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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  can be done as a school project

  needs a few million dollars

  which is it?

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  • absentbird@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes

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    • refalo@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨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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      • absentbird@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You could say that about basically anything: it only takes one or two passionate people to [write a great novel, build a house, invent something new, prove a scientific theory, advance the field of mathematics] in a matter of weeks.

        Those are rare and impressive exceptions, it’s not so simple in practice. The Mythical Man Month has some good insight on this.

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