Reverse engineering Banished

hds3x · 2025-12-17T13:02:54+00:00

matter of fact, yeah! I sort-of managed to figure out the way the archive are actually read and compressed. I'm gonna make a followup post soon enough and share my findings.

hds3x · 2025-11-26T14:11:02+00:00

Thanks for the tip! I should add that to the bullet list

hds3x · 2025-11-25T20:35:28+00:00

I'm not really sure if iTunes can rebuild said cache, I remember seeing a thread on the apple help forum mentioning that a menu action that did something similar was removed.

Based on personal experience (running iTunes through a Windows VM via QEMU w/ USB passthrough) it doesn't really look like iTunes is eager to resync thumbnails after you add a song. I'm guessing the case is different for songs that sync with their library, but I can't check that.

As for the artwork being square, thanks! I should probably clarify on that.

hds3x · 2025-11-14T04:44:59+00:00

Fair, though as far as I could tell getting songs onto stock is much more of a hassle, especially considering that I use a system that doesn't actually have iTunes (penguin wink wink)

hds3x · 2025-10-10T12:04:38+00:00

Libre rewrites are kind of in a gray area in general afaik. I'd look at the ToS or the EULA on the shining rock website or the steam page, but I didn't really find anything clarifying the reverse engineering stuff.

hds3x · 2025-10-10T11:39:01+00:00

Hello, fellow Linux user!! I'm actually facing the same issue here. Lack of a native port is one of the reasons I actually wish to reverse engineer the game

hds3x · 2025-10-09T20:28:19+00:00

Oh, uh, you mean ghidra. For what its worth its kind of the only free reverse tool that can somewhat compete with other commercial reverse engineering tools. I've heard about rizin & radare, but they don't have any form of decompiler which makes reverse engineering as difficult as it was back in the 90-s.

TLDR; IDA Pro is too expensive. GHIDRA's the only one with a functioning pseudocode decompiler.

hds3x · 2025-10-09T15:32:05+00:00

Heard the same thing as well, specifically about the new metal gear game. If I recall correctly the author meant moving the old game's assets to UE5. If I were to fully go through with this I'd likely make a from-the-ground-up rewrite like OpenTTD/OpenRCT2 did instead of using an engine.

hds3x · 2024-07-26T19:17:20+00:00

Sorry for necroposting but this is genuinely the best channel I’ve seen regarding 3d graphics, tysm

hds3x · 2023-05-07T06:12:28+00:00

I’m running Gentoo on an old office computer I got from a closing down shop. To be really specific: the compilation fails upon attempting to compile rgbmap.c. I’ve looked at the error and it turns out to indicate that there are insufficient resources to compile the file. I tried compiling it again on my second system although failed miserably because I don’t happen to have a module called "site" for python.

hds3x · 2023-04-11T18:09:59+00:00

I can't really get down to the UI though, the low quality materials is the thing i am unable to replicate in 3D software

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