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0 pointswhimsicalism3y ago0 comments

Much of my coding was started with modifying the Minecraft & Wii internals and I would call that "modern software."

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bckr3y ago

You're an outlier for sure. Wii internals sounds very hard.

Minecraft is also slightly an outlier, I would say; its modding community has put a lot of work into making it easier for people to get started. It’s still a far cry from having a “view/edit source” button, though.

messe3y ago

If I remember correctly the early days were painful as well, with it being necessary to manually unpack the jar file, and work with deobfuscated decompiled code. I'm not sure what the state of it is nowadays, but I hope its more pleasant.

My favourite game from a modding perspective is Kerbal Space Program. Just drop a Mono/.NET DLL into its GameData folder and you're good to go, and code completion works automatically during development as long as you have Squad's own DLLs in the right paths.

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mch823y ago

Wii actually had a web browser and JavaScript API for the Wiimote controller. This comment made me remember a basic website I made for it back in the day. It was cool to use the Wiimote to interact with the page! The web games didn’t really take off though. I wonder if Wii emulators have the browser app? Video out broke on the Wii consoles in my family…

whimsicalismOP3y ago

Definitely harder than Minecraft as it was in C and also a more adversarial environment bc Nintendo made it very challenging

vintermann3y ago

Yeah. I have a lot of respect for all the Nintendo emulator makers and homebrew hackers, but for the platforms themselves, I can't help thinking the world would have been better if something else won out.

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