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Developer ports NES Contra to WebAssembly with AI-assisted C rewrite

Commenter situates the port within a broader transcompilation trend

3 Oct 31 7:57 PM · 11d ago · 1 comment · 1 source · development 3 of 5

msephton links to prior writing on similar assembly-to-modern-platform transcompilation hops, describing use of the same approach to run Lua-based games on SNES and a custom engine on Dreamcast, Wii and web.

tevlon Developer who built the WebAssembly Contra portvermiceli Original author of the annotated Contra disassembly

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