Super Smash Bros on PC: “BattleShip” native N64 port, developed in 25 days 100% by AI
The scene of N64 gaming PC ports has just experienced a moment that will fuel the debate for a long time. TheWizWiki (also known as JRickey) releases BattleShip, a native PC port of Super Smash Bros Nintendo 64 - and it ass ume openly that the code was written 100% by artificial intelligence.
🤖 “25 days, me and the AIs”
TheWizWiki hid nothing about the method. In his release notes, he describes a 25-day project where the only “contributors” to the code are himself, Claude Opus 4.6, Opus 4.7 and GPT 5.5. AI agents worked and tested autonomously while it took care of other things. No lines of code manually written by a human.
The result as is: the Classic Single Player Mode is playable, at 60 FPS on PC. The basic physics works, characters move, stocks are counted. The version is in beta and requires the original NTSC-U v1.0 ROM of Super Smash Bros N64 to run.
⚔ ️ The community is divided
The reaction from the homebrew developer community was immediate and clear. Developer MorsGames posted what became the most shared reply in the thread:“You cheated not only the I u, but yourself. You didn't grow. You didn't progress. You took a shortcut and you gained nothing. You experienced a hollow victory." >Others have pointed out the concrete technical limitations: the physics are imprecise compared to the N64 original, several of the game's advanced mechanics are missing or broken, and the port is described by some testers as "full of bugs". In parallel, a second project called Smash Bros: Recompiled is in development by a human team using the N64 Recompiled method - promising a technically more solid version but with no date announced.
< h2>💡 The real debateBeyond the technical result, BattleShip poses a question that the homebrew scene will have to resolve: what is ‘developing’ a game or port when the AI can generate working code in a few weeks? The community has always valued learning, technical mastery, deep understanding of hardware. BattleShip calls all that into question - and not in a comfortable way.
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