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Over the last few months (starting with the CFG In-depth research), I've started working through the entire `LegoRR.exe` assembly and identifying functions, global variables, symbols, and data types. Since then, things have progressed to the point where most of the game code can easily be navigated. Much of this is thanks to the recent GODS98 engine leaks, which sped things up 10 fold! (This page is going to go through numerous rewrites, to better organize most of the found information) General Info LEGO Rock Raiders is written entirely in C (with an exception of C++ with AVI and VideoPlayer classes, which have C wrappers). British spellings are being used for symbols to match DDI's naming conventions: i.e. Initialise, Finalise, Colour, etc... Naming conventions also aim to use accurate internal names, rather than commonly-known names seen during gameplay: i.e. Spade (shovel), OohScary (sonic blaster object), BirdScarer (sonic blaster boom), Immovable (solid rock), Medium (loose rock), Loose (dirt), Lake (water), Water_unused (flood water feature that was never implemented). All functions in assembly are easily identifiable and separated by address. The same goes with global variables (to an extent). DDI likes to group global variables for a module into one large structure, this is what causes most global variables to appear in an organized fashion. Even better, all game-specific modules for LegoRR appear in alphabetical order, making identification infinitely easier. Ghidra All reverse engineering work has been done through Ghidra. This is a free alternative to IDA, and offers a rough C decompilation of individual functions that works well enough, but chokes when handling heavy use of pointer arrays. Code Modification Based on the same manner of DLL-injection used by LRR:CE, it's possible to replace individual functions within LegoRR for testing (or for messing around). Cleaning up this approach and making it more user friendly will help as a base for creating an open-sourced version of LegoRR (in similar fashion to OpenRCT2). There are no immediate plans to start this, but it is already 100% possible to make useful and meaningful changes to the game through this approach. Below are some tests that have already made use of this: First-person controls in Top-down view Changing drilled walls from spawning spiders to Tool Stores Breaking everything with cycle-able wall spawns Multi-colored and level-based crystal coloring Yup, crystals support levels, and LV1 Crystals can be spawned with the CryOre map secondary values. Resource monitoring Links All work is being published to the same GitHub repository as used for the CFG research, among other things. Ghidra archive - An archive of the project where all reversing and symbol labeling is done. DDI data - Useful source leaks, including the GODS98 engine, a half-finished GODSPSX engine, and LegoRR PSX debug symbols. Source dump - Export of Ghidra's decompiled code (this is messier than hand-decompiled code, but will span the entire codebase). Modules map - Same as the section below, but with more information. LRRMonitor - Modification of LRR:CE for injecting and replacing self-written code into LegoRR. Decompile - Hand-written decompiled code, cleaned up from Ghidra's most unreadable messes. ModeSelection - Hand-written decompilation of the entire Mode Selection dialog, shown before booting LegoRR. CLGen - Hand-written decompilation of the entire CLGen tool for modifying LegoRR's standard command-line arguments. Modules map All functions in assembly are easily identifiable and separated by address. The same goes with global variables (to an extent). LegoRR modules Game code specific to LEGO Rock Raiders. All LegoRR game modules appear in alphabetical order (or at least almost every module*). Many names are based off of the PSX symbols dump, or based on commonly used names in CFG, NERPs, etc. Many enum names are a dead giveaway for a section's module, as the GODS engine also follows the pattern of prefixing enum names with the module name. GODS98 modules Data Design Interactive's GODS engine. Code not specific to LEGO Rock Raiders. All names are source-accurate, thanks to legally-obtained dumps of the GODS engine (for Windows 98). Remaining modules Misc groups of modules. Contains GODS module: Init, and GODS indirectly-related module: RNC.

It's amazing what you can find on the Internet. I was browsing Sourceforge yesterday to download a program I found the day before but didn't bookmark it. And you know on then SF search results how the program icon will be displayed if the developer added one? Well, while looking for that program (which didn't have an icon), I saw a green, 2x2 brick surrounded in a blue circle], and it was called LIME. Intrigued by this combination of icon and name, I clicked the project, and found may be the biggest update to LEGO Island modding ever: LIME (LEGO Island Music Extractor) This small project (also hosted on GitHub) consists of single Python file that claims to extract the music from JUKEBOX.SI (and any other SI files with music/audio from them). It has had only three code commits, and according to a blog post written on August 19, 2011, it is a stable release, ready to be used. I downloaded the .py file, and after contacting for a copy of JUKEBOX.SI ("Muffin for you for reading the credits "), figuring out what version of Python to use, and record a video about it 4 times (Afterburner would not create an AVI), I am ready to surprise the forum with this amazing piece of software that was already on the Internet for a year and was not written by me! A few notes here: After much testing, I found that LIME will works with Python 2.7.3. It will end in a syntax error when run with Python 3K. I did not run it on anything lower than Python 2.5. Since it is written in Python, it can be re-purposed to extract the other, non-audio SI files, or extract JUKEBOX.SI without converting them to WAV. It currently spits out an error because it cannot pull the WAV audio from a Smaker video, and it will not extract anymore after it hits the block. Basically, this small script changes the future of LEGO Island modding. And we have Matthew & Nick Thompson to thank for it. O.T. Segatendo, I hope this helps boost your BDay up to a 11!

Hey everyone! You may not know me yet as I'm not much of an active member here, but I've been following Rock Raiders United from afar for a long time (i remember the website used to not look like this at all)! I'm creating this post today to tell you about a project I'm working on currently : TrackMasters! TrackMasters is an isometric racing game with free track creation mechanics, something halfway between TrackMania and Micro Machines. Rings a bell? Yes, it is at least partly inspired by Lego Stunt Rally. Here's a test footage I've recorded yersteday if you wanna take a look: It's multiplayer only, via LAN or Internet (no campaign unfortunately!) I've been working on it for a bit more than a month now, and I aim to release it the first of june 2020 (given I find a publisher ?) You can join the discord to get updates about the development, I'm posting here every day or so! https://discord.gg/y7zKv3N I will also be watching that topic of course, maybe answer some questions and post updates once in a while! See you around ❤