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KisakCOD – Open-source reimplementation of Call of Duty 4 Multiplayer

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Re: KisakCOD – Open-source reimplementation of Call of Duty 4 Multiplayer

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> Copy COD4 Game files to bin/(BUILD_TYPE)/* (Don't try to cherry-pick them, small files like localization.txt are needed)

Would be great to have a version where the game assets are designed/generated somehow and it's already to be tested, even if the experience is worse.

Re: KisakCOD – Open-source reimplementation of Call of Duty 4 Multiplayer

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> Copy COD4 Game files to bin/(BUILD_TYPE)/* (Don't try to cherry-pick them, small files like localization.txt are needed) Would be great to have a version where the game assets are designed/generated somehow and it's already to be tested, even if the experience is worse.

Designing/generating those assets is an incredible amount of work, it's the value-add on top of an engine that a game studio spends most of their budget on. Game reimplementations like this one get their own asset-sets sometimes, but it's rare and usually happens long after the game is working

Re: KisakCOD – Open-source reimplementation of Call of Duty 4 Multiplayer

#14
I wonder if LLMs are useful in reconstructing a real compilable game that reverse engineers all functions.

No, not in the sense that I want to shove "AI" into everything vibe coding, but that I seems to me that those PDBs are insanely valuable artifacts for data sourcing and doing posttrainings for.

We have all those variable names, and perhaps a little bit of optimization change such as the control flow, and the hard inverse problem of figuring out if likely/unlikely's effect on branch predictor, that means guessing the likely/unlikely without knowing real code on the code generated by compiler and the general feature of the CPU of that era, and sometimes even guessing the compiler version right too, since new versions of compiler may have better optimization down the line.

This I would say is something that even the best compiler wizard can't really do, but LLM is ruthless and reluctant on trying, until they find one.

Of course, things like vtable and structure layouts/paddings is almost impossible to truly reverse. Not even human, even LLM would struggle.

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