Spider-Man: The Movie Game dissection project Checkpoint - November 2025
Progress report for the Spider-Man: The Movie Game dissection project - November 2025
krystalgamer's Blog
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Spider-Man: The Movie Game dissection project - Introduction
Introducing open-tobey and what it means
Spider-Man (Neversoft) decompilation project Progress Checkpoint - March 2025
Progress report for the Spider-Man decompilation project - March 2025
Spider-Man (Neversoft) decompilation project Progress Checkpoint - September 2024
Progress report for the Spider-Man decompilation project - September 2024
Spider-Man (Neversoft) decompilation project Progress Checkpoint - July 2024
Progress report for the Spider-Man decompilation project - July
Spider-Man (Neversoft) decompilation project Progress Checkpoint - May 2024
Progress report for the Spider-Man decompilation project
High level mods/patches for console video-games
This blogpost explores my journey of bringing higher level languages (in this case C) to console video-game modding, as an alternative to hand-tailored assembly mods.
Kanye West's Stem Player - An engineering disaster
This post covers the history of the Stem Player, the development of the emulator, how badly the product was handled and some behind-the-scenes interactions with the creators
Reverse Engineering: Marvel's Avengers - Developing a Server Emulator
Documentation of reversal and building of a Marvel's Avenger server emulator
Exploiting: Spiderman 2000 - Buffer overflow in file loading routine
After reversing some routines of the game I stumbled upon a possible buffer overflow vulnerability that turned out to be exploitable
Reversing: Spiderman 2000 - Breaking CD-ROM protection
With the closing of the isozone, and missing the link of the available NO-CD patch I needed to crack it myself
Update on the blog
What's been going on
Reversing: Spiderman 2000 - Apple to the Rescue!
MacOs version of the game contains important information for the analysis of the game
Spiderman 2000 - Writing the file loader
Description of all the steps I had to go through to make the custom file loader
Reversing: Spiderman 2000 - PKR file format
An analysis on the container file format.
Reversing: Spiderman 2000 - Re-enabling Joel Jewett Cheat Code
Re-enabling an old cheat code
Reversing: Spiderman 2000 - Save file contents
A look how the game progress is stored in the save slot
Reversing: Spiderman 2000 - Save file protection
Protection mechanism of the save files
Reversing: Spiderman 2000 - Introduction
Small introduction to a part series of posts about my experience with Spiderman 2000 (PC Version)
Hello World
Mandatory first post describing what this blog will be about