italian-games

Byte-level study of the Italian CD-ROM edition of Sam & Max Hit the Road (LucasArts, 1993): 64 files, 227,198,319 bytes, 88.11 % of them 150 minutes of Italian voice acting in 3,381 recordings. Container, index, text, speech, music, images and fonts all derived from the bytes, with no reference implementation used.

Zero Comico (Windows, GMM Entertainment / Medusa Games, 2001) documented from the bytes: two in-house containers wrapping a 1989 LZHUF stream, 69.49 % of the CD spent on 13 minutes of all-keyframe Indeo video, an engine still carrying a cancelled game, and a retail executable whose version resource says Playable Demo. No assets.

Lucignolo Il Videogioco (7Th Sense, 2007) measured from a Burn4Free ISO: the copy protection is a six-byte file containing the word codice, every file's sector padding echoes the data 65,536 bytes earlier, and the engine names itself in a log the developers shipped by accident.

Il cane di terracotta (2000), a hybrid PC/Mac CD-ROM measured on both filesystems: Windows sees 2,374 files in 4 folders, the HFS volume holds 2,401 in 11, and 2,372 of the 2,373 they share begin on the same sector. Director 7.0.2, a 10,240-byte grid with a closed form at 100%, and a Windows 95 stack leaked into 517 Macintosh audio files.

Grande Fratello Il Gioco (Trecision, 2003) measured from a CloneCD dump: 43 wrong bits in the subchannel prove the read, the 155-sector tail is finally explained, and 2,934 files come out of one cabinet.

Measurements of Simulman V (MS-DOS, Simulmondo, Bologna, 1993): 120 files, 2,056,643 bytes, zero compressed blocks, one mtime that is wrong by three years. All sixteen unknown formats derived from the bytes; the year is drawn in pixels; one executable is byte-identical to 1000 Miglia's. Recorded media: 0.0000 %.

Measurements of 1000 Miglia (MS-DOS, 1991-92): 124 files, one flat directory, and what an installed BBS distribution can and cannot say about a product

Measuring the Blood & Lace disc (GMM Entertainment, Tortona, 2001): a Nero master, a signed engine licence inside japotek3d.dll, and a chapter-by-chapter comparison with its sibling Zero Comico, which shares the engine seven months later.

Underground (PC, Tecniche Nuove, 1999): a Nero-burned CD-ROM measured to the byte. 61.0193 % is 24.9 s of rendered film at a data rate no 1999 drive could serve; the BANK archive format and a Microsoft Video 1 decoder derived from the bytes; four authors credited only in pixels.