Fans finished rebuilding a 2001 game's source code with AI help.
Volunteers completed the C source code of the 2001 game Super Smash Bros Melee this week. The rebuilt code now compiles byte for byte into the same file Nintendo shipped. The project started in 2020, drew about 120 contributors and leaned on Claude and Astra late on.
Why it mattersReading old machine code by hand took years, and models now do a large share of it. Any company sitting on software nobody understands anymore has the same problem to solve.
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