vemips VS oot

Also, if anyone wants to see a hastily-written ELF loader that I haven't cared enough about to go back and clean up in C++, I have one here.

I suggest MIPS.

I actually wrote VeMIPS for this specific purpose.

Unfortunately, I don't remember specifically. It was about when I wrote VeMIPS and was also working on figuring out an alternative ISA for a 3d printer board, and I'd noticed that a specific conversion instruction was missing on it. Maybe it was moving a double-precision register to the general purpose registers on 32-bit? Not sure anymore. I can look over IRC logs maybe to find out.

This is the exact purpose that I wrote VeMIPS for.

Looks similar to vemips. Same rationale as well (embedding within a game or simulation).

Probably wouldn't be too hard to add Chip8 as a backend to VeMIPS, though VeMIPS presently doesn't run on Android (only Win64 and in Javascript using asm.js).

I personally dislike disassembling MIPS, and I wrote VeMIPS!

However, I did end up releasing VeMIPS, which is an embeddable MIPS32r6 emulator/VM which is heavily configurable, has a dynamic recompiler, and has instruction-level execution granularity, meaning that you can tell it "execute 10 instructions and return". This lets you implement things like cost per instruction, virtual CPUs with different performance characteristics, and so forth.

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