The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask just got an unofficial PC port

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• MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nintendo shutting it down and requiring all copies be destroyed in 3… 2…

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  • Wogi@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think this is using recomp, anybody with a rom could theoretically do this on their own pc, so there’s morning to destroy. The recomp isn’t specific to Nintendo and isn’t really violating copyright, as far as I understand.

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    • Toes@ani.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah that’s their intention.

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    • cyrus@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Indeed, these decom projects do not include any of Nintendo’s assets.

      The code compiles 1:1 back into a unable ROM but isn’t made just using a source code leak. It is reverse-engineered just like the SM64 decomp

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  • henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It looks like the project is really careful not to include copyrighted materials in their distribution.

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    • neo@feddit.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      For this to work, you’ll need a North American version of the game. Once you have it, drop it in the main menu and start playing.

      Clever. I hope this protects the makers.

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    • JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Like the Mario 64 Unity project?

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    • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It looks like the project is really careful not to include copyrighted materials in their distribution.

      Source code automatically generated from copyrighted binary code is a derivative of copyrighted code, though. It’s like taking a copyrighted book and running it through Google Translate and then clean up the sentences manually. You could be lucky that a publisher might not care about a translation into Icelandic but if you were to auto-translate a French version of a book into English and try to distribute it in the US, you’d probably get in trouble even if you leave out all graphic artwork.

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  • bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, but now I’m undoubtedly thousands of people have it so it’s never going to disappear

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• NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ran it last night on a Linux machine. Had to play with framerates and controller settings a bit, but other than that it runs beautifully.

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  • addie@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Been playing it on Arch all morning - runs beautifully straight out the box on a gaming desktop. Forgotten how (a) dark (b) bastard hard it is. Superb game, tho, and all the loading screens being essentially gone adds back a bit of pace it was missing.

    And yeah, mapping the weird N64 controller to an xbox pad is always going to be strange - been wasting a lot of items when I’d been intending to look around.

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• bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Dick move to make the first link in the article - which is the name of the game and clearly implies it’ll take you to it - just links back to the article.

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