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# SpaceCadetPinball
**Summary:** Reverse engineering of `3D Pinball for Windows Space Cadet`, a game bundled with Windows.
**How to play:** Place compiled exe into a folder containing original game resources (not included).
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**Source:** `pinball.exe` from `Windows XP` (SHA-1 `2A5B525E0F631BB6107639E2A69DF15986FB0D05`) and its public PDB
**Tools used:** `Ghidra`, `Ida`, `Visual Studio`
**What was done:**
* All structures were populated, globals and locals named.
* All subs were decompiled, C pseudo code was converted to compilable C++. Loose (C) subs were assigned to classes.
**Compiling:**\
Project uses `C++11` features and depends on Windows libs.\
Compile with Visual Studio; tested with 2017 and 2019.
**Plans:**
* ~~Decompile original game~~
* Resizable window, scaled graphics
* Loader for high-res sprites from CADET.DAT
* Maybe: cross-platform port
* Needs UI framework with menu bar and dialog windows, like QT or Avalonia
* Needs a way play sounds and midi
* Maybe x2: support for other two tables
* Table specific BL (control interactions and missions) is hardcoded, othere parts might be also patched
**On 64-bit bug that killed the game:**\
I did not find it, decompiled game worked in x64 mode on the first try.\
It was either lost in decompilation or introduced in x64 port/not present in x86 build.\
Based on public description of the bug (no ball collision), I guess that the bug was in `TEdgeManager::TestGridBox`