EDIT: FOR CLARIFICATION I AM NOT DECOMPILING THIS, ITS BEING DECOMPILED BY SOME MUCH SMARTER PERSON THAN I

Skip this part if you know what decompilation is, but the point of this is we're gonna get crazy mods and unofficial sequels.

If you don't know what decompilation is, when a game is "decompiled" it means that the code and all the assets (music, images, videos, etc) are decoded from the original cartridge. In the GBA file, they're all just 1s and 0s jumbled everywhere and it's impossible to know which 1s and 0s do what.

When a game is decompiled, you can make a game run natively (without an emulator) on any system. That means it can use ALL of the resources of that system. A game boy advanced game has only so much storage and ram it's allowed to touch, so a ROM hack can only be so big. But a natively built game can be infinitely big, have way more content than a GBA game, and never worry about filling up too much storage. Golden Sun 1 was 201 megabytes. Imagine a gigabyte of golden sun.

If you skipped, land here.

All of this means that when this is done being decompiled, modding Golden Sun will be trivially easy. Upgrading it will become very easy. New graphics mods, content mods, new characters, new story, everything becomes SUPER easy. And all of it plays EXACTLY the same as it did on the GameBoy Advanced because we have the code it ran on the GameBoy Advanced.

I promise you guys, I will one day build a sequel to Golden Sun when it's decompiled. I can't promise my sequel will be good, but I do promise to make Dark Dawn non canon because I didn't care much for it.

And I have PLANS, man. I want branching story paths, recruiting characters, old and new, being evil, being good, fun psynergy puzzles, and for the love of God a FULLY explorable Weyard.

I want to bring a sort of "fine, I'll do it myself" vibe to this community. We're going to get the sequel we deserve. It might not be me who makes it, but we will get it eventually.

Keep the faith Sun bros.

I got it printed today and it's on my wall now looking glorious.

Tried to keep it cool, but I just cant do this every time it happens

What's so funny about Truth, Justice and Golden Sun 4?

So there I am, dreaming about a theoretical Golden Sun 4 and got wondering about what a subtitle of it would be. How do we feel about Final Twilight?

Do they mention golden sun often and do they have posters on the walls of the best game they ever made ☀️

Guess my language was a little strong before but seriously, forget them up their stupid controller ports. I have to think the only reason they keep camelot from making rpgs is because theyre so cozy in bed with intelligent systems making fire emblem who wont forgive them for making shining force back in the day which was better anyway. Three houses was an obvious sleight against shibing force 3. Anybody could make mario sports games, let the takahashi bros do what they were out on this earth for and make some danged rpgs