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This is fairly nonlegal, right? ...
by niedbalski 12y ago
This is fairly nonlegal, right? ...
- richardwhiuk 12y agoExcessively so
- viraptor 12y agoDistribution of copyrighted stuff, yes. Decompiling itself (if the author kept it private), probably depends on where you live.
- Vespasian 12y agoTo sad that so much work is likely to vanish within a few days. But they probably knew what was coming.
- JetSpiegel 12y agoUnless they come to my PC and delete the files from my HDD, it won't disappear.
- ANTSANTS 12y agoMany famous Nintendo games have been publicly disassembled before, and Nintendo is either unaware or turns a blind eye. The only different thing about this disassembly is that it is hosted on GitHub, where it is much more likely to be seen by people that aren't already interested in ROM hacking and retroprogramming.
- kristofferR 12y agoThankfully Github doesn't do preemptive DMCA removals, so it looks like it's safe for the time being.
- pasky 12y agoIt's about as illegal as OpenTTD is; the initial version of OpenTTD was disassembled TTD extremely literally rewritten in C.
- jagger27 12y agoSame thing is being done for Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 right now, though it patches the original .exe to use a .dll file that override the original ASM addresses and calls with C functions. I really, really like the maintainers gradual replacement approach. https://github.com/IntelOrca/OpenRCT2/ https://github.com/IntelOrca/OpenRCT2/
- Vespasian 12y agoWow, thank you so much for mentioning this project (never heard of it before). I absolutely loved RC2 when I was younger and if I can get this to run with the GOG version I will be certainly do my share to bring it back as open source.