oot VS GNU Emacs

https://github.com/zeldaret/oot 100% Ocarina of Time is fully decomped, surprised we haven't seen any developments on Mario here. Also liboot is possible.

Here's the page from the Zelda "Reverse Engineer" GitHub wiki: https://github.com/zeldaret/oot/wiki/Getting-Started

well it is possible to crack a game without the source. in fact, it's possible to decompile source from the binary itself. This has been done with Mario64 and ocarina of time.

That being said, there is a lot of documentation out there on Ocarina of Time specifically. There's even a work-in-progress decompilation. You're going to have to learn a lot to get to the level where you can do the stuff you're wanting to do, but that's part of why you have to try to start smaller. You can even work on Ocarina of Time still, but start by picking a concrete goal and trying to hack it into the game. Build a tool from scratch that replaces text in the game, for example.

Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time were only just decompiled within the last couple of years. Jak and Daxter 1 was decompiled a few months ago. GTA 3 and Vice City have nearly finished decompilations, but TakeTwo took legal action against the developers before they put the finishing touches.

That said, I did my research before talking about source ports made from restoring the (nearly) original code using the compiled data and symbols). That's how SM64 and OoT (as well as other Zeldas in progress) were/are decompiled.

I've watched the video and I'm still convinced it provides false information. What is my source? The official OoT decompilation project: https://github.com/zeldaret/oot

gnu.org - contains everything you need to research his philosophy.

stallman.org - personal website, contains a lot of opinion, but I absolutely respect this man in all what he says.

emacs.org (redirects to https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) - his non-philosophical work, one of two mainstream console text editors.

Forever, there was a file included in stock Emacs, `spook.el`, which could be hooked up to automatically add random strings of "interesting" keywords to each of your email or Usenet messages (in signatures, or in headers like `X-Spook`).

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Ma...

Looks like copyright date of 1988:

https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/lisp/play/...

https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/etc/spook....

Try `M-x spook RET` in an Emacs buffer.

If you want to spare a couple of detours, you probably could start with Emacs Org-mode according to Greenspun's eleventh rule: "Any sufficiently complicated PIM or note-taking program contains an ad hoc, informally specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Org mode."

Emacs: winget install GNU.Emacs

The whole cl-lib thing is a total disaster:

https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/lisp/emacs...

They added cl- as a prefix to each Common Lisp symbol.

FIRST is now called cl-first, CAAAR is now cl-caaar .

I would really prefer if GNU Emacs removes all Common Lisp functionality, instead of creating this really wacky stuff, with discussions about this topic every year.

Never too late to try! Take your time. Emacs will outlive us all. https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

GNU Emacs is a versatile, open-source text editor that offers extensibility and customization—a sort of self-documenting real-time display editor. Our thanks for the suggestion go to CartanAnnullator.

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Their DEFUN and DEFVAR macros for example let us define a function or a variable that will be available as a Lisp function, and can be used as an ordinary C function from the C code. Emacs is written in pure C99 language and works with both GCC and Clang I believe. We can just define a C function via macro, and it is auto exported and made available to Lisp. For example my first patch to Emacs was for this function (we added "count" argument to make it possible to skip enumerating files in a directory for the case when user code is just interesting if a directory is empty or not):