You would have pussied out too

Wrong.
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>1998
hm god damnit, the more details I notice the less this stuff adds up.
There was a report that they lost it early on and had to start over again, but that would've meant that it was in 1997 or even 1996, which explained why the game was delayed so much, but this is the 1998 disc and therefore there could be a previous disc still out there showing the first iteration.

>TCG cuck
I'd kill myself way before I got close to that disc, desu

never thought of it... but it was probably a market stunt. I agree.

I would record myself microwaving it and then tweeting it to blizzard haaahahahaha

Nah, I would have gone to one of those cheap internet cafes and upload the info from there.

This but I would make copies of it before doing it for maximum keikaku.

Nah, I would've copied the data and anonymously given it to the people who could properly distribute it without getting two shots in the back of the head by blizzard inc.

Because they want to kick the shit out of the guy regardless

So, what could you even do with that?

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Modify anything in the game.

I would've made a thread here asking what the fuck I should do with it and how to dump it for everyone to enjoy. If anons weren't cooperating I'd record myself pissing on it and throwing it like a frisbee off my balcony.

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Dumb Satania poster

Based

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>use VPN
>dump it via torrent
>let internet do its magic
Easy.

Hey, , don't bully ! He's innocent and inquisitive!

Make Starcraft championship turbo edition.

fake and gay. He didn't upload the source code because it was just a blank CD-R with a fake "Gold Master Source Code" label printed on it. No dev makes discs of their source code like that, as if it's for display or some shit.

Brainlet here. Could Blizzard have taken legal action if he sold it on ebay?

Learn from the very best.
Create cheats much easier since you have the infrastructure layed out for you.
Find hidden or abandoned stuff.

If this had happened on Yea Forums someone would have goaded the guy into frying the disc in a microwave.

This user is correct, Devs usually dump their shit on harddrives, Lot of time that shit is too large to burn on a disk to begin with.

>it was just a blank CD-R with a fake "Gold Master Source Code" label printed on it
There might be something to this. That looks a lot like a lightscribe label to me. Lightscribe wasn't around until 2004 whereas the CD is dated 1998. Of course, someone may have just burnt a copy of the original years later and made a label for it.

so a publicity stunt on blizzard's part?

>Find hidden or abandoned stuff.

I know it's probably a marketing stunt but I love lost media so I am a little butthurt

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I would have just sold it on eBay or something

This cannot be the only piece of medium containing the gold master. Its probably on many CDs/HDs

All he had to do was quietly copy it and release it on a burner laptop using Mickey D's WiFi and he would have been a silent hero.

To what end though? Was something pertinent to StarCraft happening around then? Companies don't do random publicity stunts for no reason.

>anime poster is an idiot
checks out

Early starcraft footage is interesting to look at.
I don't mean the warcraft in space part, but when they genuinely were making starcraft.

SCVs were flying at one point.
Scouts and wraiths didn't hover in place while shooting, they were always moving forward while shooting, so they were flying in circles after eachother and firing.
Goliaths had 3 attacks at one point, one of which was a flamethrower.

You're the kind of dumb nigga that posts your stolen possessions on Facebook.

I think that's just what it turned in to. I doubt the reddit dude contacted them in advance with the idea. They probably just took the (fake) disc and rolled with it

Why nyaa of all places? I thought that place was specifically for anime/japan shit. I use it regularly, but it just seems like a weird place for StarCraft.

i guess to portray themselves as "nice devs" who reward loyalty or something like that, regardless of whether the reddit guy was in on it or not

even easier
>have the disc
>go to an internet cafe
>upload it from there
>Have blizzard seething and harassing the internet cafe employees and getting no answers
>?????
>profit

I guess sending it back for good boy points is a kind of a really really really shit idea

yes. its their property and its illegal

you wouldn't need a burner dude, it's not like a cell phone. just a clean IP

>go to local library
>upload shit there
wow so hard

I'm pretty positive internet cafes keep records of who was on what machine and when. The VPN is good because if you're connect to Sweden, they aren't going to move a muscle for our corporate overlords.

Any chance for publicity is good, especially if it costs literally $0, like in this case.

As you can see, there are weekly threads about and I'm sure it gets talked a lot on other sites. It was a rotund success and all they had to do was take a picture of a fake CD and pretend to a be a clueless guy who just so happened to find a company's personal belonging and return it.

this

You want to send it back, fine. But it's going to be obvious who uploaded the code if you do that

compile the game and make your own version of starcraft with dramatic changes if you wanted

Not shitty ones, some have barely working computers.

no, in my country they dont lmao

The only thing I would have pussied out on is giving it back with out a cash reward.

Real question. Can people reverse engineer the source code from broodwar? They did it with Diablo1 i think

>glow in the darks trace where you uploaded it from
>go to library
>check the security camera footage
>question the old lady librarian
>she snitches on you immediately
>they go to your house
>you get 5 years in prison
But you are a very smart hacker man and you would've found a way to bullshit around this too. Keep it up!

