• frongt@lemmy.zip
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    18 hours ago

    Absolutely not true. I guarantee there is a lot of code, especially hacky code, written specifically for the N64’s hardware. Even if you port it to a modern PC, you’re still going to have to address a bunch of unexpected behavior that relied on the quirks of the hardware. Graphics effects in particular are known for this.

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      14 hours ago

      Source code means you can refactor it to preserve that graphics. But realistically that’s unlikely if nobody wants to put the effort in