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Snowboard Kids 2 is 100% Decompiled

73 pointsby GaggiXlast Tuesday at 7:12 PM22 commentsview on HN

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aizktoday at 2:37 AM

The decomp dev guys are doing amazing work. It's also super educational too, if you're someone like me who's in just doing relatively simple AI / python / typescript work and rarely has to think about memory, hardware constraints, all that, it's a completely different world. Also, AI is finally getting to the point where it can do very difficult decompilation work, which is super exciting to me.

CM30today at 12:53 AM

Always nice to see another game decompiled like this. It's a big deal as far as laying the groundwork for possible ports to PC and other consoles is concerned, and will probably aid modders quite a bit.

If anyone needs a full list of these projects (which includes this one), there's a pretty good selection here:

https://decomp.dev/projects

Though these may have a few they missed:

https://readonlymemo.com/decompilation-projects-and-n64-reco...

https://github.com/CharlotteCross1998/awesome-game-decompila...

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canyptoday at 2:41 AM

This is the game to be decompiling in 2026. Many good memories.

orsornatoday at 12:04 AM

Awesome, but I always wondered why so much effort was put into decompiling this? Seems like a meme for meme's sake.

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nightflytoday at 12:17 AM

I'd love to do this for Mario Golf 64 but would run out of steam in like a week T_T

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RobRiveratoday at 1:56 AM

>n64s greatest game.

HEY, it was a GREAT game, but GREATEST? COME ON, this ain't no goldeneye