Why would you even tell them you'd found it at all? Why did this retard post all about it on Reddit asking what to do, instead of just doing it privately? My guess is because he didn't really have anything on the disc and was just trying to cause a ruckus, while Blizzard meanwhile noticed and

You do know you out yourself by doing that

>You need to get inside a building to use Wi-fi

Because it was a publicity stunt duhh. A real person would have kept the disc, destroy it, upload it somehow on the internet or sell it to code-savvy guys. Its fabricated blizzard bullshit

Imagine it's price on ebay.

why would they print trademark information on a disc meant for internal use

>Real question. Can people reverse engineer the source code from broodwar? They did it with Diablo1 i think
no.
You can turn machine code into human-readable code, but you can never get the original source code from machine code because information (formatting, method/variable names, comments) is destroyed during compilation.

Release Starcraft on pretty much any platform you want.

>According to GalaXyHaXz, the two major honeypots were Sony Japan and debug tools found within the Diablo executable in the PC version. The Japanese port of Diablo for the PS1 was created by Climax Studios and a symbolic file was left inside that contained "a layout of everything in the game".
>As for the original PC version of Diablo, the debug tools within Diablo.exe had "assert strings" that simplified the reverse engineering process. "Combining these aspects not only makes reversing the game much easier, but it makes it far more accurate. File names, function names, and even line numbers will be fairly close to the real deal."

Depends how badly someone screwed up.

That would have been nice, but blizzardcucks are cucking

>obvious publicity stunt anyways
For what? What are they gaining from it?

because

>Can people reverse engineer the source code from broodwar
Yes, but its kinda like asking if you could build a rocket to fly to the moon
the physics allow it but its not an easy task

The physics don't really allow it, though. Pure machine code will decompile to a massive incomprehensible project with no labels, file structure, or documentation, which makes it impossible to use from a practical standpoint.

as said, this is sometimes not the case, but only thanks to mistakes on the part of the developers.

>They did it with Diablo1 i think
I didn't know that. That is pretty impressive. Look, you can play it in your browser:
diablo.rivsoft.net/

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>which makes it impossible to use from a practical standpoint.
Thats why i compared it to building a rocket that could fly you to the moon
No one could really do that by them self but there is nothing in physics that says only nasa can do it
You could do revers engineer something, it would just take decades of work and you will most likely die before it was done

Yea just like doom, its amazing. Hardcore fans can do so much with the source code. They have also reversed engineer super mario 64. Those ppl have done God's work. I wish they reverse engineer broodwar in the future, because blizzard's days as game devs are numbered

I would have uploaded it on 10 different sites then spammed the shit out of it everywhere
and after everything I would take the disk to the Blizzard's HQ door then proceeded to break it in half and take a piss on whatever is left

I would have kept it and given it to no one

I would have ripped it and uploaded it.online.

the same thing they gained when they fabricated the tracer's ass pose controversy; more people talking about their products

this is the real way things should have gone down if it was real. fuck blizzard.

So heres my behind the scenes scenario
>A blizzard employee finds this disc in a blizzard related warehouse
>He knows he has to return it, informs his higher-ups and thy tell him to make it into a public stunt
>He makes this reddit post
>Blizzard drones "accidentally" pick up the news after some days and urge him to return it for a hefty reward
>He then returns it and the good friends back at blizzard HQ give him a trip to blizzcon and a bunch of blizzard related goodies
>He probably got a day off as a blizzard employee in reality lmao

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They didn't plan it, they were just reacting to the reddit fag and decided to play along with his fake bullshit

This, but I wouldn't give it to Blizzard for free. I'd charge 'em 100mil for it. Cunts are fucking laughing if they think I'd be giving it to them for free.

makes people think about starcraft again, also "hey we found the ORIGINAL CODE" makes dumbasses and experts both moist at the though.
i honestly think it was a publicity stunt. who the fuck prints out their source code onto a commercial-looking CD?
their actual source code would be backed up in their offices somewhere, probably on a home burnt disc with hand-written marker on it.
you think they'd send the source code data off to some printing company just to get them to put the blizzard logo on it and write edgy shit like "Gold Master Source" on it?

every motherboard has an ID number that can be traced. that's how games like SS13 ban you so effectively and just using a VPN doesn't get you around the ban.
if you upload that with your normal home laptop at a mcdonalds wifi your IP address is anonymous sure but all they have to do is trace the mobo's ID back to your home address and you're done.

if you were to do it you'd want a random $100 second hand laptop that you've never connected to the internet anywhere before except a Mcdonalds nowhere near where you live. You'd want to wear sunglasses and a hood too because they can always look at security footage of the moment you were uploading it. ideally you'd probably just want to be parked in the parking lot with tinted windows

>profit
????

Nobody would have known I had it because I don't post on reddit.

The only mention I can find about a missing source code for starcraft, before it was found is this:
gamespot.com/g00/articles/starcraft-gold-disc-disappears/1100-2463399/

Which is dated to 2000, and while googling says it's from 2000 april 28, but if you edit the search to not contain search from later on it won't show up, so it seems fake

>rip to USB
>wait until I'm out of the country
>go to public library
>upload it somewhere

get fucked blizzcucks

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no that's before profit

how would they trace the mobo id at all?

