Comment by ChickeNES
10 hours ago
> decomp
This I don't understand, seems like an obvious thing to automate, especially for byte-matching?
10 hours ago
> decomp
This I don't understand, seems like an obvious thing to automate, especially for byte-matching?
Byte-matching has been a side-effect of gaining an understanding of how the software works. With this you are skipping the understanding and you will not get people like Kaze Emanuar on YouTube who have dedicated a lot of time to building upon this understanding to create something better.
I don't think it's motivating to solve a black box by having AI generate another black box if what you want is to understand how the thing worked.
> Byte-matching has been a side-effect of gaining an understanding of how the software works.
No? Decomp sources are often full of comments that claim that there's no clear reason as to why something is done a certain way or straight up full of question marks. Byte matching often is a result of bruteforcing a solution rather than understanding the original idea behind the code.
If your goal was to do something for the games you love and understand them on a deeper level, then just handing that off to an LLM doesn't really give you the same sense of accomplishment.