alt Hacker NewsIt's really bugging me that he somehow reads "The Team" but not the full string "The Team Break at Event Match - Native" whatever that means.
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butlike • yesterday at 3:27 PM
'The Team' is the file that's exposed on the ROM disk when you successfully execute the easter egg.
These are two separate strings. You can see in the hexdump that the character between them is not a space (0x20) but an unprintable control character (0x1D). The article refers to these as "Pascal strings". Unlike C-style strings, they are not null-terminated, but instead are length-prefixed [0]; the first byte of the string stores the length of the string.
So you can see that "The Team" is indeed a single string, starting with the length of 8 (encoded as 0x08), followed by the string "Break at Event Match - Native" with length of 29 (encoded as 0x1D)
0: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25068903/what-are-pascal...