In March of this year The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time received an unofficial PC port thanks to a group of fans, and it looks like Banjo-Kazooie will be the next Nintendo 64 game to receive this treatment. The group of fans that is decompiling the code of Banjo-Kazooie He says that he already has almost 80% of his work finished.
The port of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time for PC was made by the Harbor Masters team, made up of fans, but it was possible thanks to the efforts of the Zelda Reverse Engineering Team (ZRET) who finished decompiling the game code in November of last year. Something similar is expected to happen with Banjo-Kazooie.
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You can see the team’s progress on Github, they were 55% complete in March, when The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time PC port was released, making about 25% progress in four months. If the team maintains this pace, they could finish their work by October or November of this year.
ZRET finished decompiling the code for TLOZ: Ocarina of Time in November of last year, and the PC port was released in March by the Harbor Masters team. If Banjo-Kazooie receives similar treatment, we may see a Unofficial PC port before mid-2023.
Other fan groups are at work decompiling the code for Paper Mario, Perfect Dark, The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask, Bomberman 64, Conker’s Bad Fur Day, Pokémon Snap, Pokémon Stadium, and a few more.