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For anyone else who was initially confused by this, useful context is that Snowboard Kids 2 is an N64 game.

I also wasn't familiar with this terminology:

> You hand it a function; it tries to match it, and you move on.

In decompilation "matching" means you found a function block in the machine code, wrote some C, then confirmed that the C produces the exact same binary machine code once it is compiled.

The author's previous post explains this all in a bunch more detail: https://blog.chrislewis.au/using-coding-agents-to-decompile-...

parent simonw 10 months ago

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