Recent months have been great for video game historians and preservationists, but not so good for those of us who are not big fans of AI. Tools like Claude have made it easy to rapidly write complex software, and as a result, we've seen floods of AI-generated ports of older games hit PC and web browsers.
The latest of these ports is one of the best Super Mario Games of all time, Super Mario Galaxy, and while it was developed with the help of AI, it does fix one of the game's most annoying features.
Gone are the days of weird Flash games being what kids play in their browsers, as we're ushering in an era of full video games being available. The likes of Need for Speed: Underground 2, Dragon Ball Z: Budokai, and Halo: Combat Evolved, with full multiplayer functionality, have all received browser versions. They come as decompilation has been made far easier.
Historically, enthusiasts came together to manually decipher a game's binary code, convert it into C++, and create the ports. Naturally, understanding the 0s and 1s took a very long time. AI has streamlined this process to such an extent that these ports are...
