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OFFICIAL Techblog: BINARY FILES - HACKING MANIC MINER - PART 2

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Lee Chisholm

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https://www.yoyogames.com/blog/423/binary-files-hacking-manic-miner-part-2



Here is the second part of this series from our Head of Engineering - @Mike

"So, I thought it would be a nice little change of pace to do a little retro game hacking, and at the same time learn about binary files. Since most retro games are stored in old binary formats, buffers are ideally suited for hacking into them. For this example, we're going to pull apart the old ZX Spectrum classic Manic Miner."
 
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