yaz0r
@yaz0r.bsky.social
🇫🇷🇺🇸 Software engineer in the SF Bay area.
Ex-gamedev, worked at QuanticDream (HeavyRain), Havok (Destiny,...).
Retro gaming and reverse engineering (ScummVm,...), occasional graphic programmer.
Ex-gamedev, worked at QuanticDream (HeavyRain), Havok (Destiny,...).
Retro gaming and reverse engineering (ScummVm,...), occasional graphic programmer.
It’s a coffee by the bay kind of day
October 27, 2025 at 8:13 PM
It’s a coffee by the bay kind of day
As an french expat, this still triggers me. This is not a croissant. 🥐
October 21, 2025 at 8:00 PM
As an french expat, this still triggers me. This is not a croissant. 🥐
Haven’t had a landline in more than a decade, but would totally want a pacman phone.
September 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Haven’t had a landline in more than a decade, but would totally want a pacman phone.
Back in the bay after a week working from London. Mostly dodged the jetlag.
September 21, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Back in the bay after a week working from London. Mostly dodged the jetlag.
Typical example: the elevator locks you have to open in the ruins at the beginning of the game:
github.com/yaz0r/Azel/b...
github.com/yaz0r/Azel/b...
September 2, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Typical example: the elevator locks you have to open in the ruins at the beginning of the game:
github.com/yaz0r/Azel/b...
github.com/yaz0r/Azel/b...
Been motived to work on my Xenogears decompilation lately. Been working a the validation mechanism to ensure the game doesn't deviate from the original, and found a bunch of little bugs along the way.
github.com/yaz0r/Noah
#xenogears #decompilation #retrogaming
github.com/yaz0r/Noah
#xenogears #decompilation #retrogaming
August 13, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Been motived to work on my Xenogears decompilation lately. Been working a the validation mechanism to ensure the game doesn't deviate from the original, and found a bunch of little bugs along the way.
github.com/yaz0r/Noah
#xenogears #decompilation #retrogaming
github.com/yaz0r/Noah
#xenogears #decompilation #retrogaming
Nice! I somehow have a Normura signed KH print
August 8, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Nice! I somehow have a Normura signed KH print
August 3, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Uploaded scans of This is Animation no.1 and no.6 dedicated to the Mysterious Cities of Gold. Those have been rotting on my hard drives for the last 25years+, so it's time to archive them for good!
archive.org/details/TIA01
archive.org/details/TIA06
archive.org/details/TIA01
archive.org/details/TIA06
August 1, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Uploaded scans of This is Animation no.1 and no.6 dedicated to the Mysterious Cities of Gold. Those have been rotting on my hard drives for the last 25years+, so it's time to archive them for good!
archive.org/details/TIA01
archive.org/details/TIA06
archive.org/details/TIA01
archive.org/details/TIA06
Heavy Rain was released 15 years ago (according to some posts from the Quantic Dream).
So to celebrate, some behind the scene photos of a port that could have been...
#heavyrain #shauuuuun
So to celebrate, some behind the scene photos of a port that could have been...
#heavyrain #shauuuuun
July 30, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Heavy Rain was released 15 years ago (according to some posts from the Quantic Dream).
So to celebrate, some behind the scene photos of a port that could have been...
#heavyrain #shauuuuun
So to celebrate, some behind the scene photos of a port that could have been...
#heavyrain #shauuuuun
Some folks asked me about the SotC model viewer I did back in the days (and never released!). Just found a working(-ish) build from late 2009. I also had all the extracted data lying around.
July 29, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Some folks asked me about the SotC model viewer I did back in the days (and never released!). Just found a working(-ish) build from late 2009. I also had all the extracted data lying around.
Some of those never actually got released
July 28, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Some of those never actually got released
The lost source code convo reminded me of a little story about FFX, or how I ended up in the thanks for the remaster.
In the 2000s, I made a FFX & FFX-2 Model and animation viewer. The thing kinda exploded on the neogaf forum as I recall. It was my first work around PS2 reverse engineering.
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In the 2000s, I made a FFX & FFX-2 Model and animation viewer. The thing kinda exploded on the neogaf forum as I recall. It was my first work around PS2 reverse engineering.
...
July 28, 2025 at 8:26 PM
The lost source code convo reminded me of a little story about FFX, or how I ended up in the thanks for the remaster.
In the 2000s, I made a FFX & FFX-2 Model and animation viewer. The thing kinda exploded on the neogaf forum as I recall. It was my first work around PS2 reverse engineering.
...
In the 2000s, I made a FFX & FFX-2 Model and animation viewer. The thing kinda exploded on the neogaf forum as I recall. It was my first work around PS2 reverse engineering.
...
Note how the window position doesn't match at all
July 26, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Note how the window position doesn't match at all
Quick refresher of what that looked like in game
July 26, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Quick refresher of what that looked like in game
This is what you would get if you put the inside of the house in the intro model. They are technically at different scales and had to be adjusted.
Note that there is a window modeled on the house outside for the intro, but doesn't match to anything on the inside of the house (different wall)
Note that there is a window modeled on the house outside for the intro, but doesn't match to anything on the inside of the house (different wall)
July 26, 2025 at 7:37 PM
This is what you would get if you put the inside of the house in the intro model. They are technically at different scales and had to be adjusted.
Note that there is a window modeled on the house outside for the intro, but doesn't match to anything on the inside of the house (different wall)
Note that there is a window modeled on the house outside for the intro, but doesn't match to anything on the inside of the house (different wall)
The house in relation to the road from the intro.
July 26, 2025 at 7:31 PM
The house in relation to the road from the intro.
The house is surprisingly coherence once stacked together
July 26, 2025 at 7:30 PM
The house is surprisingly coherence once stacked together
@vgcartography.bsky.social Exploded map of the house of Alone in the Dark, using the collision data. I could probably coherence some code to export the monsters in there too
July 26, 2025 at 7:20 PM
@vgcartography.bsky.social Exploded map of the house of Alone in the Dark, using the collision data. I could probably coherence some code to export the monsters in there too
Pen did survive though! Just digged it up.
July 22, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Pen did survive though! Just digged it up.