As for the emotional part, being on the Online side of gamedev it always hurts to know that eventually, hosted backends will have to be shutdown and the cultural piece we worked so hard to create will disappear.
Efforts toward game conservation, by any party, is a blessing. (4/4)

And by the way the dual-binary nature of the game is something I still mention as a war story, and was the most practical approach as we were building the multiplayer in Annecy, in parallel to the main team in MTL, with our own fork of the engine to make it multiplayer. (3/4)

Eg. I am at the point of the video where Mimak shows the Quazal RendezVous DDL, which is one of the thing I did not expect to be extracted that accurately. I had completely forgotten that Virgin Tournament to this day!
I was part of the team that made the Hermes library often shown in symbols (2/4)

Wow, thank you so much for sharing it !
I love it, and this video brings back many memories (and I am only half-way through).
Technically I am always impressed to see how deep the reverse-engineering can go. (1/4)