500+ Billion Tokens Later: Letting AI Agents Decompile A First-Person Shooter
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During the last 3 months, I spent some of my time and tokens decompiling a popular first-person shooter. The goal was not to reach a simple proof-of-concept state. Instead, we really wanted an accurate, stable and feature-complete recreation of the game. The avid reader of my blog might have noticed that I had previously written two posts that have since been removed. Everyone else might now be wondering which game I am talking about. To both of you I can only say that corporate America was here to ruin our fun.
  • lobsters__wmurra@crustaceanson.theshelf.topM
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    14 days ago

    For obvious reasons, none of the code will be shared. Everything will stay private and I will use it for my own needs only.

    The reasons aren’t obvious to me! What distinguishes this decomp from the ones that have been released without legal trouble? Typically the procedure is this: release the code and not the assets. If someone wants to use your decomp as a substitute for the original they must first have a copy of the original. The publisher is not harmed. Many projects have successfully done this. Why is this case special?

    Update: The unmentioned game is MW2. Owned by activision which is now owned by Microsoft. I guess Microsoft lawyers are just really scary.

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