Of Course Pokémon’s Been Pulled Into The AI Decompilation Frenzy

It used to be painstakingly hard to decompile games, a task that owner of decompilation platform decomp.dev wrote on the website last week is “brutally difficult [and] time consuming.” Newly released generative AI models have changed the speed at which decompilation is possible, meaning that seemingly anyone can decompile and reconstruct games into ports; the owner of decomp.dev said it’s broken the community aspect of the hobby. The ability to more easily decompile software, like games, has created a frenzy. As 404 Media reported , people are reverse-engineering “anything”: bricked smart mirrors, Netflix, baby monitors.