Silent
Game Developer
Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland
Summary
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RockstarSilent is a game developer and reverse-engineering specialist based in Warsaw with 12 years of experience porting, patching and modernizing legacy game code. He contributes widely to high-profile open-source emulation and tooling projects—RPCS3, PCSX2, Dolphin, xenia and OpenRCT2—focusing on backend systems, input/subsystem integrations and subtle platform bugs that improve compatibility and user experience. Comfortable across C++ systems, embedded firmware and front-end tweaks, he combines careful memory and threading fixes with pragmatic refactors (e.g., unique_ptr migrations and reference-count safety) to make long-lived codebases maintainable. Silent treats porting as his profession and patching as a hobby, a mindset that shows in frequent cross-project contributions from emulator kernels to firmware and UI polish. Notably, his work often targets hard-to-reproduce issues like controller input quirks, file handling edge cases and platform-specific crashes, reflecting deep familiarity with runtime behavior and tooling.
11 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (94)
controller10
multithreading10
wp-api10
sdl10
windows10
firmware10
c1110
winapi10
device-emulation10
c1710
controls10
direct3d10
xbox10
embedded10
openrc10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
PCSX2/pcsx2
Oct 2018 - Jan 2023
PCSX2 - The Playstation 2 Emulator
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:98 reviews, 54 commits, 56 PRs in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Silent primarily contributed to the PCSX2 PlayStation 2 emulator, specifically focusing on the DirectInput gamepad plugin (LilyPad) and folder memory card functionality. They implemented and refined the XInput gamepad support, including bug fixes, enhancements for pressure-sensitive buttons on DualShock 3 controllers and improved force feedback testing. Additionally, the user made improvements to folder memory card by incorporating file order, metadata and timestamp tracking. Several commits also involved the modification of 3rd party libraries to address specific issues with emulator.
playstation-2cppemulatorps2emulation
ThirteenAG/Ultimate-ASI-Loader
Apr 2018 - Feb 2021
ASI Loader is the tool that loads custom libraries with the file extension .asi into any game process.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 17 commits, 4 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Silent primarily contributed to the ASI Loader project by implementing features and making improvements to the core functionality. This included migrating the code to Unicode for improved compatibility, enhancing the module loading process, and introducing support for new libraries. Furthermore, the user addressed potential issues in the debug builds and provided complete wrappers for the wininet and version libraries, which are core parts of the ASI loader project.
loaderfile-extensionasiasi-loaderasi-plugins
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