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A PC port of Mario 64 has appeared out of nowhere

RoboitoAM

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https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/a-full-mario-64-pc-port-has-been-released/

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The fan-made port, which was first shared on social media sites this weekend, was made possible by a 2019 recompilation project which saw fans reverse engineer the game's source code.
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Unknown if this is related to recent hacks but I also wouldn't be shocked. Port runs in DirectX 12 and supports native 4k and widescreen
 

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I mean it's written in the sentence you quote that it's not due to recent hack but thanks to fans reverse engineering the code since last year.
 
SunBroDave

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Can it legally be taken down if they refactored everything and replaced all of the assets?
 
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SunBroDave said:
Can it legally be taken down if they refactored everything and replaced all of the assets?
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I don't think they've replaced the assets, last time I checked you needed the original rom file to compile.

The reversed source code on github should be legal, the final .exe on the other hand, isn't.
 

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Kind of wild. The results are unappealing to me in the same way that emulating the game in higher resolutions is, but I understand this being a neat technical exercise.
 
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This should just be step one. Step two should be trying to unlock animations from gameplay so we can get some sweet 60+fps action.
 

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Even if Nintendo wants to C&D this, it's out in the wild now, just like AM2R, it's already too late.

Good. That's why people must not 'tease' such a project in it's infancy, release it and then let god do its work lol.

Gimme 60fps Mario 64 now.
 
Komo

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Definitely not out of nowhere? This was posted on same place all the other nintendo leaks were being posted about 1-2 days ago, but very much source of this leaked along side it.
 
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This looks amazing and the team that did this remaster should be commended. Truly remarkable.

Now the real question is did they fix the smoke?

 
InspectorJones

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Had a chance to play some of it last night and it's pretty amazing for what it is. It's been a while since I played 64 (Since the Wii Virtual Console), but playing it at 2K resolution was very neat.
 

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WestEgg said:
Maybe I'll change my mind if the rumored Switch version is a full on remake, but to me, the polygonal look of Mario 64 feels crucial to its identity, and seeing cleaned up versions, even the DS version, feels uncanny.
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On another note, was the DS version supposed to be better looking or worse? What's the consensus among gamers?

I don't know much about the technical aspects of gaming.
 
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Maybe it's just my old man reflexes, but I can swear the timing for the jumping is weird. I don't remember the timing for a second and third jump being *that* exact.
 

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Getting a native exe for PC sounds fun, but when the only work left is retranslating the syscalls to Win32 / DirectX variants and fiddling with VS compile and link flags I imagine the fun disappears quickly.

Still pretty cool project though.

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Yes it does, as many other engine reimplementations during last 20 years.
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Depends on if they did any sort of work to modify the asset handling or not. Lot of games baked their assets into the executable.
 
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mazi said:
even if they were to replace the assets nintendo still can take it down, yes.
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This is not correct. Replacing all of the assets and using code that was properly reverse engineered would absolutely be fine.

You'd basically just creating a whole new game with a whole new engine inspired by Mario 64.
 
Alvis

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This is clearly using the original assets, though.
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No. The source code has also leaked, and it includes NO assets. The fact that a compiled .exe with the assets included has leaked, doesn't mean that that was what the devs wanted to release.
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lol, it doesn't work that way.
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Yes, it does. It's a reimplementation. URDE is a Metroid Prime reimplementation, and they distribute it with NO assets, you have to provide your Metroid Prime assets yourself. After you do that, you can have Metroid Prime running natively on your PC. This is the same thing. Reimplementations are a common thing in gaming and are 100% legal. There's also a Jedi Outcast reimplementation that allows you to run the game at high resolutions and such, for example. Again, no assets included. You provide the assets yourself. 100% legal.

This it the same thing. Again, what has LEAKED is both the source code with NO assets, and a compiled .exe with all the assets. The fact that a compiled .exe with assets has leaked, I repeat, doesn't mean that the developerrs wanted to distribute the game that way, since it's a LEAK.
 
MysteryM

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I've just rgb modded an ntsc n64 to play this again, but am going to hold fire until I see the switch remaster.
 
Alvis

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Here's the source code for this PC port (it was also leaked). No assets are included with this download, so distributing this is completely legal:

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I can't distribute the compiled .exe because that included assets and would not be legal.

I'm having a lot of fun with the port. It supports Xbox gamepads, by the way.

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svacina said:
Sure, if they switch to generic Jumpman. Although I bet Ninty would still try and they have deeper coffers.
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This is also wrong... You distribute clean room source code, then rely on the person who's compiling to produce the assets via their own rom dump.

The Jedi Knight games source code was released the same way, though with the creators blessings.
 
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Any way I can play this with a Switch pro controller? It's only recognizing my Xbox controller
 
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jmga said:
Just tell people how to dump the assets from a legit copy, like with GZDoom.
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They are already doing that.

Look at my previous post, I linked to the source code of the game. It includes no assets, you have to provide them yourself in order to compile the game.

The leaked compiled .exe is clearly not what the devs inteded to release and distribute.
 
low-G

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unlocked framerate support would be a really worthy addition. RTX could be cool, but I expect there's a lot of source-less light sources that would require an artistic go-over to look good.
 
cableboy

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Is this really out of nowhere? I mean the decomp project has been going on for a while.

Anyways, it would be nice if Nintendo put this kind of time into remasters instead of putting their effort into litigation of fan projects.
 
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