Pirated video games SOURCE CODE (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by zaknenou@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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So there are multiple sites&groups that pirate video games especially on PC. I was wondering if there are places on the internet where you find source code for games especially the highly modifiable ones like Half Life 2/Portal and Skyrim. Or groups that crack into the source code of games (or even software in general), not only for PC maybe PS, XBox or mobile too, and share it. I just wanted to see some code samples of games or their engines, maybe I get hooked into video game design. Shout out to Valve for sharing a lot about the creation of Half Life 1

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[-] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago

But even if you can intuitively understand what the machine code is you'll still need to convert it by hand back into something more portable, or to the machine code of another platform you might want to run it on. There's not really an easy automated way to do that, even when playing dirty.

That's the hard part, getting it into a different form, such as from x86 to ARM or from 6502 RISC to x86.