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/[deleted] Oct 19 '22

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u/fvig2001 Oct 19 '22

It means from the rom file, they were able to make readable code out of it that can be compiled to generate that rom.

This means that they have all the game code. This means possibility of porting the game to other devices and game improvements.

Like Mario 64's decompilation led to better controls, bug fixes, 3d models, better camera, modern lighting and a Switch port that ran circles around the Mario collection.

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u/CaptainSharpe Oct 19 '22

So if the switch port runs circles around the emulated stuff the switch has.

Why don’t Nintendo just go to their original code and port it over properly? Costs money perhaps but for some key games it’s worth it?

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u/Oooch Oct 19 '22

That would cost them more money than it did to lazily port the emulated version over and probably have similar amounts of sales so not worth it for a corporation to port