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(Like pretty sure a ton of us would port HoloCure and Idol Showdown to a whole bunch of platforms instead of it being just Windows, plus fix a whole bunch of bugs)
There's literally a port for the Ti-Nspire…
@lanodan They had to rewrite the engine though. You can even do that with proprietary commercial games provided you don't distribute the original program and files.
There's quite a few engine rewrites out there but typically not to as many platforms, it usually ends up being Linux/Windows, which is great but I prefer to give the best examples ^^
@lanodan I think we are going to see more decomps and enhanced PC ports of console games in the coming years.
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@lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me @xianc78@gameliberty.club They're legally distinct from the source code that would be submitted to a copyright office, as theres no way to know what nintendos build environment looked like
@lanodan I don't know how they get away with it. Nintendo couldn't take them down. The decomp for Zelda OOT is even released under the GPL and from what I can tell, it compiles to the original ROM 1:1. You still need to provide the original ROM for assets though.
@lanodan Well this one has a GPL in it. This one is called "Open Ocarina".
https://github.com/blawar/ooot#license
>original upstream repo is the decompilation
I guess I'll pass this one as well, gamers challenge understand copyright.
@lanodan This Link to the Past one should be safe though. The original game was written in Assembly. This was written in C after reverse engineering and is not binary equivalent and it's been ported to PC.
@lanodan There is also one for the Wind Waker. Also just a rewrite of the source code, not a 1:1 decomp, only using a disassembly as a reference.
That said decompilations aren't rewrites specially from a legal standpoint (proprietary code stays proprietary, source code or not) so I'm not so sure about it's future.