The debug symbols were the key to understanding all of the function names and a bunch of other pieces of data. Galaxy combined the debug symbols with the reversed engineered data dump from running the PC version of Diablo 1 via IDA Pro, and then doing a crapload of work to connect the pieces. Galaxy actually used the PS1 version of Diablo 1 to extract the debug symbols that the QA testers back then forgot to remove (for many reasons but one of them is probably either lazyness or carelessness since this type of debug symbol removal actually happened for a few games from what I remember). After that the mods didn't take it down lol. I remember the reddit mods removing it and then I had to make a long post with legal evidence stating that it isn't the original Diablo 1 source code and it's a reversed engineered version under fair use. I also found this post from when galaxy first released Devilution. Cactus wouldn't have been as smooth without galaxy. Also thanks to galaxy, Cactus has No CD for all of the versions.
However I do know that it's a little bit different than the PC one in terms of some balancing I believe and some of the lighting effects are actually better on PS1 than on PC, according to my friend, GaLaXyHaXz, who was the one who reversed engineered Diablo 1 and created the Devilution project. I've owned a PS1 (The small white one) a while back but I never owned Diablo 1 for PS1. Truth be told I needed one anyway for a few GoG games that I've picked up as well.Īnd a disclaimer: I definitely will be keeping my kb/m front and center for things like inventory management and buying/selling things in town! I made a trip to Best Buy yesterday and picked up the latest/greatest Xbox controller with a wireless adapter, so I'm ready to go on the hardware front. Sooo all that being said, I'm going to be tinkering this weekend, and will be sharingįollow up posts here soon on my thoughts on how it goes. I don't know if any of you ever owned a PS1, but the original Diablo on Playstation (obviously) had controller support and it was actually pretty well implemented IMO.Īfter the release of D2R, although I knew I wouldn't be interested in the game itself per say, I was still curious to see how certain technical things would fair, such as the controller support.Īnd my takeway is that overall, the D2R community is very pleased, and even praised controller play as a "better" alternative to KB/M play for a few reasons, in most scenarios
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