All of this recomp stuff is pretty amazing. I really don't like how AI changed my profession, but hey at least I get something good from it.

I really don't like how AI changed my profession, but hey at least I get my programming hobbies ruined too.

And it will make less sense for big publishers to invest in building great games if people are just going to be able to decompile and run them on their own hardware.

Big publishers have been pumping mtx riddled buggy crap for a good while now, I have no sympathy.

a big publisher just announced (today) that their new development is fully AI, from code to art. So it seems we're out of big games from them anyway.

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Indeed. Programming feels so meaningless now, but at least we can replay cherished games natively. I'm doing a video game decompilation with AI as well.

same lol. but hey, ive been able to play the xbox 360 version of NFS most wanted perfectly on steamdeck in one press of a button due to the efforts of the fine folks working on these recomps so ill take a small win here and there. ive heard theyve also got the original forza horizon working too. so im stoked.

Here's a guy who put together this recomp of NFS the Xbox 360 version, running on the Steam Deck:

https://old.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/1x0vzyb/speedbre...

Forza Horizon recomp: https://github.com/arcanite24/pinyon-shift

More Xbox 360 projects here:

https://fangamesdb.com/consoles/xbox-360.html

There were already a couple of ways to play PS2 games though. Is it meaningful to put it in WebAssembly (especially when we were promised things like a cure for cancer [0])?

0 - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/sep/08/ai-cure-can...

No mention of AI at all in this repo.

Not explicitly but it's clearly all done using AI. Read the prose.