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Anonymous Wed May 3 20:46:47 2017 No.3967618 [Reply] [Original]

A plebbitor just found a disc with the original source code to starcraft and gave it back to blizzard for some cheap made in china shit, overwatch, and le up boats. Gone forever.

>Last month, Plebbit user Khemist49 made a truly unlikely find: a gold master source code disc of the original StarCraft. From 1998. At first, he didn’t know what to do with it. Ultimately, he sent it to Blizzard, who was very grateful to have it back.
>For his troubles, he received a copy of Overwatch and $250 in Blizzard store credit.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 20:47:44 2017 No.3967620 enjoy those goodboy points

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 20:48:11 2017 No.3967621 Cool, that thing was useless besides being hoarded as a collector's item anyway.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 20:49:15 2017 No.3967625 >>3967621 >source code >useless

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 20:50:58 2017 No.3967630 File: 2.60 MB, 440x366, 1467008271099.webm [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Imagine all those gameplay tweaks people could have done A free HD patch. Hundreds of mods. All gone, for a diablo 3 bottle opener. Im beyond mad.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 20:51:08 2017 No.3967631 >>3967618 Jesus fucking Christ... The least he could have done was make an ISO first.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 20:51:28 2017 No.3967632 Not as bad as the guy wiping out the XBOX devkit to make it his gaymer rig case

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 20:52:09 2017 No.3967635 >>3967632 Fuck a devkit.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 20:52:25 2017 No.3967637 >>3967631 Seriously. But now that he's returned it, if he released an ISO it would be pretty obvious who did it.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 20:52:42 2017 No.3967639 >>3967631 Its reddit man, they're retarded by nature.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 20:53:07 2017 No.3967640 File: 1.27 MB, 270x180, 1491945543406.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3967618 lmao what a fucking dunce

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 20:54:42 2017 No.3967642 >>3967632 Fucking really? That shit could have been invaluable for making an xbox emulator that actually works.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 20:57:36 2017 No.3967647 >>3967642 Why would you emulate something that is able to be software modded? There's literally zero reason to emulate an OG xbox.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 20:58:52 2017 No.3967652 >>3967647 >There's literally zero reason to emulate an OG xbox. >redditor mentality

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 20:59:50 2017 No.3967654 >>3967647 Because who wants to buy an xbox just to play JSRF and Gunvalkyrie?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 21:03:22 2017 No.3967668 >>3967647 I dunno, convenience? I have a modded Wii, but I still play my Gamecube and Wii games on my PC because I can do things like raise the rendering resolution to 1080p, or add MSAA and Aniso filtering

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 21:05:06 2017 No.3967672 >>3967647 you must be clinically retarded. Do you really think optical media based consoles will last forever?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 21:08:18 2017 No.3967675 >>3967647 moron

Anonymous Wed May 3 21:11:34 2017 No.3967676

>>3967652
>reddi-
Ignored

>>3967654
>Not being willing to pay $15
Opinion disregarded

>>3967668
So literally just to play the game in a way that it wasn't designed to be played then?

>>3967672
>you must be clinically retarded. Do you really think optical media based consoles will last forever?
No, but I think I can play ISOs off the hard drive and just keep a ghost image of the drive in case it ever were to fail. Given the available tech and the architecture of the OG xbox I could probably swap the DVD drive out and use 0 raid for maximum fail safe.

>>3967675
Sweet argument

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 21:14:06 2017 No.3967683 >>3967618 >probably didn't make a backup >no iso available to be posted online >another retard willingly gives away valuable information back to the owners without making copies first and posting them online Normies LITERALLY ruin everything.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 21:15:29 2017 No.3967689 >>3967683 Apparently Blizzard told him they'd sue him because the disc contained intellectual property, and even after being told they couldn't do much he still gave it back.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 21:17:41 2017 No.3967696 >>3967689 That is why you just leak the goddamn thing. Why give it back to Blizzard when they have it already? One of these days one of these normies is going to end up stabbed to death for their stupidity.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 21:19:12 2017 No.3967698 >>3967696 And it will be justified

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 21:19:21 2017 No.3967701 If this guy leaked the code, how the fuck do the lawyers sue him? Do they get a subpoena for his IP address or someshit?

Anonymous Wed May 3 21:21:06 2017 No.3967703

>>3967676

>No, but I think I can play ISOs off the hard drive and just keep a ghost image of the drive in case it ever were to fail. Given the available tech and the architecture of the OG xbox I could probably swap the DVD drive out and use 0 raid for maximum fail safe.

yet you need a OG Xbox to do that you dumbass. Not all people can get one. Not to mention every year the price will rise on them -like its happening to all the other consoles- so at one point the only available way to play those games faithfully will be emulation.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 21:21:43 2017 No.3967705 >>3967701 It's too late for him now. He was so stupid to give it back before leaking it, just for 5 mins of e-fame and a couple of digital store credit in Overmeme. Shit like this makes me fucking mad. The wrong people always come across the best shit.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 21:22:14 2017 No.3967706 >>3967698 Exactly (I don't even give a shit about Starcraft and still think the dude is retarded).

Anonymous Wed May 3 21:22:43 2017 No.3967707

>>3967701

the dumbass posted on Reddit that he had the source code of Starcraft, probably to brag about it, and asked what he could do with it. Of course Blizzard told him to handle it because "HURR DURR YOU GONNA GET SUED" and gave him a lot of crap and a tour to keep him happy.

Anonymous Wed May 3 21:23:53 2017 No.3967708

>>3967703
>Moving the goal post this much

The question was "Do you really think optical media based consoles will last forever?" which I answered. Obviously you need an xbox to softmod an xbox, dumb ass.

Oh, and the price is steadily going DOWN on the OG Xbox.

Anonymous Wed May 3 21:28:00 2017 No.3967712

I'm not one to spew the "le rival website may may xD" because Reddit is just another website and there's tons of good shit in there, but I swear some of their users are literally retarded. They are actively harming whole communities in ways they can't imagine.

Anonymous Wed May 3 21:28:19 2017 No.3967714
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So we have a few complete idiots that should pray people never find out what's beyond their username

>This jackass that didn't even make an iso, just to get overwatch and chump-change to blow on it
>That moron that wiped a Xbox devkit just so he could have a gamerig

Anyone else?

Anonymous Wed May 3 21:28:28 2017 No.3967715

>>3967639

No, it's even worse: he prolly thinks leaking it would've been

HORRIBLY IMMORAL AND EVIL (TM)(C)(L)(R)

redditors are fully onboard with the fiction of intellectual property being no different than actual property, copyright infringement being theft, and copyright infringers being as bad as actual goddamned Somali pirates that slit people's throats.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 21:29:15 2017 No.3967716 File: 8 KB, 308x296, 1409677963775.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This blows, dude.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 21:29:35 2017 No.3967719 >>3967676 >So literally just to play the game in a way that it wasn't designed to be played then? Nothing gameplay related changes, it just looks nicer. It's like playing a HD remake, just without the remake part.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 21:30:12 2017 No.3967720 >>3967712 >because Reddit is just another website and there's tons of good shit in there

Anonymous Wed May 3 21:30:49 2017 No.3967721
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>>3967712
It's not a meme, anon. there's a reason why they're not liked. They're not seen as "rivals" they're seen as idiots.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 21:31:39 2017 No.3967723 >>3967715 There is a piracy subreddit though so that's not entirely correct

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 21:32:08 2017 No.3967724 >>3967720 Yes there is, and denying it is just being a retarded "do I fit in yet" memer.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 21:32:51 2017 No.3967726 >Either get sued >or get swag Overwatch in-game items and a tour of Blizzard's offices. I'd pick the latter.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 21:34:07 2017 No.3967729 >>3967712 get out. get out now.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 21:34:31 2017 No.3967731 >>3967723 For now. That'll disappear in due time, just like everything else their asshole founder decided was an affront to civilized humanity.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 21:34:37 2017 No.3967732 >>3967726 Or you dump the ISO, give it back to them, get your free shit, THEN release it.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 21:34:39 2017 No.3967734 >>3967726 >go to a public computer >upload iso >give it out wow now you won't be sued, that was hard

Anonymous Wed May 3 21:34:53 2017 No.3967735

>>3967726
You can't get sued if you're anonymous and know how and where to leak shit. Programming forums, 4chan, irc, Mega files, etc. There's literally hundreds of ways you could have gone about this without ever being found out, but that FUCKING FAGGOT chose to do le right thing xD for e-fame.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 21:37:07 2017 No.3967740 Reddit has a pretty strong WASP mentality, and always defers to authority

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 21:38:51 2017 No.3967747 >Reddit ruining good things once again color me surprised, first T_D, now this

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 21:41:05 2017 No.3967752 That game wasted millions of hours of manpower. Its status as a classic game probably would have made it moral to release it to the public. It deserves to be archived. Corporations lose stuff and don't really care. This was an idiotic decision.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 21:42:07 2017 No.3967758 >>3967625 Yah nah seriously this is 90s source code we're talking about here, it's probably full of spaghetti code and deprecated libraries.

Anonymous Wed May 3 21:42:25 2017 No.3967761

>https://www.reddit.com/r/gamecollecting/comments/68xzxt/starcraft_gold_master_source_code_update/dh3myr5/

>"and risk a legal battle with blizzard? sounds like a fair trade"

This dude better lawyer up soon anyway, for he's about to get doxxed by buttmad people.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 21:43:18 2017 No.3967765 >>3967721 Please stop posting creepy pedo cartoons.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 21:45:27 2017 No.3967770 File: 119 KB, 617x367, louis-ck.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3967758 You clearly don't know anything about programming, kid. Don't talk about things you know nothing about.

Anonymous Wed May 3 21:46:33 2017 No.3967774
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>>3967618
How fucking surprising.

So that makes 3 things that Reddit has lost now.

First: They managed to loose a massively sought after and rare cassette from a French Canadian Post-Rock band that even THEY don't own.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Lights_Fucked_on_the_Hairy_Amp_Drooling
https://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/1mcq42/godspeed_you_black_emperor_question/

Second: That absolute retard that gutted an Xbox devkit that everyone and their fucking mother has heard about by now.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/5qewph/refurbished_and_old_xbox_development_kit_and_made/

And now we have this taken away. I'm getting sick and tired of these absolute retards on that site. I feel like there's more that were notorious and I'm sure of them, but I can't seem to recall the others at the moment.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 21:49:08 2017 No.3967779 >>3967774 >I feel like there's more that were notorious and I'm sure of them, but I can't seem to recall the others at the moment. apparently a bunch of morons got another moron elected as president of a country, but don't take my word on it.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 21:49:09 2017 No.3967780 File: 1.02 MB, 475x347, 1436754190001.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3967726 >be dumb enough to post on the internet in a site that tracks every poster that you have something valuable

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 21:50:22 2017 No.3967783 What a fucking moron. Jesus fucking christ, the incredible things that could have been done with that code. Plebbit users truly are the worst kind of normie scum. I cannot express the silent fucking rage that lurks behind these keystrokes.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 21:50:29 2017 No.3967784 File: 20 KB, 540x401, 12d1f8b73796e5042f38cfe4c16558b1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3967712 There's a lot of dipshits here too, anon, never forget that.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 21:50:33 2017 No.3967785 >>3967779 Not sure if meme magic is THAT powerful. This is a whole country we're talking about.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 21:51:22 2017 No.3967786 >>3967784 Yeah, like the entire doom general and its resident janitor

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 21:52:38 2017 No.3967790 File: 233 KB, 480x360, Episode 30 - Full Tilt Tails.mp4_snapshot_21.05_[2015.11.25_08.58.52].png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3967786 You're just never gonna shut up about that are you.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 21:53:03 2017 No.3967791 >>3967618 What a fucking idiot. Blizz ripped him off.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 21:54:13 2017 No.3967793 >>3967790 Dont worry, my comment will be deleted with record pace once he catches a wiff of it

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 22:05:12 2017 No.3967819 File: 6 KB, 259x194, turokjew.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Daily reminder that the SGI Indy with the Turok source code is currently sitting in a hoarder's damp basement

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 22:06:28 2017 No.3967823 File: 130 KB, 640x622, 1489709531938.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3967758 You are such a fucking idiot.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 22:07:12 2017 No.3967826 If put in the same situation, how many of you morons would just sit on the disc and not leak an ISO just to lord it over everyone?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 22:08:29 2017 No.3967830 >>3967826 I would start a patreon. With donation goals of 10,000 per mod they want me to patch.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 22:09:43 2017 No.3967831 >>3967826 I would probably tell /vr/ about it first. Then you can probably guess where it would go next.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 22:11:51 2017 No.3967835 >>3967647 The capacitors are already leaking from the original hardware, destroying the boards, you narrow minded brainlet mongrel. YOU DUMB NIGGER FAGGOT. https://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/915780-xbox/68553171

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 22:12:37 2017 No.3967837 >>3967621 >Cool, that thing was useless besides being hoarded as a collector's item anyway. If it is the legit source code, then it could've been ebayed for over ten thousand $.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 22:14:55 2017 No.3967841 File: 6 KB, 601x86, DAMN.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3967837 KEK

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 22:15:46 2017 No.3967843 >>3967841 Told you ;) Im archiving all the deletions to send to hiro

Anonymous Wed May 3 22:16:34 2017 No.3967847
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>>3967642
>That shit could have been invaluable for making an xbox emulator that actually works.

