SpaceCadetPinball

Cool! I checked out the GitHub: https://github.com/k4zmu2a/SpaceCadetPinball It's been ported to a whole bunch of consoles. There's also a browser version! https://pinball.alula.me/ Also, turns out Space Cadet Pinball is part of a bigger Maxis game I never heard of: Full Tilt! Pinball. Also turns out we almost got DOOM bundled with Window 95! (GLUEM) but it was rejected: "Can't we just get a game of pinball or something like that?" And here we are :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_Tilt!_Pinball#Development

original decompilation: https://github.com/k4zmu2a/SpaceCadetPinball

It may have been at one point, but since then it has been decompiled and ported to many platforms: - PS Vita - Emscripten - Nintendo Switch - webOS TV - Android (WIP) - Nintendo Wii - Nintendo 3DS - Nintendo DS - Nintendo Wii U - PlayStation 2 - Sega Dreamcast - MorphOS - AmigaOS 4 https://github.com/k4zmu2a/SpaceCadetPinball

Why don't you check for yourself: https://github.com/k4zmu2a/SpaceCadetPinball

Following on from this, I looked at another of your articles, and learned of the existence of Andrey Muzychenko, and his reverse engineering efforts and making this https://github.com/k4zmu2a/SpaceCadetPinball Crazy! Playing right now, so happy. Reverse engineering and the people who practice it are legends.

Well, not exactly that, but check out https://github.com/k4zmu2a/SpaceCadetPinball .

Pinball was decompiled a while back; you can even run it on macOS/Linux[1]. I take no responsibility for the ensuing impact to your productivity. [1]: https://github.com/k4zmu2a/SpaceCadetPinball

All nostalgia aside, TIL that superfans reverse engineered "Space Cadet" from binary code [1] the same way they did Mario 64 [2]. Not only that, they've ported the result to use SDL and execute in the browser under Emscripten. A super-impressive technical accomplishment with a beautifully tangible result, wow! My favorite bit - the reverse engineering process seems to have fixed the 64-bit bug Raymond Chen blogged about [3] > I did not find it, decompiled game worked in x64 mode on the first try. > It was either lost in decompilation or introduced in x64 port/not present in x86 build. > Based on public description of the bug (no ball collision), I guess that the bug was in TEdgeManager::TestGridBox [1] https://github.com/k4zmu2a/SpaceCadetPinball. [2] https://github.com/n64decomp/sm64 [3] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/202201

He should have probably filled in this gap as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28869255 > Raymond's comment about not being able to find the collision code is a bit absurd. I can't recall if Danny or I named the top-level collision detection function, but it was just named 'pb_collide'. > It's nice to be able to point to this line: https://github.com/k4zmu2a/SpaceCadetPinball/blob/5947727f80... > And, while it is true that the code is sparsely commented, the geometry code that computes ray intersections is commented.

Check out https://github.com/k4zmu2a/SpaceCadetPinball

So here's the github [0] but it requires original game resources. Which is the Right Way, ultimately, but it also means that I've got to physically reach a machine/spin up a VM capable of playing Space Cadet Pinball in order to, uh, play Space Cadet Pinball. I appreciate that the reward is permanent access to SCP, but still. Frustrating! [0] https://github.com/k4zmu2a/SpaceCadetPinball

Raymond's comment about not being able to find the collision code is a bit absurd. I can't recall if Danny or I named the top-level collision detection function, but it was just named 'pb_collide'. It's nice to be able to point to this line: https://github.com/k4zmu2a/SpaceCadetPinball/blob/5947727f80... And, while it is true that the code is sparsely commented, the geometry code that computes ray intersections is commented.

I'm impressed as well! It's exciting to see folks so enthusiastic about the game. I took a deeper look at the github project. It's been a long time since I worked on the Space Cadet code, but the decompiled github code is pretty familiar. It's formatted differently of course, but I think it's actually better than the original. And, nice! Check it out David and Kevin: k4zmu2a got the quotes in! https://github.com/k4zmu2a/SpaceCadetPinball/blob/master/Spa... Now I'll never live down how long I spent working on the flippers. Bonus points for anyone who knows why the classes in the source are prefixed with a 'T'! -Mike Sandige (Lead programmer on Space Cadet)