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hello, i was playing arround with recompiling some games for the fun of it and for improving my runtime and someone told me about the ps1 version of nfs4, then i went looking to see if a decomp was available and it was, since with a decomp is easier to know what the game is trying to do and see if my runtime is answearing correctly for the calls

but there is a pretty weird thing about it, it claims an All rights reserved license, so this made me wonder what is the legality of this, considering how decompilation is a grey area, im curious to see what are you guys toughts about it

in my opinion i dont know if that is legal, but i believe this just doesnt make any sense, how do you even claim code you do not own? besides that it feels kinda wrong since this limits the modding potential of the game since you cannot use the decomp without said "permission from the author"

this feels so wrong lmao

in this point i dont even care about this decomp being ai generated or not, the license really baffled me

So, with all the confusion media is causing with the terms i think it would be cool to have a post explaining the difference, for the ones interested in knowing it, this will be a bit oversimplified so some stuff will be ommited to try and make it easier to understand

first of all: Decomps Recomps and Source ports are different, although the last two aim on porting the code from one plataform to another

so what each one of them mean?

Decompilation: Decompilation is the process of recreating what the original source code for that software would look like, this is done by analyzing the compiled code and trying to reproduce what the source code would be like, its like a translation, the compiled code is a language, the source code is another language, the idea is to translate the compiled code to source code while keeping the same "meaning", or using another analogy its like a cake, you cant unbake it but you can take a look and eventually figure out the recipe that leads to that cake, decompilation does not equal a pc port, although it can lead to one, its not its primary goal, its goal is to recreate the source code

Source ports: extending from the idea above a source port gets the source code produced by the decomp and adapts it to run on modern hardware (this is what harbour masters does for example) (source ports does not necessarely derive from a decomp, this is oversimplified here)

Recompilation: then we have recompilation, first you need to understand what is a recompiler. the recompiler is a piece of software that the idea is to take the compiled code, the machine code, and do something similar to a translitaration* on it, it gets the machine code and generates the equivalent code in a high level language, that then can be compiled down to modern hardware. the code is harder to understand since this is a transliteration and this is not a magic box, a lot of work still needs to be done to make a proper port, just like a source port, decompilations can help a recomp to be done since you can better understand the code

translitaration* is the act of converting the words from one writing system to another, like "水" from japanese kanji to "mizu" in the latin alphabet, this is a transliteration, a translation would be saying that "水" means "water"

I hope this helps to clear the confusion, there is a lot more to these topics, as stated before this is oversimplified to make it easier to understand, i also wrote this at 3 am so sorry if something sounds a bit weird xD

Hello! earlier this week we released symphonyrecomp (ps1 based and not a slopcomp!) and since them we made a bunch of updates

most are bug fixes, and, unfixing bugfixes? lol, basically one of my patches acidentally broke rsl, so i made it ignore this patch when using the original resolution, so the people that like speedruning can have their fun XD

i also made a simple shader mod that lets you put shaders on the output

Link for anyone interested https://github.com/BlackLabelHQ/SymphonyRecomp/releases

WHAT IS A RECOMP? A MISERABLE LITLE PILE OF CODE???

port of crt-geom to recompone's shader system

What is a widescreen? a litle miserable 16:9 ??

Hello people, as you may not know ive been working on an SotN recomp (and the recompiler) for the past couple of months so ive come to share some updates!

so it turns out some people on the decomp server saw my tool and also started working on an recomp in parallel with different features, they thought i was using SotN more as a test ground to the recompiler (wich is partially true but i want to make a full recomp) so now both projects are going to merge, they have some cool features like cheats and i have some cool features like the widescreen as seen above lol

an "beta" release is aproaching very quickly, just know that it will be a bit buggy and the widescreen BREAKS a lot of stuff(ive been working on fix everything i can but i will probably forget some stuff) the game is playable start to finish with minor problems

now with an proper "team" it will be even more quick and it will have more features being worked on!
thanks for everyone support on this silly ptoject

shall the recomp age of ps1 begin!! muhahaha

(i relocated the item text wrongly i know)

other widescreen pic:

so ive been working these past months in both an static recompiler for ps1 and an recompilation of sotn (not assossiated with the xbla rexglue port and not vibecoded) and ive been working on the widescreen patch (increasing viewport and fixing the tons of bugs it causes)

https://preview.redd.it/sesv3vman3bh1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=e591a2590ef41199a42e891752b0077f5e24cf96

this is not publicaly released yet but since its getting close to an ""beta"" release i wanted to share it

i hope ya like it, if you have any sugesstions of other patches i should do to improve gameplay and etc pls lmk!

Reddit only works if i open an private tab, while in a normal session reddit doesnt work at all, only old.reddt.com works apparently

i tried everything i have no idea why it doesnt work on a normal session, does anyone have experienced this problem before?

what happens is: i open reddit and it gets stuck on an inifite loading state, if i open an specific post the post loads but comments nor the rest of the page loads, old reddit seens to be unafected by this (since im posting this from old reddit)

im using firefox developer edition, it just started bugging like this after nowhere, i havent updated my browser or done nothing out of the ordinary

i will read it anyways it seens cool but i honestly have no clue what is it about, the characters are cute tho