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Ogre Battle 64 Recompiled Project at 99.05% (https://github.com)

107 points by frozenlettuce 1 day ago | 45 comments | View on ycombinator

AdmiralAsshat about 23 hours ago |

Nice. Haven't played this since the N64. It was one of the best games of the system, and I think OB64 in particular gets overlooked next to Tactics Ogre and Final Fantasy Tactics due to the lack of Matsuno's involvement. But it's head and shoulders better than the original Ogre Battle, and can stand toe-to-toe with Matsuno's best.

I'd love to play it again some day, since my first playthrough was without a guide and despite 60+ hours logged into the game, I ended up getting the worst ending thanks to the completely unexplained mechanic that your ending was determined by how many forts you "liberate" vs "conquer" (basically was your character of a higher or lower alignment than the fort when you captured it).

frozenlettuce 1 day ago |

The % is estimated based on the number of functions that still need to be recompiled. It is already possible to play and even create mods! As other recomp projects, you need to provide your own ROM.

happa 1 day ago |

What is the legal status of recompilation projects like these? Greyer or less grey than emulators?

lizardking about 12 hours ago |

I know there are a lot of recomp projects like this out there - are there any sites dedicating to aggregating them all and tracking their progress?

nebalee about 13 hours ago |

So I've no clue how all this recompiling works, but why does the result of this process still need hardware that is at least two decades newer in order to run?

butz about 12 hours ago |

Are there any similar projects that do recompilation for old DOS games? I am mainly interested in games written in Borland Turbo C, as I am trying to work out how one of them works. Some resources like tutorials would be great too.

Founderarcstone 1 day ago |

Nice I have not thought about this game in years.

Tbarlow about 18 hours ago |

Remember debugging that last weird edge case? These guys are almost there on a whole N64 game. Incredible effort!

globular-toast about 18 hours ago |

Never heard of this game. Looking it up on Wikipedia it seems to have decent but not outstanding reviews. Does it have some kind of cult following? Or this notable for some other reason?

basil_io about 17 hours ago |

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VCFundedGenYer about 23 hours ago |

This is not a true recomp as it is being done by DeepSeek. Do not touch this.

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