Ep 152: Remastering Metallica Code with Raymond Davidson

“When I first heard that I was on it, you know, and it was like, 'Well, this is a really popular game. You know, people are gonna expect it to be correct. People are gonna notice everything.' And it's it's a big ask.”

“The main difference is there's no one kind of above you, you know, kind of check with, like, 'Is this okay if I do this?' It's like, 'Well, ask yourself: is this okay if I do this?'”

“I had to come up with kind of different rules nuances. But, yeah, just kind of everything was just layered in, like, you know, on top.”

“My primary goal when I started on the project was to get the game to just run in Spike 2, you know, with the DMD animations sort of working, and with everything: the rules and stuff: basically just try to get the existing game working.”

“I was noticing like, 'Oh, that's weird. The old game has this code that's supposed to light up the Fuel Lane orange, like, when the Fuel Jackpot is lit. But it just doesn't work because it's bugged because this logic is out of order.'”

“When you're the lead, you kind of have to know everything and dig in really deep and get a real fundamental understanding. And you can't just copy and paste things that the lead did, because you know that works.”

“I remember when I was done with every: you know, every old animation had been converted to a new animation. It was like really cool to say, like, 'Here it is. It's all done.' It was just really cool to see it kind of come alive throughout time.”