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Tracking the rise of reverse-engineered game ports
Original: Reverse-engineered games: All the news on video game decomps, recomps, VR and web and 3D ports
A news hub is collecting coverage of video game decompilation and recompilation projects, in which fans reverse-engineer game code to run titles natively on PCs, and of unofficial VR, web-based and 3D ports. These fan-led efforts keep older or abandoned games alive on modern hardware, often in legal grey areas.
Why now: Reverse-engineering projects regularly make news as major games are ported to platforms their creators never supported.
The Vergedecompilation projectsvideo game modding community
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Evidence
- Reverse-engineered games: All the news on video game decomps, recomps, VR and web and 3D ports · The Verge
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