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Super Mario 64 for the PS1

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300 points LaserDiscMan | 1 comments | 10 Dec 25 18:58 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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Larrikin ◴[10 Dec 25 19:24 UTC] No.46222319[source]▶
Are there any pictures or video of it running? I understand why they are not on the GitHub page
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platevoltage ◴[10 Dec 25 20:04 UTC] No.46222969[source]▶
here's another video that showed good gameplay shots that I happened to see last night.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kscCFfXecTI

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ginko ◴[10 Dec 25 20:18 UTC] No.46223146[source]▶
The distorted textures and weird triangle clipping issues are exactly what you'd expect from an unoptimized port to a platform that doesn't support perspective correct texturing or depth testing.
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bluedino ◴[10 Dec 25 21:49 UTC] No.46224353[source]▶
It looks pretty decent but seeing the texture warping and glitching reminds me of why I was team N64
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01HNNWZ0MV43FF ◴[10 Dec 25 22:51 UTC] No.46225124[source]▶
The N64 definitely has the nicer GPU of the two. An N64 with a CD-ROM drive would have been amazing.
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greeniskool ◴[11 Dec 25 12:58 UTC] No.46230823[source]▶
There was actually an unauthorized third-party CD-ROM drive for it, the Bung Doctor V64[1]. It didn't actually expand the available ROM space beyond what was possible with cartidges, but its still interesting in that it was allegedly used by licensed Nintendo devs as a lower-cost alternative to the devkits officially provided to them.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_V64

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1. mghackerlady ◴[11 Dec 25 14:03 UTC] No.46231472[source]▶
not allegedly, iirc the turok devs used one