I would have published that shit under the GPLv3 license as free as in freedom software, free for anyone to fork, compile, modify, study and run as they see fit. Why can't blizzard be like based carmack and publish the source for their games after a few years?

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Or just run the game in a vm, retard.

>Why can't blizzard be like based carmack and publish the source for their games after a few years?
Two reasons probably.
They didn't want more cheaters online in their games, Starcraft is competitive online to this day.
Other reasons is the more common one where they don't want competition that uses their work, which is a shame, since you could learn so much standing on the shoulder of mike morhaime.

it's a combination of the motherboard's serial number and the operating system. it's how SS13 bans ban you and your PC, preventing people from just making a new account with a 5min fake email address and resetting their router to get a new IP address.
you could probably get around it by connecting with a virtual machine and some voodoo but easier and safer at that point to just drop $100 on some piece of shit.
basically you dont want to do anything like that until you're very successful at ban evading in games like SS13 and Eve Online, because somewhere there'll be an autist in cyber security that'll find a way to trace you. .

THIS, starcraft was released on 2 CDs. this one is probably for CD1, source code for CD2 is yet to be found

Starcraft was 1 CD, I literally installed it on a PC yesterday

damn, so theres no hope now

why would they put trademark information but not inscribe disc 1 of ___

it's got to be fake, it just doesn't make sense

it really was 1 disc, i bought the battle chest multiple times how do you not remember this

Never. Wouldn't even tell them. Just share the data with as many people as possible so that they would in return share it with as many other people as possible and voila. Fuck current Blizzard.

If you have a game's source code, then you can practically do near everything with it. Not just making it easier to make a remaster (you can do a remaster without it, but it's often second to impossible due to you needing to make it from the base upwards from scratch), but also altering it completely. New buildings, units, mods for the game, new cheats, even creating versions for other platforms...the list goes on. It's like having Sauron's ONE RING.

Cheaters aren't a problem, just restrict official competitive play to blizzard's version. How could having free access to the source code help people cheat in blizzard's official version?
Blizzard keeping the source for themselves is bad for everyone. Think of all the game engines that spawned from the various idTech versions. Having access to the source code meant many devs had a solid codebase they could build upon and tailor to their needs, rather than starting from scratch and using a lot of budget on technology rather than the game itself. Making an engine open source fosters creativity and innovation.

>You would have pussied out too.
I can at least speak as someone that fucked up once before and didn't pussy out. If the company sees you as a threat or your actions as such, they will fuck you up for life.
Pic related its my copy

ill gladly answer a few questions if you have any

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What the fuck did you do user

possessed game data of a then-unreleased game back in 2016

Study, modify, run and distribute it as you see fit. This way you actually own the software.

what company did you get into shit with?

No, why would I? It's obviously second-hand. Materials from all manner of productions gets sold off.

Capcom

Where did you get it? A review copy? If that's the case then you're a grade a retard who deserved it

Was it worth it in the end? Did you share it with the internet and if you did, did people care/appropriate it?

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>How could having free access to the source code help people cheat in blizzard's official version?
There are already cheats online in starcraft, if you have all the knowledge of the games infrastructure you could develop more cheats.
It has nothing to do with what goes on with unofficial versions of starcraft.
>Blizzard keeping the source for themselves is bad for everyone. Think of all the game engines that spawned from the various idTech versions. Having access to the source code meant many devs had a solid codebase they could build upon and tailor to their needs, rather than starting from scratch and using a lot of budget on technology rather than the game itself. Making an engine open source fosters creativity and innovation.
It's not bad for Blizzard to keep it.
If they released the source code 3 years later, in 2001, when they were releasing their next rts in 2002, they'd possibly have more competitiors for their own game already out at that point, which might include a lot of stolen code from Starcraft.

What game

Internal data. at the time it wasnt announced, then it was, then i got raided. telemetry and whatnot
fucked up a couple times along the way, but i absolutely deserved it

>Was it worth it in the end?
no, not in the slightest for me, but for everyone else it was apparently a good thing as i later learned. devs apparently were lying their asses out so im told

no

>What are they gaining from it
>threads to this day being made about the disc
If it gets people talking, especially for this long, it's publicity of some form.

How badly were you fucked? Prison time? Or just a huge ass fine?

Have any big games had their source codes leaked before

Not that guy but I don't think they could trace/track or do anything about it with the motherboard ID.

If you own a server you can ban whatever you want, but you don't get to go searching everyone's computer specs to find the guy who uploaded something you claim wrongs you.

felony (was initially gonna be 2), 3 years of probation (~100 dollars per month), lawyer costs (6300ish), bail of 20k minimum (bail bonds dropped to 1700 or so), 200h of community service
thankfully they were nice and my court date will be soonish and it'll be dropped to a misdemeanor. of this i gotta say the thing that wasnt expected was the financial cost of it all. they did not ask for restitution but they could have

No way they got a night search for some intellectual property shit

port it for one.
For example Diablo got ported to the Switch because its source code was reverse engineered and then posted as open source.

that box was unchecked, dont worry