#decomp

I mean, it's cool. I like how so many of them have such high compatibility with their target game. Like it took a really long time to emulate Sonic Unleashed, right, but so much about the Unleashed Recomp just works flawlessly. I know there's tons of logistics around that, it wasn't easy, but from a purely end-user perspective it's great how painless these things tend to be and how accurate the end product is.

I think studios and publishers will eventually look into it. It wouldn't surprise me if some already are. And technically some already have -- the first Mega Man Legacy Collection was using a series of static recompilations, I believe.

But you gotta see some of these guys as these, like, big hulking behemoths. It takes forever for them to change direction. It's like Sega getting into generative AI, right. They're kind late to that party and the tide is turning on it right as they're going all-in. Because it took them a while to steer the boat in this direction. Big corporations are not nimble creatures.

Recomp/decomps are still a little "bleeding edge" right now. Sonic Unleashed was the big wake-up call I think and that's barely a year old. Adoption outside of this space is going to take a while.

But then again, maybe not. The benefit of an emulator is that you make one piece of software that runs many games, whereas these recomp and decomp projects only exist on a game-by-game basis. When you consider retro game collections are often very budget things, doing game-by-game projects like this is probably more expensive.

This one is a bit gorey so apologies for that, but i am extremely proud of this one! This was completed 20/8/25 :) process and sketches are below!

(Im gonna tell you a secret: this is actually an accompaniment to my one of my whumptober prompts! So keep tuned if you would like to see a short fic to match this art piece.)