There are plenty of devkits circling around, and none of them make it easier to do an xbox emulator. There is a huge lack of documentation to do that, on top of an even bigger lack of general interest.

>>3967647
Not all of us can free up space for a console twice the size of a CRT just to play the two or three exclusives worth playing on it (and by that I mean the English version of Rentahero and Panzer Dragoon Orta).

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 22:16:39 2017 No.3967849 >>3967841 That's pretty sad actually Why is he doing that anyway?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 22:18:41 2017 No.3967851 >>3967849 Doom Babby's first power trip

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 22:18:53 2017 No.3967852 >>3967701 IP address? Upload the ISO via tor from a McDonald's. Redditors are actual trash, it's pathetic.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 22:22:04 2017 No.3967859 >>3967841 >off-topic shitpost was deleted wooooow

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 22:22:11 2017 No.3967860 >>3967779 You act as though /pol/ doesn't exist.

Anonymous Wed May 3 22:24:07 2017 No.3967863

>>3967852
I was more saying, if he posted on reddit that he was going to leak it, proceeded to leak it, how the fuck would they even sue him? Can they legally get his information somehow?

>>3967859
keep your moderator tag on, it would be less cringy then you pretending to defend "him" every time.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 22:26:11 2017 No.3967868 >>3967726 >get sued How stupid are you anon?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 22:26:42 2017 No.3967872 >>3967826 It's nowhere near as rare, but I've posted Descent 1, 2, and 3, with manuals and all the bonuses before, since they were pulled from all online stores.

Anonymous Wed May 3 22:28:56 2017 No.3967881

>>3967863
But about as cringy as you trying to hijack completely unrelated topics.
Nobody gives a shit about how your posts were deleted in the Doom general. You can stop.

>>3967872
You're a bro, anon. Holding on to something simply for the sake of holding on to it is fucking stupid.
Another thread a short bit back had a rip of an anime shmup, two threads of one dumping the ROM and a faggot lording artbook scans over everyone and not uploading anything. I don't understand the latter. If you really care about a game, then you want to spread it around more?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 22:30:01 2017 No.3967884 >>3967881 Yeah dude the thread was hijacked by one post with one reply. You're a god damned imbecile.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 22:30:28 2017 No.3967885 >>3967884 Thanks, you too.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 22:31:22 2017 No.3967890 >>3967885 Nice off topic shitpost

Anonymous Wed May 3 22:36:03 2017 No.3967896

The truth of the matter is that this wouldn't do much for the original Starcraft. Any "source ports" or improvement projects based on the source would get C&D'd as soon as Blizzard got wind of them (and trust me, some moron will will eventually inform Blizzard about them or they'll find out on their own), forcing the source ports to remain underground on shady Russian sites that may or may not pack them into malware-infested installers. In this scenario, their would be few players on these services except for some Russian and other third-world teens playing them.

It would be interesting to examine the code for curiosity's sake, but any actual improvements for everyone would be nil.

Anonymous Wed May 3 22:38:10 2017 No.3967905

>>3967881
>But about as cringy as you trying to hijack completely unrelated topics.
>Nobody gives a shit about how your posts were deleted in the Doom general. You can stop.

what does this have to do with the source code of starcraft? it's almost like with every reply you're trying to hijack the thread to be about your cocksuckery for janitors

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 22:39:18 2017 No.3967909 File: 399 KB, 640x480, [SquareSubs] Medarot - 12 [CA0AD34A].mkv_snapshot_12.43_[2016.07.26_19.53.19].png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3967905 Please don't reply to him.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 22:39:22 2017 No.3967912 >>3967826 Probably more likely to happen on Plebbit. Remember that SONY NINTENDO prototype? That is the caliber of person we are dealing with. Anon always delivers.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 22:40:12 2017 No.3967914 >>3967896 I'm pretty sure a they can't do shit about a source port, so long as the port doesn't contain any of Blizzard's work. That's why source ports need data files from the original game.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 22:41:29 2017 No.3967919 >>3967905 that's a very good question what does >>3967786 or >>3967863 or >>3967841 have to do with the source code of starcraft? i don't care about your drama, please take it elsewhere or to >>>/qa/

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 22:42:27 2017 No.3967924 >>3967909 Okay, for you. big guy

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 22:42:34 2017 No.3967925 >>3967912 >Anon always delivers. Yeah, like that one anon who claimed to have Labryinthe, but never uploaded anything?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 22:42:57 2017 No.3967926 >>3967924 You mean Moai.

Anonymous Wed May 3 22:45:20 2017 No.3967929

>>3967914

A source port would only legally work if it was released by Blizzard themselves. People seem to think that "source release = legal", which is not true at all. The iD game sources were eventually released under the GPL licenses and were released by iD themselves. If DOS Quake's source was illegally released by a cracker group in the mid to late 90s, iD would have very solid ground to C&D source ports because it's based off of stolen property; the unauthorized release of the game's source code.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 22:48:26 2017 No.3967945 >>3967912 >Anon always delivers. If only, anon. If only.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 22:51:33 2017 No.3967948 >>3967912 Get off you're high horse. Both 4chan and Reddit have equally retarded users.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 22:53:05 2017 No.3967953 >>3967912 Get off your high horse. Both 4chan and Reddit have equally retarded users.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 22:55:29 2017 No.3967960 >>3967953 If we're not counting /v/ (which mostly consists of ledditors) or /co/ (which mostly consists of dumblr) then I'd say we're in the higher end of the spectrum.

Anonymous Wed May 3 22:58:41 2017 No.3967969

>>3967960
Can you please stop typing "leddit" like a faggot? If you want people to know you've been here since the word was filtered you can just say it, you don't have to be a faggot about it. Now say it with me: Reddit - The Front Page of the Internet.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 23:00:05 2017 No.3967972 File: 379 KB, 640x480, 72574557.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3967969 What an inane thing to get upset over.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 23:10:33 2017 No.3967994 >>3967835 only on the models before 1.6 faggot

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 23:11:33 2017 No.3967997 File: 68 KB, 403x250, 1389311193225.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] classic reddit.

Anonymous Wed May 3 23:23:35 2017 No.3968018

Chances are you aren't going to be pursued legally for leaking prototypes unless it is something that has yet to be released or something that was recently released/is modern. Prototypes of old games and the like are leaked all the time and, unless I am unaware of something, nothing comes of it.

That being said, source code COULD be a different deal I guess, given that it isn't just a playable snapshot of development, but rather the entire underlying foundation.

Anonymous Wed May 3 23:24:22 2017 No.3968020

>>3967994
>only on the models before 1.6 faggot

SO ALL OF THEM?
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=367210

Jesus Christ you are really stubborn and dense.

>HURRR WHY EMULATE XBOX IS 2$ AT STORE

This narrow mindedness holds you back in life anon.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 23:30:42 2017 No.3968029 File: 27 KB, 390x344, wat pigeon.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3967676 >0 raid >fail safe nigga wot.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 23:33:05 2017 No.3968032 Please educate me, anons: Why would Blizzard want to protect their source code so much? What is there to lose if everyone gets access to it?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 23:40:03 2017 No.3968046 >>3967712 >may may >xD Christ just don't post here, please. You're not wanted.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 23:41:21 2017 No.3968052 File: 271 KB, 2000x2000, microwave.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3967831 Am I close?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 23:42:09 2017 No.3968057 >>3968032 this tbqh. and it's fucking starcraft. it's not as if there are no other rts games that have the same or even better features by now.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 23:43:08 2017 No.3968060 >>3968052 No, I'd definitely go down the Dumping route.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 23:44:05 2017 No.3968062 File: 275 KB, 1200x763, 1200px-Wysypisko.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3968060 >go down the Dumping route. so this?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 23:45:56 2017 No.3968068 >>3968062 Oh you know what I mean.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 23:52:43 2017 No.3968078 >>3967689 what kind of faggot shit >make iso >??? >send to Blizzard, said "I found it in a burning bush"

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 23:54:07 2017 No.3968080 >>3968046 >not understanding the post k

>>	Anonymous Wed May 3 23:55:10 2017 No.3968083 >>3968046 Fuck off bitch.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 00:33:23 2017 No.3968145 >>3967618 Isn't leaking source code illegal?

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 00:36:41 2017 No.3968154 >>3968145 Who the FUCK cares if it's illegal? My dick is illegal.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 00:39:54 2017 No.3968161 >>3968145 Posting on 4chan is illegal.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 00:39:57 2017 No.3968162 >>3968145 Uh, yeah, but so is downloading ROMs. Keep quiet about it and the corperate execs won't be able to pin down who dun it by the time everyone knows about it and has downloaded it.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 00:44:42 2017 No.3968168 >>3967618 Do you have to post this on every board?

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 00:46:05 2017 No.3968169 >>3967731 This, it's a joke, you get banned for saying something wrong, not even rude or shitposting, same goes for subreddits

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 00:48:02 2017 No.3968170 >>3967863 In America, sure, money decides who's right and whos wrong.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 00:55:50 2017 No.3968182 >>3967860 You act like /pol/ isnt r/the_donald now

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 01:01:26 2017 No.3968189 >>3968168 they are from reddit of course they need to

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 01:01:42 2017 No.3968190 >>3967779 That was more on said country going full retard on every single thing related to that election

Anonymous Thu May 4 01:02:21 2017 No.3968193

>>3967752
People on here would have demanded to lynch him for giving it to "Top. Men." for the sake of preservation.

Not a single goddamn person whining about this was wanting it for anything more than a free game and a "fuck the police" story to stroke their pirate cocks to.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 01:18:39 2017 No.3968224 >>3968193 Oh yeah, because none of us here wanted to poke around in the code, or wanted to see what mods would come out of it.

Anonymous Thu May 4 01:31:54 2017 No.3968239
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>>3967953
4chan retards:
>Shitposters
>Mentally sick
>Actually brings funny irl situations overboards
>Good autists, still autists
>Can still be schooled
>Tfw no gf

Ledditors:
>Childish behavior
>Epic meems
>xD
>Upboats
>Bans because of different opinions
>Can't deal with 1st world problems

Also, most are concentrated in few boards so its clear which site is superior ...

