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Re: GTA 5 source code leaks online

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Post by otras »

TheAceOfHearts wrote: post #15

For anyone that is curious, according to 4chan (i.e. take it with a mountain of salt): > Apparently there are 3 leaks in circulation: > 3.3 gigs, src only > 17 gigs, src + partial assets > 1 TB, src + full assets I really wish more games shared the source, even if it's under a restrictive license. It's just interesting to get a peak under the hood. It makes me wish that copyright lasted less time and that submitting…

I’m reminded of the time when a Reddit user bought a random box of Blizzard things on eBay and ended up finding a StarCraft gold master source code CD. Many people suggested sharing the code, but Blizzard lawyers reached out. Blizzard eventually gave them a bunch of swag after they returned it.

Would have been so interesting to see.

https://mashable.com/article/starcraft-source-disc

Re: GTA 5 source code leaks online

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Post by ClassyJacket »

otras wrote: post #71
TheAceOfHearts wrote: post #15

For anyone that is curious, according to 4chan (i.e. take it with a mountain of salt): > Apparently there are 3 leaks in circulation: > 3.3 gigs, src only > 17 gigs, src + partial assets > 1 TB, src + full assets I really wish more games shared the source, even if it's under a restrictive license. It's just interesting to get a peak under the hood. It makes me wish that copyright lasted less time and that submitting…

I’m reminded of the time when a Reddit user bought a random box of Blizzard things on eBay and ended up finding a StarCraft gold master source code CD. Many people suggested sharing the code, but Blizzard lawyers reached out. Blizzard eventually gave them a bunch of swag after they returned it. Would have been so interesting to see. https://mashable.com/article/starcraft-source-disc

What's a gold master source code CD? Source code wouldn't be in the gold master... The gold master is the final version intended to be pressed to retail disks.

Also:

"The disc in question allegedly contains the source code to the original StarCraft game that GameSpot reported as being lost back in 2000 -- it forced Blizzard to start from scratch on its massively popular real-time strategy game."

What does this mean? StarCraft came out in 1998. Also losing one copy doesn't mean you lose all the other copies. And I can't find this supposed article from 2000. I have so many questions...

Re: GTA 5 source code leaks online

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Post by jhatemyjob »

PrimeMcFly wrote: post #25
deelowe wrote: post #2

God the web has gone to total crap outside of just a few sites. This site is unbearable on mobile.

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Agreed. I think this is a great insight. Android is a great operating system. It's just as good, if not better than, a 2002 Nissan Sentra.

Re: GTA 5 source code leaks online

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ClassyJacket wrote: post #72
otras wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m reminded of the time when a Reddit user bought a random box of Blizzard things on eBay and ended up finding a StarCraft gold master source code CD. Many people suggested sharing the code, but Blizzard lawyers reached out. Blizzard eventually gave them a bunch of swag after they returned it. Would have been so interesting to see. https://mashable.com/article/starcraft-source-disc

What's a gold master source code CD? Source code wouldn't be in the gold master... The gold master is the final version intended to be pressed to retail disks. Also: "The disc in question allegedly contains the source code to the original StarCraft game that GameSpot reported as being lost back in 2000 -- it forced Blizzard to start from scratch on its massively popular real-time strategy game." What does this mean?…

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Re: GTA 5 source code leaks online

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Post by 0xDEADFED5 »

magpi3 wrote: post #65
TheAceOfHearts wrote: post #15

For anyone that is curious, according to 4chan (i.e. take it with a mountain of salt): > Apparently there are 3 leaks in circulation: > 3.3 gigs, src only > 17 gigs, src + partial assets > 1 TB, src + full assets I really wish more games shared the source, even if it's under a restrictive license. It's just interesting to get a peak under the hood. It makes me wish that copyright lasted less time and that submitting…

3.3 gigs of just text source code? That is unfathomable to me. EDIT: Okay, I guess if it also include revision control then that makes more sense. Still, that is huge.

lots of binaries are in there. it's ~16GB decompressed

Re: GTA 5 source code leaks online

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Post by PrimeMcFly »

jhatemyjob wrote: post #73
PrimeMcFly wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Agreed. I think this is a great insight. Android is a great operating system. It's just as good, if not better than, a 2002 Nissan Sentra.

Not in any comparable way or to any comparable extent.

Re: GTA 5 source code leaks online

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Post by skissane »

ClassyJacket wrote: post #72
otras wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’m reminded of the time when a Reddit user bought a random box of Blizzard things on eBay and ended up finding a StarCraft gold master source code CD. Many people suggested sharing the code, but Blizzard lawyers reached out. Blizzard eventually gave them a bunch of swag after they returned it. Would have been so interesting to see. https://mashable.com/article/starcraft-source-disc

What's a gold master source code CD? Source code wouldn't be in the gold master... The gold master is the final version intended to be pressed to retail disks. Also: "The disc in question allegedly contains the source code to the original StarCraft game that GameSpot reported as being lost back in 2000 -- it forced Blizzard to start from scratch on its massively popular real-time strategy game." What does this mean?…

It probably means “version of the source code used to build the gold master”.

Some places have (or had) a business process of escrowing both the release and the source used to build it. Escrowing just the source used to build the release can require significantly less storage than escrowing the whole version control system. It also avoids the problem “we have the entire revision history, but we aren’t sure which commit was used to build these binaries”

If you lose everything-a colleague told me the story of a company whose offices were in WTC, luckily all the staff got out alive on 9/11, but they forgot to make offsite backups of the source code-the source code to the release(s) shipped to customers is most important, because you need it to make patches. The rest of the revision history, while valuable, is less essential.

Re: GTA 5 source code leaks online

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Post by Retr0id »

k_roy wrote: post #60
Retr0id wrote: post #55

I'm always wishing there were more AAA games I could play natively on aarch64 linux. Porting it might not be the easiest thing in the world, but a source leak opens the door for it.

> I'm always wishing there were more AAA games I could play natively on aarch64 linux. Porting it might not be the easiest thing in the world, but a source leak opens the door for it. Except a source code leak is basically the worst thing that could happen with this goal in mind. It's a far cry from reverse engineering or a company open sourcing it. Most people aren't even going to touch it beyond the curiousity.

I'm not hypothesizing about the behavior of others, I'm speaking only for myself.
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