Recompilation: An Incredible New Way to Keep N64 Games Alive
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Cue Nintendo’s DMCA takedown in 3…
It's like with decomps: Nintendo can't do shit about it.
Why is that, isn’t it technically a derivative work?
All copyrighted material is stripped from the repos and has to be extracted from a valid rom by the user.
The reverse engineered code doesn't count as derivative.
Super Mario 64 has been decompiled for years now.
I am not a lawyer so can’t comment on the reverse engineered code counting as derivative. Personally, I thought it would be considered that. The time doesn’t mean much considering Yuzu.
Yuzu | Initial release | January 14, 2018; 6 years ago |
Yeah, but the Yuzu devs allegedly bragged about TotK running on EA builds before release. The decompilers weren't that stupid.
Decompilations are about as legal as emulators (that don't circumvent encryption).