Comment by sciencejerk

I recently heard that Super Mario 64 (N64) modding community reverse engineered the game enough to recreate more-or-less accurate C code that can be compiled in binaries to execute on many popular target architectures. Have you managed to get beloved games into modifiable C code? Or is it more common to invest a lot of work to document assembly language functions? I know some old assembly but no idea what is involved at a high level. Maybe you explain in your lessons?

Also, how to folks obtain binaries? Presumably unless there is a source code breach or vulnerability, source never gets exposed, is thst correct?