Comment on Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports to add proper ray tracing, ultrawide, high FPS, and more

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• PineRune@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  IIRC, the original cartridge had an extra chip in it that emulation hasn’t been able to use. I’m not sure if any progress has been made on this and a few other games that used these.

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  • Evilcoleslaw@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nah it didn’t have an extra chip – but large portions of the game were written in microcode for the N64’s processor specifically. It’s part of what makes it and Rogue Squadron kind of a pain to emulate – along with using their own audio drivers (MoSYS/MusyX that were later used as the basis for the GameCube sound systems).

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    • MightBeAlpharius@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wait… Y’all are talking about X-Wing: Rogue Squadron and Star Wars Episode 1: Battle for Naboo, right?

      I owned those windows ports!

      They worked great back in the day - I had such a blast with them that I begged my parents to get me a shitty Logitech joystick! If you want to check them out, it looks like Rogue Squadron is only $10 on Steam; and Battle for Naboo seems to be abandonware, but it seems to be hosted on a lot of “better spread than dead” game sites.

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    SuperFX SNES games can be emulated, right?

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    • PineRune@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m pretty sure that has been able to be emulated and run through most emulation software now. These Star Wars games had specific code and drivers that, when I looked up why it wouldn’t emulate years ago, had not been cracked open to get the source code to enable people to program it into emulation software.

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  • danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Probably a lot of work for a single game.

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• VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Battle for Naboo actually had an official PC version all the way back in 2001. No idea if it works on modern PCs, though.

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  • PineRune@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The keyboard controls are very janky. You’d have to do custom button mapping with a controller, and there’s no analog input. At least not without some mods that I’m not sure exist.

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