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by skrrtww 10 days ago
I know from people who actually worked on this that the process of actually getting the game running and following modern platform conventions was somewhat insane and tortuous, but interesting. Too technical for the Times to go into though I guess.

But yeah, essentially the whole port is done with binary patches to the original executable.
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pdpi 10 days ago
"Port done with binary patches" has a bit of the same energy as the N64Recomp project[0], which converts N64 ROMs into C programs that can be built for modern PCs.

0. https://github.com/N64Recomp/N64Recomp

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spagoop 10 days ago
Say more, seems like a simple game? Was it written weird or something?

I dont know much about legacy ports of games like this, would be curious to learn more.

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saghm 9 days ago
My understanding is that the original source files of the game were not available, and that who even owned the IP wasn't entirely clear when she first started looking into the game. I don't have any direct citation for this so it's possible I've misunderstood things that I've cobbled together from following this for a few months.
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