Nitemare 3D Reverse Engineer

sorry for the lack of updates lol, thanks to the whole quarantine thing, I can't go to school or work so most of my day is just OpenNitemare3D +watching Brooklyn 99

hey so suuuper sorry for the people that followed this, I legitimate forgot about the entire project, also I kind of got my discord account and the email account linked to it hacked so I'm going to have to create a new one, anyways I'm going to spend a few days trying to clean up the code a bit so that I can put it on GitHub

Oof

^{yeah sorry that's all I can say as of now}

8 minutes ago, InDOOMnesia said:

Oof

^{yeah sorry that's all I can say as of now}

Oof indeed my friend

new Discord server

1 hour ago, BBQgiraffe said:

new Discord server

Neato! I love it when source port devs use Discord for stuff.

sorry for the lack of updates I've been swamped with work and other projects, I added map loading, binaries are on the first post

OH FUCK I LEFT std::cout << "cock\n"; IN THE CODE WHEN I COMMITED IT

4 hours ago, BBQgiraffe said:

OH FUCK I LEFT std::cout << "cock\n"; IN THE CODE WHEN I COMMITED IT

 

static fuck = 0;

// For debugging only
if (      fl->a.x < 0 || fl->a.x >= f_w
       || fl->a.y < 0 || fl->a.y >= f_h
       || fl->b.x < 0 || fl->b.x >= f_w
       || fl->b.y < 0 || fl->b.y >= f_h)
{
   fprintf(stderr, "fuck %d \r", fuck++);
   return;
}

I added the ability to play the original MIDI files

Cool project! Nightmare3D is such a weird game that I loved when I was kid!

if you want to see more updates you can check out the discord server on the first post

man it's been almost a fucking year, anyways I opened the repository for the first time in almost a year and man my code back then was extremely shit (case in point read main.cpp), anyways I'm working on rewriting this whole thing in C# since C++ is a language for masochists, I can whip a raycaster up in a few days and I'm working on getting the assets to read based on the docs I wrote like 2 years ago, using SFML this time because SDL2 sucks, new Twitter and Discord are in README.MD on the GitHub, if you're skilled in reverse engineering please contact me on Twitter or Discord because I still kind of suck at that

-BBQ

result of a few hours of work, I had to write my own PCX importer because SFML doesn't have one, also some midi using MeltySynth(a bit glitchy so I might switch to a different library) also working on writing a bitmap font reader and IMG reader, I'm absolutly amazed at how stupid I had to be when I first started since it took me months to get to this current point, what a fucking idiot

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Oh wow, I remember playing this game on my grandmother's computer 20-odd years ago. The title was lost to memory a looooooooooooooooooong time ago, but I always remembered the HUD and the blue handgun that could turn enemies in to flowerpots rather than killing them. Nice to finally be able to put a name to that memory. So charmingly crap and ugly, just classic DOS trash. Now I want to see Civvie11 make a video on this thing heh.

43 minutes ago, Biodegradable said:

Oh wow, I remember playing this game on my grandmother's computer 20-odd years ago. The title was lost to memory a looooooooooooooooooong time ago, but I always remembered the HUD and the blue handgun that could turn enemies in to flowerpots rather than killing them. Nice to finally be able to put a name to that memory. So charmingly crap and ugly, just classic DOS trash. Now I want to see Civvie11 make a video on this thing heh.

I really hope someone like Civvie11 makes a video on it lol the games community is basically nonexistent

On 7/9/2021 at 11:26 PM, BBQgiraffe said:

I'm absolutly amazed at how stupid I had to be when I first started since it took me months to get to this current point, what a fucking idiot

Heh, that just means you learned a great deal along the way.

In any case, there's no source code and very little documentation on the technology that runs this game, so it certainly isn't a trivial task to make a source port for it.

It's good to see you having fun with it again.

2 hours ago, Arno said:

 

Heh, that just means you learned a great deal along the way.

In any case, there's no source code and very little documentation on the technology that runs this game, so it certainly isn't a trivial task to make a source port for it.

It's good to see you having fun with it again.

yeah lol it's a lot easier to have fun with a project when you're using a language that isn't an absolute Nitemare

also going to upload the newest, most complete version to github when I finish implementing special tiles(doors, stairs, etc) hopefully tonight or sometime tomorrow

I was scratching my head trying to figure out how to load special tiles when I realized that I can parse enums from strings using the data in WALLS.X

I'm kind of a dumb ass i forgot that I can also get enums from the tile index I'm dumb

chipping away at the tile system today, gotta do some more stuff to implement flipped tiles

after a few headaches I got 128x64 tiles working

I only ever played the shareware version but I remember this game well for what it was.  Reverse engineering anything (especially closed source or black box designed) is an enormous effort from someone who is also in the middle of engaging in a similar endeavor.  Keep up the awesome, awesome work!

still working on the walls, I have about half the tiles implemented, going to attempt getting secret panels and curtains implemented tonight

having to write your own importer for an ancient audio format when you suck at audio is fun

oops accidentally sent a temp link for the discord, fixed now

wrote a tool that lets me speed up the labeling of all the games sounds