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 03:37:28 2017 No.3968425 >>3967647 Are you retarded?

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 03:54:29 2017 No.3968431 >>3967618 imagine being this much of schmuck

Anonymous Thu May 4 03:57:50 2017 No.3968439
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>>3968032
Vanilla would be destroyed because know there is no "official" version. Everyone with their own mods, instead of a single community that shares the same rules, you'd have to deal with loads of different communities.

Mods are not a bad thing as long as they share the same root. With the full source code, you could potentially replace the original net protocol (for example, for optimization purposes) which would make impossible for different starcraft versions to communicate.

Yes, some games have been quite successful thanks to that level of modding (Doom). But i'm not sure you can extrapolate that to others. I think that, what makes SC and other Blizzards games popular is that everyone is sharing the same experience.

Anonymous Thu May 4 04:04:34 2017 No.3968446

>>3968439

A full source release would also open the doors for cheaters. Quake 1 was tormented by an influx of cheaters years after its source was released since the source gave hack designers a much better understanding of the engine and how to exploit it. The problem was solved when the community eventually developed successful anti-cheat protocols in source ports.

Blizzard likely doesn't want a repeat of what happened to Quake 1, especially since the original Starcraft is still very popular in certain parts of the world, such as South Korea. A gigantic influx of cheaters would decimate the game.

Anonymous Thu May 4 04:11:12 2017 No.3968450

>>3967676
>>you must be clinically retarded. Do you really think optical media based consoles will last forever?
>No

There you go. Nothing else was needed, and you proved everyone else's points.

>but I think I can play ISOs off the hard drive

We already determined that the console won't last forever (and the ones that do still exist are dying fast due to faulty capacitors used on the boards), so the backed up ISOs mean absolutely nothing in terms of preservation.

>all that "anti-emulator", "lol poorfag" damage control

Jesus Christ, just guzzle some bleach already.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 04:11:54 2017 No.3968451 It was on reddit so of course he is a beta cuck that does what he's told. He probably could have got 10k. Hopefully he made a copy.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 04:13:28 2017 No.3968452 >>3968451 blizzard made sure he didnt

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 04:22:46 2017 No.3968457 File: 78 KB, 974x472, white nerds.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

Anonymous Thu May 4 04:23:37 2017 No.3968459

>>3968018

Regarding prototypes, it depends on the company, how old the game, is and how old the leak is.

If it's a prototype of some old NES game or a dead 16-bit era franchise, like Ecco the Dolphin, the original owners will usually not give a shit and you can release it freely. However, if you've got a WIP build of the latest Call of Duty game or another AAA game (Fallout, etc), the odds are high that the company that owns the franchise will be very pissed about you leaking it and will try to use legal action against you and to remove the prototype from the internet.

It also depends on when and how the prototype was acquired. Some people got in hot water because they leaked several prototype maps for Half-Life 2: Episode 1 and 2 a few months ago. It's likely because these maps were taken from Valve themselves fairly recently (from their Source developer's resources IIRC). On the other hand, if a Half-Life 2 build from mid-late 2002 that was stolen during a tech demo presentation Valve was doing traded hands IRL several times, forgotten about, then was rediscovered and finally uploaded many years later, I'd expect the worst to be Gabe making sarcastic quips about in in his next interview because of how long it was since the original leak happened, how old HL2 is now, and that there was no way to pursue legal action against the original leaker (since his name has been long since forgotten).

Anonymous Thu May 4 04:27:20 2017 No.3968464
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>>3967826
>post about it on /vr/
>rip iso
>ask for best place to upload
>take trip to local McDicks and upload on their wifi

I don't even like StarCraft, but seeing the amount of content the community could create with that disc would make it worth the minimal amount of time and effort.
It would be a much MUCH bigger inconvenience and time sink to create a Reddit account, find and post on the most applicable subreddit, get threatened by Blizzard, and mail it to them in exchange for $30 worth of shit they literally have lying around in case someone calls them out on social media.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 04:34:24 2017 No.3968470 >>3968457 >someone did anything at all? >BETTER RACE BAIT Reddit was a mistake.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 04:37:55 2017 No.3968472 >>3968470 that's hacker news, not reddit

Anonymous Thu May 4 04:49:12 2017 No.3968480

>>3967618
>Last month, faggots got trolled by an even more faggoty faggot with a truly unlikely find: a gold master source code disc of the original StarCraft. From 1998. At first it was mildly unfunny. Ultimately it grew a beard. For his troubles he received lot's of (You)s

Anonymous Thu May 4 04:54:51 2017 No.3968485

>>3968239
4chan retards:
>Shitposters
>Mentally sick
>Actually brings funny irl situations overboards
>Good autists, still autists
>Can still be schooled
>Tfw no gf
>Childish behavior
>Epic meems
>xD
>Upboats
>Bans because of different opinions
>Can't deal with 1st world problems

Fixed that for you

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 05:02:53 2017 No.3968497 >>3967618 What an idiot.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 05:03:19 2017 No.3968498 >>3968485 There was nothing to fix, except if you are on /v/ or /co/.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 05:08:45 2017 No.3968506 >>3967618 Poor guy got ripped the fuck off, I genuinely feel bad for him. I'm guessing he has special needs too.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 06:26:15 2017 No.3968569 source code IS valuable, but it's a long term "investment". remember when you couldn't play starcraft in Windows 7 due to tutti-frutti graphic glitches? this could be fixed in an instant with the source available.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 06:31:26 2017 No.3968572 The only worse situation I can think of is if someone found a source code for Blood and sent it over to Atari.

Anonymous Thu May 4 06:33:22 2017 No.3968573

>>3968572
if someone did that there would be blood

at least the gdxBlood is coming along nicely, but I don't understand why is the guy rewriting the whole game when you could just upgrade eduke32 to support blood, much like how ZDoom is compatible with hexen and strife

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 06:34:28 2017 No.3968574 >>3968572 >contacting Atari Fucking hilarious.

>>	NESfag Thu May 4 06:53:14 2017 No.3968593 >>3968573 >at least the gdxBlood is coming along nicely, Oh, another shitty fan made empirical recreation. How exciting indeed. >you could just upgrade eduke32 to support blood That's not how it works.

Anonymous Thu May 4 06:59:12 2017 No.3968597

>>3967712
If we just wanted to complain about "rivals" then we'd rip on other chan sites.

It's simply a trash container full of sewage. They have probably done more damage in 5 years or however old it is than we have done in 11.
When we fuck something up, it's for spite and not greedy personal fame.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 07:15:03 2017 No.3968617 >>3967774 He could of straight up sold that for thousands and got all the parts for a top end super high spec PC instead of the shitty i3 build he went with...

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 07:22:20 2017 No.3968621 >>3967715 You should never try being funny again. It's not for you.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 07:24:20 2017 No.3968623 >>3967642 >>3967632 No, in the thread where that guy did what he wanted with that xbox dev kit, a guy said he had like 2 more. He didn't kill emulation by using his own computer case for something else.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 07:25:22 2017 No.3968625 >>3967672 You must be clinically retarded if you think you're fooling anyone. You just want to steal games.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 07:26:24 2017 No.3968626 >>3967703 Original Xboxs are like ten bucks and plentiful. If you want to play the games, buy one like an adult.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 07:26:57 2017 No.3968627 >>3968446 Blizzard's official servers are full of cheaters though and always have been since over a decade. Competitive players (and everyone else in Korea) play on custom servers. They actually enabled anti-cheat mechanisms.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 07:27:52 2017 No.3968628 Everyone saying he should have released the source code wouldn't know what to do with it.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 07:44:53 2017 No.3968638 >>3968224 As in, if he had given it to a preservationist who wasn't going to release it to the public.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 08:01:42 2017 No.3968648 >>3967647 >>>/v/

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 08:03:20 2017 No.3968650 >>3967618 wouldn't have uploaded it anyway (because that's really criminal shit and messing with jews of actizzard? no thanks)), but giving it away for shitty overwatch crap? boi.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 08:05:28 2017 No.3968651 >>3968593 Blood is build engine, same as duke. I'm sure it also has the same file format as duke so it's only a matter of implementing new fuctions that aren't available in dn3d.

NESfag Thu May 4 08:12:39 2017 No.3968657

>>3968651
Like I said that's not how it works. In short....

"Build" is more of a renderer than an engine.
What one would consider an "engine" is the sum of two things in Build games, the "Build code" on one side, by Silverman, and the "game code" on the other side by the devs of each game. The sum of the two make "the engine".

So only 'half' of the engine is 'shared' between Blood and DN3D, and even saying that is very untrue because not only they're both based on a different version of it, but the devs of Blood modified the "Build" side by reverse engeeniring it.

> the same file format
The map format is different.

So no, you can't just "modify EDuke32 to support the extra function of Blood", that doesn't make any sense, and if it was that simple it'd have been done long ago. Even if the sourcecode was available it would be easier to start from scratch, there is probably very little of EDuke32 you could use for it.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 08:14:36 2017 No.3968658 >>3967779 >wanting Hillary lol

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 08:17:05 2017 No.3968662 >>3968625 There is nothing wrong with stealing games. Corporations always win regardless.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 08:26:29 2017 No.3968671 >>3968628 Copy iso, multiple uploads on github, mediafire, mega, etc, all uploaded from a faraway public wifi spot. Post all of these on /vr/.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 08:34:27 2017 No.3968680 >>3967826 1. Post on Starcraft forums, Assembler and other sites to hype it up. 2. Set up an Ebay auction, sell it for a gorillion dollars. 3. ????? 4. PROFIT! 5. Leak the ISO which I have dumped obviously.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 08:42:37 2017 No.3968692 >>3968657 They're literally called build engine games

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 09:16:24 2017 No.3968737 >>3967774 There was one who framed his Rockman X prototype.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 09:27:55 2017 No.3968754 https://m.imgur.com/jqoaWDM?r >keyboard and plushies

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 09:30:52 2017 No.3968761 >>3968754 wew fucking razer too how sad

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 09:34:02 2017 No.3968767 >>3968754 >diablo 3 bottle opener what a woild what a woild

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 10:14:30 2017 No.3968806 >>3968485 >>Can't deal with 1st world problems i dunno, one of my housemates ordered a pizza but it arrived without a topping and he lost hid fucking shit, he kept asking us what he should do but 'eat it' apparently wasnt right. he browses reddit

Anonymous Thu May 4 10:16:00 2017 No.3968810

But why? Disregarding the fact this could have sold for thousands with ease and the fact that this allows for a customisable version of the game, blizzards not going to make any more money off of it considering its now freeware. Its not even possible to make money off of using the code either because of copyright and the fact its 20 years old

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 10:26:08 2017 No.3968820 >>3967860 /pol/ is reddit's extension

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 10:36:26 2017 No.3968831 >>3967647 Because my PC is a behemoth and would give me 1000 fps, 1080p, and modded HD textures??

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 11:19:48 2017 No.3968873 >>3967953 A guy from reddit would say something exactly like that. Fuck off faggot.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 11:26:08 2017 No.3968884 >>3967676 >just to play the game in a way that it wasn't designed to be played Holy fucking shit you people like you should fucking die in a horrible way.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 11:31:06 2017 No.3968893 >>3968873 Whatever makes you happy. You don't have to look far to find examples of retards on 4chan.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 12:43:11 2017 No.3969000 >>3967960 Tribalism ahoy

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 12:46:15 2017 No.3969002 >>3968893 kys faglord

Anonymous Thu May 4 12:53:17 2017 No.3969008

>>3968680
it was obviously stolen, no legitimate auction site would let it go. the same moron that gave is back is the same one that would report illegal sales of it. The only legal gray area you could operate in is to "accidentally" leak it on a bunch sites.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 12:57:03 2017 No.3969012 What if everthing is fake for advertisement purpouses.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 13:04:15 2017 No.3969016 >>3969012 >what if everything is fake Really instills action potential into the ol' axon terminals

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 13:06:03 2017 No.3969019 >>3968161 Is it really?

