Just noticed that the tool Hookshot to recompile Zelda Ocarina of Time Remake on Switch 2 to PC does not exist anymore: https://github.com/NotRexed/Hookshot I was doing backups every few days, because I feared this would happen. The last release from it is on my drive at version 2.1.0. Not sure if uploading it to Internet Archive is worth it.
Now some new fork has appeared, called Longshot: https://git.magicbean.dev/MagicBeanDev/Longshot It’s also not on Github anymore, so taking it down is harder. They claim (it very well be true) that previous maintainers continue this new fork:
Longshot is a continuation of Hookshot. The top maintainers have moved to this project.
My first instinct is to be skeptical. There are bad actors out there taking advantage of popularity of such tools, and the desperation of people wanting a working alternative. So what I will do is, wait a while, and then if this is legit and works well, start archiving it. They also have a very Ai designed looking website: https://longshot.magicbean.dev/ I’m not entirely against Ai, despite its core problems. Just wanted mention it here.
This is the worst version of open source: Claude writes all the code and the humans just do non-stop drama.
Notrexed and another guy who’s username I don’t remember posted on discord saying they are not affiliated and do not recognize longshot as a continuation. They also mentioned going dark for a while but with the hopes of coming back. So yeah, it may be a continuation, just not an official one.
Thanks. So if this is not endorsed by the original maintainer, then I’m cautious. As for the continuation, basically any fork is a continuation; just being pedantic here, but I understand what they mean by that.
The original maintainer is a literal child. Why do you put so much trust in them and not the community around the project?
Because I can’t evaluate the new project yet. As said, there are lot of bad actors taking advantage of situations like these. I don’t care about the age of the original maintainer. It seemed to have worked and there were no bad intentions. Right now I want to wait out the situation until a project has proven itself, then start archiving it for myself.
