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by talloaktrees 19 days ago
I have been experimenting with dissassembly and rewrite of 90s dos games in Rust.

It's not something I have experience in so I rely heavily on the models setting the direction and automating the work.

It's something where the level of intelligence has a huge impact. I still haven't succeeded, it's mostly an experiment for me to test the edges of model capabilities and see how they tackle such a hard problem.
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bubblegumcrisis 19 days ago
Out of curiosity - is this a "couple hours" sort of thing, or a "tens of hours" or "hundreds of hours" or other?
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talloaktrees 18 days ago
hundreds.

likely my approach is often not optimal as I'm not experienced in this field

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Gamemaster1379 18 days ago
You have to reach set hard principles for disassembly. I've been experimenting with this for about 6 months now, starting with 4.6 in February where it would do a hacky half ass buggy job of an NES game.

I got a shitty PSX recompiler together in March. Been refining it since. This week along I stood up 5 different psx games and added widescreen to 4 of them and added an in memory injection English translation to another to avoid having to fight the assembly.

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marak830 18 days ago
If you did a write up of that I would be very interested. I assume a lot of others would be as well.
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Gamemaster1379 18 days ago
I've been in heavy build mode for a while so my docs are a bit dated. But the repo is here: https://github.com/mstan/psxrecomp/ and at the bottom of it a Discord community I started for like minded individuals. Happy to chat there in the interim to get things rolling.
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marak830 16 days ago
Oh cool thanks for the link. I look forward to reading through it. (I've noped out of discord after their ID demands though, never using them again.)
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talloaktrees 18 days ago
Would be curious to learn more from you if you have any other guidance or details.
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Gamemaster1379 18 days ago
I've been in heavy build mode for a while so my docs are a bit dated. But the repo is here: https://github.com/mstan/psxrecomp/ and at the bottom of it a Discord community I started for like minded individuals. Happy to chat there in the interim to get things rolling.
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talloaktrees 18 days ago
I found the blog post: https://1379.tech/i-built-a-ps1-static-recompiler-with-no-pr...
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Gamemaster1379 18 days ago
That'd be it! A lot has matured since then on the project. Still in heavy build mode, though.
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