Reverse-engineered games: All the news on video game decomps, recomps, VR and web and 3D ports

Reverse-engineered games: All the news on video game decomps, recomps, VR and web and 3D ports

逆向工程游戏:关于视频游戏反编译、重编译、VR、网页版及 3D 移植的所有新闻

It’s a wild time for retro gaming. Thanks to decompilations and recompilations of classic titles, those games are becoming unshackled from their proprietary code and original hardware to be ported to new devices or updated in ways to completely change the original game. Ever imagined skateboarding in Call of Duty? Or playing the original Halo right in your web browser, complete with multiplayer? 复古游戏正处于一个疯狂的时代。得益于经典游戏的“反编译”(decompilation)和“重编译”(recompilation),这些游戏正逐渐摆脱其专有代码和原始硬件的束缚,被移植到新设备上,或以彻底改变原版游戏的方式进行更新。你是否曾想象过在《使命召唤》里玩滑板?或者直接在网页浏览器里玩初代《光环》,并体验完整的多人模式?

These are unofficial versions of games, so they may sit in a legal gray area. It seems unlikely that Nintendo, for example, is particularly happy about people finding ways to play The Legend of Zelda on non-Nintendo hardware. Many of these projects are also made with the assistance of AI, which, for some people, is a non-starter given ethical or environmental concerns surrounding the technology. 这些都是游戏的非官方版本,因此可能处于法律的灰色地带。例如,任天堂显然不会乐见人们找到在非任天堂硬件上运行《塞尔达传说》的方法。此外,许多此类项目是在人工智能的辅助下完成的,考虑到围绕该技术的伦理或环境问题,这对某些人来说是无法接受的。

Below, you’ll find our coverage of gaming decomps, recomps, and all the other ways gamers are reverse-engineering games to go previously unimaginable places. 在下方,你将看到我们关于游戏反编译、重编译以及玩家通过逆向工程将游戏带入前所未有之境的各种报道。


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How an online community took back the Legend of Zelda 在线社区如何“夺回”《塞尔达传说》 Two hours ago | Jay Peters 两小时前 | Jay Peters

Here’s a video of Half-Life: Alyx running natively on a Vision Pro. Take a look. It was “made possible” thanks in part to Valve’s ARM port of the game it made for the Steam Frame and with some help from Claude. 这是一段《半衰期:爱莉克斯》(Half-Life: Alyx)在 Vision Pro 上原生运行的视频。来看看吧。这之所以能“成为可能”,部分归功于 Valve 为 Steam Frame 开发的 ARM 架构移植版,以及 Claude 的协助。 Oct 5 | Sean Hollister 10月5日 | Sean Hollister

Just think: You could be playing Halo in a web browser right now. The video game decompilation movement has done it again. Not only do we have 128 player Halo across Windows, Linux, and Android, you can also just fire it up in a web browser thanks to OpenHaloCE and immediately start campaign or a huge multiplayer match. It’s not just one dev: lots of people made this happen. 试想一下:你现在就可以在网页浏览器里玩《光环》了。视频游戏反编译运动再次创造了奇迹。我们不仅能在 Windows、Linux 和 Android 上体验 128 人的《光环》,多亏了 OpenHaloCE,你甚至可以直接在浏览器中启动它,立即开始战役或大型多人对战。这并非出自一人之手:许多人共同促成了这一切。 Sep 28 | Sean Hollister 9月28日 | Sean Hollister

This unofficial Lego Racers remake runs in your browser with split-screen and online multiplayer. The classic game decompilation movement has produced yet another amazing feat: 1999’s Lego Racers isn’t just back, the excellent Mario-Kart-meets-Lego game is anywhere you want it to be. NavigatorSharp’s fan recreation Step On It works in a web browser on desktop or phone, and you can find builds for Android, Mac, Windows PC and Linux (including the Steam Deck) right here too. 这款非官方的《乐高赛车》重制版可以在你的浏览器中运行,并支持分屏和在线多人模式。经典游戏反编译运动又创造了一项惊人的成就:1999 年的《乐高赛车》不仅回归了,这款融合了《马力欧卡丁车》与乐高元素的优秀游戏现在随处可见。NavigatorSharp 的粉丝重制版《Step On It》可在桌面或手机的网页浏览器中运行,你也可以在这里找到适用于 Android、Mac、Windows PC 和 Linux(包括 Steam Deck)的版本。 Aug 12, 2022 | Derek Hill 2022年8月12日 | Derek Hill


How an online community took back the Legend of Zelda 在线社区如何“夺回”《塞尔达传说》 Haeun Jang / The Verge

I don’t have a first memory of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time because it’s been in my life for as long as I can remember. Before I had the coordination to play the game myself, I would watch my older brothers play it for hours on end. When I could finally play through it myself, it felt like flying. 我不记得第一次接触《塞尔达传说:时之笛》是什么时候,因为它在我记事起就一直伴随着我。在还没学会如何自己操作游戏之前,我会看哥哥们玩上好几个小时。当我终于能亲自通关时,那种感觉就像在飞翔。

I chase that dopamine hit once every year or two by playing through Ocarina of Time, which normally requires dusting off my old GameCube and hoping the disk isn’t too scratched to read. But for the last several months, I haven’t been playing Ocarina of Time on a Nintendo console at all. Instead, I’ve been playing it on something called Ship of Harkinian: an unofficial port of Ocarina of Time for PC that a few short years ago would have been unimaginable. 我每隔一两年就会重温一遍《时之笛》来寻求那种多巴胺带来的快感,这通常需要我掸掉旧 GameCube 上的灰尘,并祈祷光盘没有被刮花到无法读取。但在过去的几个月里,我根本没有在任天堂主机上玩过《时之笛》。相反,我一直在玩一个叫“Ship of Harkinian”的游戏:这是一个非官方的 PC 版《时之笛》移植作品,在短短几年前,这还是不可想象的。