• @[email protected]
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            You do you, of course, but I can’t imagine enjoying playing RDR with a keyboard and mouse. The marionette controls are already bad enough with a gamepad.

            Yuzu will let you map your controls this way all the same.

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            Dolphin is a GameCube/Wii emulator and only runs GameCube and Wii games

            For this instance, you need something like Yuzu or Ryujinx that can emulate the original Switch hardware and run the games made for it on PC

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              Ahh, it’s been so long since I tried any nintendo emu. I just bought a new wireless gamepad, I should really try yuzu soon.

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                Download yuzu or ryujinx and botw and totk then switch brains with me so i can play them for the first time again pretty please?

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              *Yuzu or Ryujinx. Not Cemu. Not Dolphin.

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        I don’t think they have the source code for rdr 1 and that’s why they’ve never ported it themselves.

        Although there is the newer switch one so either they renamed it or found it in the end

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    Again for anybody working on their own games or who does software. Avoid this like the plague.

    • @[email protected]
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      Just a quick question, why? Is it because Take2 or Rockstar will come after anyone that they think copied their code, or are there a lot of bad practices used in GTA5’s code?

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        Because even the possibility that you implemented somebody else’s proprietary code from memory or inspiration opens up a lot of legal issues.

        And while you may win there’s no winners when you or your employer has to pay your side of legal fees. It’s best to just avoid it to make that process easier.

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              Yes they do. And they’d need to look at your source code to prove you copied theirs. It’d be basically impossible to prove unless you were stupid enough to have the GTA V source code on your work machine.

              Peep the code on a website, and they’ll have no evidence and the case will get dismissed for being frivolous. Do you think Rockstar is omniscient? People look at the source code, then leave the company for a competitor every week.

              Code can’t even be patented, so unless you copy some propriety process for computing physics or something, that they have a patent on, then they really have no legal standing.

              This meme of “don’t look at it” is very ignorant to the reality of professional software development. Our memories aren’t wiped when we switch jobs and they’d have to prove you didn’t pick that idea up from another job, a forum, a colleague, or even a dream.

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                Do you think Rockstar is omniscient?

                Seriously. There is actually zero way Rockstar would ever know even if you outright stole some of the code unless you were to admit it. And definitely not if you got some inspiration from it.

                The derivative code will get compiled. What are they going to do, pick apart the machine code from every game released from now on to see if it somehow matches a chunk from GTA? And then somehow track down and prove that one of the probably dozens of employees who worked on the game looked at this leaked source code? Good luck with that.

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                  Yeah there’s no chance anyone would even know unless you straight up copied enough code that the same bugs and weird physics behaviors show up in your game.

                  You can get in trouble for having it on your hard drive because it’s copyright infringement, but not for looking at it on a website.

              • lad
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                Our memories aren’t wiped when we switch jobs

                Now that’s the real problem here /s

                Also, this already been a trope in a movie

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            If this includes the euphoria physics engine and someone copies it… it will be incredibly easy to prove that it’s stolen.

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              Sure if you copy the whole thing. But if you treat it like another resource like Stack Overflow then the only way to get caught is if you put the code on your work machine.

              People quit their job and move to a company every week and the knowledge of rockstars engine doesn’t leave their brain.

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                Didn’t you hear about TakeTwo’s TakeTwo brain implants? They take two chips and put them in emloyees heads. It acts as their work-related memory. When they come into the office it activates and when they go home it turns off (supposedly). There’s no way you could fool such sofisticated TakeHome tech!

                /s obv

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          Depends on which country you’re in. I would bet if you do it in Russia there will be zero consequences.

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          when you or your employer has to pay your side of legal fees

          Where I live, the losing side must pay for all legal fees

          • lad
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            That is if you will have enough to keep going until you win. Having to pay a hundred grands for years may be a price to just prove you’re innocent, after that you’ll be refunded (sometime)

        • @[email protected]
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          Ok, that’s what I thought you meant by the original comment but I wanted to make sure.

          Thanks

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          Also to add to this, you are disqualified from contributing code to the WINE project if you’ve seen parts of the Windows source code for this exact same reason.

          • @[email protected]
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            oh interesting. kinda impossible to ensure all the contributors have never seen it though.

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          There’s no way this is true. I can literally think of similar code as what’s in GTA V, I have never opened the link. Does that open me up to a law suit? That’s crazy.

