.

But then he actually did it:

https://youtu.be/utEx3ZvPd8Y

Without any captured traffic to analyze. Badass.

Re: Hacking a 25 Year Old Game to Make It Work [video]

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I didn't follow too closely when watching the video, so pardon me if it's already answered in the video: did he end up hijacking a different button for opening multi-player dialog? I assume there is no way to recover the removed multi-play button since the sprite (?) was already removed?

Also I'm surprised not only they removed the multiplayer button, they even centered the remaining one.

Re: Hacking a 25 Year Old Game to Make It Work [video]

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I didn't follow too closely when watching the video, so pardon me if it's already answered in the video: did he end up hijacking a different button for opening multi-player dialog? I assume there is no way to recover the removed multi-play button since the sprite (?) was already removed? Also I'm surprised not only they removed the multiplayer button, they even centered the remaining one.

I could be misremembering since I watched the video on its initial release day. I believe the sprite asset was still there and he was able to restore the original button.
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