-
Ever wanted an RSS feed of all your favorite gaming news sites? Go check out our new Gaming Headlines feed! Read more about it here.
A PC port of Mario 64 has appeared out of nowhere
- Thread starter RoboitoAM
- Start date
How you feel is irrelevant
Some people are distributing the .exe. That's that people's problem. The devs only intended to distribute the source code with no assets and you have to compile it using the assets from a ROM you provide yourself.
URDE is a Metroid Prime PC port that includes no assets and has been publicly in development for years with no legal issues. I can package URDE + the Prime assets ready to play and upload it here. That doesn't make URDE illegal, it's ME who is doing something illegal in that case. Same concept.
The exe thats been making rounds is a build of the port somebody compiled and distributed, the port itself has nothing to do with Nintendo. The assets in this exe is Nintendo´s property tho'.
The EXE is the "illegal" one, as it includes everything. The actual code released by the Dev does not contain any Nintendo assets iirc
I think there's a version floating around that is already compiled, including the copyrighted game files. Obviously the legality of this port doesn't extend that far. Nintendo can and will take down those compiled ports. For it to be legal you have to compile it using your own version.
Hopefully the devs make it easier at some stage. For example the unofficial Doom 64 PC port came with an EXE and a tool that ripped the files from your provided ROM. Very easy and also legal.
That just means I downloaded the wrong thing then. You should relax a bit.
Alright thanks, I can't find the regular patch file though, do you have any link to share?
Source code for the OpenGL version:
sm64pc-sdl.7z - AnonFiles
www.anonfiles.com
sm64pc_src.zip - AnonFiles
how to build the super mario 64 pc port# Before Building* get the sm64 US - Pastebin.com
Pastebin.com is the number one paste tool since 2002. Pastebin is a website where you can store text online for a set period of time.
Source code for the OpenGL version:
Source code for the DX12 version:sm64pc-sdl.7z - AnonFiles
Pastebin that explains how to compile it:sm64pc_src.zip - AnonFiles
www.anonfiles.com
how to build the super mario 64 pc port# Before Building* get the sm64 US - Pastebin.com
Pastebin.com is the number one paste tool since 2002. Pastebin is a website where you can store text online for a set period of time.pastebin.com
Thanks!
This is wild... 32:9
Last edited:
The port, as in "the binaries people are downloading to play the game" is definitely illegal, though.
The port, as in "the source code of the PC port of the fan reverse-engineered source code to Super Mario 64", is not illegal.
When people are saying "this will get C&D'd", we don't know which one they mean.
User Banned (3 days): Trolling, conflating homebrew with piracy
I know, right? lol... How does one even legally obtain an N64 rom?
Like 99% will just download the exe while the rest build it themselves with a rom they downloaded.
Either way, all the wink wink and technicalities don't even matter. Knowing Nintendo, they'll take as much action as they can, but it's futile. As useless as trying to stop people from downloading roms.
Can't wait to see what people do with it.
PBR textures for RayTracing support would be amazing.
High-framerate support would be amazing
Maybe multiplayer is doable? It will be fun to see.
PBR textures for RayTracing support would be amazing.
High-framerate support would be amazing
Maybe multiplayer is doable? It will be fun to see.
There is already both a local multiplayer and an online multiplayer mod for the N64 version so rest assured it WILL happen!
By plugging your n64 cartridge into a usb adapter, those things have been around for more than a decade.
If you don't have a cartridge dumper there are other options.
With a modded Wii it's pretty easy to extract a ROM from an N64 game you bought on Virtual Console for example.
- N64 cartridge to USB adapter (stupid easy, requires cheap hardware purchase)
- Dumping the .wad from the Wii VC and extracting the ROM from there (stupid easy, requires no extra purchases)
- Same for Wii U VC I think
Surprised Nintendo hasn't taken this down yet. :o Would be amazing if this game ever came to Steam.
I didn't even know about this, but that wasn't my point. DOZENS are probably doing it that way.
No need for the charade since there's nothing Nintendo can do to stop this.
what charade, I literally have my retrode sitting next to me on this desk. I've also dumped VC titles before, even injected my own. you'll find that a lot of people from the retro-gaming camp own such hardware.
