Silent Hill decompilation just surpased 80%

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• cornshark@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What does decompilation do?

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  • bluesheep@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    From their “what’s this?” page:

    What is this?

    This site is dedicated to resources on video game decompilation. Matching decompilation is the process of writing source code (typically C or C++) that compiles to the same exact binary as the original. This usually requires using the same compiler as the original game, with all source code being written from scratch. Because matching decompilation is complex and time-consuming, dedicated communities have formed around the challenge. These communities have built a wealth of knowledge and tools to support the process.

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  • takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Unless it means something else in this context, decompilation is reversing compilation process.

    Basically taking the game and turning it back to source code. With source code it would be easy to fix some issues (of there are any), see how developers implemented certain things, and also be able to run the game on hardware that it never was running on before.

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    • Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Or patch the game to be run without drm…why? cough i don’t know

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  • rezz@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Rebuild on PC or native to most anything if you have the gumption to do it.

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    • Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s literally the process of turning the executable back into actual code (albeit usually much less readable than the original code, since symbols are usually stripped from release builds, so the original variables and functions names are lost), so it can do much more than that.

      Once you’ve fully decompiled something and understand the resulting code, or even some parts of it, you can basically edit the original source code.

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