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The smoke in Super Mario 64 is wrong
- Thread starter Regulus Tera
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Damn, they should have just delayed Mario 64, game could have significantly benefitted from it. What's that Miyamoto quote again? Pretty ironic.
Game is a disaster.
Game is a disaster.
The cartoony puffs are the fix. The mass of pixels is the actual game.
Haha! Wow, I have no idea how I mixed up left and right like that. Yeah, the fix definitely looks better then.
Especially when the jittery pixels are randomized bits of the cloud.
You know, maybe we as gamers have given Nintendo way too much slack over the years. They're developers and developers can be LAZY if not held to account. This is really deplorable and may change how I feel about Mario 64 and a good chunk of my childhood. Not cool, shiggy.
Right? I kept thinking I was going insane. I fucking loved Mario 64, but the bugged smoke looks terrible compared to the fixed one
this is actually crazy lmao
Looking at the hack description some programmer put in a wrong constant for the image format
Looking at the hack description some programmer put in a wrong constant for the image format
This just reminds me of that classic adage from Miyamoto.
LMAO
That's the funniest fucking thing I've read all week if it's real
I guess no one caught this because the bugged version doesn't look that out of place. Same reason why we never realized it was broken until now. Whoops!
Yeah lol, isn't that game ugly? Now cyberpunk, yeah, that looks like something beautiful.
Going to from a 1-bit alpha to an 8-bit, and then having that layered (depending on camera angle and direction Mario is running), and then chuck on a bigger environment then what we see here in this simple corridor, probably would have made the frame-rate suffer considerable.
It also looks better how it is originally in the game anyway.
Looks more solid, closer to the "fixed" smoke here but not the same.
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Yeah, this was definitely a bug. The comparisons in that video prove it.
It isn't bugged, it is an optimization.
The weird looking smoke in the final game is a lot easier to render because it is a lower bit transparency.
Most likely the high bit transparency was causing frame rate issues so they replaced it with an easier to render one.
The weird looking smoke in the final game is a lot easier to render because it is a lower bit transparency.
Most likely the high bit transparency was causing frame rate issues so they replaced it with an easier to render one.
Get your shit together, Nintendo.
smdh
They need to fix the L Is Real bug where collecting every coin in the game and returning to the statue doesn't unlock Luigi while they're at it.
smdh
They need to fix the L Is Real bug where collecting every coin in the game and returning to the statue doesn't unlock Luigi while they're at it.
Someone better try the ROM in real hardware with an Everdrive and test if it causes lower framerates
Your theory is that they were desperately trying to figure out how to increase performance a little bit, so they resorted to displaying garbage data instead of an intended texture.
I don't buy it. This seems very low on the list of things they'd think to do in that situation. And if they really were brainstorming all sorts of ways they could boost performance, to this extent, then I find it hard to believe that they'd miss the optimization flag in the compiler, which they did.
I blocked pixelated boat years ago on Twitter. Literally everything he tweets from other people is made up. It's funny if you know it's satire, but many people don't, so he inadvertently spreads fake news consistently.
At this point, Nintendo remastering the Super Mario 64 is going to be radically teared down with 20 years of gaming knowledge, speedrunning, and disassembly codes.
Having five 8bit transparency particle sprites overlapping could have serious effects on the frame rate on N64 hardware.
I think it's pretty plausible it was intentional.
Looking forward to the inevitable rebuttal video where Nintendo never makes mistakes and this was completely intentional.
I guarantee this is the case.
at the time discrete sprites for smoke and fire were common. Mario64 was also praised for the "plasma-like" fire from Bowser.
having spritey smoke would have diminished the graphics in the eyes of gamers at the time.
