A Banjo-Kazooie fan has decompiled the entirety of the Nintendo 64 game. Decompilation of a title like Banjo-Kazoozie involves reverse-engineering all the code for the game and turning it into C code, which can then be compiled into a playable PC version. This allows fans to use the assets from their own copy of the game to play Banjo-Kazooie without an emulator on their computer.
This isn’t the first time a N64 game has been decompiled, as two fans reverse engineered Ocarina of Time back in 2021. Reverse engineering the code of a game doesn’t involve any actual assets being ripped. Players who want to compile an unofficial PC port would have to provide their own obtained copies of the game in order to get it to run.
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As Twitter user BringBackBanjoK pointed out, a fan-made decompilation of Banjo-Kazooie has been finished. An unofficial PC port could potentially be in the works thanks to this project. A fan-made PC port for Ocarina of Time was made from a similar project. Released under the name "Ship...
