Zelda 64's source code is now decompiled - The Ocarina of C++

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Zelda 64 has been fully decompiled, potentially opening the door for mods and ports | VGC

After nearly two years, a fan group fully reproduced the N64 classic in C code this week…

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First mario 64 now this, a full console port is not made yet but is pretty much inevitable at this rate. hope Majora gets this treatment soon.

 

[Marissa Moira]

I hope they make a mod where you can finally beat the bunny man.

 

[Dammit Mandrake!]

That's a neat project and pretty cool. Unironically nice for them that their project reached a successful conclusion.

But uh...

The achievement marks a huge milestone for the preservation of the classic Nintendo 64 game, and opens the door to modding, hacks and potentially even ports to other platforms such as PC

I could already do all of the things listed 15 years ago with emulators, roms, and romhacks. Forgive me for thinking that most of the people that are celebrating aren't doing so because of the neat technical achievement; they're celebrating because they can steal stuff again because they're remorseless thieves.

 

[Dysnomia]

I hope they make a mod where you can finally beat the bunny man.

So much time wasted. Maybe it's a metaphor for how no matter what, you can never beat time.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

maybe there can be a mod where one plays as an arwing the entire time

 

[Grub]

That's a neat project and pretty cool. Unironically nice for them that their project reached a successful conclusion.

But uh...

I could already do all of the things listed 15 years ago with emulators, roms, and romhacks. Forgive me for thinking that most of the people that are celebrating aren't doing so because of the neat technical achievement; they're celebrating because they can steal stuff again because they're remorseless thieves.

Having the decompiled source code available is totally different than poking around with hex values in rom. This means the possibility of a native PC port, improvements to the game's engine, even possibly entirely new games on the engine if someone's autistic enough.

Also, fuck Nintendo they can eat shit anyone who pays for yet another re-release of a game from 1996 is retarded.

 

[ShitlordroltihS]

Here's hoping for a pc port soon.

 

[seri0us]

they're celebrating because they can steal stuff again because they're remorseless thieves.

wat?

 

[MrTroll]

Finally, we can correct the historic wrongdoing of not making Link black. Also I think Navi should be nonbinary and alert you at least once per game session with an unskippable notification that they are not a "she".

 

[libRT]

That's a neat project and pretty cool. Unironically nice for them that their project reached a successful conclusion.

But uh...

I could already do all of the things listed 15 years ago with emulators, roms, and romhacks. Forgive me for thinking that most of the people that are celebrating aren't doing so because of the neat technical achievement; they're celebrating because they can steal stuff again because they're remorseless thieves.

Modding the games becomes much easier with the source code and would allow for total conversions.

Even if they had used the old graphics etc. IP protection shouldn't last longer than 10 years. Thats being generous given how much technology has sped up production and distribution.

 

[Milwaukee Macho Man]

So much time wasted. Maybe it's a metaphor for how no matter what, you can never beat time.

It's a lesson in "don't believe strangers on the internet"

 

[Crunchy Oats]

They can decompile these games, but can't make their own. Haha losers.

 

[Dojima's Dragon]

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Well gee maybe if nintendo wasnt too busy making shit tier hardware and shitty remasters we wouldnt be here

 

[HERE YOU GO]

The work it took is like hey cool you did that, but god damn, people keep touching the old shit like they don't know what a good idea is anymore.

 

[ShitlordroltihS]

That's a neat project and pretty cool. Unironically nice for them that their project reached a successful conclusion.

But uh...

I could already do all of the things listed 15 years ago with emulators, roms, and romhacks. Forgive me for thinking that most of the people that are celebrating aren't doing so because of the neat technical achievement; they're celebrating because they can steal stuff again because they're remorseless thieves.

Ok fag

 

[ellroy]

That’s interesting, I thought the early Nintendo 64 games were all written in MIPS64. I wonder if they managed to convert the assembly into C automatically through some regular expression trickery.

 

[Dewy60]

What's next either Banjo Kazooie being decompiled or conker?

 

[Unassuming Local Guy]

That’s interesting, I thought the early Nintendo 64 games were all written in MIPS64. I wonder if they managed to convert the assembly into C automatically through some regular expression trickery.

They've been writing at least some games in C as early as the SNES. Maybe even the Genesis. By the time the N64 rolled around, Assembly was just for the really really important stuff that absolutely had to be as efficient as possible.

 

[Jimjamflimflam]

Finally we can get the proper method to get the triforce.

 

[WeWuzFinns]

The source code will be used to develop even speedier speed tricks so that my boy Cosmo can do even speedier speed runs.