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Destruction-Decomp-64

A Claude Opus 5.5 100% Hands Off "Decompile This Rom" experiment.

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GITHUB · launched Oct 19, 2026 · 16 upvotes (top 73%)

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Could you build this?

No Decompiling an N64 ROM into matching, human-readable C requires expertise in MIPS disassembly, the original toolchain's compiler quirks, and iterative matching, which vibe coding can't substitute for. The 'hands-off AI' framing is an experiment, not a repeatable product.

What it would actually take: A real version needs a disassembler and analysis pipeline (e.g., built on existing tools like Ghidra or mips-related tooling), a matching-compiler setup to verify that recompiled code produces identical bytes, and per-game knowledge of the N64 hardware and SDK. The hard parts are byte-exact verification and manual reverse engineering of game logic, which takes skilled reverse engineers working over long timelines.

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Attention rank: #1405 of 1951 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 353 days after the earliest competitor.

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