botw VS OpenRA

I beg to differ, there is currently a project to decompile Breath the Wild. The goal of this project is for understanding the game’s mechanics, not to create an executable file, but if someone really wanted to and didn’t care about the legal ramifications they absolutely could reverse engineer the source code of a game

There is a decomp of Breath of the Wild but the dev says is not for playing is just to understanding the game code and how it was made https://botw.link/

I've been inspired by the BotW disassembly (see https://github.com/zeldaret/botw) as well as the success in backporting Sonic Mania to the Wii U (https://github.com/Clownacy/Sonic-Mania-Decompilation-Wii-U). So clearly this is something that's doable. The only minor complication is that this will require soldering a bit more RAM into the Wii U, I already did this myself when I made a portable Wii U a few years ago; should be no problem for anyone with even a modest background in EE. You would of course also need a soft-modded Wii U and external HDD to run the game; there are plenty of tutorials on how to do this.

I was browsing the BOTW decompilation project here to better understand how Star Fragments spawn. I've noticed when I'm waiting for Star Fragments on top of Dueling Peaks, for example, occasionally one doesn't spawn when it "should".

I think they are working on that. Unless I'm misunderstanding this page

Recently, my friends and I recreated our old LAN parties. Went up to a cabin in the woods, brought some cheap network switches, and had everyone install OpenRA (https://www.openra.net/, open red alert), and had a blast, even with everyone on laptops (mac/win). You can still do this in 2024 and it's worth it!

After the movies, I wanted to experience Dune 2 again (the pirate sites have it, along with patches to make it playable on modern OSes or Crossover). It was arguably the first mass-market real-time strategy game. There's also OpenRA for C&C, Red Alert, and Dune 2K: https://www.openra.net/

I understand Square is re-making FF7 in a multi-part release over several years (not sure why it takes so long)? https://ffvii-remake-intergrade.square-enix-games.com/en-us/ Once it's all out, I might play through that again just for nostalgia's sake (and for the soundtrack, of course! Twenty years later, I still have Aeris's Theme stuck in my head from time to time)

Obligatory reminder:Red Alert,Command & Conquer, Dune 2000, Rebuilt for the Modern Era.

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I recently found an open source version that has been fun (https://www.openra.net/).

You can import those from ISOs: https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/wiki/Game-Content but the campaign is not complete afaik as it needs to be re-built in OpenRA: https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/issues/4989 (I think this is the related ticket)

Alternatively OpenRA has a bunch of C&C inspired mods: https://www.openra.net I think this way is the easiest way to get a C&C like experience on a M1 Mac right now.

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