Comment on Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports to add proper ray tracing, ultrawide, high FPS, and more

refalo@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It was always possible with tons and tons of work; the news is that some dude made a tool that makes it a piece of cake.

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  • refalo@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I wonder how much talent is wasted because of jaded programmers that think it’s dumb (to them) to make something simple even if it would become very popular and maybe profitable

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• Socsa@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is very similar to something we did in engineering school in like 2008. For a reconfigure computing project we translated machine code into HDL.

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  • refalo@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    can be done as a school project

    needs a few million dollars

    which is it?

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    • absentbird@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes

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      • refalo@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        unironically all you really need is one or two neurospicy individuals that are passionate about your project and just about any project is done in a matter of weeks.

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• cyrus@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Just so you know, the actual source code for this project mentions both Jamulator and another project that did this for the N64.

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