What is "Hard Coded"

Post by **Outlawz7** » 2007-04-03 13:28

Long Bow wrote:The Devs were recently charged by the British government for breaking laws

LoL, wasnt this April fools?

mattcrwi · Post by **mattcrwi** » 2007-04-03 15:10

Reverse engineering, while possible and time consuming, is STRICTLY FORBIDDEN in the EULA... why? What do you think hackers do?

Its Illegal and wont be done. Your only hope is to have EA release the source code once they are done milking it (like in 5 years) and even then chances are about the same as hell freezing over.

ubiquitous · Post by **ubiquitous** » 2007-04-03 15:13

The Power wrote:So if the stuff that is hard coded wasn't hard coded what type of things could you do ?

You could basically change anything that you want. Games like Quake 3 and the Source engine games have all of the source code available, which is why there is so much more variety in the mod communities for those games. <Sigh> when will EA learn.

Chaka · Post by **Chaka** » 2007-04-03 15:51

The Power wrote:So if the stuff that is hard coded wasn't hard coded what type of things could you do ?

There's plenty of threads in the suggestions forum that end with 'its hard coded'.

Sandy_Beret · Post by **Sandy_Beret** » 2007-04-03 15:55

"it's hard coded"
it's actually derived from a Mandarin (mainland Chinese) dialect, those wily DEV's...

'(h)its ahh-rd' co'ded - which linguistically hails from a small region just inside
Szechuan province and translates loosely as "We are working hard enough, F**K
OFF and leave us alone"... something is inevitably lost in translation but I think the original poetry of the language persists...

TheToecutter · Post by **TheToecutter** » 2007-04-03 16:03

The Power wrote:So if the stuff that is hard coded wasn't hard coded what type of things could you do ?

There will always be a need to "hardcode" to some degree, because in the end you need a compiled executable to run the program.

If the code was "open-source" and anything could be changed, then theoretically you could turn BF2 into a "Hello Kitty Island Adventure" game if you really wanted to. You would just have to change basically every line of code in the program. Theoretically speaking of course.

TayloR016 · Post by **TayloR016** » 2007-04-03 16:13

Chaka wrote:There's plenty of threads in the suggestions forum that end with 'its hard coded'.

And there's soem that end with not possible with the bf2 engine meaning the same thing?

Jarek Mace · Post by **Jarek Mace** » 2007-04-03 16:22

my fault RDEV GAZ I think it was me that steered the topic in this direction, appologies.

Wattershed · Post by **Wattershed** » 2007-04-03 20:29

Id just like to addsomething.... Sway is possible! FH2 has done it.. Follow the gods of men

ubiquitous · Post by **ubiquitous** » 2007-04-03 20:35

And there's soem that end with not possible with the bf2 engine meaning the same thing?

Pretty much, yeah. If you had access to the engine's source code you could change ANYTHING.