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Porting Games From Binary

Posted by michael on from the meaningless-and-time-consuming-are-our-middle-names dept.

CowboyRobot writes "My favorite Slashdot links are those that inspire me to embark on meaningless and time-consuming quests. This is one of them. Two Canadian game developers at Digital Eclipse have a thorough explanation of how to port a game using nothing but the binary stream coming out of the cartridge. They use the TRS-80 and Phantasy Star III as examples."

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  1. You should talk to the guys at MAME by Trigun · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    They've been doing this for years.

  2. W00t by minnkota · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I think it's a pretty cool link. And first non-dumbass post!

  3. Hrmm by acehole · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'd only be impressed if he used a couple of magnets to manually shift the bits onto the harddrive.

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    Be you Admins? nay, we are but lusers!
  4. THIS IS NOT THE FIRST POST! I FAIL IT! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I almost had the first post except I have a really bad case of the runs and I was taking a big wet shit.

  5. Almost there by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    My favorite Slashdot links are those that inspire me to embark on meaningless and time-consuming quests.

    s/links/posts/
    s/quests/quest for FIRST POST/

  6. NOBODY CARES ABOUT YOUR URINARY TRACT INFECTION! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    NOW SHUT UP, NERD!

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  8. Re:secrets galore.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    my binary my be slightly rusty

    the goatsecx guy is my dad,
    he keeps my hands warm in winter.

  9. This article is unreadable by Zathras11 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The font used on the page is TINY and I'm
    sorry, but if I have to mess around with
    changing fonts just to read something, screw
    it! It sounded interesting though...