A new PC port of Super Mario 64, with native Linux version. It comes as an AppImage, and requires a ROM file of the original game.
Seems to work well. FPS is locked to 30 by default, but you can change that from the settings. It even supports ultrawide resolutions, with the possibility to change HUD aspect ratio to 16:9.
It also supports HD texture packs, such as this one: https://github.com/GhostlyDark/SM64-Reloaded-GS. Just decompress it in to the mods folder, and toggle between original and alternative textures with the Tab key.
I hope someone will create a Super Mario 64 Maker. Someone already did this with the N64 ROM itself, meaning it even runs in an emulator. But having this on the PC port directly would be incredible.
This is really cool, I think it’s the same guy that made the randomizer https://youtu.be/VTSP1ov2QYM
Seems like it could benefit from mouse and keyboard (for hotkeys), hopefully it gets ported
What’s the benefit of using this over an existing emulator (e.g. Mupen)?
Frame rate, wide screen, mouse input… You can pretty much do anything you want with the game. Vs an emulator that runs the official ROM as it was.
Emulators are emulating N64hardware running a game pak, this is a native port of the game to Linux and unlocks several benefits. Off the top of my head:
- Improved performance due to running natively on the hardware (not emulating an N64 with 4MB RAM)
- Ability to set custom resolutions (widescreen), apply aliasing, filtering or other graphical tweaks
- Easier to replace textures, models, audio files and otherwise tweak the codebase
- Native controller support
The other comments pretty much covered it, but a small nice thing that a port of the game can do that an emulator can’t do is increase the draw distance and disable the LOD to always draw maximum quality models
This is a full native recompilation of the game for x64 processors, so you don’t need an emulation layer. Should also make it easier to make custom texture packs and mods.
If this is a full recompilation of the game, why do I need the ROM file of the original game then? Just like an emulator. That doesn’t make any sense.
