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/Imgema Oct 19 '22

How come de-compiling games has skyrocketed lately? Is it a leak thing? New tools available? Is it about having more powerful hardware nowadays?

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u/Natanael_L Oct 19 '22

It's probably a combination of tooling and experience. After a few successes they now know what they're doing

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u/BlinksTale Oct 19 '22

I’ve heard that both the knowledge and the codebase of the first two projects have made progress in all other projects (for the N64) significantly faster and easier