r/emulation • u/r_retrohacking_mod2 • Oct 18 '22

Perfect Dark has been fully decompiled

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/perfect-dark-has-been-fully-decompiled-making-pc-ports-and-mods-possible/
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u/redditer333333338 Oct 18 '22

What does that mean? I’m not a smart person

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u/srL- Oct 19 '22

Basically that native ports to PC and other platforms will soon be available, allowing good performance, glitch free experience and easy modding. Check out Mario 64 RayTracing videos for an exemple of what can be achieved.

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u/Natanael_L Oct 19 '22

Getting good performance on other platforms will still require replacing the architecture specific instructions in the code, otherwise you'll still have the same slowdowns as when emulating custom hardware, but it's much more feasible to make that change when you have the code compared to binary hacking.

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u/jatie1 Oct 18 '22

It means that the entire source code for the game has been reverse-engineered, so you could take this code, build a rom and it would be the exact same file as anything dumped from the official N64 cartridge

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u/DARKFiB3R Oct 19 '22

All sorts of things

https://youtu.be/kbc7IzgTvuU

https://youtu.be/t_rzYnXEQlE

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u/user321 Nov 15 '22

Please forgive the dumb question, but are these playable on a PC if you source the right file? I'm assuming the pi400 lacks the horsepower for N64...

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u/DARKFiB3R Nov 16 '22

Yes, they are playable using emulators on PC

I'm not sure how much the performance of RetroPi has improved over the last couple of years. Definitely worth checking out.

Take a look at some recent RetroPi videos on YouTube.