A hidden Mersenne Twister found inside Plants vs Zombies' 15-year-old binary
Was there a Mersenne Twister hiding in a 15-year-old Plants vs Zombies binary? A 19-year-old self-taught reverse engineer dug through the game's internals to find out, and walked away with the PRNG mapped out. The write-up doubles as a clear tour of how old games wrestle randomness into deterministic behavior.