alt Hacker NewsNo it doesn't.
The point of decomps/recomps was never for some altruistic reason related to skill or art.
The point was people wanting to play games. This just adds to that. Yes - the people who did it before were skilled, smart and deserve recognition. But these ports are exactly that - ports so that people can play their old games or relive them.
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> But these ports are exactly that - ports so that people can play their old games or relive them.
I'm thinking of Matrix here, just with games instead of chicken. Is it actually the game itself, or is it a machine's assumption of what the game is supposed to be?
With the decomp/recomp/mod/RE in general scene, the people involved were at least highly knowledgeable of what they were doing and they knew where their limits were and what needed to be done.
The chatbot however will yield a happy "done, did the needful" and deliver a pile of garbage instead.
I've always considered these an art more than a practical tool. If I wanted to pirate a game, I can just grab an emulator.
When you automate the process, the only interesting thing about the whole operation dies. I already knew you could reverse engineer C and I already knew emscriptem exists, it's the manual work that made it worth checking out.
The Mona Lisa is an interesting piece of art people come to visit France for. MonaLisa.jpeg is a good wallpaper for about a week at best.