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I forgot to do the monthly update. 🤯 I was all set to finish the decompiler, and of course I ran into trouble. First, I had a family problem that has since been resolved. The second is a mundane issue: my laptop has been suffering from BSODs for the past two months, and it's happening with increasing frequency. Sometimes when I wake the machine from sleep or hibernation it BSODs, and when I cold boot it doesn't see any storage. This only happens when it's on battery, and it seems to be when the battery is below 50%. Now that I have an idea of what triggers this I can work around it, but it was affecting my productivity. The third is an issue with NCS files. My decompiler relied on files being written "correctly", so of course it bombed when fed a poorly written file. For example, k_inc_npckill: Nothing wrong with the source. Let's look at the NCS: The lines with asterisks are dead code, they never get executed and the game is fine with that. Problem is, my decompiler was expecting the last operation of the true branch of an if statement to be part of the control path. The last op of the true branch is what tells you if you're looking at a regular if, an if-else, or an if that exits the script as seen above. The decompiler was looking at the wrong thing, and returning the wrong results. I've now fixed that with an additional set of evaluations. Now I'm back to working on producing output. This is tedious as it requires keeping track of data, individual operations, and the context in which the data and operations are being used. Believe it or not, a block of code will decompile differently based on code that comes before and after it. (For example, RSADDx does not mean "create a named variable" as I incorrectly assumed months ago. It could create a named variable or a temporary variable, based on the context.) This morning I had an idea as to the overall rule for determining the beginning and end of statements, so I'll be working on that this weekend. I hope to have a status update in a few days.

And now I've lost two friends to cancer this year. I can't even.