VAC VS sm64

Yeah i agree on server side. But on client side, proprietary doesn't make it better. There are already a case someone writing a dummy that report correct thing to the server\1]). And someone already disassembled entire anti cheat back to C code\2]).

Similar projects:

* DevilutionX: decompiled and modern version of Diablo for the PC - https://github.com/diasurgical/devilutionX

* pokered: decompiled version of Pokemon Red for the Gamboy - https://github.com/pret/pokered

* zelda1: decompiled version of Zelda for the NES - https://github.com/aldonunez/zelda1-disassembly

* supermetroid: decompiled version of Super Metroid for the SNES - https://github.com/strager/supermetroid

* VAC: decompiled version of Valve Anti Cheat (VAC) for PC - https://github.com/danielkrupinski/VAC

I reccomend daniel's VAC repository for partial reverses and good info: https://github.com/danielkrupinski/VAC/tree/master/VAC

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!