Anonymous Thu May 4 13:06:38 2017 No.3969020

>>3968810
>sold for thousands with ease

Eh, I wouldn't be so sure about that. A thousand, yeah, maybe 2. But the stupid with money collectors Don't generally go for prototypes. As in, for expensive games, sometimes a prototype will actually sell for less than a CIB copy of the same title.

Anonymous Thu May 4 13:06:58 2017 No.3969021

>>3967847
I really hope you aren't trying to argue that the original XBOX was fucking gigantic with that image, because I can pull my N64 out right now and see that it's maybe a half an inch wider/longer than the 64. I might have a later gen box but still, it's not fucking GIGANTIC like in that image.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 13:38:24 2017 No.3969070 >>3969021 >XBOX HUEG It's a meme, ya dip. Please lurk more.

Anonymous Thu May 4 13:43:37 2017 No.3969079

>>3969020
you underestimate people
http://m.ebay.com/itm/122431719473?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&_mwBanner=1
source code and dev kits are of significant interest to people and a game as iconic as starcraft would have sold for a lot

>>3969070
ignore these people

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 13:51:54 2017 No.3969098 File: 6 KB, 269x187, index.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3969021 wew lad, imagine being this dense

Anonymous Thu May 4 14:13:50 2017 No.3969146

>>3969079

I'm not underestimating. Even prototypes of popular games are lucky to approach 2k. Sure you have outliers and unreleased games can garner more interest than usual, but people tend to overestimate how much collectors pay for that kind of thing. I say this based on experience as an avid collector of prototypes.

Though, again, I will qualify my statement because perhaps source code could go for more.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 14:17:27 2017 No.3969160 >>3969146 this isnt a prototype, this is the final source code to one of themost significant games of all time. prototypes arent source. you know your underestimating it.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 14:29:23 2017 No.3969181 File: 301 KB, 1484x2158, 415.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3967909 >Wanted to download that and Doremi but Nyaa fucking died for real this time

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 14:29:50 2017 No.3969182 File: 110 KB, 686x1190, sub_HUEG_21_[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3969021 that pic is obviously a joke, the xbox is much bigger than that.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 14:37:18 2017 No.3969204 File: 3 KB, 682x76, the word.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3969021

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 14:50:22 2017 No.3969239 File: 10 KB, 256x256, 1474601315858.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3967723 >there is a forum for people who pirate swym nigger

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 14:53:22 2017 No.3969254 >>3969239 'pirate' forums have been around forever, since the days of BBSs.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 14:57:39 2017 No.3969261 >>3969160 And you're likely overestimating it. I'm not saying he should or should not have sent it to Blizzard, just pointing out that the chances of him making several thousand off of it were slim at best.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 15:04:33 2017 No.3969270 >>3967618 and?

Anonymous Thu May 4 15:10:46 2017 No.3969281

>>3969270

Big namby-pamby do gooder gave away a sweet find to a giant soulless corporation for a few DLCbux and some overmeme merchandise instead of uploading it online, is an enormous faggot for doing so

Although "fan of Blizzard products" and "enormous faggot" are pretty redundant these days

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 15:19:18 2017 No.3969303 File: 137 KB, 717x880, 1486847749594.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3969254 xd i had no idea

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 15:30:26 2017 No.3969325 >>3969261 >>3969261 he was "rewarded" with a package of atuff (and a trip) worth about $1000 if thats any indicator to you. by no means am i over valuing what this is worth.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 15:36:41 2017 No.3969346 >>3967618 This is just pure fucking autism

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 16:13:14 2017 No.3969427 >>3969346 You should enter this in the next banner contest

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 16:14:48 2017 No.3969432 >>3969019 yes

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 16:14:55 2017 No.3969435 >>3967826 >Release fragments of code one at a time >Start demanding bitcoins for the rest >Profit

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 16:21:11 2017 No.3969446 File: 14 KB, 701x701, 1492543999374.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3967712 >saying this on 4chan, AKA Dumbass-Central

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 16:53:50 2017 No.3969505 I can only hope that he backed it up and isn't saying shit, but I know that isn't true. Saddening news.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 16:56:33 2017 No.3969508 >>3969505 I bet they got plenty of karma internet morality points ;^)

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 17:06:16 2017 No.3969536 >>3969508 may the odds be ever in his favor :DD

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 17:47:16 2017 No.3969593 >>3968662 That doesn't make it right.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 18:01:47 2017 No.3969625 >>3969012 Advertisement of Blizzard being dickheads, by rival company?

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 18:06:36 2017 No.3969630 File: 85 KB, 500x334, 1464092821407.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3967630 newfag out

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 18:26:53 2017 No.3969663 >>3969625 >starcraft remaster coming out >omg guys starcraft!!! >plz upvote

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 19:55:33 2017 No.3969854 >>3967630 and also a razer keyboard that was probably broken on arrival

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 21:38:09 2017 No.3970079 >>3967647 Because the original Xbox is slowly dying out from leaking capacitors and there's a decent amount of exclusives that flew under a lot of people's radar like Breakdown and Otogi.

Anonymous Thu May 4 21:40:30 2017 No.3970081

>>3969079
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Genuine-McDonalds-Mulan-Szechuan-Sauce-Drawing/182555563862?_trksid=p2047675.c100011.m1850&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D40130%26meid%3Dabbc6928b33d49c88f96cf1e670b1335%26pid%3D100011%26rk%3D3%26rkt%3D12%26sd%3D122431719473

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 21:43:24 2017 No.3970087 >>3970079 So buy an xbox and play those games. you sound like an entitled baby.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 21:45:00 2017 No.3970092 >>3970087 I have a soft modded Xbox and those games you retard but I'd still like other people to enjoy them before there are only a few of them left on ebay in the future at an absurd price because no one bothered to remove the clock capacitor.

Anonymous Thu May 4 22:03:21 2017 No.3970128

>caring about source code when the game has been modded to death
Who fucking gives a shit?
What would anyone need the source code for a modded as shit game like Starcraft for anyway? Was this some fucking holy grail that people have been looking for because, if not, it just sounds like you're all fucking mad that you didn't get vanilla starcraft for free and are sperging out about it like spoiled shits.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 22:04:49 2017 No.3970129 >>3970128 The only people who want the source code for free starcraft would be too dumb to figure out how to compile it.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 22:06:06 2017 No.3970132 >>3970129 That's what I figured.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 22:08:23 2017 No.3970137 >>3968457 Hey faggot, I know you'll read this. I'm a 32 year old white male and proud as fuck for who I am, what I have accomplished and that my ancestors were savvy enough to get me to this point. Don't feel guilty for winning.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 22:08:41 2017 No.3970139 >>3967715 >I Have Literally Never Been To Reddit: The Post You are such a good little /pol/cuck

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 22:31:57 2017 No.3970173 File: 51 KB, 564x634, 18c515b4738b607ce2a0c60b52e63c02d0f24de52f232aeee0e4377c5b04c333.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] did you think us hating reddit was just a meme?

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 22:35:56 2017 No.3970180 >>3970129 fucking this all the fedora-tippers who are whining for the source code would take one look at it and give up or maybe try to sell it to the russians or something i dunno

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 22:55:12 2017 No.3970218 >>3967631 >The least he could have done was make an ISO first. Maybe he did...

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 22:55:25 2017 No.3970219 >>3970180 >Implying I don't want it for a free game, but I would like the opportunity to poke around in the source code. Besides that, I'm a bit of a preservationist/datahoarder.

Anonymous Thu May 4 23:22:30 2017 No.3970273

>>3967774
they do have the original recordings of All Lights Fucked. they have the original reel to reels locked in the label's archive, just not any of the physical releases dubbed off of it. it's all in their power to re-release ALF but they're too hipster for that and Efrim went on record saying that material was early demo stuff that they don't want to be famously associated with their GYBE projects anymore. give up hoping, butthurt GYBEfag.

t. a butthurt GYBEfag.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 4 23:57:29 2017 No.3970360 >>3970128 >free starcraft 99% of retro games are easy as shit to download, that's not even remotely the point here's your reply

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 00:03:44 2017 No.3970375 Someone should tell TCRF's Twitter account that a possible SC1 protype was lost forever, to see if they'll flip their shit.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 00:05:04 2017 No.3970378 Could someone explain what they could accomplish with the source code to a 19 year old game? I can really only think of some hacker scrawling through their code and getting giddy about how they handled overflows and shit.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 00:11:18 2017 No.3970389 >>3970128 I thought they already released starcraft as freeware?

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 00:13:16 2017 No.3970393 >>3970360 Then there is no actual point; with no real point to having the source code to a readily available computer game, it sounds more like the people in this thread are mad that they didn't find it can get e-celeb status.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 00:14:42 2017 No.3970401 >>3970378 That's literally it. People are more mad that someone didn't just Robin Hood the source code because people think that companies shouldn't be able to have legal rights over their own property.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 00:17:23 2017 No.3970407 >>3967647 I'm sad that I'm the only person who agrees with you here.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 00:19:09 2017 No.3970414 >>3970407 >Paying for games you could get for free

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 00:24:21 2017 No.3970421 >>3970414 The whole point is that you can download the games and just put them on an xbox. I'm not advocating that anybody buy games if they don't want them.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 00:25:11 2017 No.3970424 >>3969079 >$14,700 for a 19 year old packet of expired meme sauce Real talk now, who the FUCK has this kind of money to throw around?

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 00:33:36 2017 No.3970441 >>3967630 >people could have done >A free HD patch. There's already a free "HD" patch to make it run on modern systems... it's on their PTR right now.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 00:41:47 2017 No.3970457 >>3968018 Blizzard is batshit about IP

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 00:57:14 2017 No.3970483 >>3970457 >every company in the universe is batshit about IP fixed that for you and other children who don't understand how the world works

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 00:57:35 2017 No.3970484 >>3970483 sega isn't

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 00:58:17 2017 No.3970485 Why is 4chan obsessed with Reddit?

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 01:09:59 2017 No.3970505 File: 81 KB, 640x480, Tamaki-san is all ears.webm [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3969181 Want me to help out? I've got 'em both.

Anonymous Fri May 5 01:18:43 2017 No.3970518

>>3970424

Probably no one. Look at the bids, it was a bullshit listing, probably meant to make news or drum up hype for a "real" listing.

Literally the ONLY IDs still showing up on the bid list, including the winner, are zero feedback accounts, both of which are likely sockpuppets of the seller or ebin troll kiddies. It claims that there were 16 bidders, but those IDs aren't showing up apparently. They probably either retracted or were banned or something, I don't know.

In any event, even "sold" listings on ebay should be inspected before they are assumed to be legit sales - if something sells to a new user with very low feedback, there's certainly a chance it is a phony sale to a troll, a failed raise-the-price shill bid, a seller who was just testing the waters to value their item but wanted to make sure they didn't have to actually sell it, or even a seller trying to boost the perceived market price of an item by generating phony sales (which can perhaps be a technique to get an actual sale to someone who thinks they are getting a second chance once it gets mysteriously relisted due to a non-existent NPB).

>>	You groove you lose Fri May 5 01:21:26 2017 No.3970526 >>3970407 Don't be sad. It's not your fault you're retarded.

