Leaked commercial game source code (sort of)
Posted: November 12th, 2013, 4:11 am
This isn't exactly "breaking news" since I've read about this on a yahoo groups discussion dating back to 2001, but since nobody posted about it yet I feel like I should 
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If someone feels this has good potential for didactic purposes I can host the said file somewhere and provide a link[...]
On Beatmania Best Hits (a Japanese game), there is a file named DUMMY. Copy
it to your hard drive and name it as an LZH file. Inside this LZH is the
source code to Beatmania 5th Mix (a different Japanese game).
If you compile the source, the game WILL run with the 5th Mix CD in the
drive, but getting it to compile and run is a pain. The makefile has all
sorts of hardcoded directories. Since 5th Mix is an "append" disk, it
relies on data passed to it from 2nd Mix. So it takes a few tricks to get
it to run, too. The source is not the final version of 5th Mix, but it's
close.
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-- Barubary
