Harbour Masters release 'PaperBoat' their Paper Mario 64 PC port

As such, the Harbour Masters projects are now disqualified from the PC Gaming Wiki as they violate PCGW policy on AI-generated content. What a time to be the worst timeline. 😫

Talk page with many links to HM's AI slop code: (External Link: You need to be logged in to view this.)

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edit: it's being discussed on the PCGW Discord, unclear what action will be taken. Impossible to blanket ban everything AI, I guess we'll see...

Last edited by dpanter on 17 Sep 2026 at 8:29 am UTC

The problem isn't using AI for programming, but rather its incorrect use and lack of understanding of the code.

Furthermore, the systematic and thoughtless rejection of any program coded with AI is absurd. These people will be overtaken by progress, and the world will continue its course.

As for Paper Mario with PaperBoat, it just needs an HD texture pack to be perfect!

Last edited by legluondunet on 17 Sep 2026 at 7:21 pm UTC

There is also this decompilation project

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Quoting: legluondunetThe problem isn't using AI for coding; the problem is using it incorrectly and without understanding the code.

There are a number of schools of thought on that, I don't think it's a blanket claim you can just make on the assumption that nobody has a different opinion after thinking about it.

Quoting: legluondunetThe problem isn't using AI for coding; the problem is using it incorrectly and without understanding the code.

Besides, the dismissal of anything coded with AI by some people, without any reflection, is ridiculous. These people will be left behind by progress, and the train will continue on its way.

Regarding Paper Mario with PaperBoat, all it needs is an HD texture pack and it will be perfect!

Left behind or left out of big techs walled garden only time will tell.
The purpose of AI development is to develop a tool people will rely on, but no competitor can ever hope to approach, so you get the perfect form of vendor lockin.

This is, why they throw, so much money at it. Every dollar thrown deepens the moat as long it improves performance even just a little bit, because nobody else can pay that dollar.

They could be wrong, maybe it doesn't hold that level of moat. This is, why their stock value crashes everytime the Chinese release a model, they're basically the definition of a competitor, but currently the market still believes they could be right, as such their stock is still climbing.

The situation has escalated rapidly. One of the original authors of the 2ship2harkinian project has tried to separate the repo from the organization to keep it in the hands of the original authors and that has ended badly. The clone repo that is part of the organization has purged the discord links and information about the continuation and replaced them with a warning.

Now the original repo has been archived after the manual has been changed to a long explanation of the situation.

garrettjoecox on github:

TLDR: A hostile takeover has happened to the 2ship repo by people who have had either very little or no involvement with the project since its inception. I (ProxySaw) am no longer involved.
(…)I had several people come out making threats and demands that in the context of open source projects (with CC0 license) just don’t make any sense, including threats of abusing the DMCA, meaning because they were offended by my actions they were willing to kill the project, showing their true colors. The strangest thing is, none of these people were involved with 2ship even remotely. Then what transpired was I was banned from the HM64 discord, they reinstated the original Github, breaking all links back to this now transferred repo, and have handed the maintainer privileges to 2 people who have never been involved with this project.(…)

Last edited by Klaas on 19 Sep 2026 at 3:31 pm UTC

They opened a discussion channel on the HM Discord to talk about their use of AI. It went about as well as you expect. Yikes, oof, etc.

Got rid of the previous post, sorry. The screenshots of the conversations of the discord make everyone involved look extremely angry and petty.

Last edited by Klaas on 21 Sep 2026 at 4:27 pm UTC