24th May 2024, 3:27 AM
Part of what makes projects like these so possible now is the tool released recently allowing easy reverse engineering of the source code for literally every N64 game at this point.
We'll see some amazing projects like this thanks to that. Here's the most impressive thing I've seen so far.
This is amazing, and the work put into not just making this new game but deeply optimizing the code to get it running at extremely high frame rates and with a lot more going on... it's going to be one of the best new Mario games and it'll be very easy to port it to PC as well.
And that's the worrying thing, that Nintendo is going to shut all this stuff down. Do they have a legal case? Personally I don't think they ever did shutting down these free fan games. The fact that they're free was SUPPOSED to be what protected the creators in the first place! But, it doesn't matter does it? They can keep paying lawyers and stretch out a lawsuit long enough to bankrupt any independent developer they want, and so it'll go with this.
We'll see some amazing projects like this thanks to that. Here's the most impressive thing I've seen so far.
This is amazing, and the work put into not just making this new game but deeply optimizing the code to get it running at extremely high frame rates and with a lot more going on... it's going to be one of the best new Mario games and it'll be very easy to port it to PC as well.
And that's the worrying thing, that Nintendo is going to shut all this stuff down. Do they have a legal case? Personally I don't think they ever did shutting down these free fan games. The fact that they're free was SUPPOSED to be what protected the creators in the first place! But, it doesn't matter does it? They can keep paying lawyers and stretch out a lawsuit long enough to bankrupt any independent developer they want, and so it'll go with this.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)