Zelda 64: Recompiled is a project that uses N64: Recompiled to statically recompile Majora’s Mask into a native port with many new features and enhancements.

    • Richard@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      has zero issues that you might get from emulation (like inaccuracies)

      That doesn’t make sense to me. Emulation should be 100% accurate software-wise, at the expense of performance. Can you elaborate?

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        10 months ago

        Software-wise, sure. It’s easy to dump the BIOS and game. The hard part is emulating the hardware. Consoles often have quirky architectures and special chips that don’t map to PCs very well. And the chips themselves often have quirks that either aren’t documented, or work in a way that disagrees with documentation. But the game developers often relied on those particular quirks for their games. For example, if there was a bug in the GPU that caused textures to become blurry when loaded in a certain way, a developer might exploit that as a free blur filter. (If you’re interested in actual examples, try the Dolphin dev blog. I think it’s really interesting.)

    • bigmclargehuge@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Also much more possibilities in terms of controls, ie no more janky remapping buttons and mouse axis into pretending to be controller inputs or messing with mouse injectors, instead you can get native KB+M support, dual analog, etc.