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by M95D 20 days ago
I was just noticing that there was a whole lot of work fixing these minor bugs, and then went all lazy writing the patch... Or maybe I was spoiled by decades of scene patches, cracks and tiny demos with chiptune music and funny graphics.
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There is a certain irony I guess, but in my eyes the "patch" is the hex edits, not Mantis. If I had published these fixes but never gone back and made Mantis, I would still have considered the work "complete".

Mantis was made nearly one month after the actual patching was done partly as an excuse to test out a few things like the build settings available in newer .NET releases (e.g., framework-dependent vs self-contained build with trimming, JIT vs AoT vs ReadyToRun compilation). It wasn't really laziness to target .NET 8 because exploring those build options made it take longer than just building using e.g., .NET Framework since Mantis is so basic. As I said, glorified automated hex editor.