Good call out! The touch screen is generally pretty unpleasant to me now as well.

Wii and some Wii U stuff too, there's a whole era of games on Nintendo platforms where devs felt it was necessary to use input or display gimmicks. Once in a while it was essential to a game, but frequently it was shoehorned into an otherwise pretty traditional game.

Some of that could be fixed by smaller scale mods or cheat codes, but you're right that some might take big changes that need a decomp.

Ah, I see, a man of culture as well.

They are still cool. Even with AI help the good decomps will rise to the top but it will take time to filter them out from the slop.

On the flip side, there are still projects out there that don't (or at least claim not to) use AI approaches. Here's a list I saw the other day: https://backloggd.com/u/WumpaGem/list/game-decompsrecomps-that-arent-vibe-coded/

Yeah, it definitely leaves some sour in the mouth feeling with Ai involved. Especially if its vibe coded without the code fully documented and understood by humans. Those efforts aren't going away and people still do the time consuming and well thought out decompilation projects. I see the new flux of Ai driven recompilation as a bonus. At least it works, I mean i was waiting decades to play Wave Race 64 with 120 fps. Without these Ai tools, it could probably take another decade if anyone else than me was interested into it at all.

So I understand your point and I'm not the biggest fan of Ai too (but I'm not the biggest hater as well). But at least this is used to give it to us for free, its not a commercial project we pay for (the ports).

Is it? The game does actually work with modern PCs, at least the Steam version: https://store.steampowered.com/app/32370/STAR_WARS_Knights_of_the_Old_Republic

Hardly anyone talks about Black and White, surprised to see the mention.

I just got into the decomp scene and the tool I chose is Quiver Launcher: https://quiverlauncher.com/ I don't know how it compares to Decomp Buddy. It looks good too. I'll definitely bookmark it for now, thanks.

Huh?! None such project is listed on https://decomp.dev/projects . I thought there was already one. All the later Mario Kart games have such projects, and on SNES even F-Zero got it (amazing).

BTW there are lot of Romhacks like just recently a fullscreen mode for single player, without half the screen covered by the map. I still need to test it out: https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/10083/ Imagine what people could do with a PC port and without limitations of the SNES.

I'm sure someone will attempt it. Currently the scene is going crazy, even doing weird crossovers. Super early experimental phase! Soon a new Crazy Taxi comes out, so there will be interest to port the original, I'm sure.

Found this project, maybe it already works? - https://github.com/retroplastic/blastcorps

Such a gem. What would you want to be improved and changed, other than performance?

I love level editors. Every game (where it makes sense) should have a level editor and possibly a randomizer / roguelike mode. I wish someone did a simple level editor for Wave Race 64, just to place the buoy (not sure if that is the right word BTW).

I have seen level editors for Adventures of Lolo games. One example is for 3: https://www.romhacking.net/utilities/759/ The Syphen Filter games would definitely profit a lot from such enhancements, generally speaking the 32-bit and N64 era of gaming.