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Title: What does "reverse engineering" actually mean? o_O
Post by: Squad_Sammaron on September 27, 2006, 12:37:57 PM
i was lookin at my RC disk and it said 'No Reverse Engineering'... uh oh. wat is that? is it like moddin something?
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Post by: DooFi on September 27, 2006, 12:44:46 PM
reverse engineering means that you are not allowed to hack the software and modify it / Read the original code. The software is compiled and you must not decompile it.
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Post by: Squad_Sammaron on September 27, 2006, 12:49:40 PM
wats that mean? like i cant clik an object then click the "Edit Script" button?
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Post by: DooFi on September 27, 2006, 01:13:22 PM
nah. You are allowed to fiddle around with the scripts and stuff, but in the development the devs also wrote real programming language such as C++ (i guess they used that) to code the game. Then they used a compiler to translate the programming language in a language the computer understands. Some machinecode or sth, dunno what exactly happens while compiling. Consult wiki^^
Infact reverse engineering (as the word says) is developing the game backwards. Actually decompiling it to view (and modify) the human-readable programming language.

btw, i edited the title for you ;)
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Post by: Squad_Sammaron on September 27, 2006, 02:32:21 PM
i noticed lol. i was kinda creeped out there for a sec. ne way thx :D (o yea IM FINALLY NOT A FUNKY MONKEY ANYMORE!!! WHOOP!!)
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Post by: Squad_Sammaron on November 23, 2006, 09:05:33 AM
hey, am i allowed to completely re-make the game into any other game so long as i don't mess with source code and offer as a free mod?
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Post by: DooFi on November 23, 2006, 10:13:44 AM
i guess so, yes. There are mods for any other game outthere as well. Of course everyone who wants to play the mod has to have bought the game, too.
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Post by: Anonymous on November 24, 2006, 04:31:18 AM
yay!
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Post by: Squad_Sammaron on November 24, 2006, 04:34:09 AM
:D sry that's me up 'ere.
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Post by: Shockjaw on April 12, 2007, 04:07:53 AM
Quote from: "Squad_Sammaron"wats that mean? like i cant clik an object then click the "Edit Script" button?

the real definition of reverse engineering:verb.to take an object apart to figure out how it works and how it is made like the russians did with our guns
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Post by: DooFi on April 12, 2007, 09:33:06 AM
man this thread is about half a year old xD :roll:
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Post by: Shockjaw on April 13, 2007, 05:10:32 AM
heheheh :lol: