Don Hodges
A quirky personal site best known for meticulous analyses of classic arcade game bugs and hidden easter eggs in Pac-Man, Galaga and Phoenix, alongside amateur supernova hunting.
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Halo 2 in HD on the Original Xbox
A deep, readable account of patching Halo 2 to run in HD resolutions on the original Xbox, from reverse engineering the…
Reverse Engineering the Sega Channel Game Format
A detective story about decoding the file format of Sega Channel, the 1990s cable service that streamed Genesis games, a…
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How Duke Nukem II's Parallax Scrolling Worked
An illustrated deep dive into how the 1993 DOS game Duke Nukem II faked smooth parallax backgrounds on slow PCs, with an…
Resurrecting a Dead Dune RTS Game
A programmer's write-up on reverse engineering and reviving Emperor: Battle for Dune, a long-dead real-time strategy gam…
Tweaking Stunt Island's 30-Year-Old 3D Engine
A fun reverse-engineering tale about patching the 1992 flight game Stunt Island to render far more detail, with a downlo…
Top Gun's Carrier Landing: Exposed
A reverse-engineering deep dive into how to actually land on the aircraft carrier in the NES version of Top Gun, a game…
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