Yet another Hacker News

God of War on PSP, recompiled to WebAssembly and running in the browser

22 points sn001 4 hours ago 9 comments

doublerabbit 1 hour ago | parent

Insane that we can now decompile PSP games to WebGL. Emulation has come far from 2006 where ePSXe the PS1 emulator would only run on a beefy Pentium.

fb03 51 minutes ago | parent

AI is completely cracking up the emulation bubble. We're not even emulating things anymore, we're just reverse engineering things and directly porting games. This is an awesome timeline for old game preservation. These fuckers aren't profiting from the games anymore, yet they won't release their IP, or update their old games to newer, more accessible platforms. So I really appreciate the work these kinds of developers have been doing.

psygn89 22 minutes ago | parent

Isn't this technically illegal to reverse engineer and share? It's awesome but I feel like it'll hasten big companies to lobby and make some harsh laws around this type of thing. I'm surprised Claude/Fable allows this? Or do we trick them to do it?

rvz 11 minutes ago | parent

> Isn't this technically illegal to reverse engineer and share?

Software engineers are devoid of copyright and trademark laws and want everything to $0 and will become the new starving artists without knowing it.

Don't be surprised to see far more mass layoffs in the games industry.

theturtletalks 8 minutes ago | parent

It’s legal to have a ROM of a game you actually owned and ripped. This is simply allowing the ROM that you actually own to be played on a different console, the web.

In this case, the user is distributing the ROM which is illegal. But the method to make it work on the web is fair use. The legal way to do it would be a website where users “insert” their own rom and the website simply lets you play that ROM on the web.

ahoy 4 minutes ago | parent

there is no ROM in the linked github repo

seki285 17 minutes ago | parent

Nothing will happen.

lucasverra 11 minutes ago | parent

maybe i will finally able to play MGSolid saga on a browser on my mac :)