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Pokemon recompilation project gen1recomp adds FireRed and LeafGreen to its list of supported games

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After adding support for Pokemon Crystal last month, the gen1recomp team are back again with the first third generation entries. Arriving amidst recent updates, both FireRed and LeafGreen are now playable through the lua-based application. At the time of writing, the game seems pretty ordinary, but if mods for the first and second generation are anything to go by, this could soon become the best way to play these games.

As with the other games in this project, you are required to supply a compatible ROM to be able to extract assets from. The latest version, v0.3.0, is available to download across Android, iOS, Switch, and a whole heap of other platforms. You can find the GitHub repo linked below.

Note for those interested that AI was used in this project as a tool to support development, with commits being reviewed by humans prior to being merged.

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Flame said:
I mean we cant just ignore stuff that the scene will like. Its the reality of the sutation.
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I appreciate the due diligence for disclosure on frontpage articles, at least.

I won't act like the headline-chasing, slapdash projects like this didn't happen in the past, but it's nice people can still sniff out a rushjob from afar. And telling when people get defensive of said rushjobs.
 
DuoForce said:
Out of all decomps, the Gen 1 decomp is by far the most blatantly obvious vibecoded ai slop port to exist. wait for cybervisi0n's port or play on an emulator. Fuck this AI Slop consistently hitting GBATemp's front page
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Show us your amazing gen1 decomp.i'm sure it's better than this trash AI slop.
 
lordofcombo said:
Show us your amazing gen1 decomp.i'm sure it's better than this trash AI slop.
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You mean, other than the decomp this project is based on, or the one they mentioned in the post you are replying to...?

I assume you calling it a decomp is just a mistake, normally I wouldn't bother to correct that but it is an important distinction if you're asking genuinely.
 
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My only worry about the use of AI is the creator of the project not knowing what to fix or how to fix due to lack of coding knowledge or just not knowing how to interpret the code.
That being said, this project in my honest opinion, should have focused on getting all of Gen 1 especifically to run and fix all of the bugs BEFORE going to Gen 2 games or even Leaf Green (Gen 3).
 
I'm so sick of the AI discussion over and over again.
You can love it, you can hate it. It's there and almost every dev will use it. Because it's almost stupid to not use it to speed up things.
Life is short.
 
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lordelan said:
I'm so sick of the AI discussion over and over again.
You can love it, you can hate it. It's there and almost every dev will use it. Because it's almost stupid to not use it to speed up things.
Life is short.
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It’s my general hope that people on here seeing good projects thatve made use of it as a tool will just get used to it to some extent. Or at the very least diminish the idea that every app that’s used AI is “slop”. But we’ll see.
 
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You mean, other than the decomp this project is based on, or the one they mentioned in the post you are replying to...?

I assume you calling it a decomp is just a mistake, normally I wouldn't bother to correct that but it is an important distinction if you're asking genuinely.
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I dont care what it is.it works and that what important.new update gave us save modding in a way ive never seen.so im pretty happy.As for dev not using AI,i'll let my kids wait for their release.Like someone earlier said,life is short and we dont have that much time.
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with how things are going ,we will get gen 6 in less than a year.You guys dont know how these decomp/ports improve pokemon playing.with time imagine up to gen 6-7 native on 15 dollar android machines via portmaster.im salivating.
 
lordofcombo said:
I dont care what it is.it works and that what important.new update gave us save modding in a way ive never seen.so im pretty happy.As for dev not using AI,i'll let my kids wait for their release.Like someone earlier said,life is short and we dont have that much time.
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with how things are going ,we will get gen 6 in less than a year.You guys dont know how these decomp/ports improve pokemon playing.with time imagine up to gen 6-7 native on 15 dollar android machines via portmaster.im salivating.
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Eh, I wouldn't go that far. Gen 6 and 7 are still 3D games, basic ones by modern standards sure, but "recompiling" also means you lose a lot of the optimisations that could have been made for their consules.
I mean, these GBA recomps have performance settings. For Game Boy Advance games. Their CPUs ran in megahertz.
 
you guys are really understimating the power of these new AI LLMs.the other day a real Dev ported a game in few hours.The speed at which a skeleton for a recomp project can be put on track.Youre right i mistook the port as a recomp effort,they are very different.but that reverse engineering is gonna be soon AI driven,i give it max 2 years.Assembly is no joke.
The most awesome thing is that alot of special arcade hardware is being ported everywhere.its truly the best time to be a player.
 

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