Anonymous Fri May 5 01:21:55 2017 No.3970529

>>3970485
It's like our dumb younger brother who plays our videogames and reads our comic books and thinks they are so fucking cool and talks about them with his dumb little kid friends, but still narcs on us to mom ( I guess that would be regular media?) When something bad happens and crys like a baby when we have to kick the little shit head out of our room.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 01:22:08 2017 No.3970531 >>3970518 (correction, a bullshit sale, the listing may very well have been legit, though I doubt that as well)

Anonymous Fri May 5 01:45:36 2017 No.3970583
File: 2.90 MB, 640x480, DOREMI ROBO.webm [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>3969181
Let's see... This kind of sucks.

https://a.safe.moe/Vuobj.rar
Here's the Ojamajo Doremi torrents, all of the... Shit, the first season isn't here. The complete audio collection's included.

Here's the magnet link for the first season:

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As for Medarots...
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A mega for episodes 1-39 (there's 52 episodes)

Episodes 14-26
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27-39
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Anonymous Fri May 5 01:49:13 2017 No.3970589
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>>3969181
>>3970583

44
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That should be all of them. Tell me if I fucked up anywhere. Also sorry for the multiple episode links, they never made a batch.

Anonymous Fri May 5 01:50:00 2017 No.3970591

>>3967770
If you read up on SC development, the code sound pretty awful. Kotaku article 5942128

Given all the issues working against the team, you might think it was hard to identify a single large source of bugs, but based on my experiences the biggest problems in StarCraft related to the use of doubly-linked linked lists.

Linked lists were used extensively in the engine to track units with shared behavior. With twice the number of units of its predecessor - StarCraft had a maximum of 1600, up from 800 in Warcraft 2 - it became essential to optimize the search for units of specific types by keeping them linked together in lists.

Recalling from distant memory, there were lists for each player's units and buildings, lists for each player's "power-generating" buildings, a list for each Carrier's fighter drones, and many many others.

All of these lists were doubly-linked to make it possible to add and remove elements from the list in constant time - O(1) - without the necessity to traverse the list looking for the element to remove - O(N).

Unfortunately, each list was "hand-maintained" - there were no shared functions to link and unlink elements from these lists; programmers just manually inlined the link and unlink behavior anywhere it was required. And hand-rolled code is far more error-prone than simply using a routine that's already been debugged.

Some of the link fields were shared among several lists, so it was necessary to know exactly which list an object was linked into in order to safely unlink. And some link fields were even stored in C unions with other data types to keep memory utilization to a minimum.

So the game would blow up all the time. All the time.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 01:52:15 2017 No.3970602 >>3970591 agh, better source: http://www.codeofhonor.com/blog/tough-times-on-the-road-to-starcraft

Anonymous Fri May 5 02:15:58 2017 No.3970625
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>>3969181
>>3970505
>>3970583
>>3970589
oh nevermind anon, you didn't even need me for the most part.

https://www.acgnx.se/

Well, besides some of the Ojamajo torrents I suppose. Some of the seasons are still exclusive to bakabt. Well, "were".

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 02:16:19 2017 No.3970626 >>3970526 >retarded >because i can find and mod an xbox for $15 and play every game I want with no problem People who need an emulator are the retards.

Anonymous Fri May 5 02:37:13 2017 No.3970653
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>>3970129
>>3970132
It probably has a Visual Studio project file, which would only require a simple open project.
The most likely obstacle would be unavailable third party library dependencies, like the RAD Game Tools sound and video codecs.
This can be worked around, because all the actual third party code is probably located in DLLs from the SC distro.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 02:40:59 2017 No.3970662 >>3970128 since when has starcraft ever been modded? the best i've ever seen is just elaborate custom maps from the map editor

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 03:20:15 2017 No.3970729 >>3970653 or you can reencode the media files into open source formats and have smaller files since those ancient codecs suck

Anonymous Fri May 5 03:34:17 2017 No.3970762
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>the missing source code for an almost 20 year old game shows up just months before it gets a remastered edition
>found by a guy on a reddit account with like 20-30 posts
>immediately disseminated on a ton of major gaming news sites

not saying for sure that it's fake but the paranoid part of me says that this is probably a viral marketing stunt, and that nothing of value was lost since it was never there in the first place.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 03:35:53 2017 No.3970768 >>3970762 fooled me

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 05:42:28 2017 No.3970928 >>3970485 How else am I supposed to masturbate over posting here?

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 05:43:50 2017 No.3970931 >>3969181 There's already a backup made with all the magnet links up to April available. https://nyaa.pantsu.cat/

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 05:49:07 2017 No.3970939 This kind of story always crops up at an opportune time. That's the giveaway for me, so I dont even get upset, it's fake news anyway.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 05:56:39 2017 No.3970942 >>3970939 Nothing opportune with this new story as they just finally worked out the kinks of the new patch so people could download it for free in anticipation in the next few months for the HD remaster. No way drumming up interest in Starcraft.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 06:01:51 2017 No.3970943 He and the guy with the Xbox Dev Kit pc casemod should get together and kill each other.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 06:46:52 2017 No.3970979 how did the starcraft source thread turned into doremi anime thread anyway

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 06:50:36 2017 No.3970982 >>3970979 Sorry, I just wanted to help anon. IGNORE ME.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 08:08:42 2017 No.3971026 Source code to Starcraft? Easy, it's: 10 STARCRAFT 20 GOTO 10

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 08:49:04 2017 No.3971078 >>3967826 I'd dump it and upload it. Like Vertexer.

Anonymous Fri May 5 08:59:22 2017 No.3971091

>>3970378
It's interesting to see how things used to be done and how things were implanted. Think of it like watching a making of documentary for a movie. It doesn't change the product and most people don't care but some people really enjoy seeing how it all worked. Then one day they make their own movie and use some of the same techniques and it expands.

>>3970401
Or some people think that after 20 years and it becoming an iconic game that will be remembered for decades to come it's in the best interest of society for it to become public domain. There is a difference between "FUCK COPYRIGHT! FREE EVERYTHING" and "This is big enough that it no longer belongs to the artist, it's out grown them and it would be in everyone's interest to prevent them from living off the same song for 100 years and encourage them to produce more content." Like the Happy Birthday song is still under copyright and still gets royalties yet it's so common place you can hardly claim any one truly owns it or deserves to be rewarded for it when someone else sings it decades after it was written.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 09:07:30 2017 No.3971106 >>3967714 literally anyone with a reddit account

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 09:24:19 2017 No.3971135 File: 1.74 MB, 3264x1836, 20170505_232155.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] They can have there shitty n64 port

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 10:20:07 2017 No.3971202 >>3971091 >Happy Birthday song is still under copyright Nope. And Warner agreed to refund $14 million in bogus fees charged over the years when their ass was used over the scam.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 11:54:34 2017 No.3971328 >>3968450 >We already determined that the console won't last forever No, I agreed that the optical media drive wouldn't last forever. Nice try moving the goal post though.

Anonymous Fri May 5 12:04:00 2017 No.3971349

>>3970626
I guess at least we can take comfort in knowing their retarded mentality is keeping easily modded consoles like the OG Xbox cheap. I see them at Goodwill constantly for <$15 and they usually have at minimal two controllers, usually both of them the original big one

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 12:30:01 2017 No.3971379 I'm confused by all the people complaining "Who cares? Old game, nothing of interest!" If it is of no interest to you, then why make the effort to come here and post about it?

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 12:33:01 2017 No.3971384 >>3967826 I've dumped and released previously undumped stuff in the past, some even relating to popular games. But I also have things that I haven't released.

Anonymous Fri May 5 12:59:11 2017 No.3971431

>>3967929
>If DOS Quake's source was illegally released by a cracker group in the mid to late 90s,
this LITERALLY happened. The quake source code was stolen from the servers of an old company called crack dot com and floated around in the underworld for years prior to the source being officially released.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 13:06:52 2017 No.3971447 >>3971091 >the Happy Birthday song is still under copyright WRONG http://www.reuters.com/article/us-warner-music-lawsuit-copyright-idUSKBN0TS2KX20151209

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 13:22:45 2017 No.3971473 I would have done the exact same thing. Who fucking cares about messing with a 20 year old games source code to play around with some turbo nerds in the internet. Seriously move on.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 13:31:34 2017 No.3971491 >>3971473 Whoa mate wrong board

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 13:35:07 2017 No.3971501 >>3971491 Yeah wrong use of words. I actually thought I was in /v/ because of all the le reddit posting and people shitting on softmodding xboxes. Still I would have done the same thing or either saved it and hung it up on my wall.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 13:44:02 2017 No.3971516 >>3971379 welcome to /vr/ where nobody likes retro games

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 13:44:51 2017 No.3971517 >>3971501 No one is shitting on modded Xboxes, we're just saying that a functional emulator would also be nice to have. Like, I have both a modded Wii, and Dolphin set up in my game room.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 13:45:01 2017 No.3971518 >>3971516 I don't feel like those people are the majority, let alone the core, of /vr/.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 13:56:04 2017 No.3971553 >>3971078 Vertexer? Where? Please don't lie to me anon, pretty please don't.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 16:35:05 2017 No.3971917 >>3970762 the dude is legit and has a first and last name risking yourself to an angry mob of neckbeards and libre software enthusiasts just to make something go 'viral' isn't that worth it

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 16:41:26 2017 No.3971931 >>3971379 Those are just /v/ crossboarders who hate piracy and think game corporations are your friend.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 16:42:42 2017 No.3971940 >leddit >white knight Is anyone seriously surprised by this faggotry??

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 19:23:16 2017 No.3972283 File: 38 KB, 1199x781, 4fc2a324f91e205db65e8ca1b4cf305664095ce42a2bf46a889ae5425fde6392.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] time for arguements has past reddit needs to go

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 19:50:15 2017 No.3972335 >>3968457 I wish I could be this fucking stupid and hypocritical, my life would be easier.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 19:54:20 2017 No.3972340 >>3968626 When I want to play a shitty console that will more than likely break after a month or so of use while having trouble finding games let alone playing them with that brick of a controller I'll let you know.

Anonymous Fri May 5 20:04:48 2017 No.3972363

You people do realize Blizzard contacted him first and told him they would sue him if he didn't give it back, right? Even if he were to win the suit (which would be damn near impossible, as Blizzard owns the rights to that source code, and has a team of highly paid lawyers) he still would've paid out the ass in legal fees and court costs. If he sold it for some obscene amount, he still would end up losing money in the end. If he leaked it, he still would be sued for more money than he probably would make in his lifetime.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 20:09:46 2017 No.3972374 >>3968626 They literally self destruct. It's happening right now.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 20:30:43 2017 No.3972415 >>3972363 This is why the whole thing makes him a double faggot. You find something, you leak it first, wait for it to hit viral status and then start asking hypothetical questions as an "anonymous" bystander.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 20:44:47 2017 No.3972454 Piratefags are pathetic

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 20:46:24 2017 No.3972461 >>3972454 Your mom was so tasty last night.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 20:51:55 2017 No.3972479 >>3968621 >Mr. Two-Days-Later thinks I give two shits.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 5 22:46:36 2017 No.3972748 >>3971135 i actually need a copy of this if you're looking to get rid of it at a decent price

Anonymous Sat May 6 15:16:51 2017 No.3974295
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>>3967618
What a typically Reddit thing to do. That also reminds me:
>We will never have a Remastered Blade Runner Game because the source code was lost when EA forced Westwood Studios to moe from Las Vegas to Los Angeles

>>	Anonymous Sat May 6 15:28:18 2017 No.3974314 >>3967618 So where's the download?

