DOS reverse engineering articles

[llm]

Night Raid reversing: https://cybersmash.github.io/night-raid/

Zombie Wars reversing: https://pratikone.github.io/gaming/2021/09/02/reverse-engineer-zombiewars.html

Might&Magic 3 Compression reversing: http://blog.rewolf.pl/blog/?p=1202

Cracking Grand Prix 2.a: http://krimsky.net/articles/gp2.html

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Cracking Jurassic Park: https://umij.wordpress.com/2020/01/20/cracking-jurassic-park-dos-ocean/

Reverse engineering an dos game: https://games-hardy.com/posts/underworld-disassembly/

[HerrNove]

Let's rename this thread and collect interesting articles! While the series about F15 from the opening post continues, today I spotted this article about Winter Games and its interesting copy protection:

https://mrwint.github.io/winter/writeup/writeup.html

Great idea with the thread, and this article is gold! It solves a mystery I didn't even know existed, but spoiled my days as kid playing Winter Challenge.

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non DOS game reversing

The reversing of Lego-Island:

https://github.com/isledecomp/isle
Dev-Talks: https://www.youtube.com/@MattKC/videos

[HerrNove]

Worth reposting the article shared by @dreadnaut in another topic.

Reverse engineering the mission generator in the Stealth Fighter games by Microprose.

https://github.com/debugcom/Hacking-F117A

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Creating the longest possible Ski Jump in The Games: Winter Challenge (reversing, tool development)

https://mrwint.github.io/winter/writeup/writeup2.html

[Matei]

There are four main phases for each jump: First, you go down the jumping ramp [...]. Then, you jump off the take-off table, by pressing down at the right time,

Ski jumps, second video, starting at 3:45:

https://matei.one/idxscr.html#videos

Pressing up just as well as down, depending on the jump. Not possible in Stunts, of course.