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Another title from the Zelda franchise joins the ranks today for fully decompiled projects, just in time for the holiday season as well.

This time, the title that reached 100% on its decompilation is the GBA title, The Minish Cap, which sees Link going through Hyrule and learning about the Picori and the dark mage, Vaati, who placed a curse on Link.

The decompilation for The Minish Cap has been worked on for several years now, and it has been worked on by the same Zelda decomp team that did the Ocarina of Time decomp, ZeldaRET (or Zelda Reverse Engineering Team), this is also the same team that's also working on the decompilation for Majora's Mask, which is currently around 80% complete.

With this, we could expect a PC port coming soon once people start working out the workings of the decomp to make ports to other systems as well.

Source

 

[DTApple]

With this, we could expect a PC port coming soon

How long do you think this will last before it gets taken down by Nintendo?

 

[Spectremint]

Huh, a Game Boy Advance game. Curious to see where this goes.

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How long do you think this will last before it gets taken down by Nintendo?

De-comps require the original ROM files to function as it pulls the assets from those files, therefore it is legal and Nintendo cannot take them down; this is why the OoT and SM64 decomps still exist

 

[ShadowOne333]

How long do you think this will last before it gets taken down by Nintendo?

Decomps can't be taken down since they're 100% original code that generate the same matching binary once compiled back.

The copyrighted assets for the game are taken directly from a source ROM which the user has to provide, the decomp doesn't include any copyrighted assets, hence why Nintendo gets the L here.

 

[Latiodile]

is there a list somewhere that compiles all of the reverse engineer/decomp projects that have popped up in recent years into a list? would be a great thing to have since i don't keep track of what's currently being worked on or what exists

 

[Viri]

Oh boy, I can't wait to look for all the Kinstone pieces again!

 

[osaka35]

Oh excellent! This is awesome. I applaud all the effort.

 

[DTApple]

Decomps can't be taken down since they're 100% original code that generate the same matching binary once compiled back.

The copyrighted assets for the game are taken directly from a source ROM which the user has to provide, the decomp doesn't include any copyrighted assets, hence why Nintendo gets the L here.

I was referring to the yet-to-exist PC port.

 

[Xzi]

Beeg beeg thanks to ZeldaRET and everybody who works on de-compilation projects like this! Native PC ports of console classics are awesome.

 

[DerEineee]

I was referring to the yet-to-exist PC port.

Still the same. The PC port requieres the original rom that you have to provide.

 

[SAIYAN48]

This is great. I'm looking forward to hacks with MC's engine!

 

[CMDreamer]

Now I'm willing to replay it again, now on my PC without emulation!

Awesome!

 

[spkatsi]

I thought this decomplication would be stack forever at 99%

Excellent game, had complete it back in the day.

 

[Morricorne]

Im still waiting for wind Waker and twilight princess 100% decomp. Those old games I can easy emulate on anything

 

[spkatsi]

Im still waiting for wind Waker and twilight princess 100% decomp. Those old games I can easy emulate on anything

For me the WiiU versions work just fine.

However Majora's Mask is the one I am holding my breath for the decomplication to finish.
Three good reasons:
1) Nerrel's textures that are currently PC only
2) QoL improvements probably will come from Ship of Harkiaan OoT
3) The very recent soundtrack remake that is currently exclusive to the 3DS version

 

[x65943]

Minish cap was such a good game, excited to see what wacky hacks/mods come from this

If I ran people magazine, my 2023 person of the year would be "rom decompilers"

 

[Jayro]

is there a list somewhere that compiles all of the reverse engineer/decomp projects that have popped up in recent years into a list? would be a great thing to have since i don't keep track of what's currently being worked on or what exists

That would be cool. Like a GUI you could just drag a source rom onto, and it detects which project it belongs to and auto-compiles your game.

 

[Latiodile]

That would be cool. Like a GUI you could just drag a source rom onto, and it detects which project it belongs to and auto-compiles your game.

or a simple wiki too

 

[Blasingame]

I would be interested to know if it could be ported to the SNES, considering the consoles seem similar to each other.

 

[M7L7NK7]

https://www.retroreversing.com/source-code/decompiled-retail-console-games

For those who were wondering about other decomps (Literally the first result on Google for decompiled games list)