>>	Anonymous Sat May 6 18:03:20 2017 No.3974663 >>3971379 >then why make the effort to come here and post about it? So faggots like OP won't spam MY board with this kind of tripe.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 6 18:34:20 2017 No.3974717 >>3967630 >A free HD patch This is tasty bait.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 6 20:08:38 2017 No.3974923 >>3967618 holy fuck why, just why this is a prime example of why everyone on reddit are fucking spaz's

>>	Anonymous Sat May 6 20:36:52 2017 No.3974986 >>3971917 it's probably an alias. the conspiracy theory here is that it's just a sockpuppet account made by an activision marketer with the goal of drumming up some interest in starcraft before the remastered edition comes out in the summer.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 6 20:41:44 2017 No.3974998 PC faggots owned. Starcraft sucks cock.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 6 22:35:40 2017 No.3975212 >>3974998 are you 12 or american

>>	Anonymous Sat May 6 22:38:15 2017 No.3975218 He probably would've gotten the shit sued out of him if he released it though.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 6 22:50:33 2017 No.3975246 >>3975218 Assuming they knew he had it in the first place, you mean?

>>	Anonymous Sat May 6 22:59:15 2017 No.3975262 >>3975212 Both why

Anonymous Sat May 6 23:02:13 2017 No.3975268

>>3975246
He bought it from eBay with an account presumably associated with his real identify. If Blizzard started an investigation into why their code got leaked, that listing would attract attention. Even if he ended up uploading it behind a million proxies, the acquisition of the disc couldn't be hidden.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 6 23:12:10 2017 No.3975291 >>3968737 That shouldn't be lost forever; just until he needs money. Unless he did something completely retarded like glue the thing into the frame. Please tell me he didn't go full retard.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 7 02:21:40 2017 No.3975594 File: 689 KB, 830x770, 1485337005443.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3967618 >store credit

>>	Anonymous Sun May 7 07:32:13 2017 No.3975926 File: 162 KB, 580x362, joey[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3975268 >claim theft of the disc >hide that shit in a vent or something What's the worst that could happen?

>>	Anonymous Sun May 7 08:16:54 2017 No.3975960 >>3975268 yet the seller was never investigated only the buyer? this whole thing seems like bullshit.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 7 09:56:30 2017 No.3976046 >>3971517 >>3971349 >>3971328 >>3970414 >>3970087 >>3970079 PSA to anyone with OG xbox's. remove your clock capacitor's (if your xbox heug is < v1.6 otherwise you have to replace it) and replace the thermal paste on the gpu and cpu

Anonymous Sun May 7 10:22:59 2017 No.3976091
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>>3970662

you must be a complete retard

the MPQ can be modded already, and there's a lot of custom build SCmods

though it isn't that popular as Warcraft 3 of late now that the engine can hold HOTS models and shit, and there's a team already remastering the game with hd models and HOTS ones

>not related Screenshot

>>	Anonymous Sun May 7 11:59:39 2017 No.3976235 >>3967712 >>>/reddit/ Your kind ain't welcomed here, faggot.

Anonymous Sun May 7 12:10:47 2017 No.3976258

God I hate reddit. This reminds me of the casketjack fiasco with the very rare and unreleased GY!BE tape. The idiot got scared on reddit because rabid fans wanted him to leak it but he thought he'd get in trouble with the music label. The idiot then deleted his account and hasn't been heard from since.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 7 20:43:39 2017 No.3977373 God, are you autists still losing your shit over this? It's done. It's happened. Get the fuck over it. It's not like it could've been useful for anything anyway.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 8 12:09:09 2017 No.3978761 Bump?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 8 12:47:55 2017 No.3978817 >>3975291 Nahh, no glue screws

>>	Anonymous Mon May 8 14:50:05 2017 No.3979073 >>3967774 i want to scream but even that would be pointless.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 8 16:23:14 2017 No.3979236 File: 27 KB, 527x409, 1493157126359.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3977373 >It's not like it could've been useful for anything anyway.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 8 16:25:43 2017 No.3979241 maybe he secretly made a copy. Also, how do you just "find" something like this? Where?

Anonymous Mon May 8 16:40:37 2017 No.3979272

>>3967837

>If it is the legit source code, then it could've Been ebayed for over ten thousand $.

Or got a nice cease & desist from blizzard legal dept, with a requirement to send it to them for free or get sued.

Found or not, that source code belongs to blizzard, and they are not nice about defending their IP. The guy did the only thing he could do that doesn't end him getting tanglend on bad, legal, shit.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 8 16:45:39 2017 No.3979283 File: 22 KB, 408x400, dfd3a0015fa756b6ca7a572cf40c9b2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3979272 Was Blizzard this blasted about IP pre-Activision?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 8 16:48:57 2017 No.3979289 Has source code been leaked before? How have companies dealt with ports that used it?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 8 16:57:33 2017 No.3979308 BW is perfectly balanced as it is fucking scrubs,

>>	Anonymous Mon May 8 18:32:28 2017 No.3979521 >>3976046 but im not that tech fancy and no one in my area works on that shit! i don't want my coolio green tint xbox to die!

>>	Anonymous Mon May 8 20:03:16 2017 No.3979721 >>3967631 probably did, but like byuu he won't share. autists are all alike.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 8 21:35:38 2017 No.3979928 >>3971328 >He answered your question by saying that ripping an ISO would mean nothing since the console itself will die soon >He's moving the goalposts

>>	Anonymous Mon May 8 21:47:08 2017 No.3979948 >>3979236 Found the retard.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 8 22:08:47 2017 No.3979980 None of you faggots would paid for the guy's legal and attorney fees when blizzard completely assraped him into 3rd world poverty if he decided to sell the source code or hoard it.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 9 02:12:47 2017 No.3980480 Holy shit just check this guy's post history. Ultimate cuckoldry.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 9 02:25:56 2017 No.3980516 >>3979980 Because you don't do either of those things. You say nothing and release that fucker as a raw disc image. Upload it anonymously, and keep your goddamned mouth shut: best legal defense acquired.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 9 09:35:20 2017 No.3981052 >>3971447 What a bunch of shit. It sounds like Warner really did own the rights and just didn't want to stir the pot.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 9 09:37:04 2017 No.3981056 >>3971517 >No one is shitting on modded Xboxes Hmm, pretty sure someone has already bitched about high cost, failing capacitors, and failing disc drives, so yeah, someone has been shitting on softmodded xboxes

>>	Anonymous Tue May 9 09:38:33 2017 No.3981059 >>3972363 >he still would've paid out the ass in legal fees and court costs You have no fucking idea how the legal system works, do you?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 9 09:53:05 2017 No.3981086 >>3981056 >no mention of high prices, just future scarcity >talking about real concerns and problems is "shitting on it"

>>	Anonymous Tue May 9 10:01:04 2017 No.3981097 >>3979272 >the guy did the only thing a retarded normie could do. FTFY

>>	Anonymous Tue May 9 10:05:24 2017 No.3981105 Blizzard would have tore the guy another asshole if he would release the data in any way.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 9 10:11:39 2017 No.3981117 Could he really get sued for leaking it in 2016? Wasn't Starcraft released in 1996? Don't patents expire after 20 years?

Anonymous Tue May 9 10:34:03 2017 No.3981150

>>3981086
Two posts right here mentioning high cost, fuck-o :^)

>>3967654
>>3967703

>>3979928
Yeah, it started with the optical media drive and when I pointed out that makes no difference they then proceeded to say the entire console dying is the real issue.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 9 11:08:21 2017 No.3981207 >>3981117 I don't think that would matter because the disc itself was stolen from Blizzard which is enough to get the person in trouble over if they can prove after finding out it was stolen property he still refused to hand it over.

Anonymous Tue May 9 11:14:49 2017 No.3981224

>>3981056
People aren't shitting on the sole idea of soft modding an Xbox they're shitting on the retard stating that you should only buy an Xbox and soft mod it if you wanna play the games when there's many reasons why people would prefer emulation some of which include the convenience of not having to buy an entirely new console to play only a couple of games or wanting to have them be available in the future once a shitload of original Xboxes die out from people not bothering to remove the capacitors.

But all this discussion about the Xbox belongs on /v/ anyway.

Anonymous Tue May 9 11:25:55 2017 No.3981245

>>3981224
Nobody said you should only buy an Xbox and softmod it. What was actually said is that there's no reason to give a shit about one devkit when it doesn't help with the homebrew scene or emulation scene, and that emulation is a pretty moot point when you can software modify the actual hardware out of the box for free. There's really no point to limit yourself to shitty emulation when the actual hardware is cheap/many times free if you can find one with a broken disc drive.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 9 12:17:31 2017 No.3981334 >>3971917 Oh no! Not the neckbeards!

>>	Anonymous Tue May 9 13:47:57 2017 No.3981481 >>3981207 What if he copied it to a cdr and destroyed the original?

Anonymous Tue May 9 16:51:27 2017 No.3981910

>>3967953
reddit is where stupid people go to pretend to be intelligent and 4chan is where smart people go to pretend to be stupid. When I type out a shitpost on here I know exactly what I am doing and am well aware, when a redditor does it he doesn't even understand he is shitposting

>>	Anonymous Tue May 9 16:59:13 2017 No.3981938 >>3981117 Code is copywritten, not patented. That's why we don't have cheap Chinese PS1 clones everywhere yet.

Anonymous Tue May 9 17:03:14 2017 No.3981948

>>3981105
>Blizzard would have tore the guy another asshole if he would release the data in any way.

There's tons of ways to anonymously do it. But I doubt he'd have any idea.

Use TOR to upload it to the darknet. It's spread from there. It'd be untraceable.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 9 17:18:44 2017 No.3981974 idk how much that thing would have been worth but I imagine more than 250 dollars worth of Blizzard fun bucks.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 9 17:51:59 2017 No.3982050 >>3968692 yeah but some of that shit is hardcoded into the engine think of that NAM game and WW2 GI which were made on the Duke3d Engine and had hardcoded shit in them like the grenades you had to detonate like a pipebomb

>>	Anonymous Tue May 9 18:09:33 2017 No.3982078 >>3972363 Sued for what if he leaked it? What law did he break, it's not copywrited material so its not illegal to make reproductions and give them away for free.

Anonymous Wed May 10 01:33:19 2017 No.3982823

I'm glad events like this occur every so often to remind me why I fucking despise reddit and the tweedly numale "logically oriented" faggots that go there. I don't even care about SC but I went to look at the leddit thread and it's all pats on the back, "you did the right thing I love gargling corporate dick" tripe

>>	Anonymous Wed May 10 23:04:35 2017 No.3984889 >>3967654 >what is steel batallion

>>	Anonymous Wed May 10 23:56:17 2017 No.3984997 >>3975960 he wasnt investigated he posted about it online

>>	Anonymous Thu May 11 00:03:06 2017 No.3985019 Fuck, I hate all of reddit's gaming communities, they are all cancer, and this is just one more piece of evidence.

Anonymous Thu May 11 00:12:18 2017 No.3985037 [DELETED]

On the one hand, if not be for sending it back to Blizzard. On the other hand, holy shit there are some entitled faggots. If there were a legal risk, why the he'll would he take it just so people on the internet (read: you) can have something for free? Why do you expect him to go through great hassle against his own best interest just so people can download it for free?

If you really cared, why not have sent him a cash offer ASAP to buy it and release it yourself? As a matter of fact, have any of you who are furious about him not releasing it ever released rare game content for free?

Anonymous Thu May 11 00:14:26 2017 No.3985042

On the one hand, i'd not be for sending it back to Blizzard. On the other hand, holy shit there are some entitled faggots. If there were a legal risk, why the hell would he take a chance just so people on the internet (read: you) can have something for free? Why do you expect him to go through great hassle against his own best interests just so people can download it?

