Just a heads up. Splinter Cell is currently on sale on steam right now if anybody wanted to maybe dive in and follow along!

I like your video and exactly what I was looking for! Waiting for you're gonna make Chaos Theory breakdown. I'm curious if the texture can be added or deleted, the boolean flag, and maybe disabling black screen in the flag when you're game over because when I looked into it there's a timer around 3 seconds before the screen going to black. Also for the LS0 audio file, if I'm using Audacity the audio will compiled into like one file. I'm also exploring other things in Chaos Theory but kinda stuck til now due to less information and rare discussion about this. Thank you so much for making this series!

For Material 4 and Material 5, you're supposed to use the texture that has Sam's face and goggles on it. :) Cool video.

As a child I ever only got to play Pandora Tomorrow and Double Agent. Of the two I liked Double Agent more, and a couple years ago I found out there were 2 versions of the game that were pretty different from each other. Tried playing the PS2 version and it's quite the experience

Why not change the 16 bit string size prefixing the string instead of looking for a equally sized string? They probably allocate a string based on it so in theory there should be no problem with altering a string size.

Algorithm serves us up a banger this time, nice

47:00 the spheres are bones

36:12 these are remnants of Unreal Tournament

wow, a video made for exactly me! i've been waiting for this kind of deep technical dive on a splinter cell game for a while as it's been a series ive loved since i was a kid :>

Love the video and the series idea! If you're looking for another dark game to do in the future, maybe KOTOR2? Game still has a modding community and not many have explored the reverse engineering side of things, I'm sure any discoveries would be valuable to them!

1:15:10 it's actually the other way around. The PS2 version CUT A LOT OF CONTENT that was originally in the Xbox and PC versions, that are identical. The PS2 was the weakest home console of the era, and ports on it often had to suffer various cuts. Resident Evil 4 is one of the more notorious examples of this, but even games like Max Payne 1-2 had similar issues.

You could use that model viewer to rip all the assets to gltf then bring them into godot or unity and make your own splinter cell levels 😮 (i mean yeah youd have to recode everything but you have all the assets already so i bet it wouldnt take *too* long, since its a basic third person stealth game you dont really have to worry too much about getting the physics super correct since they arent going to be that complicated anyway. The main difficulty would probably be from recreating the enemy ai since thats probably the most complex part

Awesome idea for a series, can't wait to see more. It's good to see a less rehearsed approach like this. Some decent workflow tips, and reassurance that I'm not the only one stumbling about in the dark and getting sidetracked constantly 😅 Props for Ghidra, my favourite state sponsored RE tool. I'd also recommend ImHex as another commenter already has - it's incredibly powerful and lots of times you'll open a file and find that someone has already made a template for the format which can save so much time.

This series will have millions of views very quickly, just like FNAFs 'dissasembly' videos from Tech Rules. You've struck gold with the format, for the love of god keep it up and alive, the algorithm is already starting to pick it up.

You should give ghidra a try if you haven't yet, it's a great tool for stuff like this

I'll watch your video although I don't understand much yet, just to give you traction x) I'll get here in future again and work through it!

Looking forward to this series! Hopefully I'll learn some new stuff! I know you mentioned it briefly in the video, but if you're looking for another hex editor with a few more handy features, I'd recommend ImHex. My favorite part about it is the built-in pattern language, that allows you to define templates for different files to highlight specific fields and stuff, very powerful and useful for file format reverse engineering.

Idk, the dog checks out

Hell yeah more lore

"hey looks like you forgot your thermal Vision in this morning." joking aside great content

Lets go! I love this stuff, I recently started a similar project with Star Wars: Bounty Hunter and it has been super fun picking the game apart. Excited for episode 2!

Splinter Cell is such an Unreal series, that Ubisoft went to extreme lengths to crunch their version of UE 2.5 down so that Chaos Theory would run on the 3DS, look up Splinter Cell 3D for how that turned out. Great vid, I love poking around game files!

what's the polycount and texture res of the models and textures?

ahh, that time again distinguished gentlemen

The "SamFinalFinalForSure" asset names are a fun little easter egg haha

Can’t wait to see more. Love the first Splinter Cell

Also, congrats on your 3rd child!

I came for this video, subscribed for the inevitable UE development of SC stealth mechanics. I started making an SC like game in UE4 and got pretty far along with many of the same systems running, including the dynamic light detection. Shelved it to work on a racing game. If you want, I am open to collaboration. I can dust off the old project and see what can be done.

This is amazing! I have the same idea of diving into disassembling a game, and here you are with this video. Perfect. Keep them coming! And don't worry about the length of the videos, because this kind of videos are the longer the better :)

This seems like a lot of fun!

What a pleasant surprise! This game and the Spider-Man 2002 movie game are both games I really wanted to dig into and seeing your process here is fantastic, well done good sir and when I reverse engineer subscribing I’ll subscribe to you infinity fold 😎

You always hear people complain about "the algorithm" but it just gave me a spinter cell + re video 😮

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Really liked this one, seems like a fun series! Diving into these directx games is always interesting. If you are interested in Sims2, it would be fun to see that in this series sometime too :) Also, watching you fumble around in Blender reminded me of my early days with it; wanted to help you so bad! Once you get the hang of it, its a very powerful tool for many things, especially with some custom scripts! Looking forward to seeing more of this series!!

Properties like bCanTakeDamage probably apply to other assets and not your character. If it it only appears in one level file, then there's maybe a wall or prop you can break there that you normally can't. If they're standard Unreal files then the exact formats are probably well documented by this point. Expanding the hit boxes could be something fun to play with. Just randomly fire and one-shot everybody nearby.

ah man i still remember one my friends rooted his XBox using this game and a specially crafted save file. i'm not sure if you'll get to it, but it could be something interesting to check out during this series.

J’aime beaucoup ce genre de vidéo, peux-tu faire une vidéo sur Silent Hill 1 à partir de PSX dont le code source a été perdu par konami

Even though I won't understand anything because I haven't began to learn RE yet, I will give this a watch and let you know if I have anything to say.

1:59:40 Teacher, here how did you know that you had to perform *OR*. I was just adding the hexadecimal bytes. I didn't even get the hint that i need to perform*OR*. What's the reason for that here ? Please clear this up sir, or i won't sleep peacefully tonight. 2:01:31 yeah last night it actually did throw me off. I like to translate asm to cpp code. So i remember, i actually found that the asm code includes a structure, i successfully managed to get the fields, int, int and char. What threw me off that the structure was allocated 12 bytes. So i was confused for maybe 10 15 min again translating the asm code to see if i did wrong. But in the end, i vaguely predicted, that it maybe compiler optimization to insert padding bytes. Cause i read somewhere that our machines prefer even alignment. You might have also seen some weird nop sometimes, well they are just for paddings to have the program even aligned in the multiple of 8. Stack is although 16 bytes aligned. 2:16:34 i thought we were going for code caves, but anyways dll hijacking simple and cool.