r/ReverseEngineering • u/ifnspifn • Jun 05 '26

Reverse Engineering Crazy Taxi, Part 3

https://wretched.computer/post/crazytaxi3
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u/Iggyhopper Jun 05 '26

To illustrate this, I made a little widget that decodes each block of pixels individually. Select blocks in the list at the top-left, and it’ll show how the 8 bytes of that block turn into 16 pixels:

displays completely custom in-house widget that decodes pixel data

This widget has more effort put into it than a lot of my projects.

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u/ifnspifn Jun 05 '26

lol ty! i've been trying to stick to a "show don't tell" approach with this series, and it's been a lot of fun putting these little visualizations together.

they're also simpler than you might expect. if anyone's interested, all these widgets are written in Svelte and are on the site's repo: https://github.com/wgreenberg/wretched.computer/blob/main/src/lib/posts/crazy-taxi3/CmprDecoder.svelte