POV: you ported an old Nintendo game
Fan-made Mario Kart 64 PC port released, with track editor and ultrawide support
Submitted 2 months ago by tonytins@pawb.social to games@lemmy.world
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slaacaa@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Nintendo cease and disist in 3…2…1…
LorIps@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Probably not, the don’t provide copyrighted files and Nintendo reeeeeaaaally doesn’t want to create precedent that decomp is fair use (which based on Apple v Franklin it probably is) which could make emulators 100% legal.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Emulators ARE 100% legal.
It’s the roms that are illegal.
blackjam_alex@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Decomps are legal because they’re clean room reimplementations of the original code rather than exact copies.
It’s the same approach IBM PC compatibles used back in the day to create their own BIOSes.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There’s no precedent. Nintendo sues, the developer doesn’t have money for lawyers to defend themselves so they remove it.
That’s how it’s been going for a long time.
Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Nintendo hasn’t really C&D any of the previous decomps. they can for people who upload the whole precompiled executable, but none of them that requires actually ripping the original assets yourself to create the required game.
Psythik@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Nope. Ship of Harkinian and 2 Ship 2 Harkinian have been around for years with no issues from Nintendo, and this port is being developed by HarbourMasters, the same people behind those ports. It’s not going anywhere anytime soon.
TwinTitans@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Let me know when Diddy Kong Racing’s done. GOAT.
Tronn4@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Nice try, diddy
Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 2 months ago
HEY. Diddy Kong does not deserve that slander.
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 2 months ago
This game would greatly benefit from a PC port. It barely reaches 15FPS at times on N64, it’s damn near unplayable.
twice_hatch@midwest.social 2 months ago
You can verify you have dumped a supported copy of the game by using the SHA-1 File Checksum Online at www.romhacking.net/hash/.
It’s so sad that Windows still doesn’t ship with an easy-to-use hash toolkit
TonyOstrich@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Indeed. I usually use 7-zip’s built in tool to do it when I need to.
Flatfire@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Powershell’s
Get-FileHashdoes exactly this though.Link@rentadrunk.org 2 months ago
certutil is built into windows and can be used in cmd.
I do agree there is no built in GUI method though.
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Not just ultrawide support, but also interpolated frames for super smooth frame rate.
secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
What is that?
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
In a nutshell, interpolated frames are basically just extra generated frames that go between the frames outputted by the video game itself. They’re used to combat things like motion blur, and to make animations look smoother.
victorz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Man, MK64 already had a pretty high FOV as it was, and now with ultra wide support lol
RobotZap10000@feddit.nl 2 months ago
How else am I supposed to see the green shells behind me?
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
360° monitor setup including rear view mirrors.
Psythik@lemmy.world 2 months ago
As someone who uses a 65" LG OLED as my primary monitor and sits 5ft away, the FoV can never be high enough in nearly every game.
victorz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You’d think it would be the opposite? High FOV when you are far away doesn’t match the expected projection of the things you see on screen. 5 ft is pretty normal I would say, I sit that far from my LG 65" OLED, too. I turn down my FOV in Rocket League so it doesn’t mess with my perception, even though you’d think a high FOV in that game would benefit you as you can avoid demolitions easier. (I do keep the FOV at max in Rocket League when in front of my PC though, because I’m so close to my monitor, probably 2 ft or so.)
Green_Mouse@piefed.social 2 months ago
The fact that they are adding more features and modding for these fan ports is incredible, I just hope that Nintendo doesn't come in and shut down these fan ports like they like to do with fan games/projects/etc.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
like they like to do with fan games/projects/etc.
Cries while staring at the defunct AM2R project
Green_Mouse@piefed.social 2 months ago
I remember a few years ago I played and finished AM2R, such an incredible game, of course, not on the level of the official remake, but still.
Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I played this for 6 hours straight. Lovely port so far but there are some minor bugs. Namely in the point scoring results screen with flickering text sometimes probably z fighting. I also had the mini map get bugged position and overlap the lap times upper right a couple times.
Other thing I noticed was timing differences at higher frame rates like the steam train crossing the desert road.
OpenGL is very slow considering what it has to render. Used Vulkan but I tested OpenGL briefly and it chugged at 2160p with 120hz and frame interpolation on. AA was off.
astro_plane@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I played it on my modded Switch, had to overclock it just to keep a stable 30fps. I hope we get a vulkan renderer in the future.
Psythik@lemmy.world 2 months ago
PC gamers: Look what Nintendo needs to mimic a fraction of our power.
Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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hddsx@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
And Nintendo has not yet sued because…?
catloaf@lemm.ee 2 months ago
On what grounds?
baldingpudenda@lemmy.world 2 months ago
For making a port? A succulent Japanese port of a 30 year old game? Unhand me, sir!
huquad@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Its Nintendo, do they need grounds?
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Well I think for one, you need to supply your own rom so it doesn’t contain any Nintendo stuff?
hddsx@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Does this differ from emulators with which you have to supply a rom? I thought they sued for that too
stoy@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Impressive to see that the software can distinguish between a legal and an illegal ROM file
Psythik@lemmy.world 2 months ago
lol sarcasm aside, it actually can’t. This port is being developed by HarbourMasters, the same people behind Ship of Harkinian and 2 Ship 2 Harkinian (PC ports of OoT and Majora’s Mask, for the unaware.)
stoy@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Yeah, I just found the article really annoying at constantly talking about legal roms…
RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 2 months ago
If they’re not complete idiots, they’d license this to release all their stuff. But they’re Nintendo, so…
catloaf@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Stuff like this almost never happens due to the legal liability. They can’t ensure that the authors aren’t violating some other contract, like using some library unlicensed, or violating an employer’s noncompete or something.
AMillionMonkeys@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Might as well link to it:
github.com/HarbourMasters/SpaghettiKart
You need to supply your own ROM of the correct version.
secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
I will honestly never understand why people link shit articles instead
addie@feddit.uk 2 months ago
They might be former users of FARK, where submitting stories didn’t allow duplicate links? And so you would see the top article in the aggregator frequently being blog links and some right weird ‘news’ websites.
Lemmy has the opposite problem, where the same link can be posted again and again even on the same instance, of course.