alt Hacker NewsSpeaking of obscured code:
I'm using AI to decompile old arcade games.
I am finding the craziest anti-tampering stuff. Three different routines - each watches the code of the others - and if anything changes - tank the machine by jumping into graphics RAM.
When I first started seeing this stuff I assumed my decompiler was broken. Nope. Just insane code.
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noman-land • today at 4:45 PM
If you have the energy or desire to write this up it sounds really fascinating.
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Yeah I've been using Ghidira to study the internals of strategy PC games I like and it's an extremely good learning experience given the paucity of OSS code for stuff like this