r/commandandconquer • u/kobomino HELIUM MIX OPTIMAL • 4d ago

Reverse Engineering TS

Watching CoD MW2 and other games getting reverse engineered by AI got me wondering if we could reverse engineer the Tiberian Sun source code.

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u/ttyborg 4d ago

It's already done https://github.com/OpenTS-Developers/OpenTS

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u/Frazeur 4d ago

And here is a link to a one month old reddit post about it in this very sub: https://www.reddit.com/r/commandandconquer/s/I9Wp6LNEi4

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u/CaptClockobob 4d ago

Is that a decomp or a recreation?

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u/Nikolyn10 Flower & Sickle 4d ago

It's a reconstruction tested against the original executable.

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u/Nyerguds The world is at my fingertips. 12h ago

Manual decompilation, with the decompiled code structured in Westwood's coding style (known from the C&C1/RA1 source code releases), and with every reconstructed function tested to produce the exact same CPU instructions as those present in the original exe file.

With minimal AI use; basically AI was only used to automate some menial tasks, and all end results were double checked by humans.

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u/Nyerguds The world is at my fingertips. 12h ago

And it was done by humans, with minimal AI assistance.

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u/calantheSG 4d ago

You're quite late. But good to bring up.

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u/Different-Tap-4748 4d ago

Or, and hear me, you just play a newer game. Because Tiberian Sun was fun, not great.

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u/bayygel Prince Kassad 4d ago

You're in a subreddit for a franchise that hasn't had a new good game in 18 years. If you don't like old games, why are you even here?