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August 17, 2019

How Diablo was completely Reverse Engineered without Source Code | MVG

Filed under: Gaming, Technology — Tags: , — Nicholas @ 02:00

Modern Vintage Gamer
Published on Jul 1, 2019

In 1996 Blizzard Entertainment released Diablo, an Action RPG that sold over 2.5 million copies and defined a genre. In 2018 a developer known as GalaXyHaXz almost completely reverse engineered the code in 4 months and released it as open source. How was this accomplished? Find out in this episode!

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Links

► DevilutionX (Open Source Diablo) https://github.com/diasurgical/devilu…
► My Nintendo Switch Port – https://github.com/lantus/devilution-nx

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