The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Decompilation

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.

Re: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Decompilation

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Post by ace2358 » Fri, Nov 24, 2023, 9:22 PM UTC

Very cool! These decompilation projects are getting more and more ambitious! We’ve had androids games ported to the PS vita, Super Mario 64 running on a modded PS4, I’ve got diable 1 one my switch. It’s great!! Thanks to the hard workers!!

Re: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Decompilation

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Post by doomlaser » Fri, Nov 24, 2023, 9:22 PM UTC

> Our long-term goal is to produce a highly documented and complete C++ codebase for every version of Twilight Princess. Having clear and readable source code will aid speedrunners, glitch hunters, and modders curious about how particular parts of the game work.

> Our primary goal is a full decompilation of the GameCube USA version with appropriate documentation. After this is achieved, we plan to decompile the other versions of the game.

Cool project.

Re: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Decompilation

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Post by okl » Fri, Nov 24, 2023, 9:26 PM UTC

I guess that proposing symbol names could be an apt use case for AI. Some papers are referenced here: https://github.com/nforest/awesome-decompilation#ai-based-de...

Re: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Decompilation

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Post by zamadatix » Fri, Nov 24, 2023, 9:28 PM UTC

Perhaps a better landing page to start from if you haven't seen the other efforts before either: https://zelda64.dev/

Re: The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Decompilation

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Post by vore » Fri, Nov 24, 2023, 9:38 PM UTC

minimaxir wrote: post #5

gmgmgmgmgm wrote: post #4

CnD coming ASAP or does this kind of thing get a pass?

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.

I don't think that's a real legal defense. Code is just as subject to copyright as game assets (why wouldn't it be? it's just another kind of game asset), and the whole extracting assets thing making decompilations free from copyright infringement that gets bandied about is complete armchair lawyering. It's only by Nintendo's good graces these are still allowed to be hosted on GitHub.