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For anyone else looking - Halo 2 is hard to get legitimately now. eBay copies are looking like upwards of $90AUD!
That must be an Australian issue because on eBay and in local stores, it is still $10ish.
Amazon has a (used?) copy for ~$17 - AFAICT it requires online activation so this may not work well.
Love it. Any pointers for an easier old (or new) game to have a go at pulling apart like this?
That was such a great game.
I'd love to expand my skills and try this out on a number of other projects. Is there some good starting material which can push me in the right direction?
10/10 good article. I wonder if something remotely similar is possible with todays games. With all the custom data formats and compression algorithms being used.
Absolutely! Are there any games you'd like to see in particular?
That was such a great game.
I'm stretching my memory a little but I think there was an Indiana Jones game using what I vaguely recognised at the time as the same engine, which I have equally fond memories of!
I'll have to see later if the same tricks apply to both games!
The author also created SpaceChem, which is one of the best programming/engineering games out there. For just programming games, I'd call it my second all time favorite just behind Robot Odyssey, an ancient Apple ][ game. This gives some great context to where SpaceChem came from. Thanks Zach!
Can you upload those sprites?
10/10 good article. I wonder if something remotely similar is possible with todays games. With all the custom data formats and compression algorithms being used.
Absolutely! Are there any games you'd like to see in particular?
finding / latching onto a rendering call and shooting the inputs to that call off to a separate file to export market data from a game, was one of the more interesting approaches I've heard. But how someone managed to work that out is beyond me
