Do I know anything that you said? No, not a clue. But the way the format was presented, made it infinitely better. Also Diablo 2 is my favorite game and I just happened to stumble upon this video. Well done.

Great video, but I think you forgot to add the lut to your raw video footage 😂

Do you know about std::mdspan ? Part of C++23. It should be supported by MSVC so you could use it.

For the original Starcraft IIRC you can bypass the key by simply adding a bunch of 0s or clicking OK a bunch of times, I forget. It just stops you from playing online if you do that (LAN works fine, key is checked upon attempting BNet connection). Edit: Ah I see you quickly figured out just how basic the key check is. Lovely memory!

Those subtitles are sick

Sorry, not to be mean, but i can't listen to this. It seems super interesting, but the AI-Voice enhancer (Adobe?) sounds so weird and robotic. Have you tried to mix the original recording in a bit, so you don't lose all of your natural voice?

I downloaded the source code for stoned in the 90s compiled it and I got the antivirus alert immediately

I wonder why they have an external process attach the debugger. For a quick and dirty anticheat I wrote for an MMORPG private server I just had the process itself attach a debugger to itself. Is there any benefit to the game doing this in an external process? Was it just intended to make it harder to find what was attaching it?

Been really loving your channel, just had a video recommended a week ago and have been working my way through your backlog. I've always been interested in this kind of work flow, have long dabbled in hex editing snes roms, always looked at the disassemblely with no knowledge and was kind of stuck there. This definitely hits that itch even if we'll over my head in many regard. Cheers

You're doing great work for games preservation, and I applaud how much effort you've poured into this.

At the beginning of the video you have a dead pixel on your nose

heh dude I'm sure we know each other from back in the day

2:30 OBVIOUSLY

2:24:30 "I was trying to be clever and I'm full of regret" yep it's C++ alright

Seeing that score reminds me of a game I loved playing: Airline Tycoon. I was so successful (cheated immensely) that the ingame bank account rolled to 0 and then counted up again. It was no problem as I made like ... 10³⁴⁵³ money aday (maybe a little lot less) I would loove to see you hack the game to not overflow.

I think that's incredible & you're awesome! I could stare at that stuff for years & never figure it out.

Btw, I am sure you also wanted to know how the algo works and generate a valid key instead of bruteforcing one, I can never stand it if I create a bruteforcer, or a self keygenner without knowing what actually happens, that is the point of reversing right? A seeker searches and is satisfied if found, a reverser wants to become the architect by walking backwards in his footsteps

shenaniganners

1:05 godot? no. it's jodot. like jef. >:}

Dude you are cool! I am a reverser myself and I can really appreciate it that you are teaching others this stuff! You have a nice sense of humor as well, so keep it up ❤

well done❤

I'm sad to confirm :( people have gone through more pain just to run GDB :(

you are the goat bro!

no dark mode ghida is devastating

I seem to remember back in the day looking into getting ito this and crystal space seemed like a decent foss project, have you done anything with that?

id Software has always been so smooth and slick and highly optimized from the get-go., I would say only doom 3 seemed to go a bit slower than the rest, But the technical genius of the people there is so impressive. I would say only Rockstar of Bethesda come close for creating such optimized games

That cover image is amazing.

what an incredible series

Starts 1:44

This man is great at coding and other things

Wow😊

Used to play this a kid

This is the year I subbed. Many of these games are favorites from my childhood, and I long to learn how to do stuff like this