Articles by Retro Ports

Now that the “secrets” map is complete I’ve returned to RE’ing the code. The architecture of the code and data structures in memory are slowly starting to take shape. I won’t go into any detail at this point – mainly because it’s early days and I could have made some …

A little more RE’ing and a lot more eye candy to come in the next few sessions! More work on decoding the area object tables; I can (syntax) parse the complete tables even though I have only identified (I think) the EVEZOO Easter Egg, ground-based objects and the bonus flags. …

 What a f*cking waste of 3 days RE effort. I thought Ghidra was going well until tonight. Then I started losing random sections of work; code and data sections would arbitrarily revert to ‘unknown’, losing all comments and memory references with them. At first I thought it was my fault, …

The last correspondence I got from Miro was probably not long after my last post in September. It seemed to me he was approaching this project from a different angle and I couldn’t really reconcile what I was doing with what he was doing. This is not a criticism in …

Whilst I’ve been waiting for Miro to digest the previous posts and hopefully develop his framework to the point I have described, I’ve actually been doing a little bit of the transcode. I’m not going to go into any specifics here as I’d like to document it in some form …