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Metal Gear Solid 2's source code has been leaked on 4chan

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Re: Metal Gear Solid 2's source code has been leaked on 4chan

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Post by themafia »

charcircuit wrote: post #74
themafia wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Copyrights were only intended to be secure for a _limited_ time. Originally 20 years. Konami has been granted at least 2 decades of FBI backed security of their property. I'd say they got a plenty good deal and have nothing to complain about here.

This is a Japanese game and Japan originally had 30 years of copyright. You also can't ignore that the amount of time was extended before the game came out.

Does the US enforce Japanese copyrights? Or did Konami also register it with the Library of Congress so it had protection here?

I can completely ignore the time it "was extended." Copyright exists from the time you've registered it. You can play mental gymnastics here if you like but the law is particularly cut and dry.

The law isn't something that exists in a vacuum. It's meant to convey the will of the people. Show me where the will of the people demands corporations get copyright protections longer than a human lifetime?

Re: Metal Gear Solid 2's source code has been leaked on 4chan

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Post by not_a9 »

CamperBob2 wrote: post #29
jamesu wrote: post #22

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There is no way you could recreate a convincing enough 90s era codebase of a japanese videogame + its associated tools + scripts and commented out codepaths with current ai tools.

That's pre-2026 thinking. At this point, with the ability to lash IDA or similar tools to an agentic harness, there is no longer any such thing as a closed-source binary.

I’m interested in how LLMs handle obfuscated code. Throw LLM with IDA MCP at EasyAntiCheat_EOS.sys or the like (as the most common examples of heavily obfuscated software) and see how far they can get.

Re: Metal Gear Solid 2's source code has been leaked on 4chan

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Post by bombcar »

NotPractical wrote: post #50

Minecraft Legacy Console Edition apparently leaked on 4chan recently, too: https://github.com/MCLCE/MinecraftConsoles Almost no coverage on HN or mainstream media though. Surprising, considering the popularity of this game.

Trying to explain why a Minecraft Legacy leak is worth anything when we have decompiled Java takes too long.

Re: Metal Gear Solid 2's source code has been leaked on 4chan

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Post by redsocksfan45 »

tombert wrote: post #68
casualscience wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not much, just accurately predicted the next 30 years exactly

Everyone focuses on that part, but what the hell was with the girl that could repel bullets but it turns out that it was magnets but actually maybe she does have powers? And what about the weird thing where you start sword fighting your father/president/clone? Yeah I know, sure, fake information on the internet. It's so prescient I guess, but the actual story is incomprehensible.

That stuff is just silly mostly-self-aware camp to keep the setting entertaining, don't overthink it. Everybody already knows and acknowledges that the series is absurd.

Re: Metal Gear Solid 2's source code has been leaked on 4chan

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Post by vor_ »

casualscience wrote: post #38
tombert wrote: post #6

Maybe with the source code, I'd be able to figure out what the hell happened in the last ~2 hours of the game.

Not much, just accurately predicted the next 30 years exactly

Surveillance states and mass media manipulation are a staple of sci-fi. Those topics were particularly common around that time too. E.g., The Matrix.

Re: Metal Gear Solid 2's source code has been leaked on 4chan

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Post by Unai »

Lammy wrote: post #73
casualscience wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not much, just accurately predicted the next 30 years exactly

I wonder how they must have felt to have coded a 9/11 scenario of Arsenal Gear crashing into the Twin Towers, and then watched it actually happen a few months later. This was cut from the game but is still in the source code leak, just commented out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNSPx-oRV60 Also note that the source code was leaked on April 30th :p

At least that was cut from the game. I remember that episode from The Lone Gunmen, the X-Files spin-off series, where they stopped the (inside job) hijacking of a commercial airplane from crashing into the twin towers, which aired just a few months before the attack.

I only watched it a few years later, and I had to double check the airing date.

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