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by AlyssaRowan 4220 days ago
A few people do indeed leave debug symbols in, even historically.

For example, I vividly recall a build of Civilization for the Atari ST that had complete debug symbols, which made skipping the manual check (and doing all kinds of other more interesting mods - I could fix the Gandhi bug, but who'd want to do that?) extremely fun and easy.

And all the sectors of Wayne Smithson's Anarchy which were filled with gradually-more-complicated copy protection formats (courtesy of the great Rob Northen) and space filled with bored rants reminiscent of a scrolltext that he probably thought almost no-one would see. Almost no-one.

I even had assembly source code for a few other games too, which was even more interesting; Wizball for one, and a prototype version of Xenon called KellyX… (I never did ask where that came from—I don't think I want to know!—I don't have it anymore, and I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have permission to share even if I did!)

Anyone else found any gems like that?