If you really cared, why not have sent him a cash offer ASAP to buy it and release it yourself? As a matter of fact, have any of you who are furious about him not releasing it ever released rare game content for free?

>>	Anonymous Thu May 11 00:17:16 2017 No.3985049 wtf why didn't the idiot dump the game first?! hacked clients anyone?

Anonymous Thu May 11 00:19:54 2017 No.3985056

>>3985037
Sorry for the drive-by post, but generally, this sort of thing makes me upset because decades later in the future, source codes, original assets, and what have you will be lost to the sands of time or at the very least rotting in a vault somewhere to wither and die as they change hands a few times in corporate buyouts. This sort of thing was especially bad in the Japanese scene where devs released a product with zero intent to preserve the original assets for later generations.

While there is a certain amount of entitlement from anyone who shares that frame of mind, there's also a quite a bit of indignation from people upset that pieces of history from their favorite hobby will be lost or destroyed and future generations will only get snapshots of old video games for viewing rather than a more complete picture. It is the same sort of wish that we could ask questions about the Mona Lisa, the Sistine Chapel, or any other precious work of art to better understand it. Corporate copyright is at odds with this line of thought due to being purely profit driven.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 11 00:26:50 2017 No.3985069 >>3967618 >implying he didn't copy everything on the disc to his hard drive before sending it to Blizzard

Anonymous Thu May 11 00:37:03 2017 No.3985089

>>3985042
There's no legal repercussions if you keep quite about it and don't draw attention to yourself.
The only reason he would land himself in hot water is that he was blabbing about it all over reddit and gathering attention.

And as to the second part, while not the rarest of things, I have posted Decent 1-3, with manuals and goodies, since interplay dragged Descent into the abyss with them.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 11 01:08:29 2017 No.3985150 >>3982823 Most Millennials absolutely love to Hail Corporate. Makes me ashamed to be counted in with the lot.

Anonymous Thu May 11 01:09:11 2017 No.3985153

>>3968692
What >>3982050 probably meant (because I might have misread) was that those war games were just Duke3d reskins (I think it was a Platoon mod/TC unless that was made from ripping the assets of those games first) rather than Blood (and Redneck Rampage too?) having the sourcecode licensed to modify much like how Shadow Warrior was made.

Even Strife had to be reverse engineered in order to work with some Doom sourceports.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 11 01:11:24 2017 No.3985159 >>3982078 It is absolutely copyrighted. Copyright Maximalism ensures it will never not be copyrighted.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 11 01:21:57 2017 No.3985183 why didnt the stupid asshole just make like 50 cdr copies and just leave them in public places.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 11 01:24:22 2017 No.3985187 >>3985183 Do normies even do optical media anymore? Is it considered "cool" enough? For all you know the dumb motherfuckers might just think he's handing out weird drink coasters.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 11 01:26:05 2017 No.3985191 >>3985187 write starcraft source code on the disc for fuck sakes, is some FBI forensics asshole going to study the writing and track you down lol. I know normies are dumb as fuck but if you labeled it they might get a clue.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 11 01:44:13 2017 No.3985215 >>3969012 What if Blizzard lost the source code, and that disc led to a shitty re-release?

>>	Anonymous Thu May 11 02:16:35 2017 No.3985246 >>3981938 >copywritten COPYRIGHTED "Copywriting is the act of writing text for the purpose of advertising or other forms of marketing."

Anonymous Thu May 11 02:52:45 2017 No.3985308

>>3981150
>It is easy for me to acquire an xbox and do all kinds of soft modding fuckery to it to play games, therefore, it is a cinch! for EVERYONE on Earth who would like to play xbox games to pay for and acquire an original xbox to do it also. No need for emulation here guys! Pack up the thread, it's over!

>>	Anonymous Thu May 11 02:59:13 2017 No.3985320 >>3985308 Yep, exactly

>>	Anonymous Thu May 11 03:06:18 2017 No.3985332 I think people were mostly pissed about the devkit containing beta games or unreleased games than they were a devkit for emulation purposes.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 11 03:06:37 2017 No.3985334 >>3967953 I looked this up on reddit and most people there are saying that he did the right thing. I'm not into tribalism, but this thread kind of has a point.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 11 03:12:42 2017 No.3985348 >>3985320 The height of narcissism. Cancerous. Poisonous. Toxic.

Anonymous Thu May 11 03:38:26 2017 No.3985394

>>3968439
>Everyone with their own mods, instead of a single community that shares the same rules, you'd have to deal with loads of different communities.

eventually it will all consolidate into one primary port that plays and feels closest to the original and at the same time offers huge modding capabilities - like how it happened with other games with source code released such as doom or douk

>>	Anonymous Thu May 11 08:40:41 2017 No.3985681 >>3985348 Right, fuck emulatorfags.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 11 08:45:10 2017 No.3985685 who cares lol

Anonymous Thu May 11 08:58:36 2017 No.3985704

>>3985394
>eventually it will all consolidate into one primary port that plays and feels closest to the original and at the same time offers huge modding capabilities - like how it happened with other games with source code released such as doom or douk

that didn't happen to doom or duke3d. go back to your containment thread.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 11 09:34:12 2017 No.3985752 You must build additional pylons.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 11 09:53:59 2017 No.3985775 >>3967618 I really hope this is just some blizz marketing ploy. What a fucking joke. >>3974295 T-thanks for the reminder..

>>	Anonymous Thu May 11 10:28:26 2017 No.3985829 >>3967837 No sane person would believe that, though. Let alone spend $10,000 on it.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 11 12:56:27 2017 No.3986018 >>3985829 Really, could've just try and selling it mislabeled as an early proto or something and give whoever bought it a heck of a surprise.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 11 13:43:11 2017 No.3986105 >>3985829 Yes, this would not sell for $10k. It wouldn't be cheap, but unless someone rolled in out of nowhere, the big bucks are in CIB and sealed games and competition cart type stuff, rarity and importance be damned.

Anonymous Fri May 12 15:26:05 2017 No.3988392

I don't know why are you guys so mad about this. It was absolutely useless, mods/patches for Starcraft already exist and Actiblizzard would c&d the living shit out of anything made from it, so nobody would waste time and effort doing that. The Starcraft engine is not some technological marvel either where looking at the sourcecode would impart upon the viewer arcane coding techniques of untold power.

>b-b-b-but actiblizzard wouldn't have actually done anything anyway trust me I googled some shit and think I'm a lawer now

Nintendo had even less of a legal ground to stand on that Actiblizzard would have had and that didn't stop them from c&d'ing free fan projects out of existence. Or Square. Or Sega. It takes some serious money to stand up to a big company in a legal battle and nobody is stupid enough to do it, specially if they're not getting any money out of it.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 12 15:49:57 2017 No.3988448 >>3967826 I would probably make a stream to break it live in front of /vr/, saying that I'm doing it to protect Blizzard's IP to see the shitstorm. And then after some days, reveal that I made an iso of it before the stream.

Anonymous Fri May 12 16:33:55 2017 No.3988537

>>3967618
Wouldn't he at least be able to negotiate what he would receive from Activision for this disk? $250 store credit is a joke and same with Overwatch so he basically traded this for 1 ticket to Blizzcon. It may be their IP but that doesn't mean he is obligated to return the disk without negotiation.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 12 16:38:14 2017 No.3988543 >>3967723 Also /r/megalinks. Good shit if you're not allowed torrenting but need that illegal content anyways.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 12 16:56:21 2017 No.3988568 >>3967618 Reminds me of the fucking retarded "LE MUSTARD RACE XD" that destroyed an Xbox dev kit for epic upvotes on pcmasterrace.

Anonymous Fri May 12 17:44:21 2017 No.3988671

>>3988537
>Wouldn't he at least be able to negotiate what he would receive from Activision for this disk?

Not necessarily. If he asked for something they didn't mind giving him, they might just humor him, otherwise they could just get upset tell him to hand it over for free or get sued. Whether they're in their legal right to demand for it back is beside the point, in America (and other places I assume) money makes might and might makes right so as an average joe your only real option is to comply.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 12 17:52:12 2017 No.3988680 This guy is a shit. A free trip to BlizzCon, lol. He exchanged knowledge for advertising. Think about that.

Anonymous Fri May 12 18:31:47 2017 No.3988784

>>3988671
Yea you are right. I don't see how they could sue him unless they could prove it was stolen. The threat is enough I guess.

>>3988680
Yea everything they gave him was free marketing. You would think they would value the disk more and fly him to their HQ or something.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 12 19:00:17 2017 No.3988841 >>3988784 >I don't see how they could sue him unless they could prove it was stolen. They could argue it's trade secret or some shit, come on you really think a massive billion dollar corporation doesn't know how to game the legal system?

Anonymous Fri May 12 22:22:51 2017 No.3989152

>>3967826
Well /vr/ in particular already has precedent for people going way the fuck out of their way to pick up a game just to rip it for free for the betterment of the community.

http://lostmediaarchive.wikia.com/wiki/Garage:_Bad_Dream_Adventure_(Limited_Release_1999_Japanese_Point-and-Click_Game)

>UPDATE 18 Mar '14: For those who haven't been following the situation over the past month and a bit, a copy of the game was recently put up on Yahoo Auctions Japan and was subsequently snapped up by hg101.proboards.com user cc0 (aka Mid Heavens in my Garagesan !!OUMLpH0sZpD on 4chan's /vr/ board). After a lengthy trip from Japan, to the U.S., to Australia (due to potential issues regarding Australian customs), the game arrived today and has been ripped for all to download!

>HUGE thanks to cc0 for spending a whopping 77,000 yen (roughly 1,000 AUD after processing fees and the like) on this highly sought-after work of art and for freely sharing it around so quickly! You really pulled through for us and I for one am immensely grateful.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 13 10:01:44 2017 No.3990079 >>3968597 >we

>>	Anonymous Sat May 13 10:07:10 2017 No.3990089 >>3968239 You forgot to add on 4chan part that people switch the definitions of subjective and objective.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 13 10:32:36 2017 No.3990112 GODDAMNIT THIS TIME REDDIT HAS GONE TOO FAR THEY MUST BE PUNISHED FUCKING NORMIEEEEEEEEEEEESSSS

>>	Anonymous Sat May 13 10:35:29 2017 No.3990114 >>3967712 sir, I'm going to have to ask you to leave.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 13 10:43:30 2017 No.3990125 >>3988392 so what he's still a turbo cuck for giving it back

>>	Anonymous Sat May 13 23:29:31 2017 No.3991581 >>3967654 You mean JSR dipshit.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 13 23:31:18 2017 No.3991586 >>3991581 No. He means JSRF, dipshit.

>>	Anonymous Sat May 13 23:32:15 2017 No.3991590 >>3967819 fuck that guy >urrr aktsually i might get sued by a company that's been dead for years, buy my shit!

Anonymous Sun May 14 00:10:26 2017 No.3991653
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>Thank you for doing this. Fuck all the greedy pigs crying about wanting the source

>Yeah, it's like some people completely forget who enabled the whole game and structure around it to exist in the first place (and also the possibility to even think and argue about it)
>The mind can sink so very low

>Wow. Another neck beard who knows nothing about trade and patent infringement? How surprising.

>Wow OP I'm sorry people are shitting on you for doing the right thing.

>It really is wierd how people on the internet think they have the right to rule over other peoples property. You did what you thought best and was rewarded for it - more power to you.

>I just gotta say, it's hilarious that people are calling YOU selfish, when they wanted you to copy and dump the source code for their own personal use/reasons.
>Keep on being classy, OP, and keep on being shit, other redditors.

>Why do you feel entitled to that code?

