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[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For people interested in the difference between decompiled machine code and source code I would recommend looking at the Mario 64 Decomp project. They are attempting to turn a Mario 64 rom into source code and then back into that same rom. It's really hard and they've been working on it for a long time. It's come a long way but still isn't done.

https://github.com/n64decomp/sm64

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought they were done already?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

There is still some stuff that needs documenting, but the original goal of recompiling the created source code into the ROMs has been achieved. People are still actively working on it, so in that sense it's maybe never done.