I definitely prefer recompilation over ROMs. For me, I want to play the best version of a game possible - be it content, QOL, modding, or technical compatability.

Right now I have an small experiment running with my local AI (Qwen-Next, via Strata+Hermes Agent), to attempt recompiling a Windows v3.1 game into being a native modern application. Whether it works, and how much QA is required to get the gameplay and aesthetic into good order, remains to be seen. Personally I expect this AI model to fail, but this is more about seeing how many months I should wait before trying again.

As to games I want recompiled, the Magic Carpet games could use modern technicals and interface, maybe a progression checklist for goodies in Vampire Survivors fashion. A shortlist of other games needing love:

• The Jupiter Incident
• Solo Joe
• Star Trek: 25th Anniversary & Judgment Rites
• Tyrian 2000
• The Quest for Glory series, with AGDI's QfG2 as a blueprint.
• ...and more.

There are many games ignored by the retro community, so it is up to me and fellow AI advocates to give them TLC. Frankly, "soul", "humanity", "suffering for art" and other such bullshit doesn't deserve respect. That is elitism designed to gatekeep and make people feel like special snowflakes.

Results are what matter, not the pain of the process.

The Guardian Legend on the NES

Do note the recent flux is mostly ai slop decompilations. Unlike decompilations made by hand, the output code is not intended to be human workable and nobody really knows what's going on in that codebase.

If it's going to be more AI slop, I don't want it. I don't care how much or how little the predictive plagiarism machine "helped".

If no AI was involved, I would want Parasite Eve 1 and 2 decomped.

Windows games for versions of Windows from Windows 95 to Windows 2000/NT.

For PC games before Win95, pretty much everything can be emulated properly with DOS PC emulators. And from Win7 on, the software and hardware standards had mostly restabilized and WINE/Proton usually works well. But in between, there was a real Wild West of third-party libraries and official patches that were constantly being updated with compatibility-breaking changes. You can go through the hassle of setting up a whole virtual machine that really taxes your computer and still not get some games to work.

Most recomps seem to be of popular console games that already run quite well through easy-to-use emulators. It'd be nice to see more recomp efforts for less-well-known games that are harder to play at all on modern hardware. I know it's unlikely to happen, though; who wants to spend their efforts on niche games that most people haven't heard of, much less care about? Only someone who has a personal interest in that game.

They're already working on Vagrant Story.

Phantom Crash. That will never happen, though…

Gladius from Xbox or PS2. It emulates OK, but the heavy reliance on button input prompts makes it hard for my brain to map PS controls to letters.

I used to think the decomp projects were really cool, even tho I didn't really play them. But lately, the influx of AI-driven decomp projects, the whole concept has lost its luster to me.

Basically every Nintendo DS and 3DS game, to make them playable on a single screen with a regular controller.

I have a DS Lite and New 3DS XL (the Metroid edition), and I am over the touch screen. It gets scratched up, is discolored, and makes using the device annoying and uncomfortable because of its weight. Would much rather be able to play the games on a single screen without those elements. Yes, that would mean some heavy changes for some games, but I would consider it worthwhile.

Black and White 1 and 2. Not quite the same thing, but might be worth a shot, all in all.

I was gonna list Jak and Daxter, but apparently OpenGoal already managed to do that.

Tekken 5 and Soul Calibur 3 would be nice to have, as they're currently PS2 exclusives. I wonder if Dreamcast version of games could be easier to decompile, being kinda-sorta Windows games?

Also a useful link for this thread. Might not be fully up-to-date with existing projects, but it's a good starting point - https://decompbuddy.com/games

I would love:

• a custom level editor/mods for Krusty's Fun House (NES) and the Adventures of Lolo trilogy (NES)
• Adventure Island 4 (NES) remake with support for multiple items in extra buttons like in Ocarina of Time
• Gargoyle's Quest 2 (NES) without the horrid slowdowns
• Megaman Legends (PSX) and Syphon Filter trilogy (PSX) with better controls and bugfixes (SF grenade logic is horrible: may kill you from a kilometer away or ignore you if you're hiding behind a paper-thin object)

The socom series. It would be great to be able to revamp the controls and add QoL changes

Super Mario Kart.

Crazy Taxi. I feel like it could be really fun to have mods and custom maps, I'm a bit disappointed nobody's really tried to do a decomp yet.

Blast Corps

I wouldn't mind replaying MGS4 and Motorstorm.

I'm thinking of an NES game I had played back then, and wish it had Mods and Romhacks to improve certain aspects. Sadly its not a popular game, as to why nobody did it.

Over Horizon (NES, 1991, 1992): Wikipedia | MobyGames | GameFAQs

Game was published in Japan and the only country it was published elsewhere is Germany (where I live and got it). That explains why the game wasn't much popular and known. The soundtrack is one of its highlights too, composed by Masaharu Iwata (who worked on Final Fantasy Tactics too BTW). But it had two major issues to me: Bad slowdowns and audio channels were cutoff when other sound was played. The slowdowns could be solved with modern emulators and overclocking and other settings. But the audio always bugged me.

Twilight Insanity. Dunno if it's good or not, life getting in the way and all that, but a version that doesn't require hardware acceleration for 20+ y.o. systems would be fantastic.

Kings field 1 and 2 on PlayStation.