Recompilation: An Incredible New Way to Keep N64 Games Alive

loops@beehaw.org · 2 years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywWwUuWRgsM

From this lemmy world post:

about this Tom’s Hardware article:

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/nearly-all-nintendo-64-games-can-now-be-recompiled-into-native-pc-ports-to-add-proper-ray-tracing-ultrawide-high-fps-and-more

Varyag@lemm.ee · 2 years

No no no no stop talking about it, quick before the Nintendo lawyers show up!!

Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 years

Ship Of Harkinian (and similar projects) have kept gping for a long time, and they don’t do anything remotely illegal either

BotCheese@beehaw.org · 2 years

legality was never a thing nintendo considered

Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 years

With the last two big things I’ve heard about (Yuzu and… Dolphin, I think?) they were legally in the right, but at least where I live there is absolutely no way to spin a recompiler + asset extractor as something illegal - they can’t even claim the developers are circumventing DRM, because OOT and MM didn’t have any.

Though, I would not be surprised if there’s something in US law that can be exploited for this.

n3m37h@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 years

Conkers Bad Fur Day

World Driver Championship

California Speed

DdCno1@beehaw.org · 2 years

I wonder if this would make swapping in assets from the Xbox remaster of Conker possible/convenient. I suspect it depends more on how accessible the files of the remaster are.

DuckBilledMongoose@lemmings.world · 2 years

Looks amazing can’t wait to try it out!