Patching MechCommander's "left arm bug" for fun and profit

Great writeup! Vividly remember this being a thing especially in multiplayer. What was that janky match matching service, MSN something?

Also a really underrated game, the mechanics (line of sight over the horizon stuff) and isometric graphics were pretty cool for the time and it had a well developed story/campaign mode.

This is cool, maybe "target left arm" implies that it's your left, when targetting them and you're facing each other. So, their right arm.

I wish they would release MC1 source the way they did with MC2.

If you need a compact byte -> bit lookup table on x86, consider using the memory form of the bit test (BT) instruction.

Oh man this was my biggest pet peeve with mechcommander as a kid, thanks for fixing it!

Now let's see this working for Darkest Hours. ;)

(Assuming they didn't fix it themselves, it is a pretty big overhaul to MC1)

99% sure it should work fine for (Exodus and Turncoat), (X-Ray and DSC Raid), and (Xenocide and Bengal Lancers) since those are just custom campaigns.

Lovely stuff. Always a joy to see anything MechWarrior related end up here on HN.

I really need to put some of these techniques to the test with Metal Fatigue.