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Super Smash Bros. Melee fully decompiled after six-year AI-assisted effort

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A six-year effort to fully decompile the classic Nintendo GameCube game Super Smash Bros. Melee has concluded, resulting in C code that is byte-for-byte identical to the original. This technical achievement, aided by AI tools like OpenAI's Astra and GPT-6, allows for deeper analysis of the game's mechanics and opens the door for future ports and modding. The decompiled code is available on GitHub, though users will still need the original game assets to run it. AI

IMPACT Enables deeper analysis of game engines and physics, potentially accelerating modding and preservation efforts for classic titles.

RANK_REASON Decompilation of a classic video game, aided by AI tools, is a technical research achievement. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=4 ai=0.4]

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