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Banjo-Kazooie N64 Decompiled: PC Ports on the Horizon (www.retronews.com)

submitted 2 months ago by Kain1@lemmy.world to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world

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The Nintendo 64 release of Banjo-Kazooie has been fully decompiled, which opens up significant opportunities for fan projects and potentially native PC ports.

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[–] turkalino@lemmy.yachts 5 points 2 months ago

The lawsuit dance has already been done. Can’t sue over decompiled code, but they can sue over assets, so anyone who wants to actually play something made with a decompilation has to supply a “legal” ROM that’s rightfully “theirs” for the assets to be sourced from