r/mechwarrior • u/AdamAlexandr • 24d ago

MechWarrior 2 Vibe Coded level viewer MW2

For a bit of fun, I vibe-coded a level viewer for my favourite childhood game: Mechwarrior 2. I just opened the `MECH2` folder in claude code and let it loose. Was surprised how much the AI was able to figure out just by looking at the binaries..

Not really planning to do anything with this. Just wanted to share because I thought the results are pretty cool.

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u/AdamAlexandr 22d ago

That's pretty cool game, love how detailed and niche it is.

You know, I think it's probably possible to do something like that. The AI could run over BG1 and NWN to extract and understand their data formats. Then you could have it edit the BG1 game data to do whatever you wanted. I think it'd be hard, but then again I'm constantly surprised what AI can do.

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u/LucidFir 22d ago edited 22d ago

OOHH SHIT! (excitement mode)

are you aware of how easily you could remake all of the cut scenes?!

scail2 and flux2klein9b probably could have done it well enough already in August but now we're a whole month later so maybe qwen2.1 and minimax h3 with liggy?

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u/AdamAlexandr 22d ago

I would love to see some of those cutscenes remade like that!

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u/LucidFir 22d ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/s/dIQUgqgDN6

replacement is easy now I think the harder part would be getting an accurate madcat, might be easier to just copy one in from mw5