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AnotherGoodNameyesterday at 5:25 PM7 repliesview on HN

I wonder if it’s a real leak or just an agent recreation of the source from machine code.

I’ve been having fun lately with agents and decompilation. You can literally point them at any game and ask them to decompile the game and structure and format as if it was the original source code. Asking them to ensure it compiles works fine.

Some proof: i made online save game editors for jagged alliance 3; grandcheaten.com and news tower; thedailycheat.com (.com domains are only $10 so i figured why not).

You can do this with any game i’ve found. Older games work best due to the forced simplicity of the source code though.


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jamesuyesterday at 6:36 PM

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.

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whywhywhywhyyesterday at 6:03 PM

It’s the real code there is code for known removed content (tanker escape scene and the 9/11 removed cutscene). Also AI can’t do what you’re theorizing yet.

>and ask them to decompile the game and structure and format as if it was the original source code. Asking them to ensure it compiles works fine

lot of people claiming this the end result is the AI downloading an emulator and rom

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defenyesterday at 6:31 PM

Whoa, since when is there a Jagged Alliance 3? Is it any good? JA2 is one of my favorite games of all time

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bigyabaiyesterday at 5:32 PM

It's (probably) a real leak. There are original comments in Japanese describing cut content and game logic that was scrapped in the final release.

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tuna74yesterday at 6:29 PM

How do you verify that everything is correct?

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SSLyyesterday at 7:58 PM

check for console headers. those aren't that easy to get out of LLMs