aww
At one point I would’ve been ecstatic to see someone tackle Deadly Premonition since Xenia is still in the stone age compared to RPCS3 and the Director’s Cut port on Steam/GOG is a borderline broken piece of junk, but there’s dozens of new ports coming out every day now for every game imaginable* thanks to AI. Unsurprisingly most of them seem quarter-assed at best. Hopefully this one gets better
*Just randomly googled Xenogears recomp and yes, someone already made one a few weeks back. I wonder how long it’ll take for video game publishers to catch on and to begin shitting out official low-effort vibecoded ports for 50 bucks a pop
My conspiracy brain is telling me all these buggy AI recomps (and translations) are to poison the perception of publicly made PC ports.
Nah, it’s script kiddie dipshits. The gamer space is full of them. People who are using it as a way to get back at artists. Using it as a way to get social media attention. Probably other stupid reasons. There are like 500 GitHub pages for PS5 emulators that are 99.9% junk.
Oh that suuuuucks
get back at artists
What in the G*mer? Why?
So does it play? What exactly is the quality of a vibe-coded recompilation?
https://github.com/LittleBitUA/DPRecomp
Seems to play but reading about the current issues it sounds like it’s best to wait to see if more of them get sorted out
Also even that github page reads like LLM slop to me
Honestly I think this is a good use of LLMs, ports and emulators have always been a bunch of trial and error work anyway and LLMs are pretty good for accelerating this process.
Also most ports are going to have some issues, I’ve very rarely encountered a flawless port.
I just hope most of these manage to get to the finish line. I guess wishing all of them are going to turn out as lovingly crafted as the Super Mario 64 or Zelda ports is foolish, but it’d sure be nice
I’ve been playing DuskLight and it has been absolutely stellar lately, I’ve looked into other Decomps which would have an equivalently polished port on mobile but it seems that unfortunately dusklight remains in a league of it’s own for new in beauty, modern features, and absurdly good optimization
I wonder how long it’ll take for video game publishers to catch on and to begin shitting out official low-effort vibecoded ports for 50 bucks a pop
Maybe, but they probably already got a big payout from selling their private source code to the AI companies for training, which is precisely why AI is so good at “reverse engineering.”
The AI companies don’t need to pay for the source codes when studios are already uploading the code as they use AI coding agents.
I doubt this, mostly because we’ve seen that most of these companies are very, very bad at preserving assets and source code for old games
Is it so far fetched that the companies that legally own the code could hunt it down and give the holder a cut? We know former employees often keep copies for themselves.
These companies care so little than when a company like GOG approaches them to rerelease their old games for them they turn them down because they see the potential profits as too insignificant to give a shit. So unless these companies are showing up to their door with wheelbarrows full of money in exchange for their old hard drives I don’t see why it’d be different
hey, a chance to plug MVG!
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Honestly, stuff like this is actually a decent use of AI. It’s easier to really quickly get a project started before the lawsuits start.
Decomp projects can live for a long time when they get a userbase, and even a shity vibecoded start can be enough to get that off the ground.
Just look at Lego Island. MattKC built a userbase for it with his first attempt and now it’s almost byte perfect.
