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trap15
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Posted on 07-15-13 10:07:06 PM Link | Quote
Ahoy hoy. Decided to make an account finally. I used to hang around Acmlm under a different nick something like 7 years ago, and sorta just faded out of it.

I do lots of reverse engineering and get a strange kick out of ripping games apart and putting them back together, so I might end up contributing something around those lines. Past that, my gaming habits are fairly, hm, intense? Often times I'll find a game I like, then play it pretty nonstop until I reach my goals with it. Nothing more satisfying than spending months on end on pretty much one game and knowing it like the back of my hand.

Not really sure how these intro threads generally go, but there it is, I guess.
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Posted on 07-15-13 10:18:59 PM Link | Quote
Welcome aboard, dude!

Out of curiosity, what kind of games do you prefer messing with, older games or newer games? I personally find the newer ones to be more flexible but also less interesting due to the standardization of their data formats.

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Posted on 07-15-13 10:38:48 PM Link | Quote
Definitely older stuff. I mostly do stuff with 90s arcade games, which means lots of custom stuff on 68000. It's a good thing I really like that CPU, I guess. Maybe I should do something with Genesis at some point!

Recently poked around in some SNES stuff that wasn't terribly offensive. I went on an intense gaming binge on Combatribes and ended up reverse engineering a bit of it to figure out some strategies for the last boss since she's kind of absurd.

Been touching SMS stuff recently too, and I really underestimated that system's potential I think.

I've messed with some newish stuff too, but I think the latest I really enjoy playing with is PS1/Saturn. PS1 is particularly interesting to me since there are so many custom solutions for everything, and the coprocessor stuff is pretty cool. Doesn't hurt that MIPS is fun too
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Posted on 07-15-13 10:42:57 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by trap15
Ahoy hoy.
'Hoy, small fry.

I think you'll do well here.

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Posted on 07-15-13 10:46:13 PM Link | Quote
The internet is a small world. Seriously.


Welcome to Jul :p

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Posted on 07-15-13 10:47:57 PM Link | Quote
Sounds interesting. The oldest architecture I've messed with is the DS, and it's like halfway between old and modern styles. ROMs use a filesystem structure to store their data, but some data, like level data in SM64DS, is stored in the code, like in older games. And the DS's main components are proprietary.

I also messed with Wii games, like SMG. Wii is definitely modern. Most of the hacking there can be done with generic tools since most games use the same generic formats, which kinda takes the fun out.

That makes me want to look into older systems/games, really. However the popular games there have already been hacked in depth. I do that kind of stuff mostly as a hobby, but working on something nobody cares about is depressing, so I'd avoid getting into obscure games...

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Posted on 07-15-13 10:55:56 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by "Mega-Mario"
I do that kind of stuff mostly as a hobby, but working on something nobody cares about is depressing, so I'd avoid getting into obscure games...

Yeah, it definitely kinda depends on motivation. I like breaking stuff just for the heck of it, and usually I have some personal goal that I want to achieve with it as well. Sometimes I just want to pull out graphics, sometimes I add practice mode to arcade games so I don't have to play the full game to learn specific parts, and sometimes I just want to know how something was done.

I actually avoid popular games when I do this, primarily because I like the concept of the brave new frontier and the exploration and whatnot involved with such a thing.

DS is cool though, I've played with that a bit. Very much a mix of old and new style game development there. If I had more patience for trying out modifications (at least last time I tried, it's not as easy as just popping into a really common and easily available set of emulators, like the stuff I usually mess with), that'd probably be the newest system I'd enjoy working with.
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