Decomps, Recomps & Native Ports: Arcade, Console, & PC

[2huwman]

This is worth trying if you love these games (Time Crisis, Rave Racer, etc.):

https://github.com/spacestate1/namco22-decompile

The all work really well, with widescreen and increased resolution.

 

[John Bennett]

That is impressive, I can't deny, lots of these A.I. ports are appearing everywhere. Even better that this one's open-source!

As a nerdy engineer, I find the concept of decompilation fascinating as I imagined using A.I. and Ghidra will come up with something that helps you see into the inner workings of the games. Makes me want to see if I can port some 80's games to Pi Pico's etc.

Sadly if it comes up with code like this, I've got no chance:

(source rr_main.c)



edit: to re-iterate, all for the emulation, just wish the code wasn't gibberish so it would be useful for understanding how old games were written.
In fact it's great that this isn't some Patreon cash-job.

 

[2huwman]

Yeah I'm glad the Kitsune emulator supports Konami Viper games as I didn't fancy paying Teknoparrot for the pleasure.

 

[John Bennett]

It's funny, barely any time after I put Galaxian³ code on the MAME Github and I see Teknoparrot talking about emulating Galaxian³.

'Written from scratch' .... yeah, of course. It is in no way whatsoever A.I. harvesting what's out there and doing all the heavy lifting

So on that basis, all power to these free open source emulators. And maybe one day they can make the code readable.

 

[Bods]

Project R for 2 of the San Francisco Rush games also

https://t3hd0gg.com/project-r/#requirements

 

[2huwman]

And Midway Quicksilver II (Hydro Thunder and Offroad Thunder) https://github.com/mourix/VCThunder

 

[2huwman]

I've changed the thread title to include all of the interesting stuff coming out at the moment. Feel free to add links to any you like!

 

[Bods]

I've changed the thread title to include all of the interesting stuff coming out at the moment. Feel free to add links to any you like!

Was just thinking maybe a new thread as I was just looking at UltraCombo too so title change perfect

Killer Instinct 1 & 2 @Retroman839 be good on the Noir maybe
https://github.com/thefixinhixon/UltraCombo/releases/tag/v1.0.0

 

[Bods]

I was looking at this the other week
Was a cool game on the C64 Into The Eagles Nest and I was looking what systems it was released on and found this remake

https://archive.org/details/eaglesNest_201506

 

[2huwman]

Here's a great port of House of the Dead 2

https://github.com/GitFist/hotd2-re

 

[Bods]

Only thing with all these it looks like I'm gonna have to have windows 10 on the machines
Any good options for stripped down versions of 10, I was happy with Win7 for the games machines but what can ya do

 

[2huwman]

Here's a good one - Konami Viper. I'm down to my last working PCB so relieved that GTi Club 2 has this recomp:

https://github.com/spita90/konami-viper-recomp

I've built the Windows version so PM me if you want help with this. It only supports GTi Club 2 and Thrill Dive 2 at the moment.

 

[John Bennett]

I suspect best to enjoy it while it lasts as it's surely all going to get stamped-on for copyright infringement soon


edit: It's interesting looking at the source code. Killer Instinct looks like an emulator, so that's probably ok.
HOTD looks like they/A.I. have converted all the gameplay code into C++.

 

[John Bennett]

Here, port any PS5 game to PC while you're at it

GitHub - boykopovar/AnyPS5: Tool for automatic PS5 executables porting to Linux and Windows

Tool for automatic PS5 executables porting to Linux and Windows - boykopovar/AnyPS5

github.com

(another product of the A.I. 'coding' explosion )

 

[2huwman]

Here's a good one - Konami Viper. I'm down to my last working PCB so relieved that GTi Club 2 has this recomp:

https://github.com/spita90/konami-viper-recomp

I've built the Windows version so PM me if you want help with this. It only supports GTi Club 2 and Thrill Dive 2 at the moment.

I've also added FFB and support for my Logitech Pro wheel through the magic of AI. I also tried to get rid of the rubber banding of the AI cars and make them more competitive, but that hasn't worked yet.

 

[2huwman]

The Lost World lightgun game by Sega.

https://github.com/snicolast/LostWorldNative

This one's really good.

 

[cools]

Wish the LLM input was confined to the code. It makes a dogs dinner of a readme every time, I'm sick of seeing it.

 

[John Bennett]

Seems to be an explosion of A.I. Neo Geo Ports:

Can't say I'm convinced.
They're not adding anything new and many are full of issues the 'authors' don't understand and can't fix
I wonder if it's likely to make people who could've done a better job not bother.
The CPS->Neo resolution decrease doesn't look so bad in some games at least.

 

[2huwman]

I thought I ought to have a go myself and I've spent the last two days adding extra modes and features to GTi Club 2/Driving Party with Claude Code, based on the recent static recomp. So far I've added multi lap races, ghost car in time trial, reverse course races, a 'grand tour' mode (chaining all three courses together as one (almost) seamless race, 4k resolution, got rid of the stupid rubber banding on the AI cars (which now aim for target lap times), super tuned up cars, etc etc. I'm working through the list of stuff I've wished this game had over the years and got all this done within a free trial! My last coding experience was about forty years ago copying pages of Basic into my Oric Atmos to get new games. I've got lots of reservations about AI like most people, but this has been pretty amazing.

 

[yoganuggy]

Scud race port to PC, xbox360 and XBX by Wan Zai + AI

He is working on daytona 2