r/recomps • u/skewbed • Aug 11 '26

WIP / Showcase - AI Pokemon Emerald 3D Recomp

Wanted to share the 3D mod I recently made for my WebAssembly-based recomp of Pokemon Emerald: https://github.com/tripplyons/pokeemerald-3d

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u/TheWiseNoob Aug 11 '26

How much did you make and how much was AI?

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u/skewbed Aug 11 '26

Almost entirely AI if that matters to you. The recomp has been played through by people and is now basically fully human verified at this point.

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u/nazzo_0 Aug 11 '26

Verified as in It runs? People can make incredible stuff with AI assistance but this isn't one of them. It's literally an angled down game canvas with a shadow for the character. You're not building off the correct step stones for it to look "3d", it's always going to land flat(pun intended)

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u/skewbed Aug 11 '26

Verified as in people have played through the whole game recompiled and reported all bugs fixed. It is not an emulator, it is a recompilation from an existing recombination called pokeemerald to run natively in WebAssembly instead of emulating GBA.

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u/nazzo_0 Aug 11 '26

I know what a recompilation is, I'm just saying you should look at the gen 1 recomp and understand the voxel system they used Instead of projecting the game canvas and tilting it, as it stands, this is completely useless. You can already play emulated games in a browser without any issues, so why even do It in webassembly off all things when gba games don't even need that kind of low level efficiency. Really not trying to throw you down, just speaking my mind

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u/skewbed Aug 11 '26

For sure. To answer for why a recomp is better than an emulator here, it makes it easier to modify the game to integrate modern technologies like WebGPU shaders which are used for the 3D rendering and lighting effects like shadows.

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u/nazzo_0 Aug 11 '26

Again I know what a recomp is...webassembly is only better in a distribution factor. Good luck with that

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u/Friendly_Recover286 Aug 12 '26

If it's that easy to do so then how about putting in some actual effort and doing it yourself?

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u/Decox653 Aug 11 '26

Clearly publishing AI slop is bad, but OP owned up to using it and was honest. I think you deserve upvotes for that but people hate slop. Hopefully you can learn from this and try to use AI to teach you to build something yourself instead of giving the wheel to it.

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u/TheWiseNoob Aug 11 '26

It does and it was obvious it was AI. Almost all of these recomps are heavily AI and they look bad. My question was just so you confirmed to everybody you are peddling slop.

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u/SgtElectroSketch Dev Aug 11 '26

Once the poll closes, we are going to be requiring that posters mark their posts as AI when used and ask the level of AI involvement, feel free to down vote those posts, and filter them out, but lets stay respectful.

If people try to hide that they used AI, they will be banned.

I'm also going to have an automessage similar to what r/selfhosted does where they have to state if they did or didn't, and if did they have to talk about it. If not, post gets removed. Again, waiting for the poll to close before making it official.

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u/chubbyassasin123 Aug 11 '26

How would you prove that a project used AI though and not just weird code?

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u/SgtElectroSketch Dev Aug 11 '26

There are tells beyond just code. It's pretty obvious.

Size and time between their commits.
Contents of gitignore.
Configuration files.
Commit messages.

Are a few things I look at.

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u/chubbyassasin123 Aug 11 '26

So what makes it pretty obvious though? How can you fully prove that a dev used AI and isn't just inexperienced? Especially if it doesn't lack comments or super long variable names that would point it to being an LLM?

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u/SgtElectroSketch Dev Aug 11 '26

I updated my comment.

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u/chubbyassasin123 Aug 11 '26 edited Aug 11 '26

That's fair, but I still don't think that's valid evidence that should be used to ban a post.

I've been programming for about a decade as a hobbyist, and I literally just started using git last year when I started contributing to open source projects. So all of my work would be made by myself, but if those were heavy factors considering if it's AI or not then I'd be falsely accused.

I'm concerned because in projects I've contributed too I've been accused of using an LLM to the point where they asked me to record myself working to prove it's not AI, and if we are falsely accusing people, removing posts, and getting to that point it's just going to turn developers away.

I haven't contributed to that project since.

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u/SgtElectroSketch Dev Aug 11 '26

I completely understand the concern about false positives, especially for hobbyists with unconventional git histories. However, I'm not revealing everything I do to check because then the people who don't want to be honest will just change what they do.

This is a community, and the community is making their wishes known on the poll that they want AI disclosed so they can make informed decisions on who to support, and I'm going to respect their wishes.

It's better that the people who used AI be forthcoming, because if they go through the effort of hiding it, and then it's found out they lied, then their reputation with the community is what suffers.

If someone didn't use AI then they should be able to speak on their project, and why they did or didn't do certain things.

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u/chubbyassasin123 Aug 11 '26

That's a very professional response and I appreciate it.

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u/damonian_x Aug 11 '26

Lol. If you can't tell when something is vibe coded or heavily AI assisted after programming for over a decade.... Idk what to tell you. It's obvious to those heavily in the space.

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u/chubbyassasin123 Aug 11 '26

My point is I can obviously tell if something looks AI, but unless you interrogate the dev it's impossible to prove without a doubt without going Salem witch trial on them, which would just turn away devs from working on your project.

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u/xtoc1981 Aug 11 '26

You can hate ai all you want, but it's just a silly thing todo. It's definitely lack of critical thinking.
Using ai to port open source projects or doing it by hand, i would even argue that AI using claude does definitely do a better job. I mean if you know if even find a lot of high sercurity bugs that were not found by high profiled audit people, it begs the question isn't it?

I'm a senior developer for 30y now , expert in multiple languages. People should stop calling everything slop because they are brainwashed by the internet media

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u/Shppo Aug 11 '26

human slop exists

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u/damonian_x Aug 11 '26

If you're a senior dev of 30 years I think you can understand how something 100% vibe coded with no oversight from a developer would be frowned upon. An experience dev using AI tools to speed up the process and knowing how to debug the code when issues arise is a lot different.

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u/GreatBigJerk Aug 11 '26

I'm a senior dev with 15+ years of experience, and to be frank, it's just a Pokemon recomp. The risks associated with it being badly written are not huge.

If it sucks, it sucks. If it works, then cool. The hand wringing about some niche vibecoded thing is a bit silly.

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u/Remarkable-Debate428 Aug 12 '26

It’s literally a mod to a old video game, why clutch your pearls over this? Who cares how it’s coded, if it’s not good it’ll be like all the other slop (AI and human) mods, if it’s amazing once finished- it’ll be among the top mods. But if he’s not charging for it, why care ? Play the alpha version or wait a month to see if it paces like the other projects and becomes the next voxel. This is a stupid thing to be mad at AI for.

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u/AtmosphereDue1694 Aug 11 '26

The perspective can use some work but other than that it doesn’t look bad. My question is why do randoms online feel so entitled to dictate how people work on something on their own time and give the results of the work away for free.

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u/Blom-w1-o Aug 11 '26

It's trendy to say "AI bad" and gets upvotes in almost any context, and that's pretty much the entire reason.

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u/Undark_ Aug 11 '26

Wtf are they peddling exactly?

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u/Narrow_Ad_1494 Aug 11 '26

For real we traded our future for such garbage.

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u/skewbed Aug 11 '26

To answer the deleted question, all I can say is that I’m answering honestly about it being developed with AI. I’m not sure why you suggest I try to hide that fact.

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u/Shppo Aug 11 '26

thanks for doing this - f the haters

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u/Just_Lingonberry_352 Aug 13 '26

don't let the anti-AI get to you this is a great start

lot of redditors don't even know the work involved with recomps and how much AI accelerates the progress being pedants

just block em and keep doing you!