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<blockquote data-quote="Rfire" data-source="post: 9047349" data-attributes="member: 34768"><p>Possible idea for a fork to make distributing the binary OKish:</p><p></p><p>Change it so that instead of it building the game's assets into the game executible it instead uses external files that you extract from the ROM image. Eg, /sfx/ for sound effects /textures/, etc that way even the compiled binary wouldn't contain any Nintendo copyrighted assets. It would also make it easier to mod textures and things like the HUD and music.</p><p></p><p>So you would have Mario64.exe which itself would contain no Nintendo copyrighted content, and you'd use a Python script or whatever to extract the needed assets from the ROM and the executible would load in the assets from the files you extracted to the subdirectories.</p><p></p><p>Even better is if the extracted assets were converted into a standard format for easy editing such as textures in PNG format. Though that would probably take a lot of coding to do in comparison with having it load in the assets externally instead of building them into the executible.</p><p></p><p>Think of it the same way as many early (and some current) emulators work: Doesn't emulate the BIOS and so you need a BIOS bin file for the emulator to work, and it is left to the end user to put the BIOS bin in the folder themselves so that the emulator can be distributed legally.</p><p></p><p>To use a more relevant example, the Doom 64 Ex project. Allows you to play Doom 64 natively on many different platforms, but you have to supply/extract the WAD file from a Doom 64 ROM image yourself. As opposed to the copyrighted assets being packed in with the executible which means only the source code can be legally distributed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rfire, post: 9047349, member: 34768"] Possible idea for a fork to make distributing the binary OKish: Change it so that instead of it building the game's assets into the game executible it instead uses external files that you extract from the ROM image. Eg, /sfx/ for sound effects /textures/, etc that way even the compiled binary wouldn't contain any Nintendo copyrighted assets. It would also make it easier to mod textures and things like the HUD and music. So you would have Mario64.exe which itself would contain no Nintendo copyrighted content, and you'd use a Python script or whatever to extract the needed assets from the ROM and the executible would load in the assets from the files you extracted to the subdirectories. Even better is if the extracted assets were converted into a standard format for easy editing such as textures in PNG format. Though that would probably take a lot of coding to do in comparison with having it load in the assets externally instead of building them into the executible. Think of it the same way as many early (and some current) emulators work: Doesn't emulate the BIOS and so you need a BIOS bin file for the emulator to work, and it is left to the end user to put the BIOS bin in the folder themselves so that the emulator can be distributed legally. To use a more relevant example, the Doom 64 Ex project. Allows you to play Doom 64 natively on many different platforms, but you have to supply/extract the WAD file from a Doom 64 ROM image yourself. As opposed to the copyrighted assets being packed in with the executible which means only the source code can be legally distributed. [/QUOTE]
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