Patching MechCommander's "left arm bug" for fun and profit

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golden-face•32 minutes ago

Great writeup! Vividly remember this being a thing especially in multiplayer. What was that janky match matching service, MSN something?

Also a really underrated game, the mechanics (line of sight over the horizon stuff) and isometric graphics were pretty cool for the time and it had a well developed story/campaign mode.

tangenter•27 minutes ago

I wish they would release MC1 source the way they did with MC2.

derac•about 2 hours ago

This is cool, maybe "target left arm" implies that it's your left, when targetting them and you're facing each other. So, their right arm.

derac•about 1 hour ago

Btw, I recently did my first patches with ghidra. Is there any way to avoid jumping into a code cave by shifting all the instructions up then updating any statements referring to those memory locations? Seems like it should be simple enoigh in theory, but I didn't find an implementation on a cursory search. Could probably code up a plugin pretty easily.

pkhuong•about 1 hour ago

If you need a compact byte -> bit lookup table on x86, consider using the memory form of the bit test (BT) instruction.

20k•about 1 hour ago

Oh man this was my biggest pet peeve with mechcommander as a kid, thanks for fixing it!

protocolture•30 minutes ago

I really need to put some of these techniques to the test with Metal Fatigue.

tangenter•27 minutes ago

A rare gem to see someone talking about MF. I used to play lots of it with friends, our games would last for over 48 hours (we wouldn’t sleep). Different time.

Patching MechCommander's "left arm bug" for fun and profit

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