krystalgamer's Blog

Progress report for the Spider-Man: The Movie Game dissection project - November 2025

Introducing open-tobey and what it means

Progress report for the Spider-Man decompilation project - March 2025

Progress report for the Spider-Man decompilation project - September 2024

Progress report for the Spider-Man decompilation project - July

Progress report for the Spider-Man decompilation project

This blogpost explores my journey of bringing higher level languages (in this case C) to console video-game modding, as an alternative to hand-tailored assembly mods.

This post covers the history of the Stem Player, the development of the emulator, how badly the product was handled and some behind-the-scenes interactions with the creators

Documentation of reversal and building of a Marvel's Avenger server emulator

After reversing some routines of the game I stumbled upon a possible buffer overflow vulnerability that turned out to be exploitable

With the closing of the isozone, and missing the link of the available NO-CD patch I needed to crack it myself

What's been going on

MacOs version of the game contains important information for the analysis of the game

Description of all the steps I had to go through to make the custom file loader

An analysis on the container file format.

Re-enabling an old cheat code

A look how the game progress is stored in the save slot

Protection mechanism of the save files

Mandatory first post describing what this blog will be about

Small introduction to a part series of posts about my experience with Spiderman 2000 (PC Version)