• atro_city@fedia.io
    612·
    26 days ago

    I’m loving how the tools that are supposed to be used to make the rich richer are being used by the people to cut into profit margins. Maybe we’ll see the day where releasing something closed-source won’t make sense anymore because somebody will point an AI at it and say “make this run on my PC” then upload the code for everybody to use.

    Macroslop has been praising AI for a few years now. Let’s see how they’ll thread the needle between praising it and trying to limit it from hurting themselves.

    • mindbleach@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      7·
      26 days ago

      This should make anyone sneering about “democratization” think twice, especially as local models will make the capability ungovernable.

      They won’t. But they should.

  • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
    381·
    26 days ago

    I hate this headline, because it discounts the massive amount of accumulated human work that went into this, too. Just read the attribution part:

    https://github.com/FelipePrado0/gow3_pc#how-it-works

    It’s not like someone prompted “port this game” into a chatbot for a lazy port. It needs extremely specialized skill (hence the long list of attribution from PS4 emulation projects), and I suspect the LLM part just provided the ‘bulk labor’ that small hacking groups otherwise couldn’t pull off.

  • AGuyAcrossTheInternet@fedia.io
    362·
    26 days ago

    Ah, on the one hand, I really celebrate it for kicking Sony in the shins.

    On the other hand, it’ll still be vibe-coded and most probably under-tested as a result. Personally, I don’t even know whether there was much scrutiny of the code, too. Maybe that’s my slop-induced bias against AI stuff speaking, though.

    • sylver_dragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      483·
      26 days ago

      I’d be less worried about bugs and more worried about malware. Pirated software has always been a minefield in that regard, with some warez groups having better reputations than others for not fucking people. With the ease of vibe coded ports and vibe coded malware, I’d expect to start seeing ports like these coming with trojans that turn peoples’ PCs into botnet members.

      • wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        25 days ago

        FWIW, I may’ve been avidly asea the last 40+ years, and in all my time out there, not once did I encounter a single difficulty to assessing group, much less file integrity that didn’t come from impulsiveness, over-confidence, or general ineptitude.

        I mean, FFS, even the bare minimum infosec seems beyond most people, even today. 🤦🏼‍♂️

    • Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      72·
      26 days ago

      Could always just try it, not like games ship without bugs already. Assuming it’s meant to just take the existing data and translate it to run on different hardware, there’s less room for hallucination.

      • zarkanian@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        21·
        25 days ago

        Original x86-64 code runs directly on the CPU with a custom runtime;

        So, it’s an emulator.

        Requires your own game dump. No game files included.

        D’oh! I still have to buy a copy. This hurts Sony how?

    • sylver_dragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      26 days ago

      Depending on what the folks are getting from the AI models, the answer might be “all of them”. If the AI is slopping out reasonable C or C++, it shouldn’t be a great leap from there to get the AI to slop together a toolchain to compile the code on most common targets. Sure, running the latest AAA game on a Palm Pilot from the early 2000’s may not be a great plan, but it may be possible to get a functional binary to compile.

      There is also likely to be a lot of work left to optimize a game for any particular platform. Even with all the hard work by the folks with the WINE project and Valve’s Proton project, some games just run like dogshit on Linux (looking at you, Icarus). Though, the obvious next step is getting the AI models trained up on those optimizations. Though, that likely means OS specific optimization models and maybe even driver specific weights. E.g. You use the Linux OS optimization model with the Nvidia driver weights. Still, we might be reaching a day where we see popular games quickly ported to different OS’s in a playable enough state.

      • qyron@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        2·
        26 days ago

        Let me go get some popcorn. The show from the software houses/publishers is going to be wonderful to watch.

    • nul9o9@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      26 days ago

      Ive been playing on shadps4 with such good results that i completely forgot about the possibility of a recompiled port that i absolutely want now lol.

  • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    26 days ago

    Oh no, are there websites that list these projects so I can avoid them and make sure I don’t go to them? I mean like listing projects, not necessarily the links to download. Just knowing about them is helpf—er, harmful I mean, and I don’t want to know they exist because I already know some websites not to go to to find stuff like that.

    edit: OP mentioned a subreddit - here’s a specific thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/decomps/comments/1x6sta3/megathread_list_of_recommended_recomps_and_ports/

    And that led here: https://github.com/SubmitGame/awesome-decomp-games

  • queeradjacent@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    96·
    26 days ago

    So we’re saying “ported” instead of pirated? More advanced pirating? Seems to have fuck all to do with the idea of Sony themselves ditching exclusivity.