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I'm recompiling The Lion King (SNES) to native C. Plan: replay TAS movies (.bk2) with a CPU trace logger to map every function call, then feed that to the recompiler.

65% done, the loop with the agent ran all night. I spent a lot of time last night trying to find a good iterative work with some cool tools I found. Game runs smoothly, and implemented toggeable frame slowness to mimic the original lag.

So what can we do after this is recompiled? Lots of stuff: 16:9 version, training mode, level selection, modify camera zoom, modify enemy placement, replays & ghosts for speedrunners, and most importantly, control over all aspects of the code. None of these are the reason why I'm doing this, though.

I think you're going to like this @kaptajnen.bsky.social

Oh, this is really cool. That game was one of my childhood staple games :D Would be epic to play with features like widescreen and zoom levels and modifiers to make the game feel a little less cheap and more responsive/intuitive. Like those hippo tail swings xD

Same for me! I'm looking to have those featrures too, and the lag toggle - its running 1200 fps natively now. Almost there! I'm also interested in HD textures, but I have no idea how to do that yet!

Sounds super promising! How long have you been working on this project?