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Yeah I feel static site generators and CDNs are the way. I've been using those for years and it surprises me how people still setup LAMP servers to this day

I had recently done some work where I had rehash a bunch of insecure hashes for security reasons. It required brute forcing about 1 trillion SHA-256 hashes to achieve this. Was the first time I had actually ever used Hashcat, very cool piece of software. I later had a shower thought about Anubis and it's proof-of-work solution to tackle web scrapers. I thought... What if I cracked the hashes out of the browser? Here is my write up of what I discovered.

You're not completely wrong, AI does usually have a weird proclivity for blue/purples lol

There will deffo be a lesson on how to setup a decomp project from scratch! This is far from finished, there's opportunity to add so much more. I'd argue that I'd rather teach the user the basics of matching first before diving into setting a project, as setting up the splits.txt or symbols.txt might be quite a leap for a beginner. Feel free to keep checking in once a week and the lesson will appear :)

The lessons taught in this can be applied to x86/64, but can deffo look adding different instruction sets in the future

No plans to profit at all from this!

Will look at adding this!

I'm not aware of anything that's similar to this for ARM.. but in the future there is certainly room to add this. For now I'm focusing on getting the current set of lessons up to scratch as a lot of them need improvement. Then I think I want to add C++ as a language and allow you to change which version of MWCC you can run

Just deploying a fix for this right now! Didn't expect this to be so popular haha

Most games will have been written in a higher level language first (like C or C++) and then compiled into assembly. With matching decomp, we write C, compile it to assembly, and see how much it matches the retail assembly. Using this we can write C that we theorise is almost identical to how it would have been written originally. There are things lost during the compilation process (like comments, function names, etc) these we have to name manually and it's a long process to do! But yes, the goal is to have C at the end and once you have C you can recompile using a different compiler and target any architecture you like

Are you on mobile? You'll need to switch to the code/review tab to see. I think mobile support is a bit funky, I'll look at fixing that as soon as I can!

AI is being used in many retro game decomp projects!

One of the reasons I went down the path of learning decomp myself was because AI had hit a wall. Matching decomp is quite a bit harder than just normal decomp as even simple things like using an if/else instead of a terney actually change the assembly. AI did an amazing job of getting to 95% matches on nearly all functions, but once it got to that tail end, it started to struggle quite a lot and would often just claim "it's impossible". So that's when I pivoted and started learning actual decomp myself so that I could prompt AI better and finish off the star fox adventures decomp!