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Hey everybody, my name is Zach and I'm a 23yo software developer from the US. I've been lurking on hacking forums and modding my consoles since I was a kid, but I'm trying to be more active in the scene and maybe actually contribute to some CFW some day.

I'm definitely pretty shy and don't really know where to start, so I figured this would be the best place. I'm really excited to meet new people and learn more about console hacking. I have experience with programming languages like C++ and some super basic knowledge about computer architecture and assembly.

I'd love to get to know some of you more, so feel free to say hello!
 
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Greetings Zach, what's your favourite odd feature of C++?
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Hmm that's a hard question....
One thing I did recently that I thought was super satisfying was reading byte-swapped 32-bit integers from a N64 ROM file. Not a "weird" feature perse, but it involved typecasting (casting `uint32` to `char*` to read from the `ifstream`) and bit shifting. I was doing it as part of a project to decompress MIO0 texture blocks within the ROM. You can read about it on Hack64 if you're interested!
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Greetings Zach, what's your favourite odd feature of C++?
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What about you?
 
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2006kiaoptima said:
Hmm that's a hard question....
One thing I did recently that I thought was super satisfying was reading byte-swapped 32-bit integers from a N64 ROM file. Not a "weird" feature perse, but it involved typecasting (casting `uint32` to `char*` to read from the `ifstream`) and bit shifting. I was doing it as part of a project to decompress MIO0 texture blocks within the ROM. You can read about it on Hack64 if you're interested!
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Hard to say really. I do embedded software engineering myself and I'm kinda forced into using C++98 for a lot of things since one of the things we develop for is old as shit. Modern C++ as a whole is a lot of fun, but maybe template metaprogramming stands out as my favourite. It's always just super satisfying when it actually works well lol
 
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Hard to say really. I do embedded software engineering myself and I'm kinda forced into using C++98 for a lot of things since one of the things we develop for is old as shit. Modern C++ as a whole is a lot of fun, but maybe template metaprogramming stands out as my favourite. It's always just super satisfying when it actually works well lol
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Dang, that's cool! I know about templates but have never heard of template metaprogramming, what does that look like?
 
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2006kiaoptima said:
Dang, that's cool! I know about templates but have never heard of template metaprogramming, what does that look like?
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You basically use templates to do certain things at compile time instead of runtime. It always felt super hacky, which is part of the appeal to me lol
 
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You basically use templates to do certain things at compile time instead of runtime. It always felt super hacky, which is part of the appeal to me lol
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That's sweet. It's kind of reminding me of how people pulled off implementing the game of life purely in Typescript types
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2006kiaoptima said:
Hey everybody, my name is Zach and I'm a 23yo software developer from the US. I've been lurking on hacking forums and modding my consoles since I was a kid, but I'm trying to be more active in the scene and maybe actually contribute to some CFW some day.

I'm definitely pretty shy and don't really know where to start, so I figured this would be the best place. I'm really excited to meet new people and learn more about console hacking. I have experience with programming languages like C++ and some super basic knowledge about computer architecture and assembly.

I'd love to get to know some of you more, so feel free to say hello!
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Welcome to our wonderful community!
 
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