How I Fixed a 10 Year Old Guitar Hero Bug Without the Source Code

ExileLord2 HN recommenders · recommended in 2 months, 2017–2025

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A reverse engineer walks through fixing a ten-year-old bug in Guitar Hero III without access to its source code, using a disassembler and decompiler. It is technical but explained step by step.

Held up as a favorite tech talk and a great hard-debugging story about patching a game binary.

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@zapperdapper2017-12 · in “Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk from 2017?”

I put a bunch of the ones I enjoyed here: link One of the best though, for me, has to be this one on fixing a Guitar Hero bug: ▶ this video

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@0xC0ncord2025-01 · in “Reverse engineering Call of Duty anti-cheat”

This video[1] on reverse-engineering parts of Guitar Hero 3 covers a few similar techniques that were used to heavily obfuscate the game code that you might find interesting. [1] ▶ this video

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@Tempest19812018-11 · in “Ask HN: What's the hardest problem you've ever solved?”

You reminded me of this: "How I Fixed a 10 Year Old Guitar Hero Bug Without the Source Code" ▶ this video

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