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Er, to be honest it took some fiddling. I tried again just now, and it seems this works:

- Install a recent version of Wineskin (https://github.com/Gcenx/WineskinServer#how-to-install)
- Run Wineskin, and create a new app wrapper (picking any wine 64bit engine should work)
- Open the newly wrapper created in /Users/your_username/Applications/, it will prompt you to install the target software
- Pick "Copy a directory", and select the uncompressed LADX-HD directory (containing the exe file) you just downloaded
- Then choose to run "Winetricks", check "app/.NET 6.0 Desktop Runtime" and "settings/renderer=gl", and click "Run"
- Once everything is installed, close the app, and then re-open it from the Finder.
- The game should launch  🤞

As far as I know this is not based on the decomp (or maybe for some assets) ; but the code seems entirely original.

As one of the people behind the LADX disassembly, I'm very curious about this.

I launched the game (it runs under macOS + Wine), and indeed it looks exactly like the original… until the improvements start showing up: large view over many screens, subtle shadows and light effects, some fog in the Forest, smooth camera, auto-save…

The feeling of the controls almost perfectly match the original. Even mini-games are here (fishing, trendy game). The soundtrack also matches the original.

So the end result feels very modern: enjoyable to play, with nice 2D+ graphics. It feels a bit like the official Switch HD remake in terms of quality-of-life improvements – except with pixel art instead of 3D.

But I'm also blown-off  by the technical side of things. This is an *entire* reimplementation of a massive game; a massive amount of work. A quick count gives around 100 000 lines of code. Every object, entity, mechanics, physics behavior, every quirk and effect is re-implemented from scratch. It even has a built-in world editor, and a scripting engine.

In short: this is amazing. Grab it.

And @linksawakeningdxhd, if you're around, come hanging out in the LADX disassembly Discord! I have a ton of questions on how you achieved this.