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Banjo-Kazooie PC port developer blasts AI vibe coding as retro gaming fills with low-quality ports

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A hot potato: Over the past few months, it seems as if fan-made PC ports of console-exclusive retro games have been emerging almost daily. This is because most of them are built either partially or entirely with AI coding tools such as Claude. Amid the wave, the debate over vibe coding has divided retro gaming enthusiasts.

Developer Dario, a major figure in the emerging PC fan port community, recently published a lengthy, harsh critique of the emerging practice of using LLMs to decompile, recompile, and create new ports for retro video games. His thread on Bluesky provides a detailed explanation of the practice and its pitfalls.

Growing numbers of retro enthusiasts have decompiled the source code of classic video games over the past few years to study their inner workings and reverse-engineer them....

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