This is so sick! N64 Recompiled is a program which can statically recompile any N64 game to natively run on PC

[Remij 5,022]

 

 

This is incredible.  There's already a version of it for Majora's Mask that I downloaded and played yesterday and it's phenomenal.  The program basically recompiles games in mere seconds.. contains no copyrighted code.. can also support ultrawide aspect ratios, incredibly high framerates, and even ray tracing.  It's crazy.  

[Twinblade★ 4,200]

thats pretty neat. this will be huge if it can be expanded for other consoles.

[Cooke 2,061]

Fuck that AI voice narration is annoying. 

[Mr. Impossible 574]

Seems like a lot of effort for the like 7 or 8 great N64 games. 

[Playstation Tablet 1,852]

Isnt it better to emulate Majora's Mask on 3DS anyways?

[Remij 5,022]

3 hours ago, Mr. Impossible said:

Seems like a lot of effort for the like 7 or 8 great N64 games. 

They'd do it for even 1 great game.  A lot of these guys are about simply preserving these games, which is what the emulation/decompilation projects do.  But this is different.. it's basically a smarter way of "converting" games to use native PC instructions to run.  That basically means that whole swaths of games can be covered very quickly with only small adjustments required for games which do quirky things with the original hardware.

 

N64 wasn't Nintendo's greatest console, but IMO a few of those 7 or 8 games are some of the greatest games of all time.