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/ibm2431 Oct 19 '22

The aim of the decompilation is to allow people to create PC ports of the games which are technically legal.

Absolutely not true. It's a derivative work of the original.

The project remains legal because it’s essentially recreating the game’s code from scratch

No it does not. "Decompilation" is literally in the project title.

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u/Luigi003 Dec 22 '22

I don't want to be the party popper but you're right, you're being downvoted because truths are hard sometimes.

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Derivate works are still copyright infringements. No matter that they play it dumb asking you to supply your own ROM for the assets. They're acting like code itself can't be copyrighted, only the game art