GT1 - recompilation project

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There is a website that tracks recompilation projects for games on various platforms;

decomp.dev

Decompilation progress reports

Progress reports for matching decompilation projects
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There are about a dozen PS1 games that are nearly finished recompiling;

decomp.dev

Decompilation progress reports

Progress reports for matching decompilation projects
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It would be great if GT1 were recompiled like this because it would enable us to do any kind of upgrade and modification; new cars, new tracks, new tournaments, even graphical updates, both the visual boost with stuff like DLSS5 and path tracing and developing the visual damage system - all while preserving the original GT1 vibes and aesthetics.

If there is any interest from this community to try something like this, please let me know.

Supposedly, it's not so difficult tech-wise, AI can do most of the things for recompiling older games:

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Ambivalent_
It would be great if GT1 were recompiled like this because it would enable us to do any kind of upgrade and modification; new cars, new tracks, new tournaments, even graphical updates, both the visual boost with stuff like DLSS5 and path tracing and developing the visual damage system - all while preserving the original GT1 vibes and aesthetics.
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Recompilation does not enable any of that. Recompilation is essentially just emulating the existing code unchanged. A decompilation on the other hand recreates matching source code which can be modified to do absolutely anything. A recompilation can be done with existing tools and minimal effort, whereas a decompilation would be a labour of years for a dedicated team of reverse-engineers.
 
pez2k
Recompilation does not enable any of that. Recompilation is essentially just emulating the existing code unchanged. A decompilation on the other hand recreates matching source code which can be modified to do absolutely anything. A recompilation can be done with existing tools and minimal effort, whereas a decompilation would be a labour of years for a dedicated team of reverse-engineers.
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I mixed up decompilation and recompilation.

However, I think your view that "decompilation doesn't enable any of that" is too rigid.

Have you seen decompiled Zelda 64? The decompiled version has many great features such as new control options, dual analog controls, gyro aiming, autosaving... There are even mods changing gameplay and replacing the character models!
 
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I mixed up decompilation and recompilation.

However, I think your view that "decompilation doesn't enable any of that" is too rigid.

Have you seen decompiled Zelda 64? The decompiled version has many great features such as new control options, dual analog controls, gyro aiming, autosaving... There are even mods changing gameplay and replacing the character models!
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Looks like you mixed it up again there. The comment was that recompilation doesn't enable that. ;)
 
pez2k
Recompilation does not enable any of that. Recompilation is essentially just emulating the existing code unchanged. A decompilation on the other hand recreates matching source code which can be modified to do absolutely anything. A recompilation can be done with existing tools and minimal effort, whereas a decompilation would be a labour of years for a dedicated team of reverse-engineers.
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Is there currently a decompilation of GT1, let alone GT2, or any other GT game at present?
 
HikokaiTkumei
Is there currently a decompilation of GT1, let alone GT2, or any other GT game at present?
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There was an attempt at GT2 a couple of years ago but it died off after a few months due to a lack of people with enough skills and time to contribute to it. There are no debug symbols for GT2 so it was essentially pure effort involved in figuring out what each instruction in the code did, one by one.
 
Ambivalent_
This is how we get de/recompiled GT1 🙏
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Don't believe the hype, it's a press release from a company trying to sell the product. LLM marketing people have a long history of false claims. As Rivit above points out, if it's all left to a machine to guess at then nobody will have an understanding of how to make it work when it inevitably gets it wrong, as these systems are not intelligent and do not work consistently. If they were genuinely as brilliant as claimed, the tech companies wouldn't have to be working so hard to advertise them and subsidise their use.
 
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