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CM30today at 12:53 AM4 repliesview on HN

Always nice to see another game decompiled like this. It's a big deal as far as laying the groundwork for possible ports to PC and other consoles is concerned, and will probably aid modders quite a bit.

If anyone needs a full list of these projects (which includes this one), there's a pretty good selection here:

https://decomp.dev/projects

Though these may have a few they missed:

https://readonlymemo.com/decompilation-projects-and-n64-reco...

https://github.com/CharlotteCross1998/awesome-game-decompila...


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boricjtoday at 6:51 AM

I'm the author of ghidra-delinker-extension and these are not full lists of these projects. Here are some public projects that I'm aware of which aren't listed:

- Moon Lights 2: https://github.com/Armonte/ml2decomp

- F-15 Strike Eagle II: https://github.com/neuviemeporte/f15se2-re

I've also been in discussion with people working on decompilation projects which are private. I won't share details, but it includes both well-known games and recent games (as in, built with link time optimizations).

The decompilation community is quite decentralized, with lots of Discord servers specific to one platform or a series of games. In the case of Windows it's also heavily fragmented, as there is no equivalent to community-standard tooling like splat or dtk-decomp for that platform, although my Ghidra extension has carved itself a niche in it.

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Gamemaster1379today at 4:00 AM

I've been experimenting with AI in this space myself. Don't believe any of my projects are listed there but I posted an article some days back where I showcased static recompilers all playing at least one commercial game for the NES, SNES, Sega Genesis, Virtual Boy and Playstation. I actually just announced a playable build of Megaman X today that eliminates all its slowdowns.

Whether the broader communities will accept any of my work remains to be seek given the heavy correlation to those communities and anti AI sentiment.

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matheusmoreiratoday at 2:43 AM

That page absolutely fills me with hope. I don't see some of my cherished childhood games in there. I should start a decompilation project for them...

bthallplztoday at 1:18 AM

Any idea if there's a place where we can request games for decompilation?

I see that one for Burnout Paradise is in the works, but I would love one for Burnout Revenge.

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