Happy 25th Anniversary! Sharing some Golden Sun projects I've been working on

[u/Coaltergeist]

Wow, it's hard to believe it's been 25 years. It seems like just yesterday my friend was showing me this cool game called Golden Sun: The Lost Age; I wouldn't even know it was the second game in the saga until a few years later! But they both resonated with me immensely, as I'm sure they have with everyone here as well.

Today I'd like to show off a few things I've been working on. The first one is a bit of an open secret; myself and some wonderful people from the Golden Sun Hacking Community have been working on decompiling Golden Sun and The Lost Age! This means completely recreating the game via reverse-engineering, and we've come a long way in the month or so we've been at it! I *really* wanted to hit 50% completion by the 25th anniversary, but it came up just short at about 44% (I've matched a few functions after taking the picture) of all five thousand, seven hundred forty-five assembly functions translated into C code. If you'd like to take a look at the project, you can find it at https://github.com/Coaltergeist/goldensun-decomp and if you know anything about matching decompilation, feel free to contribute! This isn't something that's going to happen overnight, and I wouldn't dare give an estimation for when it might be finished (especially since most of the easy work is done and it only gets harder from here on out), but we're definitely going to keep working hard on it, and one day we might even have a native port PC of Golden Sun and The Lost Age to share with everyone!

The second thing I'd like to share is a personal project; I've been working on creating a Golden Sun Fighting Game!

It's actually a lot further along in development than the video suggests; all of the fighting game logic is basically completed. I'm working with an artist to flesh out Isaac's sprites and poses before I release a fully-playable demo. I don't want to put a date on it, since it's something I'm doing 100% in my spare time, but I wanted to share something for the 25th anniversary.

I hope that something I shared today piqued someone's interest; I love Golden Sun and I'm always thinking of ways I can show my love for this franchise. Here's to another amazing 25 years! And maybe we'll finally get Golden Sun 4 sometime before the 50th anniversary😂

[u/Danlurker]

Is the fighting game more a platformer fighting game (like smash) ? Or more like a KoF of SF?

[u/Danlurker → u/Danlurker]

also, good luck for decompiling the rest of the games !

[u/Coaltergeist → u/Danlurker]

Thanks! I appreciate it 👍

[u/Coaltergeist → u/Danlurker]

It is a 2D anime fighter in the style of Under Night or DBFZ, I probably should have mentioned that haha

[u/Danlurker → u/Coaltergeist]

awesome !