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> It’s AOT dynamic recompilation and the original IP isn’t distributed.

The Git repository contains tens of thousands of lines of assembler code that seem to come from the original.

I see that now… why did they check it in? One of the whole points of this approach is that that assembler should be trivial to re-derive by the end user since it’s just the original program listing. Some of the Xbox 360 recomp projects like https://github.com/mchughalex/skate3recomp offer a better example of how this pattern can be achieved without distributing the binary at any intermediate level.

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