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by nophunphil 16 days ago
This project was made possible by the recent ZeldaRET decompilation project. To simplify, the goal of that project was to create a program whose inputs were the game assets (extracted from a ROM) and to produce ROM output that just happens to be an exact match of the source ROM. In other words, the decompilation project re-implemented all game logic.

Dusklight is a program based on the decompiled source code that requires game assets then runs the application natively. It’s highly specialized and would likely never be used to run any other game.
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pipes 16 days ago
Why would they reimplement the game logic if they've decompiled the game code? I genuinely do not understand!
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nophunphil 14 days ago
Sorry, the "re-implemented" wording might have been a bit strong in my last comment.

Take a look at this recent pull request into the TP decompilation repo: https://github.com/zeldaret/tp/pull/3155/changes

The changes are often symbol renames, casts, replacing hard-coded values with enum values, etc...The idea is to map the decompiled output to human-readable source.

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dizhn 14 days ago
Why would they decompile the game if they can implement the game logic?
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