oot VS sm64

https://github.com/zeldaret/oot 100% Ocarina of Time is fully decomped, surprised we haven't seen any developments on Mario here. Also liboot is possible.

Here's the page from the Zelda "Reverse Engineer" GitHub wiki: https://github.com/zeldaret/oot/wiki/Getting-Started

well it is possible to crack a game without the source. in fact, it's possible to decompile source from the binary itself. This has been done with Mario64 and ocarina of time.

That being said, there is a lot of documentation out there on Ocarina of Time specifically. There's even a work-in-progress decompilation. You're going to have to learn a lot to get to the level where you can do the stuff you're wanting to do, but that's part of why you have to try to start smaller. You can even work on Ocarina of Time still, but start by picking a concrete goal and trying to hack it into the game. Build a tool from scratch that replaces text in the game, for example.

Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time were only just decompiled within the last couple of years. Jak and Daxter 1 was decompiled a few months ago. GTA 3 and Vice City have nearly finished decompilations, but TakeTwo took legal action against the developers before they put the finishing touches.

That said, I did my research before talking about source ports made from restoring the (nearly) original code using the compiled data and symbols). That's how SM64 and OoT (as well as other Zeldas in progress) were/are decompiled.

I've watched the video and I'm still convinced it provides false information. What is my source? The official OoT decompilation project: https://github.com/zeldaret/oot

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!