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twice_hatch, do games w Fan-made Mario Kart 64 PC port released, with track editor and ultrawide support

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,

Indeed. I usually use 7-zip’s built in tool to do it when I need to.

Link,

certutil is built into windows and can be used in cmd.

I do agree there is no built in GUI method though.

Flatfire,

Powershell’s Get-FileHash does exactly this though.

EveningPancakes, do games w Limited Run has asked Nintendo to pull Gex Trilogy from the eShop as it doesn’t work on Switch 2

I really don’t understand why this trilogy needs to exist. Nostalgia I guess? These games were terrible and always a rent from Blockbuster for the weekend type jam and be glad you didn’t spend money on actually owning them.

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

Gex was an important part of that era in video game history, and every game deserves to be preserved.

BigPotato,

Also, a necessary warning about the water at Jerry Garcia’s house.

thermal_shock,

Superman 64 does NOT. It’s memory is enough to topple a nation.

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

Even Superman 64. Though any rerelease of that game needs to come with cheat codes. You can see what the true experience looks like here.

mic_check_one_two,

It definitely hasn’t aged well, but that’s largely because the humor was based on pop culture references. Talking about Jessica Simpson isn’t really cool anymore. But that the time, it was a sort of revolutionary thing to have games reference current pop culture. It made the games feel fresh, especially if you played them right at launch.

Were they great games? No. But from a gaming culture standpoint, they had a surprisingly large impact. Game devs learned what did and didn’t work in regards to the references and gameplay, and that alone makes them culturally important.

Also, games deserve to be preserved even if they didn’t have a massive impact on gaming. Even old Flash games have massive preservation efforts, because every single game was someone’s pet project. Imagine saying the same thing about a bad film. Sure, a modern 4k re-release may not need to exist, but that keeps it in modern formats and makes preservation easier.

TwinTitans, do games w Fan-made Mario Kart 64 PC port released, with track editor and ultrawide support
@TwinTitans@lemmy.world avatar

Let me know when Diddy Kong Racing’s done. GOAT.

Tronn4,

Nice try, diddy

Deflated0ne,
@Deflated0ne@lemmy.world avatar

HEY. Diddy Kong does not deserve that slander.

mondomon,

You never heard of the banana oil freakoffs?

SomethingBurger,

This game would greatly benefit from a PC port. It barely reaches 15FPS at times on N64, it’s damn near unplayable.

Green_Mouse, do games w Fan-made Mario Kart 64 PC port released, with track editor and ultrawide support
@Green_Mouse@piefed.social avatar

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,

like they like to do with fan games/projects/etc.

Cries while staring at the defunct AM2R project

Green_Mouse,
@Green_Mouse@piefed.social avatar

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.

astro_plane, do games w Fan-made Mario Kart 64 PC port released, with track editor and ultrawide support

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,

PC gamers: Look what Nintendo needs to mimic a fraction of our power.

AMillionMonkeys, do games w Fan-made Mario Kart 64 PC port released, with track editor and ultrawide support
@AMillionMonkeys@lemmy.world avatar

Might as well link to it:
github.com/HarbourMasters/SpaghettiKart
You need to supply your own ROM of the correct version.

secret300,

I will honestly never understand why people link shit articles instead

addie,
@addie@feddit.uk avatar

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.

slaacaa, do games w Fan-made Mario Kart 64 PC port released, with track editor and ultrawide support
altima_neo, do games w Fan-made Mario Kart 64 PC port released, with track editor and ultrawide support
@altima_neo@lemmy.zip avatar

Not just ultrawide support, but also interpolated frames for super smooth frame rate.

secret300,

What is that?

zalgotext,

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.

Deflated0ne, (edited ) do games w Fan-made Mario Kart 64 PC port released, with track editor and ultrawide support
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RamblingPanda, do games w Fan-made Mario Kart 64 PC port released, with track editor and ultrawide support

If they’re not complete idiots, they’d license this to release all their stuff. But they’re Nintendo, so…

catloaf,

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.

hal_5700X, do games w Limited Run has asked Nintendo to pull Gex Trilogy from the eShop as it doesn’t work on Switch 2

Limited Run are scam artists.

Almacca,
@Almacca@aussie.zone avatar

This is worth watching. What a nutjob that guy in charge is.

arudesalad, do games w Limited Run has asked Nintendo to pull Gex Trilogy from the eShop as it doesn’t work on Switch 2

Jeb Jab is devastated

DoucheBagMcSwag, do games w Limited Run has asked Nintendo to pull Gex Trilogy from the eShop as it doesn’t work on Switch 2

OOOF

fwygon, do gaming w It’s official: There are no Nintendo Switch 2 reviews. Here’s what that means for us, and you [VGC]

Nintendo is clearly hiding something; they clearly are highly afraid of critical reviews and this is clearly a strategy that is not unlike what Nvidia, led by Jensen Huang, does.

What they are hiding will remain to be seen. I’m sure that the bad reviews will not go away…only be delayed by a week or so.

If you are wise; you will avoid buying the Switch 2 for at least a month. If you can’t wait a month to see what Nintendo is hiding; just be advised; you bought into it blind and have no right to complain about the bad reviews later, nor should you take it personally when people start talking poorly about the Switch 2.

Fiivemacs, do gaming w It’s official: There are no Nintendo Switch 2 reviews. Here’s what that means for us, and you [VGC]

Just helps solidify that it’s just the switch with the number 2 at the end of it

thingsiplay,

It’s actually the rumored Switch Pro.

theangriestbird,

big if tru

thingsiplay,

In the Digital Foundry talks they talked about it. And it makes sense. The Pro was rumored to come out in 2020 or later with tech around that time. But as 2020 was a big year for Switch 1, Nintendo might have changed their direction. Switch 2 has tech that could be from that time and it would make sense, as it is similar to what a Switch Pro would actually be.

Overall its just an idea that makes sense.

knokelmaat,

I agree that this mostly makes sense, but the mouse part of the new joy cons does feel like a new console feature that they wouldn’t have added for a switch pro.

thingsiplay,

Agree with you as well. Anything that enhances or adds new functionality wouldn’t be part of a pro upgrade of the same. I feel like Nintendo tried desperately on the Switch 2 to bring new features, that could have been developed and thought off after they scrapped the Pro idea. So they came up with some software features like video streaming and an upgraded controller with mouse support.

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