[proxybop]

I absolutely loved that game! I played the Windows version when I was younger.

That guy is a mad genius. It's great knowing there are people who can figure out a two-byte compression scheme (and even know what it is to begin with) by just looking at the binary dumps.

[breadbox]

Thank you for the compliment, but I hope my essay convinces you that it's actually not as hard as it sounds!

[xelxebar]

Horrible article. It had me glued to the screen in rapt interest and I ended up losing track of time, causing me to be late for a meeting.

Actually, I have been biting at the bit to get into reverse engineering after discovering some of Chris Domas' [0]. However, my hand has been stayed simply by a lack of somebody to learn from and nerd out with on the topic. Would you be able to share any communities you are aware of in this regard?

Really though, awesome article. Thank you for taking the time to write and share it!

[0]:https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/sinkhole

[breadbox]

Thanks for the kind feedback. Unfortunately I don't know much about communities. Most people who do reverse engineering focus on examining code/assembly, but my limited experience is solely with data files.

[chocolatkey]

This was a great post with references to many tricks and tools I was not aware of that might help me in similar endeavors. Do you have any particular advice for reverse engineering image data files (not encrypted, of a completely proprietary format)?

[breadbox]

I'm afraid that's something I don't have any experience with. However, another commenter mentioned a cool video he did on just this subject, at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21728298 -- so maybe check that out?