Project log Golden Sun Recompiled What is this? This isn't Golden Sun running in an emulator. The game has been translated into C++ ahead of time and compiled into a normal Windows program. Same game, but now we can actually mess with it instead of just pretending to be a Game Boy Advance really fast. So what actually is this? It's a static recompilation. Fancy term, pretty simple idea. Instead of an emulator reading the GBA instructions while you're playing, a tool reads the game ahead of time, translates those instructions into equivalent C++, and then that gets compiled into a normal executable. So your PC is running the game , not running a fake GBA which then runs the game. In Golden Sun's case that's just under 27,000 functions, plus 95 overlay banks the game swaps in and out while moving through towns, dungeons and battles. The old instructi...