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What game do you wish would be decompiled or recompiled next? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 6 days ago by thingsiplay@lemmy.ml to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
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With the recent flux of decompiled and recompiled projects for retro games to play them natively on PC, which game do you want see tackled on? And why? Or do you rather want Mods and Romhacks for the actual Rom for emulation?

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[–] emb@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

For sure, I get that. I started off very much in the "it's just a tool" and "AI as normal technology" camps, and over time I've become more and more jaded.

Ultimately what I appreciated about decomps was moreso the effort that went into it, rather than the result. But it totally makes sense if sometimes people care more about the result.

[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Those efforts aren't going anywhere. It's only a problem if everything is replaced. What I mean is, figuratively speaking: In the past we had 5 decomps done by human hand. Now with Ai we have 5 decomps done by humans, plus 25 done by Ai agents (with human oversight). So we do not lose much actually. This is my thinking.

[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

On the other hand, I can see a lot of people no longer finding the decomp projects enticing when most of what they see are vibecoded projects. The people that may have been interested in those projects in the future could be totally put off by it now.

[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago

I can see a lot of people no longer finding the decomp projects enticing when most of what they see are vibecoded projects

I agree with you here. In fact I wanted to express this issue first. But it made my previous reply complicated to understand, so I left it out. So yes, that's one of the issues. Also if a game is already vibe coded into a recomp, then someone else might find it less interesting to tackle that project, because most people probably wouldn't find it interesting anymore (as there is already a port). Which would be a shame to be honest. So yeah it's not all good only.