MAMEWorld Forums - Programming - Re: Where to find game disassemblies?

I would guess that for most copyrighted games, posting a disassembly of a game's code would be legally questionable. This may be why it is not normally done.

A glaring exception to this is the public comments on pac-man and ms pac-man which can be found online. However, at last check, these pages featured only partially commented code.

For pac-man, I took what was available and have more or less completely commented and decoded it. But I dare not post this on my site. I tried to email it to the author of the web page I 'borrowed' the comments from, but he has not responded.

I also have a full commented code of Donkey Kong.

I have many partial commented games, like space invaders, asteroids, defender, frogger, etc etc. Most of these are done to find bugs or other things like easter eggs. Either that, or I just haven't had the time/energy/incentive to finish them off.

I often wondered , while I was commenting on the code for these, how much better (faster) it would be if the job could be spread apart for X number of people. If only I could find others that don't have anything better to do than write comments for these classic games of yesteryear.

Don Hodges

Check my article archive at

http://www.donhodges.com/archive.htm

To find bug fixes etc for classic arcade games.