Pinball-on-Android VS sm64

Quite off topic, but some PC games are now on Android. See for example Space Cadet: https://github.com/fexed/Pinball-on-Android/releases

Once you get to enjoy a proper straightforward PC game on your phone, most every other ad-filled Android game feels insulting.

Not aware of any Space Cadet ports that would run on anything the Miyoo runs. There's an Android port if you're desperate for that specific pinball game 'in your pocket'. Still listed as a work-in-progress; https://github.com/fexed/Pinball-on-Android

Download this and open it. Simple! Enjoy :)

Found this, it's a fork from your link that was last updated in 2021. This one is still in development and was recently updated on March 31 if I recall correctly, it's the android .APK version. Though it's still in development it runs well. Been playing it on my phone. It's definitely a blast from the past. https://github.com/fexed/Pinball-on-Android/releases

They have on android

The SM64 is still going strong https://github.com/n64decomp/sm64

Nintendo won't allow any binaries floating around though.

Romhacks are typically modifying the compiled binary ROM image. Kaze' work is based on the painstakingly disassembled code from the n64decomp project[1]. He's working in C, modifying the game and compiling it again for the original hardware. Not sure I'd call that a "romhack".

Great videos though!

[1] https://github.com/n64decomp/sm64

A team or something reverse engineered super mario. I think that's the repo and it's mostly in C

From course_table.h and course_defines.h we can find that: COURSE_MIN == 0 and COURSE_MAX == 25 - so it looks like every secret stage is a full-fledged "course" for the purposes of counting stars, bringing us to 25 courses + castle stars (COURSE_NONE). So, the maximum possible value for starCount should be 7 * 26 = 182.

Multi-year decompilation project: https://github.com/n64decomp/sm64

The port source code of the decompilation is still up on github and Nintendo hasn't taken it down in years, cause they can't since everything has been done with legal methods

This is false, the source code never leaked; it was meticulously and painstakingly decompiled by hand.

It sounds like, rather than a ground-up rewrite, COBOL should be treated as an object-code language, and "hand-decompiled" (ala efforts like https://github.com/n64decomp/sm64) into an HLL that can, at every point, be losslessly transpiled back into the original COBOL.

I know the tooling for doing that doesn't currently exist... but paying someone to develop it would be cheaper than any one of these ground-up rewrite projects!