Fothsid
I'm a software developer interested in reverse engineering and romhacking. I'm somewhat known for knowing too much about RE:Outbreak's technical innards.
My opinions do not reflect those of my employer.
| BlueSky | Discord | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| fothsid at gmail.com | @fothsid.eu | @fothsid | @fothsid |
NOTE: I will probably decline friend requests on Discord from people I do not know.
Personal projects
Resident Evil Outbreak: File #2 sourceless port
STATUS: Work in Progress (slow)
Attempting to completely reimplement the entire game in C++ via reverse engineering the original game's code in Ghidra while adding additional quality of life improvements like support for higher resolutions, scalable UI, and higher framerates. Code is written in a way that it would require the potential player only to copy a couple of files from a copy of the game that they own.
I also try sometimes to write about the internals of the game, mostly descriptions of used file formats and whatnot, which can be used as a reference when modding the game.
What's done?
- correct rendering of stages, characters, objects;
- animation playback;
- stage collision;
- cutscene playback;
- player controls;
- able to complete at least Desperate Times and Flashback scenarios via normal means;
- custom audio mixing with authentic PS2 reverb, playback of character and room sounds, playback of original ADX streams (music and character ad-lib voicelines);
- inventory;
- hit detection;
- zombies;
- most of game netcode (untested though);
- ...and many more things that I couldn't get from the top of my head. :)
What needs to be done?
- Other enemies, NPCs;
- scenario specific task code;
- lobby netcode;
- ...and a ton of other things I can't recall at this point.
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Megami Ibunroku: Persona (PS1) English translation
STATUS: Kind of on hiatus? No progress has been made in a while.
Script is being translated by Tom. A lot of work done making sure the game displays English text nicely, and much more has to be done in the future.
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Shin Megami Tensei (PS1) English translation
STATUS: Complete
Completely translated Japanese script by Tom. I worked on the ROM Hacking: added support for a variable width font, rewrote parts of the game's code to correctly work with ASCII text instead of the game's original 2-byte encoding, fixed menus to fit the final English text, etc...
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Last updated on 2026-05-29.