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            Directly, probably not. But if you work on an engine team or on a game and there’s some future lawsuit implying that the methods and techniques match their stuff then it will be costly. Companies would rather just avoid the potential liability.

            Here’s an article discussing some aspects of Nintendo leaks being risky for those who work on emulators

            https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5pxjx/using-leaked-nintendo-source-code-poses-serious-legal-risk-to-emulators

            "Such dumps wouldn’t be of use to the project due to it being illegal to obtain and use code contained within said dumps,” they said via Twitter DM. “Using code from dumps like that can taint the project and be active grounds for Nintendo to pursue legal action against it.”

            “Having a 16 plus year old emulator project go up in smoke isn’t something I’d want to happen. I’ve already seen a few comments on Reddit saying something along the lines of, ‘Well, why don’t you just make use of it but change it up a little before using it’, which, uhh, is a profound lack of perspective,” Lioncache said. “Legally, you generally don’t get a second chance about these sorts of things if legal action actually gets taken.”

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      Again for anybody working on their own games or who does software. Avoid this like the plague.

      Learning from the code and reusing the same code are two different things. It’s not every day you get to see how the pros do it.

      On a completely different subject, I’m curious about your username, could you elaborate on it?

      Edit: I scrolled down. What is Stormlight?

      Edit2: I scrolled down even more. [This says it the best].(https://lemmy.world/comment/6232601)

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      Bad take.

      Code is about working with a limited set of tools and making them work for whatever task is in front of you.

      Inspiration is from interacting with something and receiving insight.

      The best coders meld the two and push the industry forward. If you impose self limitations like this on yourself, then you’ll never advance yourself.

      This is like saying you read lord of the rings and now can’t play DND because the fantasy source material was ‘stolen’.

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    Now that the source code is “out there” it may be possible in the future for better mod support, fingers crossed.

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      “You have been banned from Rockstar Social Club.”

      But seriously, fuck their jank-ass forced integration.

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        Could be modded to work around their shit app

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          Wait, all mods have to go through that app? That’s total shite. Is there any way to launch it completely offline or would someone just have to pirate it?

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            I imagine with this leak that’s going to get cracked wide open soon

            • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏
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              I like my software cracked wide open.

              On a serious note, soon I can check out OpenFive/FiveM or whatever those multiplayer mods are that let you play on selfhosted GTAV servers, without Rockstar having a fuss…

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    Are there any links floating around to download said code? The various tweets/articles seem to suggest it leaked in one Discord server, and nobody’s providing a link to that Discord nor a mirror of the code.

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        • Join our discord server!
        • Give this server your home address, date of birth and mother’s maiden name?
        • Please read the rules before being able to even fucking read anything :3
        • Please download this third party extension verify that you’re not ban evading
        • Give this third party extension your home address, date of birth, mother’s maiden name and unobstructed pictures of your taint from several angles?
        • You’ve been verified!
        • Sending messages is for donors only :3
        • Notifications for every channel is on by default. I hope your speakers aren’t loud, pisshead
        • Every channel is just a moderator with an amphetamine problem writing a new manifesto every 15 minutes
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          Forgot to mention that you have to give them your phone number. That one really pisses me off.

        • @[email protected]
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          Forgot the part where you are sometimes FORCED to join some discord server, be it for downloading a mod just one time or troubleshoot something else. And then sometimes comes the part you listed.

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          Discord got problems… but none of those things I’ve encountered. Save for the

          • Please read the rules before being able to even fucking read anything :3

          And are you really going to complain about being shown the rules of the place before use? You got a point on notifications too but that’s it. Annoying, but easy to deal with (right click server, disable notifications, boom done that’s it.)

          The other shit I could be easily convinced you’re straight up making up.

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        Didn’t we use things like irc in the past?

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            Just thinking about the fields and fields of car, electric, and plumbing forums all sitting out there with broken links and dead photobucket / imgur embedded pictures…

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            You aren’t “archiving” shit of this magnitude. Forums and hosts get the real letters and even the more permissive countries and hosts tend to have minimal issues taking action for these kinds of leaks. They are just as transient as chat rooms with a much bigger investment to run

            Which leave “dark web” sites that very much do exist but don’t get linked in news articles

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      Trying to compile well-documented github projects is a crap shoot half the time. iirc no one figured out how to compile even the Windows XP source code when it got leaked and it’s long gone/no longer obtainable so no one can try. The chances of anything coming out of this that the average person will see are almost complete zero.

