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All of this recomp stuff is pretty amazing. I really don't like how AI changed my profession, but hey at least I get something good from it.

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I really don't like how AI changed my profession, but hey at least I get my programming hobbies ruined too.

And it will make less sense for big publishers to invest in building great games if people are just going to be able to decompile and run them on their own hardware.

Big publishers have been pumping mtx riddled buggy crap for a good while now, I have no sympathy.

a big publisher just announced (today) that their new development is fully AI, from code to art. So it seems we're out of big games from them anyway.

Great, so maybe it means we are about to hit a small indie game developer renaissance!

At least the good thing about a hobby being a hobby is that no manager tells you what you should do.

Indeed. Programming feels so meaningless now, but at least we can replay cherished games natively. I'm doing a video game decompilation with AI as well.

There were already a couple of ways to play PS2 games though. Is it meaningful to put it in WebAssembly (especially when we were promised things like a cure for cancer [0])?

0 - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/sep/08/ai-cure-can...

same lol. but hey, ive been able to play the xbox 360 version of NFS most wanted perfectly on steamdeck in one press of a button due to the efforts of the fine folks working on these recomps so ill take a small win here and there. ive heard theyve also got the original forza horizon working too. so im stoked.

Here's a guy who put together this recomp of NFS the Xbox 360 version, running on the Steam Deck:

https://old.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/1x0vzyb/speedbre...

Forza Horizon recomp: https://github.com/arcanite24/pinyon-shift

More Xbox 360 projects here:

https://fangamesdb.com/consoles/xbox-360.html

you could have just run the rom through an emulator, and it'd be doing exactly the same process in the background. But without crashing the game several times, and then the first couple of times it doesn't crash it's declared "good enough". Because when a dynamic recompiler discovers something new (which is impossible to do statically), it recompiles and patches the new code in seamlessly.

No mention of AI at all in this repo.

Not explicitly but it's clearly all done using AI. Read the prose.

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