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Re:Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into n... by ranger_danger on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @09:55AM (#40366995)
Jamulator did this for NES way back in 2013 but nobody really seemed to care...

https://andrewkelley.me/post/jamulator.html

There is also Winlator for running Windows programs on Android:

https://github.com/brunodev85/winlator

Also is the youtube video linked in the article using an AI voice?

Re:Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into n... by zamadatix on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @11:43AM (#40368424)
Jamulator didn't take it farther than what NES emulators could do beyond the way it ran. If Jamulator had released with similar enhancements for Zelda it probably would have been a lot more popular. I.e. the interest is more from what is now available with it than about how it does it.

That's just Nerrel, a real person, narrating. It's crazy (in an interesting way, not necessarily a doom and gloom way) how we have AI voices these days so good we start to suspect people who don't speak like we expect are AI.

Re:Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into n... by claudex on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @10:39AM (#40367556)
>Jamulator did this for NES way back in 2013 but nobody really seemed to care...

At least Mr WiseGuy seems to care. From the N64Recom Github repo[0]: "This is not the first project that uses static recompilation on game console binaries. A well known example is jamulator, which targets NES binaries."

[0]: https://github.com/Mr-Wiseguy/N64Recomp

Re:Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into n... by BearOso on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @10:20AM (#40367310)
Jamulator was unsuccessful because so much extra hardware was on the cartridges. Recompilation complicates things and doesn't provide many benefits in that situation.

The N64 is fixed hardware, so it's a little bit easier. Even so, this project still uses emulation for the RDP. I don't know how it handles generated RSP microcode, maybe it doesn't. A lot of games just used the official libraries.

Re:Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into n... by refracture on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @11:58AM (#40368657)
That's just Nerrel; his narration is so flat that he's always sounded like an AI. I enjoy that mix with his humor.