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   Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 01-Sep-2024 16:10:31 JST Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️

   maybe I'd be better at getting back into my reverse engineering projects if getting back into them didn't involve first figuring out which of the 13 Ghidra versions I have installed is for that project

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     Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 01-Sep-2024 16:10:15 JST Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️

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     @clayote and I keep my gender on a floppy disk!

     wait. shit. oh no... this explains a lot.

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     clayote (clayote@peoplemaking.games)'s status on Sunday, 01-Sep-2024 16:10:16 JST clayote

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     @foone The relation between gender and a floppy disk is between gender and that floppy disk.

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     Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 01-Sep-2024 16:10:17 JST Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️

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     WFCommonJunction::getProfileGender

     MY GENDER IS BETWEEN ME AND GOD, YOU CANNOT KNOW IT, GAME FOR THE NINTENDO WII

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     Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 01-Sep-2024 16:10:18 JST Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️

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     I think these guys wrote their scripting language so that array types have a declared length, but then neglected to actually tell the script executor about that. it doesn't seem to save that information anywhere or compare it to anything

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     Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 01-Sep-2024 16:10:18 JST Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️

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     the worst thing about this particular scripting language is that it's compiled to bytecode, but they also have a debug file that includes all the information removed by byte-compiling. So I have variable names and comments and such, right?

     but it's in a separate binary format that I can't load. So it's tempting but also useless

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     Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 01-Sep-2024 16:10:19 JST Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️

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     oh god

     if( fixup_passes>=64 ){
     btype_failure = true;
     }

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     Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 01-Sep-2024 16:10:19 JST Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️

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     SIXTY FOUR FUCKING FIXUP PASSES?

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     Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 01-Sep-2024 16:10:20 JST Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️

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     oh god. I thought I'd fill out the resolveTypes function of module loading but it turns out it's a five-pass loader that loads data in place

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     Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 01-Sep-2024 16:10:21 JST Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️

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     huh. this game has a "SILENCE LOADING ERRORS" flag. there's no way to turn it on, so loading errors will always be reported.

     normally games have a verbose/debug flag that devs turn on, not a "be quiet" flag that never gets turned on

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     Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 01-Sep-2024 16:10:22 JST Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️

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     but because this is all done in an in-place loading style, it's really a pain to understand, so I've not yet been able to write a disassembler

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     Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 01-Sep-2024 16:10:22 JST Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️

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     it's also a typed VM, so that makes it even more complicated. (Because the types are stored in the executable metadata)

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     Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 01-Sep-2024 16:10:24 JST Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️

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     especially because it's doing this kind of... in-place relocation thing?

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     Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 01-Sep-2024 16:10:24 JST Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️

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     like the bytecode will be:

     pvm_Call 0, 0

     and then the relocations will kick in and that'll turn into:

     pvm_Call Vanna.revealTile

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     Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 01-Sep-2024 16:10:25 JST Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️

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     I'm trying to decode a scripting language for a video game, but the problem it's not just a bytecode file, it's more like an EXE file. It's got multiple sorts of metadata that has to be properly parsed, and linking that needs to be done, and that task is proving to be a little too hard for my tiny brain

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     Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 01-Sep-2024 16:10:26 JST Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️

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     okay now I can see why may2023!foone got stuck here. this is so fucking complicated.

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     Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 01-Sep-2024 16:10:27 JST Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️

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     9.2.2 was a vape unit I was trying to run Doom on, Duke Nukem 1 for DOS, and Links386 for DOS

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     Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 01-Sep-2024 16:10:27 JST Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️

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     ah-ha! It was 10.2.2

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     Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 01-Sep-2024 16:10:28 JST Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️

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     10.1.4 was an aliexpress single-key-keyboard and some parts of the Borland Graphics Interface

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     Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 01-Sep-2024 16:10:28 JST Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️

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     10.0.4 was SOLELY for a GBA DBZ game

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     Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 01-Sep-2024 16:10:29 JST Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️

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     10.1.5 was the DS9 point and click game and a WinCE powered printer

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     Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 01-Sep-2024 16:10:30 JST Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️

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     10.1 non-beta was Railroad Tycoon and "MyPetChimp", whatever that was.

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     Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Sunday, 01-Sep-2024 16:10:31 JST Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️

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     okay it's not 10.1-beta, because that one was used to hack on Spyro for the GBA, Excel '95, the Tandy-Memorex VIS BIOS, and the FlashPath kernel driver