How EXACTLY do LEGO Island's assets work? (LEGO Island Decompilation - Part 2) 

Foreshadowing

I hope he's not using unity. I'd have to unsub at that point. EDIT: ok good It was just an off handed comment. EDIT 2: This thankfully no longer applies and as long as people use an older version of unity they're fine, so I no longer have to boycott any new games made in older versions of unity. really crazy that people are mad at me for not buying a game that directly supported unity though, I bet you are all the same people who get mad that I don't buy from chic-fi-a because I'm bisexual and don't want to give money to a company that literally wants me dead.

@@polocatfan You’re not petty at all...

​​@@gymnasiast90how is not wanting to support someone if they side with unity being petty?

@polocatfan a game engine unity isnt actually that bad, thats why so many devs use it. the issue is that unity is capitalizing visciously on this sucess dont hate on devs using unity, encourage them to switch to better alternatives and send your hatred to unity themselves instead

Same here lol

5am here

literally going on 5 am now

same, but almost an hour later

ON GOD

on a tight grid

​@@DarkIzowith some sort of interlocking mechanism

@@Tethrarxitet made up of nibs on the top of bricks and pins on the bottom to hold assets together

@@fourthwallbreak7727 a sort of "clutch power" if you will

@@No_Life_Alex Ayyyyyyyy, I like that one

His channel in a nutshell

​@@HarmlessBongo0lmao

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How I it 1 day ago

​@@Thisgamer69it released early for channel members

Same, we had the disk but couldn't get it to work for some reason. I was too young to understand what it was though

Same I grew in when windows vista was the latest os (early 2007)

I played so much Lego Island, but Rock Raiders was my favorite.

It helps that the game is actually quite fascinating on the development side. It's not just historical preservation, it's programming archeology!

It's the same thing with every game for the first person to dig it to understand how to mod it

This is the reason why rom corruptor programs were made People just poked at different parts of the file to see where stuff was lol

I have similar experiences with Ocarina of Time modding back in the day. If you wanted to replace Link's model, you had to individually convert each limb of your new model, and individually inject each one somewhere within Link's object file using a hex editor, making sure to keep the offsets for your custom meshes written down so you could overwrite the original mesh pointers to load the custom meshes. It was incredibly tedious. Nowadays, you can just rig your model to a skeleton in Blender, and the conversion tool will just handle everything from there.

Do you take adderall by any chance?

@@DogsRNicecute sona

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@@deeznuttes9340 Well, here's something that might surprise you: I am best friends with the real Nick and Donovan. Jealous?

irrelevant @@aidandecavitte4758

@@aidandecavitte4758Who? What? Why?

@@JulianR2JG where? When? and How?

Lego Island chaos mod 😅

@@Zircuitz Lego Island Crowd Control

Lego island hot coffee

​@@happyjohn1656 the only correct answer.

Lego Island Kaizo when

Loosing interest in smashing keyboard buttons, Seed decided it best to stop. On his right was a can of worms. On his left was a box of seeds. What was he going to do with these objects? We couldn't have known, but we do know he chose to open the can of worms and mix it with the seeds. He thought to himself, "if I mix worms and seeds, will I make worm seeds?" He wanted to find out. As he kept stirring, he found himself unable to move the spoon with which he mixed. The substance had turned into a goo-like sludge. Such a fool little Seed was. How did he think he was going to make worm seeds out of worms and seeds? Worm seeds don't even exist. This surely meant Seed had become crazy after his years of smashing keyboard buttons in his basement. How dumb he was!

​@@polygontowerwhat

@@couldntsetpass2901 lol me question exactly

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Hey seed! I've seen you on another MattKC video!

I actually just checked a similar solution yesterday. Ffmpeg, as it turns out, does support GPU decoding. It's just that most things don't bother because audio is relatively easy to decode on even a slow modern CPU.

ImageMagick can probably do the same thing. Just a more lightweight dependency

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@@SwimSwimHungry it can't do scripting get outta here lmao

@@voxelfusion9894 Ever heard of plugins?

@@SwimSwimHungry And I don't know how to use either! And I don't feel like paying for a paint program that has free alternatives.

how is this posted 9 hours ago the vid is only 24 mins old

​@@lagged0utprobably Patreon subscribers

@Eeeeeex2 no it's time travel

@@Eeeeeex2no it's time travel

wow i can make the username the color i want!

Even big game companies such as Rockstar can't be trusted to keep their source code. They have been selling cracked/pirated copies of their own games on Steam.

and it doesn't help when a developer goes under

Important to remember that source control wasn't a universally solved problem back then like it is now. I remember working on VB6 enterprise software around Y2K and we were fighting Visual Source Safe so much that just copying to a shared network drive at the end of the day was better. Soon after we introduced CVS and thought it was the bees knees. SVN was like honey after that. Funny to think of now that I have used GIT for so long... but it really was crazy back then.

