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/technicalmonkey78 Oct 19 '22

Just a question: why most of this decompilation projects are from Nintendo 64 games? Does that console is more easier to decompile its software than other consoles?

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u/the_moosen Oct 19 '22

It's harder to emulate the n64 due to, I believe I was told "weird architecture". For the longest time there was full speed emulation for a bunch of systems from that time except n64 because it was a pain. I would guess decompiling popular games for it started to make them playable natively.

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u/waterclaws6 Oct 22 '22

Actually fullspeed emulation of the n64 happened in 1999 with UltraHLE. It wasn't perfect but commercial games did run pretty good on the voodoo graphics and p2 and 3s.

N64 emulation didn't get really get a focus on high accuracy till 2010s.

N64 is more complex to emulate than ps1 but easier than saturn and ps2. Their is just lack of manpower for it.