On: Super Mario 64 has been decompiled

[noname120]

Interestingly, there exists other projects that aim to rebuild exact original ROM's. For example, Pokémon Ruby and Pokémon Emerald have been disassembled[1][2] and then slowly converted to C making sure that the hash of the ROM always stays the same.

[1] https://github.com/pret/pokeruby

[2] https://github.com/pret/pokeemerald

[aliswe → noname120]

Shouldn't this be possible using some AI and/or brute force technique?

[vages → aliswe]

Given infinite time and computing power, yes.

[aliswe → vages]

Well given a set of known, used optimization techniques the backward operation would be possible to try. If it matches the target binary, would be one step closer to something considered source reconstruction.

[setr → vages]

s/and/or

You just need one :)

[yellowapple → setr]

s/s\/and\/or/s\/and\/or\//

Can't forget that trailing slash :)