I used AI to built static recompilers for 5 retro game systems
In the video game industry, it is becoming increasingly important to recognize the anti-consumer practice of live-service games. Consumers pay full price for the game or for in-game content, only for a game to be shut down not even a year later. The publisher is able to take the consumer's money and run and leaving them with nothing as the game is completely unplayable. Gundam Evolution was released September 20th, 2022 and saw its end of service on November 29th, 2023, hardly a year later. Side 7 is a community project that aimed to continue the game's legacy as a private server project. As…
I used AI to built static recompilers for 5 retro game systems launched on May 26, 2026 with 5 votes, #2,008 of 20,538 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
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💡This article discusses heavy use of AI, but the article itself was not written using AI. The words in this article are my own. I wished to communicate my intents and story myself, grammatical errors and all, of the why and how I am using AI📝Each of the 6
Over the past 4 months, I have managed to build static recompilers for five different game systems, each capable of running at least one commercial game for its target platform, all with the assistance of AI. I have been an early experimenter with modern LLM AI tooling. My first introductions to it were actually with OpenAI around June of 2022, in the early ChatGPT era. The models at the time were...underwhelming. They struggled to catch basic grammar issues and often could not reason through even simple copy/pasted functions. But it still fascinated me, as someone who works in software, seeing this rough semblance of reasoning and output that felt more human-like than structured data like…from 1379.tech
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In the video game industry, it is becoming increasingly important to recognize the anti-consumer practice of live-service games. Consumers pay full price for the game or for in-game content, only for a game to be shut down not even a year later. The publisher is able to take the consumer's money and run and leaving…
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