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

submitted 11 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 11 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