Thunder Castle hack

[pacman3211]

Thunder Castle

infinite time to kill dragon

 

thundercastle.bin

 

 

[clowerweb]

Do you have the disassembled source for this? If so, would be awesome if you could post it. I can't get the game to disassemble properly in dis1600 or dasm1600. How did you manage to get it disassembled by the way?

[+DZ-Jay]

Do you have the disassembled source for this? If so, would be awesome if you could post it. I can't get the game to disassemble properly in dis1600 or dasm1600. How did you manage to get it disassembled by the way?

 

What do you mean "disassembled properly"?

[clowerweb]

 

What do you mean "disassembled properly"?

 

The disassembly won't recompile into a usable ROM. It just crashes on startup in jzintv for me, and Bliss won't even open it. What I'm looking for is a compilable disassembly of it.

[+DZ-Jay]

There are two bugs we've recently discovered in dis1600: first, it replaces addresses with EXEC symbols, but does not provide a copy of the symbol table, or allow to disable that feature; and second, conditional "move" operations on the stack (e.g., "CMPR") are misidentified as "PULR" (stack pop) operations.

 

The first one prevents you from re-assembling the source; the second one adds some weird and unexpected behaviour to the game. Take a look at the "fantasy sports idea" thread in this forum for a similar discussion and ways to fix the first problem. Basically, I provided a primary EXEC symbol table, and instructions on how to "fix" the auto-generated symbols to their corresponding addresses.

 

For the second problem, it requires a bit more work, though it is still rather easy to do. Get the first one done first, and I can provide assistance with the second if you need it.

 

-dZ.

[clowerweb]

There are two bugs we've recently discovered in dis1600: first, it replaces addresses with EXEC symbols, but does not provide a copy of the symbol table, or allow to disable that feature; and second, conditional "move" operations on the stack (e.g., "CMPR") are misidentified as "PULR" (stack pop) operations.

 

The first one prevents you from re-assembling the source; the second one adds some weird and unexpected behaviour to the game. Take a look at the "fantasy sports idea" thread in this forum for a similar discussion and ways to fix the first problem. Basically, I provided a primary EXEC symbol table, and instructions on how to "fix" the auto-generated symbols to their corresponding addresses.

 

For the second problem, it requires a bit more work, though it is still rather easy to do. Get the first one done first, and I can provide assistance with the second if you need it.

 

-dZ.

 

Thanks dZ! I'll have a look and let you know what I figure out. I know nothing about assembly though, I'm just a lowly JavaScript programmer lol, so it might take me a bit.

[+DZ-Jay]

No worries, clowerweb, we all start somewhere. Just feel free to ask.

 

-dZ.