nytpu on Nostr: I wonder how all the retro game decompilation projects get byte-for-byte identical ...
I wonder how all the retro game decompilation projects get byte-for-byte identical binaries when compiling with a modern toolchain, when the original game was almost certainly built with a weird-ass proprietary compiler (and with 1990s-era optimizations regardless)
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