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The AI reverse engineered a PS2 game in 3 hours. It mostly plays.

He had the AI reverse engineer a PlayStation 2 game he had the bytes for. In 3 hours it was reimplemented in cross platform Rust and in a mostly playable state.

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How it works

  1. He gives the AI the game bytes
  2. The AI reverse engineers the game
  3. It reimplements it in cross platform Rust
  4. The game reaches a mostly playable state in 3 hours

Why it’s worth knowing

A closed game he only had as bytes came back as Rust code that mostly plays, in 3 hours.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

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