Silicon Warrior mystery: Intro to Retro Debugger and 6502Bench

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Published on May 7, 2024 10:53:34 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp6G_cRSDwY

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Exploring a 40-year-old C64 game mystery using the reversing tools Retro Debugger and 6502Bench.

Updates:
- 16 hours after I posted this video, Markus Fritze analyzed the Atari version of Silicon Warrior in Ghidra, and posted that the black hole logic is as simple as add 3 then mod 25, WAY easier to predict than the Commodore 64 version. Thanks Markus!
- The Retro Debugger's Debug Events comments bug has been fixed (in 5/25/24 release)

Links:

Retro Debugger (v0.64.66 with embedded Vice 3.1 in video)
- download: https://github.com/slajerek/RetroDebugger/releases/
- documentation: https://github.com/slajerek/RetroDebugger/blob/master/docs/README-C64-65XE-NES-Debugger.txt
- donation link: http://tinyurl.com/C64Debugger-PayPal

6502bench (v1.8.5 in video)
- download: https://github.com/fadden/6502bench/releases
- documentation:
-- reference manual: https://6502bench.com/sgmanual/index.html
-- tutorial: https://6502bench.com/sgtutorial/

Silicon Warrior (Epyx / The Connelley Group, Atari 1983, Commodore 64 1984)
- Atari manual: https://archive.org/details/silicon-warrior-epyx/mode/2up
- C64 manual: https://archive.org/details/silicon-warrior-c-64-manual