[Other] How hard would it be to make an online decompiler\compiler for Emerald and FireRed?

[zoiwillxx]

Hello,

I am fairly new in the decomp hacking scene and I was just wondering how hard would it be to make such website\tool. I feel like the main barrier for this community is the initial setup of the decomps and if we had a tool that could do that remotely without having to download and setup everything, I believe we would get even more support and people willing to make their hackroms using decomp instead of binary tools.

I would like to know the general opinion of everyone here before I ever attempt to make something like that, and I am lowkey hoping there is such tool\website and I just haven't founded yet.

Have a nice day!

 

[Buffel Saft]

The decomps already have this (kinda). The CI checks that run on every pull request build the ROM to be sure that the request's changes don't break anything. It doesn't give you a downloadable ROM file once it's done, but it could be modified to do so. The problem with doing that is that if you build a clean ROM online and make the file accessible to anyone, you've essentially made an illegal ROM sharing page (just with extra steps!).

 

[root]

I don't see how this is useful. Especially for a novice, who would likely need to recompile things a lot, wouldn't zipping/uploading/downloading so much be much more of a hassle than just setting it up once?

 

[Krendall]

IMHO I don't think it would help much. The only way I could see something like that being helpful is if you wanted to make certain changes to a ROM through binary hacking, then decompile that ROM to make other changes. Other than that, what keeps people away from decompile hacking is the initial learning curve and that it at least feels like making changes takes more steps. Of course, the trade-off is decompiling allows much more flexibility and freedom, but not everyone is willing to commit to learning everything needed to take advantage of it.