So a few weeks back my friend klops: the lead dev of PortMaster, introduced me to a developer called bmdhacks (who was once, long ago, a dev on a couple PS2 games!). bmdhacks had a crazy plan (well by the time I got to chat to him, that plan was very close to complete!) of bringing Dead Cells to the inexpensive R36S retro handheld. Which maybe you'll know, if you're a retro handheld fan, is a device that was never designed to run games of that scale.
What started as a impossible request in the PortMaster world (they had it rated as “Low” in feasibility) turned into a stupidly difficult technical project involving a custom ARM JIT compiler for HashLink, an LLVM-based ahead-of-time compilation backend, and an entirely new decompiler pipeline capable of reconstructing structured code from bytecode.
And did I understand everything he told me when telling me what he did, how he did it, and what was next? No. Not at all.
My article I got to write on it (from all bmdhacks told me) covers the whole process, so if you're into the technical side of porting games? Then you're in for a treat!
Here's my link:
https://gardinerbryant.com/the-anatomy-of-an-impossible-port/
Little edit: bmdhacks is in the comments below, if anyone has any specific question to ask, or comment to share! Yay!
Fucking what?
I have not written this with A.I.
This gets so exhausting.
Check my post history, filter by my very first posts and go through each and every one of them. I've written (exclusively on and for Lemmy for a solid 6 months or so) for a very long time now. This might give you an indication I write myself.
I have each bit of progress from writing this article myself. The framework we run for the site saves each increment, so we can revert if there is an issue down the track. Each. Step. Writing. This. Is. Saved.
Its funny how this kind of bullshit claim gets thrown about, these LLMs are trained on writers. What I write might remind you of whatever A.I. you love to use, but the reason is that these take what we write and then replicate it. They are trained on us.
I've got plenty of very close friends who I can get to chime in with how trustworthy I am, and how my writing is my own. I'm sure he'll cringe at me saying it, but Jason Evangelho (former lead Linux tech writer for Forbes) is a close friend who will swear to me writing what I do. My good friend Rowan wrote for a big outlet before losing his place recently, he'll do the same. Gardiner himself whose reputation I'd hope would speak for itself after a decade plus in this space will speak for me. The fact I have to defend myself before this one lazy line from you runs away and becomes a thing just makes me sick.
I've been interviewing and working with a CEO of a beyond reputable PC gaming company for the last week or so. He and I have been going over the article line-by-line. Literally line-by-line, section-by-section in real time while he sees me write it up. For a feature article coming very soon. More than happy to show him this comment and get his idea on your views. Then edit this and show you what he thinks (after my article is done)
In fact I have done like 35-40 (at a guess) interviews with developers in this scene. From Linux to Android to handhelds and everything in-between. Go and find an interview I've done, choose a dev at random and ask them about me. They'll tell you I'm on the level.
In fact want me to get bmdhacks to share hus thoughts on your idea of this being generated? I chatted to him for a long time about all of this. I wrote this while asking him about each part. Would that help your shitty claim?
I'm sorry my response is so strong, but it has to be
I hate this shit. Because one lazy claim by you forces me to respond or this ends up becoming the truth, if I ignored it. As a writer that kind of thing is damaging.
Sorry, didn’t mean to cause any stress - clearly I was wrong here. Reading through I saw a lot of sentence structures typical of LLM writing, but like you say this is partly because they were trained on writers’ work.
I’m a writer myself, so I’ve seen first hand how LLMs are rotting our profession from the inside. That’s not an excuse for making false accusations, but I hope you can understand my exasperated tone when I found what seemed like slop on my feed.