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Decompiling a Nintendo 64 Game in 84 Days

Hacker News·23 days ago
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I’m very pleased to announce that the original Snowboard Kids is now 100% decompiled! This means that all functions 1 have matching C implementations that, when compiled, produce identical machine code to the original game. This was obviously not a one-person effort. I am particularly grateful to inspectredc , Bl00D4NGEL , and queueRAM for their significant contributions to the project. No amount of AI would have been able to replace them. 2 I would also like to thank iFuzzle , JamesBLewis , and douglasjv for lending their tokens to the cause. My hope is that a full decompilation will prove useful to the Snowboard Kids community. Speedrunners in particular have long focused on the first game. Working source code can help shed light on externally observed phenomena such as CPU pathing and the exact factors contributing to player speed. A full understanding of the source code will also be useful for static recompilation and more ambitious modding efforts in the future.…

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