noclip.website VS crossword-composer

I know this is definitely not what you’re talking about because it’s a website and not a book but it’s a link always worth sharing https://noclip.website/

As far as I know, yes.. Besides simple differences like register allocation, it's difficult to prove that your code behaves the same as the target if its nonmatching. It's also just really satisfying when you get a match.

When doing standard reverse engineering, you might use something like Ghidra or Hex-Rays. This is what the developer of noclip.website [1] did to reimplement a lot of Mario Galaxy code, such as enemy AI.

[1] https://noclip.website/#smg/AstroGalaxy

I don't know where to get what they used in that video, but the closest thing I could suggest is a site called "noclip" ?

You might also be interested in: https://noclip.website/ (not quake maps)

I also know https://www.halospawns.com/app used to have quake maps (dm6 at least), but can't find it now.

This isn't Ross's "Dream Software", but I find it somewhat related - at least its output. Check out noclip's website here.

https://noclip.website/#snap/1A;ShareData=AUsPn92;%5eVT:h=19... , or to hook up the first one to the second (although the system to signal between distant pokemon, which it probably uses, is mostly implemented). There are a few other instances of things that are supposed to be spawning conditionally which aren't handled yet, like extra lapras in the beach.

I'll leave an article from Pikipedia with a demonstration gif, plus a picture of the whole title screen from The Models Resource and a small comparison I made myself, using noclip.website.

A few wasm projects I've worked on:

- An in-browser crossword puzzle generator: https://crossword.paulbutler.org/ (source: https://github.com/paulgb/crossword-composer)

- A multi-player word game: https://redwords.paulbutler.org/

- A library for synchronizing state between clients, used for that word game: https://aper.dev/ (source: https://github.com/aper-dev/aper very WIP right now)

In my experience, the single biggest perk of using WebAssembly is that I can use a language I'm very productive in (Rust) compared to JavaScript. Everything else is secondary. That said, I think these projects have specific advantages by virtue of being WebAssembly:

- The backtracking search used for the crossword puzzle generator is carefully implemented to not allocate extra memory. This would be tough to do in JavaScript, and I believe it's partly responsible for its performance.

- The word game uses a compression algorithm that benefits very noticeably from wasm-opt, to the point that I can't run it without it. Given that wasm-opt takes a non-trivial amount of time at compile time, I suspect the JavaScript JIT would be slow at doing something similar at runtime. This is just conjecture, I haven't checked.

- What Aper does just wouldn't be possible without Rust features like Serde and macros.