Gaulish Gaming Banquet: xxl

mr.rubinshtein

i see, because i was myself actively trying to find ways how to mod the very old games and thought that the simpler they are the easier it should be to access their code and change stuff

hesopesomeso

Yeah, but only changing code is very limited. For instance, XXL1 is easily moddable (events, etc.), it is built for it. Some games are just hardcoded...

mr.rubinshtein

ah i see

mr.rubinshtein

so without a decomplier it wont be possible to change the hardcoded stuff right?

hesopesomeso

decompiler only helps you understand the code

hesopesomeso

sometimes it is possible to patch some stuff in the program (like what spork has done with rocket romans), but often not (very very very time consuming).

mr.rubinshtein

i see

mr.rubinshtein

basically can be a windy walk but also at the same time pain to mod them

hesopesomeso

yea, it also depends on what you want to mod

mr.rubinshtein

got it

mr.rubinshtein

thanks for the info

hesopesomeso

adding a new enemy (or functionality) to a hardcoded game would be extremely difficult, but changing the number of some enemies, or health, maybe less so

mr.rubinshtein

i see

hesopesomeso

usually it depends on the how the engine is structured

pegperegogaucho

Die Odyssee was not N64 :Obelul:

, it was a C64 game, commodore 64

mr.rubinshtein

ah fuck lol, right i forgot

mr.rubinshtein

pegperegogaucho

Note that for old PC games, like die Odyssee, they were made in BASIC which is a very simple programming language

pegperegogaucho

But console games are almost always platform specific to the console. Compiled code is very hard to work with and you will never get the source code back from it, although decompilers can recreate the functionality very closely

pegperegogaucho

Some consoles are harder to work with because maybe the CPU it had was very obscure, or it had many different chips that communicate with each other (For example, the PS2 had a separate chip for specific math calculations)...

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