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        My experience with large projects is that the bigger they get, the more their build systems turn into large projects in their own right. Maintaining the build for something like Windows is probably many people’s full-time job, so it’s no surprise a bunch of amateurs with no docs couldn’t do it.

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          Is it possible to create a custom build system by compiling little bits at a time?

          For example, you find the opengl code (or whatever gfx lib they’re using), strip it down it only displays a window and doesn’t reference any other gta code. Then it could be compiled without much trouble. Then another small system, say matrix transforms, can be isolated from the original code and integrated with the custom code to get it to compile.

          This way you are creating your own build system ad hoc, and you find out what it needs as subsystems are added. Provided the code is decently decoupled and modular, it should be theoretically possible, even if it is still an absurd amount of work.

          Or does this sound completely wacky to you?

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        I agree generally. Here lately I’ve taken the plunge and compiled everything from source (Linux). While tricky on some, (dependencies mostly), the outcome is unusually stable. More stable than expected.

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        Does this mean we’re not going to see community enhanced version of GTAV? I thought the game was disappointing when compared to GTA:SA. The world feels empty and the campaign is too short.

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      I have a download link (and the password), someone posted it on the ycombinator thread. Not sure if I can post it here.

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      Unlikely, unless the source code for the anti-cheat system and the server have been leaked as well.

      The source code for just the game isn’t really going to help cheaters. Cheat makers typically don’t care about the code, they’d look at either altering the game files, and/or the memory space where the game variables are stored. Having access to the source doesn’t really help with that (well it may help them understand the compiled binaries a bit better, assuming they don’t know them inside-out already - we’re talking about a 10 year old game here).

      But it may help modders for making mods and stuff. These mods may or may not be detected by the anti-cheat system though.

      If Rockstar coded the game properly, the server won’t allow the client to connect if any of the files have been modified, or if the anti-cheat system is spooked/borked. So assuming that’s the case, any mods that may come out of this would be for offline gaming.

      TL;DR: There’s nothing the worry about, online gaming (against randoms) will continue to suck as usual, best to stick to offline play or playing with/against a trusted friend circle.

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        Wow. I used to use a sector editor on floppy disks to cheat on games way back in the eighties by looking for player stats and abilities and whatnot. I had no idea that modern day cheating would be so similar to the rudimentary stuff I was doing nearly forty years ago.

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          Well, software is software after all :P

          It all becomes 1s and 0s at the end of the day lol

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          Yeah, computers have a lot more bells and whistles now, but the basics of how the system and the OS work haven’t really changed that much, until you get out of native apps and into Electron and stuff. It’s honestly remarkable how similar they are. Microsoft has a bunch of documentation about weird and quirky behavior they keep available for backwards compatibility, and most modern software developers take them up on that offer.

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          The core ideas remained the same, only difference is that they’ve got more roadblocks now which makes it considerably tricker (security measures in the OS + anti-cheat + encryption/DRM + server-side checks etc).

          But modern day cheating goes beyond memory editing, for instance there are things like aimbots which can work at the GPU/driver level, or input automation/macros which work completely ouside of the game so normal anticheat measures may not prevent it.

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        I agree. Most points of entry are usually via injection, and you need to maneuver around the anti-cheat defense. Once the game code isn’t in parity with the server, it’s also likely to be rejected; this leak is likely older anyway, so probably a non-issue since it’s not feature complete at this point.

        It may help identify new points of entry for injection, but that’ll likely get patched once exploited.

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      If support has been discontinued for GTA 5 and it no longer receives any updates then yes that’s likely.

      edit: depending on what is actually included in the “full source code”, of course.

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      Or better open source security since everyone and his dog tries to crack it and the open source community patches it

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        Yeah I love it. It makes some gameplay changes though. Regardless, I can’t wait until the RA2 mod is done. If someone gets Mental Omega running in it then I’ll lose my marbles

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    amazing to me that open source games usually sputter out quickly, yet communities will dissemble, reassemble and polish and finish games from established IPs

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    So sad seeing all these games, all that creativity, sacrificed for a sixth installment.

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      I don’t understand. Sacrificed how?

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        It’s not just GTA V, there’s also references to Bully 2, and Rockstar has been all hands on deck for their open world mega games since V blew up, last month a former employee talked about how Agent was cancelled for being a distraction from GTA.