Dev Reverse-Engineers Super Smash Bros. Melee into 5000 Lines of C Using DeepSeek
yacineMTB · x · 2026-08-08
Developer @yacineMTB shared an impressive AI coding feat: he successfully reverse-engineered Super Smash Bros. Melee into roughly 5,000 lines of C code using DeepSeek.
What makes this even more remarkable is that the entire process was done from his phone while hanging out with his newborn, demonstrating the accessibility and power of modern coding models.
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