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@icedquinn i've wanted an AI girlfriend for about.... *checks when br2049 came out*.... 7 years now.

@icedquinn fuckin hell that sounds like a nightmare >_> i don't go super ham with character's backstories working into the main story, but i try to work in stuff for them as much as possible. i LOVED when one of my first players had this awesome story with orcs who had wronged him and such, who eventually became warlords who he hunted down and then in the campaign there was pretty much a whole entire arc dedicated to that. he had a little squad he ran with and everything.

most players don't give me even half of that. it's usually "oh i have no parents and no family and i'm just out here all alone as an adventurer" which is cool, but you better not expect me to do actually have any meaningful interactions with your character's history. because there is none lol.

i do like to make characters WITH my players though so that we can work in their backstory with the history of my world. that way, they feel like they're a part of it even if their backstory is super simple.

@BlinkRape it would take an extremely long time for me to figure out how to make a mod where the arwing moves 30% faster through a level, for instance. with this though, all i have to do is find the function in the decompiled C code and change the variable. might not be THAT easy but you know what i mean. way easier than looking through the RAM and trying to figure out what values i need to plug in to a gameshark code.

@BlinkRape that's what every decompilation does to begin with. their aim is to be able to recompile the n64 rom just by using their code.

what a decomp is useful for outside of that is namely mods. if people don't have to go through these great lengths to figure out how to mod the base rom, then you can have a lot more mods that way. editing the decompiled code is a million times easier, especially for a game like starfox 64 that doesn't have any existing modding tools whatsoever.

it also opens the gate for ports to be made to other platforms. normally, the people doing the decompiling aren't the ones to port it, that's done by separate people who just want to port the game.