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> I have actually tried giving Claude binary files of games and it was able to reverse engineer to GoDot!

Oh wow...I hadn't even thought of trying something like this. There are soooo many games from that era that I'd love to play again without the hackery of emulation.

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Just grab any game, especially old rom files form the 80s (I tried TimePilot and Road Fighter from MSX era). The model extracted the graphics, the sounds and then built the whole game. It takes less than 1 hour to port a 16kb rom file, in one shot. You will get a playable game, but you need a few follow up prompts to get it back to its original form. Usually some sprites or sounds issues, but very easy to fix, if you have played the original game.

So by old ROM files, you mean still PC games or MSX, Sega, NES, SNES? And when you have them in place what do you specifically ask Claude? This is interesting and I'd love to see if it can get me porting old games with zero coding knowledge.

Yes, you can try your game out. I tried with old msx rom files and it worked.

Yeah, someone reverse engineered Red Alert 2 recently. Took Fable cranking for almost a month, but it's pretty amazing to see.

https://github.com/harshilmathur/openra2

this is the closest thing I could find. do you have a link to the reverse engineered RA2? I am surprised I do not get any recent repositories or forum posts about this, you'd think it would be more talked about

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