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> In the end, I settled for a bit of a hack. My exporter reads the ActionScript from each frame and applies a bunch of regexes to attempt to turn it into C++.

Haha, I lost it at this part. Brilliant read!

How much time did it take you to build the whole thing?

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Thank you!

Git log tells me I started in November 2019, so 3 years, but the pace of work definitely varied a lot over that time. Sometimes I was putting full days of work into it, sometimes stolen moments here and there between paying work, and some long stretches of just not working on it at all.

Maybe I'll do another post with a graph, haha.

Yeah I'd be curious to know the total time spent. :) In any case, amazing work and write-up!

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