June 5, 2023

SHSU Houstonian Online

Read all latest news headlines from USA, UK and around the world, get today's breaking news and live updates on politics, elections, business, sports, economy,​ …

Take-Two sues GTA III and Vice City members to reverse engineer – Games – News

“These source code files not only contain the derived program code that enables the games to run on the player’s computer, but they also contain original Take-Two digital content such as text, character dialog, and certain assets from the game. In addition, re3 GitHub Repositories Include links to sites where members of the public can download a complete, installable build of re3 and reVC”

credit to @the field for the next link

https://github.com/GTAmod…mefiles/TEXT/american.gxt

If you open that with notepad or notepad++, there is already dialogue from the original games.
Provide links to a full installer, not the best plan either.

Defendants boasted that the derived source code was generated by doing the opposite
From Take-Two’s final ‘automated’ code to recreate human-readable code where GTA was
programmer:
GTA 3 and Vice City were originally written [programming
language] C++. . . The bundled executables that are shipped are in files
machine code. So the general task is to get back from machine code to
C++. . . . Going back to C++ is by no means a simple 1:1 ratio mapping, but
Over the past 10 years or so, decompilers have appeared that help with this
Processing. . . . So what we usually do is work out an output
decompiler and then cast it back into a readable C++ language”. id.

You have reverse engineered and you have reverse engineered. You can build something from scratch, you can study the process and then tinker with it a bit somewhere or you can bring the original source code. Looks like they’ve taken option 3 here.

If you have the source code, you can modify and recompile it, are you still modifying it or have you just released a new GTA3?

See also  Astronomers discover largest group of starless planets ever discovered - IT Pro - News

If they can prove it in court, and from what I see there won’t be a problem, I get two wins in that lawsuit with no problem.