{"id":12386,"date":"2024-11-27T10:33:40","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T17:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=12386"},"modified":"2024-10-05T10:54:35","modified_gmt":"2024-10-05T17:54:35","slug":"the-gritty-world-of-retro-game-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=12386","title":{"rendered":"The gritty world of retro game analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The world has gotten very familiar to retro hardware re-creations<\/a>, game emulation<\/a>, re-releases<\/a>, speed runs, creating new games for old platforms<\/a>, as well as new exploits<\/a>, tools<\/a>, and discoveries. The nitty gritty work of doing all of this, however, is a labor of love. For those that dig into the binary, there’s tricky copyright concerns that need to be managed, only scraps of information about old hardware and software, highly optimized\/tricky code that is tough to read, and almost no financial gain – except for commercial re-releases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Made Up of Wires<\/a> walks us through a live bit of decompiling of the PS1 classic: Castlevania: Symphony of the Night to give you a taste of the work involved in this kind of work. Not really that different than any other reverse engineering<\/a> but surprisingly accessible as these old games were relatively small and simple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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