More and more titles from the N64 are joining the ranks of fully decompiled games, bit by bit, and with a great decompilation nearing completion, a great PC port is bound to happen eventually, with Diddy Kong Racing being the latest title to be nearing a full completion for its decompilation.

The decompilation for Diddy Kong Racing started back in May, 2020 by DavidSM64, and it has been steadily been worked on since the pandemic up to today. Most of the work has been done towards transforming the ASM code into C decompilation with 81.27% being done in a matching sense (meaning that functions match 1:1 with the original game (this ASM->C step is what the developers call Adventure One, in a nod to the original game's Adventure modes), and 84% taking into account non-matching functions.

The second part of this project is the proper documentation and clean up of the whole codebase (which the developers call Adventure Two), with the percentage for it being 53.79%.

While the whole project still has a lot of work before it can be labelled as finished, the most important part of it is without a doubt the ASM to C decompilation, which once it starts reaching its 100% completion, a PC port of Diddy Kong Racing would be a possibility, given there's people interested in making the port out of the decompiled C language from the project.

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[CeeDee]

Diddy Kong Racing kicks ass, I can't wait to play a nice widescreen 60FPS port of it

 

[Cranesbill]

Oooh banana

 

[Xdqwerty]

I hope it both runs in my PC and that it's better than the DS version

 

[Kwyjor]

Looygi Bros just did a video or two on the differences between the DS version and the N64 version. It would be neat if some of the improvements could be integrated into the older version one way or another. (The DS version definitely had some shortcomings.)

 

[ShadowOne333]

Looygi Bros just did a video or two on the differences between the DS version and the N64 version. It would be neat if some of the improvements could be integrated into the older version one way or another. (The DS version definitely had some shortcomings.)

Having the extra characters from DS would be a nice start, but I haven't played the whole DS port to know what other significant changes are there.

 

[Xdqwerty]

Having the extra characters from DS would be a nice start, but I haven't played the whole DS port to know what other significant changes are there.

iirc Conker and banjo got replaced with Dixie and teenager Tiny Kong and bosses were made easier

 

[MysticStarlight]

I love when games get decompiled. Can't wait for this one to reach 100% completion.

 

[ShadowOne333]

iirc Conker and banjo got replaced with Dixie and teenager Tiny Kong and bosses were made easier

Well tbh the first Wizpig boss was surely in a dire need for a nerf. Or at least that boss can be made clearer by teaching the player about the hidden stop-n-go green boost before that race.

 

[PatrickD85]

Nice, had a love hate relationship with this game ... due to the ... ehh second race I thought with Wizpig.
Maybe I'll get a chance to revisit that

 

[NinStar]

iirc Conker and banjo got replaced with Dixie and teenager Tiny Kong and bosses were made easier

I genuinely hate tall Tiny existence.

Anyway, Diddy Kong Racing will finally be ported to everything.

 

[SDA]

Don't ask me why but I always find it satisfying to see games being decompiled.

 

[UltraAziz]

Looygi Bros just did a video or two on the differences between the DS version and the N64 version. It would be neat if some of the improvements could be integrated into the older version one way or another. (The DS version definitely had some shortcomings.)

TIL that diddy kong racing has a ds version

 

[hippy dave]

Haven't ever played it, but will give it a look once it's ported to Switch if it's a fun game.

 

[RookieKid]

Great news!

 

[simbin]

Cool stuff—fingers crossed for a Dreamcast port someday.

 

[stanleyopar2000]

Oooh banana

DON-DON

DON-
KEY-
KONG

(Yeaaaahh)

 

[Robert Newbie]

81% is amazing progress. I wish DavidSM64 luck in completing Adventures One and Two.

 

[CMDreamer]

Another awesome game from the N64 reaching near full decompilation status is an awesome news for me.

Gotta play it again, soon natively on my PC, maybe.

 

[LexDG]

3DS when?