Over twenty years ago, now, I played a small role in the Sonic the Hedgehog 2 hacking community by reverse engineering the level data compression algorithm used in the game. I figured it was about time I wrote my side of that story, so, here it is!
#hacking #retrogaming: https://b-ark.ca/2024/08/19/on-sonic-2-compression.html
Brett Kosinski /
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2024-08-20 04:34:46
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