alt Hacker NewsRE4 isn't really an early 3D game. It was a late GameCube title almost a decade after Quake.
There has been some 2D decomps too, Pokemon Red/Blue being the biggest I can think of. I can also imagine they make more sense for the 3D consoles where games tended to be written in higher level languages than raw assembly.
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mikae1 • yesterday at 7:35 PM
True, not the earliest gen. But it's a 2001 console (not 2004) despite this being a 2004 title.
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GB games are written in assembly, so decomp means marking sections as code or data, then commenting the crap out of it. The earliest Nintendo consoles to use C were the N64 and the GBA.