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by ulysses 2692 days ago
The config files are for a game that was announced in 1999 and released in 2003.
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he's talking about reworking it in 2018.

> That’s the way things were until mid-2018 when I revisited the project.

Yes, because retro-gaming is a thing.
Right. I'm just saying why not rip it out now? Why bother fuzzing parsers if the parsers themselves aren't really adding value anymore? The ability to edit your configs in a text editor is pretty valuable isn't it?

Maybe he's just got used to it.

He isn't rewriting the game (that was made by someone else), he is rewriting his tools for modifying the game files.