No offense to you, just talking generally.
This just became the most accessible version of the game overnight. Not only that, but the best way to play it depending on your setup. Nintendo might as well just port it to mobile for free. lol
Never compiled anything before, but I just dumped all my Wii wads recently so I took my SM64 rom and gave it a whirl.
I'm playing on my Macbook Air, and this is amazing. I'm salivating at the thought of both Zeldas playing and looking as good as this game does.
I'm playing on my Macbook Air, and this is amazing. I'm salivating at the thought of both Zeldas playing and looking as good as this game does.
Some users would have their mind blown if they known that, for example, classic Doom is mainly played through sourceports nowadays, even for speedrunning.
Yeah but Doom was made officially open source by the devs so people don't go around screaming about how it's illegal.
OpenJK for Jedi Knight, URDE for Metroid Prime etc are better examples.
Given how people were saying this about URDE, and the assembly decompilation. I think we have an idea.
Awareness of source ports, or just general awareness of anything outside of things explicitly supported by Nintendo, is just really bad on here.
What version are you trying to compile?
Copy pasting your terminal window errors would help.
fps is being worked by another person within the decompile project, iirc. right now, only option we have is that the exe creates an ini file, where you can change, depending on the version(opengl or dx12) some stuff, like input mapping and if it's true fullscreen or not.
Source code for the OpenGL version:
Source code for the DX12 version:sm64pc-sdl.7z - AnonFiles
Pastebin that explains how to compile it:sm64pc_src.zip - AnonFiles
how to build the super mario 64 pc port# Before Building* get the sm64 US - Pastebin.com
Pastebin.com is the number one paste tool since 2002. Pastebin is a website where you can store text online for a set period of time.
Can I just rename an .n64 to a .z64 or do i need special tools for that?
I am using the readme. I installed linux via the build in powershell command. In the instructions I only see one command. When I try to run that it says the command can't be found. Like I I said a step by step guide with pictures is really needed. Or a video.
Getting an error at this step. Everything before it seems to run smoothly.
$ pacman -S git make auto{make,conf} libtool python3 gcc \ mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc mingw-w64-x86_64-SDL2 mingw-w64-pkg-config
error: target not found: mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc
error: target not found: mingw-w64-pkg-config
Feel like im doing something wrong at the line break "\" but for the life of me I can't figure out what.
$ pacman -S git make auto{make,conf} libtool python3 gcc \ mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc mingw-w64-x86_64-SDL2 mingw-w64-pkg-config
error: target not found: mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc
error: target not found: mingw-w64-pkg-config
Feel like im doing something wrong at the line break "\" but for the life of me I can't figure out what.
Of course. You could make a Mario game from scratch creating all assets yourself, and it could still be taken down. Nintendo holds copyright over the Mario franchise (obviously).
Well, what if it's Brian, the non-moustached jumping guy?
But I guess the level design would still be a copyrighted thing.
Sounds like a windows thing, what command are you trying?
Did you try removing the space after?
I'm not sure if you could sell Brain, it's a very big question mark since the mechanics are 1:1 and in this case from a decompile. Even if you recreated completely clean room and it felt like Mario 64, I really don't know if you could sell it. Mario64 with different assets that is not being sold, I don't think you'd have any issues.
mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc works for me but I have the same error with mingw-w64-pkg-config.
I've tried doing it sequentially:
$ pacman -S git make auto{make,conf} libtool python3 gcc \
>mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc
works
>mingw-w64-x86_64-SDL2
works
>mingw-w64-pkg-config
fails
No need to say the rest of the command are useless as I'm getting multiple errors starting here:
CC=x86_64-pc-msys-gcc CXX=x86_64-pc-msys-g++ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr/
File not found or something like that. Honestly I just uninstalled everything since my anti-virus was exploding with intrusion detection / malware detected / malicious request anonfile stuff.
Ah, I would suggest if you still want to, follow the pastebin up above.
I was rather excited thinking OpenJK was for Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight, when a quick google search leads me to information about Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast.
Fuck. I miss DF2.
Wow this makes a lot of sense, haha. I noticed the timing felt "off" and that it worked if I adjusted to hit the button later than I wanted to but didn't really make that connection.
