Shenmue (1999) reverse engineering reveals possible sun position oversight

So far, we’ve only really touched on some of the fundamentals of reverse engineering with one game example, but this time we’re looking at something a bit different. Shenmue (1999) is widely known for its pursuit of realism and has remained an influential series to this day, with its third game releasing in 2019. This pursuit of realism wasn’t unintentional, but one of the key design choices they made early on in development. With 2 cult classic hits on the SEGA Dreamcast, in this post, we’ll look at some code in the game which reveals a mystery and how reverse engineering can be used to understand exactly how the game attempts to capture the essence of realism, and maybe even the original developers intentions.. Logic Generally speaking, the concepts behind reverse engineering actual logic remains roughly the same. We have to reason with the code we see and try to apply that reasoning to the code. Machines don’t execute C code, they read and execute machine code, of which was gener ... Read full article.