The amazing frontier AI models we have these days are allowing people to decompile old games at an amazing rate. Recently, a gifted software engineer, helped by other AI users, pulled off a Fallout: New Vegas decompilation into C++. This means that the source code of one of the best RPG games in history is now open source, which will soon lead to amazing stuff such as a Rust reimplementation, modernization of the game, previously unimplementable mods, and so on. I can’t wait to play a native-level VR mod based on one of the reimplementations.

The engineer in charge of the decompilation project explains it well in the following video:

Fallout: New Vegas is one of the best video games, in one of the best fictional worlds. Forget about that abhorrent woke TV show. The old games are the real deal.