Disassembly Labels

Standardization sucks ass.

 

Enjoy your lunix.

 

If Hivebrain were to put up style guidelines, I would be glad to follow them (hint hint).

 

I see what you did there.

Anyway, I've never dabbled with disassemblies under the virtue that I don't know assembly very well (despite me being very well aware of tutorials to amend such a problem, and having experience with other programming languages like C++ and Java), although I do intend to get my act together and do so at some point... but seriously, a lack of standardization of labels? Well, it kinda depends; if these disassemblies are being based off existing disassemblies, I see no particular excuse for it, but I can see some valid reasons why two people making disassemblies of the same game from scratch would have different names for the same variable. (Of course, I've got absolutely no clue as to what goes into making these disassemblies, so I'm kinda talking out my ass here... damnit, I really need to learn assembly some time.)

That said, I agree some standardization would be in order. I'd start with what little we have of the raw code from drx's Sonic 2 prototype, and apply the names Sonic Team themselves used wherever it's obvious to do so. Nothing like the name the company who actually made the thing gave it, right?

 

Half the time their names don't even make sense. It took me three days to figure out that "scralim" means "screen A limit".

 

I'm already over halfway through doing exactly that. I've been working on commenting and relabelling the S2 disassembly for a while now, but I've taken a break from working on it. Shouldn't be too long before it's finished though.

 

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YOU HAVE OFFENDED ME SIR

 

Now what exactly is "H:" and "thunk:"? Also, I thought I saw a label in S2 that was "*:" =P

 

it happens :P