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This is true, I'm sure it'll be revealed sooner or later, but if it does work, then like Limen said, it'll blow open the doors for 358 modding

Just finished the first boss of Dark Road.

As I mentioned, they use established tools in the decomp scene to check 1-to-1 replication already, and that's how they get their progress reports. getting to 100% means that this tool has checked every single function in the game versus their decomp and everything outputs exactly how the game does. regardless of AI use, that means this decomp is 100% complete, and the next step is for folks to take this and build recomps/mods/remakes with this(hopefully without AI)

the difference with decompilation and recomps is that decompilation mostly uses AI to again, pinpoint things quicker and find what they need to replicate. It's an entirely different situation than using GenAI to generate NEW code to build recomps, which is what we DONT want in this case

so yeah, regardless of the situation with the person who decompiled the game, we now have a fully, 100% usable decompilation of Days

basically, it's like asking AI to find a specific needle in a haystack for you with its metal detector because it can comb through the stack in 5 minutes while you take 5 hours. then with that needle you can carefully hand build your 3D model of the mona lisa made out of needles. then you ask it to find the next needle for you

versus, asking the AI to replicate the mona lisa in front of you so you have your own copy at home

the first option is going to lead to a human made sculpture, assisted by AI for speed and not to help build it. the second is going to be slop because AI won't be able to accurately recreate anything from scratch like that lmfao

limen it's been years are you the guy who full chained every mom song

I am the MoM freak yes hello

woaaah

you moderate here zam

This is extremely insightful, I was not aware of how the process fully worked so this is great to know. Thanks Limen 🫡

Great analogy too