autocratic for the people.

The Internet houses many remarkable things. One of these is retroactive source code for the original NES Metroid. This document was created by copying a Metroid game cartridge's binary data, and reconstructing a reasonable facsimile of the original game code from it. Then, and this is pretty ridiculous if you've never tried it, this guy sat down, read all of the code, figured out what it all did, and commented it. That's dedication.

(And if you liked that, check out the same guy's excellent, lucid explanation of the Metroid level rendering system. This proves pretty well that he did in fact figure out how the game works.)

posted by avixe @ 10:40 PM