jak-project VS urde

Github page

If you want to try jak and daxter, try this first before emulating https://github.com/open-goal/jak-project

Jak and Daxter

But now there's NSA's Ghidra which has accelerated decompilations/reverse engineering a ton, it means that within a few years any active community can fully reverse engineer into human readable code and make major changes, it's why now there's a Driver 2 PC port and a Jak & Daxter PC port with 2 and 3 being in the works despite these games having basically no community before it, Nintendo games have a bigger modding community and a lot of games are on the way to being fully decompiled (bonus in that some games share a lot of stuff, so as one project completes it also makes it so that multiple games also advance faster

Metaforce for Metroid Prime is a thing that nobody ever seems to notice exists: https://axiodl.com/

Without source code, someone would have to dig through the 1s and 0s and try to piece together how the developers put together all the algorithms and such in the first place. There are some tools to make this easier, but most of the time it's like solving a completely white jigsaw puzzle with a billion pieces. Check out the "Metaforce," discord where they're decompiling/reverse engineering Metroid Prime if you're curious what this type of project looks like.

Metroid Prime isn't quite ready, but it's getting close.

Here's a link to the github where you can set it up yourself and also has links to the discord: https://github.com/AxioDL/metaforce

Or go a little further with MetaForce: https://github.com/AxioDL/metaforce/

Primehack (here's the downloader/auto-updater) is pretty much the definitive way to play it at the moment (at least until Metaforce goes into beta). Keyboard/mouse controls, dual stick analog controls, original Wii controls, plenty of QOL features, full HD, it's great!

Main page: https://axiodl.com

After playing Trilogy since it came out, I recently played through the original GCN version using Metaforce (a reverse engineering of Prime to run natively on PC) and realized IMHO that the lore was soooo much better. Ignoring entries with plotholes that had later been fixed, the way the Chozo lore was written was a lot more verbose and felt like I was really reading words written by an ancient, transcendent civilization. It was sort of abstract and seemed like the author was peering back from beyond the void to leave behind a message, while the new versions feel a bit plain.

Metaforce (formerly known as URDE)