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strikers

A native PC port of Super Mario Strikers, ported from decompiled code. Not a recompilation.

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GITHUB · launched Sep 10, 2026 · 122 upvotes (top 7%) · 4 views

Niche: video game source ports · 479 launches, 18 in the last 7 days ▼ -68% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Media & entertainment
  • Dev tools
  • B2C
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • aurora
  • gamecube
  • next-level-games
  • nintendo-gamecube
  • super-mario-strikers

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Could you build this?

No Porting a GameCube title to native PC from decompiled assembly/C code requires deep reverse engineering, low-level platform abstraction (replacing GX graphics with modern DirectX/Vulkan), and audio/input system reimplementation.

What it would actually take: A native decompilation port requires matching decompiled C/C++ code against the original PowerPC binaries (Gekko CPU) and replacing GameCube-specific hardware calls with modern cross-platform libraries (SDL2, modern graphics APIs like Direct3D 11/12 or Vulkan, and cubeb/FAudio). It demands advanced knowledge of 3D computer graphics pipelines, assembly decompilation (Ghidra/IDA Pro), and console hardware architectures.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 1472 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #104 of 1473 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 305 days after the earliest competitor.

  • Melee-X · github · 2026-09-29 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.62
  • sotc-decomp · github · 2026-10-13 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.61
  • iss2000-recomp · github · 2026-10-17 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.60
  • melee-ps3 · github · 2026-11-02 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.59
  • Smash4PC · github · 2026-10-25 · 82 upvotes · similarity 0.59
  • sm64ds-enhanced · github · 2026-10-29 · 35 upvotes · similarity 0.59
  • frameport · github · 2026-10-02 · 62 upvotes · similarity 0.59
  • MOH-EuropeanAssault-PC-Port · github · 2026-10-22 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.58

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