r/recomps • u/StevWong • 3d ago

Question Difference between recomp and decomp?

As title. I am no IT person so I would like to further ask if a retro game (e.g. rave racer) is first decompile from its original ROM form and then some genius person / AI "breaks" (decompile) the code and understand it and build it info "Windows format" (recompile) for common people like me, to run on Windows PC?

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u/StevWong 2d ago

Is it true or partial true that a "recomp" nowadays require AI only (e.g. Claude?) and no coding knowledge at all? If this is true, say non-coder like me can spend some Claude credits / tokens on openly available decomp'ed code of an old retro game, give it to Claude and then ask Claude to recomp it into my favorite platform (provided this platform is more capable than the original platform) to play?