ryiron

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   by ryiron 10y ago

   Cool. Is the data not compressed in the SNES ROMs or were you reading the data directly from memory? In the DOS version the DATA.DAT file contains a bunch of chunks, most of which (including the vm programs) are compressed using an LZSS typ
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   by ryiron 10y ago

   It seems likely that they would as the purpose of the virtual machine seems to be to make porting to other systems easier. If you can extract the data files from the SNES version (or another port) then it is possible that the pack_tool (fro
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   by ryiron 10y ago

   Thanks to whoever posted this, and glad that people are enjoying a little bit of DOS games nostalgia. The tools I've developed (also linked in the blog post) are all public domain if anybody wants to play around with them: https:&#x2F
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   by ryiron 10y ago

   This is the impression I get from reversing it: the virtual machine mostly assists quickly porting to other platforms. I previously reversed another game engine called Comprehend (for 1980s text/graphical adventure games) which also ha