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Opus decompiles Windows 95-era games to byte-exact source in about a week each

Uses Opus 5.5 to decompile Windows 95-98 games in about a week each, getting byte-to-byte exact output with clear names and no Ghidra smell.

How it works

  1. He uses Opus to decompile Windows 95 and 98 games
  2. About a week each
  3. Byte-to-byte exact output with clear names and none of the usual machine-generated smell

Why it’s worth knowing

Byte-exact with clear names is the decompiler's impossible brief, met.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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