N64: Recompiled — Creating Native PC Ports Is A Godsend For Game Preservation

"In a time when companies don't care about preserving games, I have high respect for the creators of projects like N64: Recompiled." - Hanzala from eXputer.

[gold_drake]

it is, i might be finally able to play Snowboard kids 1 full screen ha.

[purple101]

il beat you to the ski-lift,

framerate on snowboard kids was shocking, do you remember./?

talking of shocking framerate and kart racers style games,
Sony had a gem on ps3, with 'Modnation Racers' but again, framerate was so terrible, still fun though, indeed, when is drifting sideways not fun, the answer is never. we have not seen enough of that game, technically some people made race tracks/games in dreams and little big planet etc, but its just not the same,!!! grrrrr

morning rant over.

here, relive some ,memories. https://www.youtube.com/wat...

[itBourne]

The load time on ModNation where also excruciatingly long... But man oh man I wish that game took off more, so much fun! Could turn off garbage rubber banding, I had karts with 100's of stickers to design some crazy cool stuff, custom tracks. Fantastic undeappreciated game

[gold_drake]

SK1 had a fairly good framerate. sk2 maybe not so much ha

[XiNatsuDragnel]

It is 100%

[Redgrave]

Some food for thought:

Would you donate your physical copy of a really rare/expensive cartridge (Conkers's BFD, Bomberman 64 Second Attack, Ogre Battle 64, the two Castlevania titles, etc) to those managing this project for the greater good of getting them preserved online for all to experience at some point?

[UltimateOwnage]

As long as it meant they never took money from Patreon and invited a DMCA takedown / lawsuit by Nintendo to take it all away. After seeing the whole debacle with Yuzu I now question how long any of these teams can maintain game preservation efforts through emulator development, or otherwise.

[franwex]

I mean. They may borrow them…

[Profchaos]

Is it realistically needed though I would not personally give anyone my old carts for games that are already persevered and easily available online

[Inverno]

The snippet of ray tracing at the end of the og trailer was low-key amazing. I found out thanks to Nerrel who also made a texture pack for MM, and i can't wait to see how much more great this game will be in the near future. With model swaps, ray tracing, retextures, and a more quicker process than decompilation, it's gonna bring new life to N64 games.

[Profchaos]

There might need to be a bit of clarification recompilation is not the same as decompilation.

This is basically a container to excite the rom within but allows for all sorts of beat additions and tricks like new lighting effects such as ray tracing to be added.

But decompilation would ultimately be king as it allows for a widespread porting capabilities and uses the assets from games to build a native install for PC or whatever the target system is e.g Mario 64 for PC or sonic mania for psvita / wii

[DivineHand125]

Hopefully this will be the start of something greater. Where all retro systems get this treatment so modders can modernize those games.

[PRIMORDUS]

"Nintendo’s absolute hatred for everything fan-generated is a secret to none." I have full ROM collections from them, which they can't do nothing about torrents/usenet. What needs to change is that if people are modding games, adding Mario, Link etc. or maybe a fan remake and they are not making any money off Nintendo it should be allowed, the law needs to change. Only if they ask for money, donations, etc. then that's full on stealing and that's where Nintendo can DMCA or sue.