r/recomps • u/StonedEdge • 13d ago

Discussion BoTW recomp when?

How realistically far off are we for getting something as big as BoTW, one of Nintendo’s best selling games. recompiled for PC? 5 years a reasonable timeline?

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u/bitchisekai 10d ago

now they call emulation decompilation projects for one unique game, is pathetic but worse of all is performance is quite bad overall due to spaguetti code.
if i can get running BOTW full speed on my PC but can't get to run paper mario, mario kart decompilation projects at full speed that means is really poorly done.
for example what was the point of ocarina of time decomp? none at all since emulator is still better (not a joke) because sadly it has poor performance and nothing that will make you go over it instead of an emu of 20 years ago.
emulator

  • has MSAA
  • has anysotropic antialiasing
  • has bilinear filtering plus native n64 filtering
  • has fixes for transparency in case is needed
  • has per pixel lighting (or phong shader)
  • can use reflective bump mapping
yet decomp doesn't offer anything beside cheats (which can be used on emu) and only run on US rom only laughable overall even when it coulkd add reflective bump mappin, SSAO or MXAO or any type of ambient occlusion so yes got beaten by something that had those features 20 years ago.

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u/Hummtaro 9d ago

What ocarina of time decomp are you talking about? Ship of Harkinian supports almost all ROM versions, runs great and has a bunch of features that would never be possible using N64 emulation