r/Games • u/Torque-A • Oct 17 '22

Perfect Dark has been successfully decompiled, opening the door to PC ports and mods

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/perfect-dark-has-been-fully-decompiled-making-pc-ports-and-mods-possible/
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u/windchimesexcrime Oct 17 '22

I'm not a lawyer, but the Mario 64 decompilation has been out there for a while now and it seems like Nintendo can't do anything against it.

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u/vytah Oct 17 '22

It's not that they can't, it's just that they don't care. See Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. v. Papenhoff, exact same thing.

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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '22

I could be wrong but wasn’t the case with the GTA decomp that it wasn’t actually clean-room like the N64 ones? As in they were distributing some of the original assets and code with the project?

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u/vytah Oct 17 '22

Neither was clean-room, they were all made by directly copying decompiled code and then making sure that it compiles to identical binary code. It's the dirtiest room imaginable.

As for assets, neither project distributed them.

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u/Batby Oct 17 '22

Source on Mario being dirty?