@@ErebuBat Also a lot of weirdness with companies being super protective of property, where there are just few/no backups of anything lying around and everything is so locked up, it's far more likely to just become lost/inaccessible to prevent things being leaked. It would be neat if everything was produced more communally and out in the open like a lot of open source software, and of course, people having far more extra time to pursue interests in such developments.

@@ErebuBat I HATE GIT!!!! uggggg

huh that reminds me of a few leappad games that were... just good games really. ...hm. i dont think i could port them though.

@link_team3855 It would be cool if you could figure it out! I don't know how to tackle that either, lol. They would make good browser style games.

@@CaptainChristmasYT i mean the main problem (before copyright anyway) is the fact that i dont have the game carts anymore (i think?), dont have a player (... i think?) and i KNOW i dont have a way to get the data from the cart to a computer. Although. making something with same gameplay might be pretty easy actually... *comparatively

@link_team3855 Most likely, making a remake of the games would be more straightforward, to be sure. It depends if you're looking to strictly recreate the game play or investigate the challenge of emulating on other hardware. Would make an interesting video, lol!

hes got one in the works. its about backporting modern windows apps to windows 95.

Yeah, that and/or memory use. The game I've been working on cleaning up/reverse engineering the missing bits of (Enemy Nations, an RTS from around the same time) had 2 options for music: mono wav at 22.05 khz or midi. It selects midi if you don't have enough memory.

Unity still is a game engine, I’ll update this later

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@@denpapa he thinks that unitys gonna go bankrupt because of their stupid decision. They are fine so, no

@@denpapa It was a joke about how the Unity company trashed their reputation even further recently. I know they won't probably *actually* go under, but part of me does wish they would.

Probably best to just select an optimal palette.

@@Aeduo picking an optimised palette *would* be ideal however that's a very difficult task to automate with code. and dithering is near on impossible with such a method as you would need to calculate a metric by which you can compare a pixel's color to the two closest matches in the palette and then score it a value from 0 to 1 between the two palette colors to then perform a dither on as just using the closest match would lead to blocky color artefacts, especially if there's many different colors all in the same image. however for texture/images that already have < 236 colors, no gradients, just regions of flat color, then certainly it makes sense to even hand pick colors for the palette. however somthing like the pre-rendered rooms, that wouldn't really work.

@@AB-Prince I'm sure it's challenging but it's certainly been adequately solved. Plenty of software out there to do it and all kinds of libraries that could be used. He doesn't need to reinvent the wheel here. He's already using ffmpeg for some things and that might already have some functions for processing still images on this way.

The Brickster has been de-bricked, sir.

@@luisgamercoolgaming Now it's just a ster

This is definitely digital Archaeology Source: me a digital public archaeologist

maybe someone could make an appimage.

Do it!

HOW THIS POSTED 11 HOURS AGO!?!?!?!!?!?!?!??! VIDEO POSTED ONLY TWO HOURs AGO!!!!!!!!!!!!

​@@SoBloxRetroCrYA-UAPatreon supporter

But the Lego Island .SI files interleave data. I mean they split parts of the data and mix them into each other in a specific order. It would probably not be the same as the SoftImage .SI

So it's mixing parts of the files into each other so they can load all of them at the same time. Interesting

You're not alone in this TvT Cathode Ray Dude did say during one of his OS/2 streams (he was showcasing screensavers) that he has a phobia of corrupt computer graphics and computers freaking out in glitchy-graphics way. I can see why.. When I was a kid, I remember being afraid of BSOD jumping at me from the unlit starway or when I was asleep. (or moreso the Windows XP's "Windows did not start successfully" pre-boot menu, as we kids fucked up our PC in gloriously unbootable ways wayy too many times) I can exactly pinpoint why. xD (And I do still celebrate Windows 8's BSODs and onwards having a lighter colour and a smiley, makes it less painfully spooky, lol) Also holy moly, yeah, that creepypasta image.. remembering getting freaked out when the ROM inside ZSNES literally generated the file on my real PC, iirc. That was the stairway spook after that xD Though I did manage to copy with my phobia better once I found out it's wayyy to easy to make ANY picture into a spooky one. (Vargskelethor streams... or IrfanView's outdated colour correction tools can make glorious creepypastas by cranking Contrast and Saturation to the max and playing with the Brightness.. so much spookiness everywhere)

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Oh boy, would you get a kick out of Vinesauce's corruption stockpiles 😅

I was thinking "Simple Interlace", but that's plausible too.

@@TlalocTemporal Maybe Streamed (or Streaming) Interleaf?

I guess it wouldn't be possible. But the whole Lego island just struck me as this limbo, this purgatory of Lego figures.

I personally looked at LEGO loco in ghidra, and I couldn’t find much. It was a long time ago though so I could look again and see if anything was there

He is working on a Burnout 3 reimplementation called Reburn 3.

What happened with unity?

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I’m assuming LEGO isn’t as litigious as Nintendo or Rockstar, but this is a fair point