urde VS botw

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)

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