Paper Mario PC ports beckon as coder completes decompilation of the N64 classic
&gt; As draconian and litigious as Nintendo is about these things, previous projects of this type have managed to avoid the gaze of its lawyers so far. [...]
The reason is probably because projects like these don&#x27;t really infringe on any of Nintendo&#x27;s intellectual property. Coders like Roseman aren&#x27;t just ripping Nintendo&#x27;s assets (like textures) out of their games and slapping them onto the PC, instead, they&#x27;re remaking the code themselves, which Nintendo has yet to find a way to crack down on.<p>How is this is even remotely legal. They have literally decompiled Nintendo&#x27;s binary -- up to the point the decompiled sources build to a binary with the same checksum -- and are now redistributing it.  There&#x27;s absolutely no interoperability motivation or any other type of DMCA exemption that would apply here. It&#x27;s like claiming that the art assets are subject to copyright but not the program.