Crusader reverse engineering in progress

[Keenan]

Exciting work is underway from member MaddoScientisto in reverse engineering the Crusader games. You can follow the progress in the forum thread here. We've already discovered new things about the games, including cut items, test maps, easter eggs, and undocumented command line arguments. I highly suggest reading through the thread and follow along, or help if you can! I'll just say the possibility of a modern port of Crusader is not impossible anymore. I've been heading the Crusader fan community for over twenty years--a fan for thirty--and I think this the most exciting thing that has happened in Crusader history.


The GitHub repository is here: https://github.com/MaddoScientisto/Crusader-Map-Viewer


And the live map viewer demo is here: https://maddoscientisto.github.io/Crusader-Map-Viewer/

 

[Desert-Mammoth]

Gonna be honest guys, I can't code, and I know a lot of you probably hate A.I but out of curiosity I started trying to reverse engineer the game by eye and getting A.I to help me piece it all together. So not a post-mortem rebuild, more of a "I think this is how it is supposed to be" exercise, and I am actually getting somewhere. Just a personal project mind, but I'm sort of annoyed that the Silencer's story ended 3000 years ago so I figure I may as well make my own ending. If I can hammer together my own engine out of A.I and duct tape then that's okay, that serves my purposes, and if it amounts to anything cool I'll show you. Its taken us 2 days to get the Silencer's movement down though, its clear the devs were using a lot of jank to make this game work.

Something as simple as making it so the Silencer moves at the correct speeds depending on facing (they were using a 32x128 grid) can be a right pain, but I'm looking for 80% accuracy.

Figuring out other things has been much easier.

Obviously reverse engineering the actual game is great and I hope this effort hasn't died (it looks like it might have?), but me stapling together my own Frankenstein's Monster is the next best thing I think.