oot

First of all, super cool. I have a soft spot for SimTower as well. :) > I didn’t want to do a function-by-function port. First, APIs may be copyrightable - and copying a binary that closely might implicate copyright more than an approach closer to clean-room design. But it was clear that I needed some level of feedback from the ground-truth binary in order to provide a hill for the LLM to climb on the reimplementation. Interesting, but isn't this what, say, the Ocarina of Time reverse engineer port does[1]? I imagine the fact that this hasn't been served a takedown notice from Nintendo is a proof that it's defensible? Or at least that there's precedent, ha. Anyway, this is really cool. I genuinely think the only thing that's missing for me to waste an afternoon here is the sound effects! [1]: https://github.com/zeldaret/oot

If you look at the code linked to for the OoT decomplication, it's centralized in a single file everyone would be committing to https://github.com/zeldaret/oot/blob/4d2bc68bacdff06261f7a89...

Recompile and decompile are also different things. The goal of a recompile is a working binary for another platform (x86), while the goal of a decompile is source code. https://github.com/Zelda64Recomp/Zelda64Recomp?tab=readme-ov... https://github.com/zeldaret/oot is the seperate Ocarina of Time decompile project, and I believe is what the Playstation Classic port uses. They're also working on a Majora's Mask decompile, but it is incomplete. Probably why the recompile targeted that game first.

Many Nintendo games (including Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time) have been decompiled and have not been attacked by the Nintendo Ninjas: https://github.com/zeldaret/oot The more pressing legal concern here is the use of game assets, which these decompilations work around by requiring the user to provide a ROM to extract them first.

Doubt they will help you if you caused your company to use a patented code for profit.. At best you'll loose your job, at worse, you'll get sued by both your company and the actual third-party You are responsible of your own action, it's similar when you buy stolen goods from facebook marketplace, you should always ask for a receipt or proof of ownership, for code it's similar, you ask what's the license, and you include the license in your source tree if you are allowed to use the code ;) github is full of projects like that: https://github.com/zeldaret/oot, good luck ;)

This might interest you: https://github.com/zeldaret/oot recently reached 100% byte matched decompilation.