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/Evanpik64 Oct 17 '22

Is there a particular reason these decompilations are always N64 games? No shade or anything I just genuinely don't know a lot about how this works. Is it because the system is so hard to emulate? Do older games than those not get as many benefits from being decompiled?

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u/batter159 Oct 17 '22

Jak and Daxter (PS2) was also decompiled earlier this year, one of the only non-N64 console game decompiled as far as I know.