News Full Xbox 360 decompilation for PC debuts with Sonic Unleashed Recompiled

[Admin]

Sonic Unleashed is the first Xbox 360 game to receive a native port via Recompilation on PC, and the tools used have been open sourced.

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[das_stig]

Standby for the cease-and-desist legal letters for copyright infringement that demands the source code to the project and kills it off, only to return as overpriced lawful recompile port, to boost the coffers.

 

[edzieba]

Standby for the cease-and-desist legal letters for copyright infringement that demands the source code to the project and kills it off, only to return as overpriced lawful recompile port, to boost the coffers.

This is a source code port: no assets or original code or executables are included as part of the project. This is not the same as 'fan recreations' and similar the either distribute original assets, or new assets using copyrighted names & likenesses etc.
Even the notoriously litigious Nintendo have not touched N64 decomplication, and that's been around for half a decade.

 

[das_stig]

I'm sure if this starts pulling big bucks, lawyers will find a way, maybe down the your only have a licence to use and not own may come to play or even the reverse engineering side. I can't see Microsuck letting this one fly by.

 

[SPPV]

This is a source code port: no assets or original code or executables are included as part of the project. This is not the same as 'fan recreations' and similar the either distribute original assets, or new assets using copyrighted names & likenesses etc.
Even the notoriously litigious Nintendo have not touched N64 decomplication, and that's been around for half a decade.

Thats not correct. I released the patcher to turn the N64 No-Intro rom of Mario64 into an XBE so it could run native on OG XBOX. I got hit twice with DMCA takedowns by Ninty. You can see the release thread over at emuxtras and how quick they were to respond after release and the headaches we went through that forced me to redo the patcher twice and prevented us from releasing an actual precompiled binary (XBE)

 

[sftwn]

Standby for the cease-and-desist legal letters for copyright infringement that demands the source code to the project and kills it off, only to return as overpriced lawful recompile port, to boost the coffers.

If we're just talking about the decomp tool, doubtful. They might get hit with a DMCA for small areas here and there where copyrighted material was left either by mistake or in grey areas, but it all seems above board so far.

 

[ezst036]

I'm sure if this starts pulling big bucks

This appears to me to be free. At least for now. Hopefully it always stays that way.

There's safety in leaving it a free endeavor.

 

[Makaveli]

Just installed and set this up running great on my PC in Ultrawide