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>>	Anonymous Sun May 14 00:24:56 2017 No.3991681 >>3991653 This is why faggots shouldn't be allowed to live

Anonymous Sun May 14 00:30:53 2017 No.3991696

>>3967618
To be fair, Blizzard's legal team explicitly contacted him and told him to give it back. I can't really fault him for not wanting to get a lawsuit stuck up his ass.

I dunno why Blizzard doesn't just release it like id did with the Doom source code

>>	Anonymous Sun May 14 00:33:52 2017 No.3991704 >>3991696 Because they are greedy faglords who want to be able to sell it again (like it was brand new and everything) to your children. Again and again and again, forever and ever, amen.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 14 00:33:59 2017 No.3991705 >>3991696 To be fair, he's retarded for posting about it on plebbit. They can't demand it back if they don't know he has it.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 14 00:34:53 2017 No.3991710 >>3991653 Goddamn that corporate dick must be slathered in honey for them to lick and suck so hard.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 14 00:35:56 2017 No.3991713 >>3991705 Exactly this.

Anonymous Sun May 14 00:46:16 2017 No.3991737

>>3985704

It happened to Doom but not Duke, and it had a lot to do with the readability of the sourcecode: the Build Engine actually is the "bubblegum and ducktape" codebase Carmack always derided it as. Anybody looking to get into creating a douk sourceport would take one look at that shit and walk the fuck away. It was so bad this dude https://github.com/fabiensanglard/chocolate_duke3D made simply refactoring it into readable form a *learning exercise* (he had no such trouble with the idTech codebases).

And keep in mind, most of his changes? Not OS X specific. He would've had to do 'em even for a Win64 release.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 14 00:46:24 2017 No.3991738 >>3991705 to be fair, everyone who uses reddit needs to be rounded up and put in death camps

>>	Anonymous Sun May 14 00:48:35 2017 No.3991741 >>3967770 I actually don't know shit about programming. I'm not the other guy btw. Can you tell me what is so important about it being source code?

Anonymous Sun May 14 00:59:06 2017 No.3991760

>>3968573

Upgrading to EDUKE does not in any way get you Blood. It does not work like that no sir no not at all.

>>3968593

>Oh, another shitty fan made empirical recreation. How exciting indeed.

Depending on how you choose to interpret this dude's broken Slavshit ravings, he is doing something similar to XLEngine only much narrower in scope. Also, he has an ace in the hole: the alpha sourcecode. Which apparently is helping a fuckton.

Unfortunately, he's doing it all IN FUCKING JAVA. So, useless as an endproduct, but a good starting point for someone with real coding chops.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 14 01:00:55 2017 No.3991767 >>3991741 Have you ever seen what a decompiled binary looks like (aka not sourcecode)?

>>	Anonymous Sun May 14 01:02:49 2017 No.3991771 >>3988680 That's America. Its culture is bankrupt.

Anonymous Sun May 14 01:12:25 2017 No.3991791

>>3991741

Source code is basically the file/s that are readable by humans, written in a programming language. That means it's very easily alterable.

If you're hacking/modding a game without its source code, you're usually just swapping assets(HD texture mods is literally just finding a jpeg and replacing it with your own), or editing what's in the RAM, which can limit the scope of what you're actually able to do.

If you have the source code, you have a lot more flexibility in what you're able to add or change.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 14 03:14:13 2017 No.3991959 >>3991771 I blame the demolishing of gothic architecture in major US cities in the 70s and the 80s for our current lack of soul really. At least the countryside isn't that fucked up at all really.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 14 03:41:12 2017 No.3992003 >>3991959 You should blame unregulated capitalism and commodification for cultural degradation instead of inventing weird theories. There's plenty of literature on this.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 14 03:43:06 2017 No.3992005 >>3992003 This. Corporations are very nearly our defacto governments they've grown so powerful. That's fucked up every which way.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 14 03:44:34 2017 No.3992007 >>3991791 Don't forget if there are any comments whatsoever to guide you, they're only in the source.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 14 04:18:37 2017 No.3992051 >>3992005 The market will save us, anon. Have faith in the neoclassical models

>>	Anonymous Sun May 14 04:39:57 2017 No.3992080 >>3992051 I hope you're being sarcastic.

Anonymous Sun May 14 04:51:50 2017 No.3992089

>>3991696
>I dunno why Blizzard doesn't just release it like id did with the Doom source code

A company as big as Activision would never do such a thing when they can milk fans dry at no expense for years to come.
For fuck's sake, they've been selling SC+BW at 40 - fucking - dollars on Battle.net for more than a decade despite never fixing the cheater problem, fixing their servers or giving people a way to play the game out of the box (rainbow colors and shit).

Anonymous Sun May 14 04:53:10 2017 No.3992090

>>3992005
This. I also understand the need for some kind of intellectual property while we don't have a society with another economic system in which knowledge can be freely spread.

However, to still hold on to source code from a 20 year old game is sick. They made a huge amount of profit from it already.

The original idea behind intellectual property was to stimulate innovation and creativity to prevent some other company from instantly stealing your idea. This is not the case anymore when a game is fucking 20 years old.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 14 04:53:33 2017 No.3992091 How can they be such pure cucks? God help us.

Anonymous Sun May 14 05:10:51 2017 No.3992109

>>3991741
notice how games like doom and quake still have huge, active communities, with ports to all possible platforms, vr builds, elaborate gameplay and graphical modifications, total conversions, absurdly huge maps filled with hordes of enemies that the original game could never have supported etc. this is because id software had a policy of releasing their source code.

with source code access you have exactly what the developers had as they were making the game and you can do anything you want with it. compare it to something like morrowind, which also has an absurdly devoted fanbase but they're stuck with this unstable, badly performing old game. some fans were actually desperate enough to try to write the entire game again from scratch (openmw) but it's almost a decade since they started working on it and it's still nowhere near done. if they had the source code they would have delivered a badass modernized version of the engine in like six months.

not to mention there's enormous educational value for beginner programmers in analyzing and modifying video game source code.

Anonymous Sun May 14 05:21:04 2017 No.3992127

>>3991696
>I dunno why Blizzard doesn't just release it like id did with the Doom source code

id released their sources because carmack believed strongly in sharing code and he could have his way because he (co-)owned the company. blizzard will never release shit because it's a potential legal risk with no monetary benefit and therefore unjustifiable from a business standpoint.

Anonymous Sun May 14 05:39:37 2017 No.3992159

>>3992090

The original intent of intellectual property was no such fucking thing. "Intellectual property" as a concept would have *horrified* every one of our Founders. What they espoused; copyright and patents, should never be confused with intellectual property. Intellectual property refers more toward an entire legal scaffolding of erroneously treating intangible things as tangible goods, a fool's game that can only end in accomplishing the exact opposite of the Founder's intent in even proposing such a radical concept (remember, copyright as envisioned by the Brits absolutely was what our copyright has become; a protectionist bit of lawyering designed to shield the already established press houses from any new competition whatsoever).

With that all said, the original purpose of American copyrights and patents was "to promote the advancement of the arts and sciences". No economic considerations whatsoever, save that a "subsidy" of sorts was being offered to people in exchange for them cranking out instantaneous culture and science (to use a bit of a Sid Meier term). It was supposed to be 20 years on both so the public could actually realise these "advancements".

Never ever was intellectual property (and all the authoritarian George Orwell bullshit it now drags along with it like some goddamned existential avalanche) supposed to be a thing. In fact this is why countries with weak copyright are now growing by leaps and bounds ahead of us; culture and advancement are both contributory and collaborative, they cannot be well accomplished in a country that thinks it now can get by on merely selling "intellectual property" to the world (in lieu of the manufacturing of actual physical goods it so idly tossed out the window).

Anonymous Sun May 14 05:40:04 2017 No.3992160

>>3979289
trespasser had a source leak and unofficial fan builds are based on it. no legal response.

"newdark" is a modernization of the engine used in thief 1, thief 2, and system shock 2. the author does not admit to this, but it's an open secret that he's using the source code for the engine which leaked a couple years before. no legal response.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 14 05:43:06 2017 No.3992162 >>3992127 It's only a legal risk due to the insane legal bulwark they themselves helped to build. No sympathy from me.

Anonymous Sun May 14 05:45:49 2017 No.3992167

>>3992109

This is why people like Richard Stallman were useful, for all his toejam-eating autism.
Now we live in a world where you literally cannot write code without infringing on someone's goddamn patent (code is eligible for *both* copyright and patent, did you know?).

Anonymous Sun May 14 06:00:32 2017 No.3992185

>>3992162
i'm not asking you to feel sympathy towards a corporation, that's insane. you asked why they don't do what id did and the answer is that id was a room with some nerds in it and the alpha nerd had strong moral convictions about the exchange of knowledge, whereas blizzard is a subsection of a vast nightmare hive devoted to maximizing shareholder value. what id did will never happen again in the realm of big video games.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 14 07:25:18 2017 No.3992336 >>3992185 >what id did will never happen again in the realm of big video games. yeah just like how croteam totally didn't release recently a full source code of old Serious Sam games

Anonymous Sun May 14 07:39:45 2017 No.3992364

>>3992336
>realm of big video games
>croteam

nah man, that's an eastern european indie team trying to keep their semi-obscure retro throwback shooter alive. it's not even in the same ballpark as fucking id software at the peak of its fame releasing the source code for fucking doom.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 14 10:39:11 2017 No.3992676 >>3967618 What the fuck is wrong with Redditors, holy shit.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 14 15:32:12 2017 No.3993209 >>3967969 >Now say it with me: Reddit - The Front Page of the Internet. Why do other people make me feel embarrassed on their behalf all the time? You stupid embarrassing fuck. Cmon, kill yourself already; do us a favour.

Anonymous Sun May 14 15:42:34 2017 No.3993234

>>3970591
as usual the road to hell is paved with good intentions. I'm sure the lack of industry tooling was still a problem back then. This stuff could have been worked out pretty quick with a chief engineer. Maybe gaming companies didn't have that model back then?

>>	Anonymous Sun May 14 19:40:37 2017 No.3993698 >>3967647 Literally kill yourself. It's fags like you that are ruining video games with your shit tier tastes and don't mind being reemed by corporation.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 14 19:44:06 2017 No.3993705 >>3993698 Actually your entitlement and piracy is what ruins games

>>	Anonymous Sun May 14 19:45:43 2017 No.3993708 >>3992109 Blizzard doesn't owe you this. Grow up.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 14 19:47:26 2017 No.3993715 >>3992159 I figured out why people like you who spew the excact same nonsense hate ip so much. You know you're not creative, so you'll never produce your own. You just want to steal from others.

>>	Anonymous Sun May 14 21:14:42 2017 No.3993879 >>3967758 That's what makes it so interesting to look at.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 15 00:19:10 2017 No.3994252 >>3968020 you can pop off the capacitors you dunderfuck

>>	Anonymous Mon May 15 02:13:01 2017 No.3994426 >>3967703 >you need a OG Xbox to do that you dumbass. Not all people can get one there are literally hundreds for sale right now on ebay cheap as fuck you retard

>>	Anonymous Mon May 15 02:15:30 2017 No.3994428 >>3967712 >le rival website may may xD Everyone hates reddit because you have usernames with votesand can't call faggots nigger when they are being nigger faggots

>>	Anonymous Mon May 15 04:55:27 2017 No.3994623 >>3993715 >projecting off limits

Anonymous Mon May 15 05:00:15 2017 No.3994629

>>3994426
There's a thing called hardware degradation. In 10-20 years there will be no working XBox machines (they are more prone to that than older consoles), and so you won't be able to play anything on the original hardware.

This already began happening to many arcade boards from the 80's.

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