this post was submitted on 12 May 2024

1328 points (99.4% liked)

Technology

60073 readers

3591 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

1328

Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports to add proper ray tracing, ultrawide, high FPS, and more (www.tomshardware.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

174 comments fedilink hide all child comments

(page 2) 50 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] MisterFrog 13 points 7 months ago

Am I the only one who watched the video, and due to nostalgia upscaling my memory, could hardly tell any difference other than frame rate.

I should go look at the normal game 😅

[–] Mighty 13 points 7 months ago (2 children)

so. For dumb people like me (or just for me to be clear), how do I play those games? i watched the video and read the site. there's a link to the MM gamefiles on GitHub, but the video said you still need the ROMs? or this RT64? I'm old and apparently at some point, you just lose tech savvyness... :( can I get a step-by-step?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Ok I answer her without watching the video or any knowledge:

I assume you need to download the github project and compile it yourself (except there are releases on the right side)

You should follow the readme in the project.

There should be an information about where you should put the roms.

The roms can be (legally) download on different websites. It's legal for archive reasons (afaik).

load more comments (1 replies)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (8 children)

this was always possible, not sure why people are just now freaking out about it.

I remember someone doing the same thing with NES back in 2013: https://andrewkelley.me/post/jamulator.html

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Just so you know, the actual source code for this project mentions both Jamulator and another project that did this for the N64.

load more comments (7 replies)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Would the recompiled games effect how ACE works in some games? I'd assume since the machine code is different the exploits used to trick the pointers would be different.

load more comments (2 replies)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

I need 60fps upscaled Pokémon Stadion with raytracing now 😌where?

[–] buzz86us 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Damn perfect dark would be amazing with online play it was such a good game, and Microsoft pretty much killed it on Xbox

load more comments (1 replies)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

I wonder if this will help n64 games run on the retro handhelds. They can already play n64 pretty well but this might help increase the fps

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Fuck it, F-ZERO X at 240 FPS. Why not?

[–] Suavevillain 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

This is really cool. I love emulation it is great to play old games with better options. I would love to see The N64 wrestling games get this type of treatment, I still play Virtual Pro Wrestling 2 often.

load more comments (2 replies)

load more comments