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Dev Behind Super Mario 64's AI-Assisted 3DO And Saturn Ports Is Doing It "For Fun"

Update: "[I] completely respect the geniuses that feel their work is being devalued". Eyepatch Entertainment's 3DO port of Super Mario 64 raised some eyebrows recently, and the developer has now shown off very early footage of the game running on real Sega Saturn hardware. As with the early 3DO footage, things are still pretty rough. The port uses the assets of the 3DO port, and throws them into the PowerSlave Saturn engine. Enemies are sprites, but the Mario model itself is taken from the recen

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The Dev Behind Super Mario's 3DO Port Is Working On An "Insane" Sega Saturn Version

...but stands accused of using AI in the process. Eyepatch Entertainment's 3DO port of Super Mario 64 raised some eyebrows recently, and the developer has now shown off very early footage of the game running on real Sega Saturn hardware. As with the early 3DO footage, things are still pretty rough. The port uses the assets of the 3DO port, and throws them into the PowerSlave Saturn engine. Enemies are sprites, but the Mario model itself is taken from the recent decomp. Read the full article on t

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"This Is Real Progress" - Super Mario 64's 3DO Version Is Already Looking Significantly Less Cursed, Just One Week Later

But still needs "some significant performance fixes". While the 3DO hardware was certainly capable of rendering polygons, it's not typically remembered today as a 3D powerhouse. Instead, its role in the history of gaming is often portrayed as a transitional piece of technology that bridged the gap between 16-bit sprite-based machines and more capable hardware such as the Sega Saturn, Sony PlayStation, and Nintendo 64. Read the full article on timeextension.com

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"This Shouldn't Work... But You Are Seeing It Kind Of Work" - Someone Is Trying To Get Super Mario 64 Running On 3DO Hardware

"This is basically just homebrew and not a port. You can't call this a port". While the 3DO hardware was certainly capable of rendering polygons, it's not typically remembered today as a 3D powerhouse. Instead, its role in the history of gaming is often portrayed as a transitional piece of technology that bridged the gap between 16-bit sprite-based machines and more capable hardware such as the Sega Saturn, Sony PlayStation, and Nintendo 64. Read the full article on timeextension.com

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A Legendary Japanese Game Dev Once Told Miyamoto Mario 64 Was Like "A Really Strict After-School Sports Club"

Kenji Eno missed the "loose, free atmosphere" of the original Shoshinkai demo. When Super Mario 64 was released on the N64 back in 1996, it was considered a landmark title, acting as a blueprint for many developers on how to approach 3D movement inside their games. Tetsuya Nomura, for instance, recently called it "the game that truly shaped my current guiding principle" of being able to move freely in 3D, and he isn't alone in heaping praise on the title, with Banjo Kazooie's Gregg Mayles and th

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"This Little Handheld Is Extremely Powerful" - Super Mario 64 Gets A Second Fan-Made GBA Port

"It got ridiculously complicated". A while back, we reported on Joshua Barretto's efforts to replicate Super Mario 64 on the humble Game Boy Advance – and that project has now inspired a second attempt to bring the game to the handheld. Fellow modder Brendan Tobias Friedly (AKA Game of Tobi) has published a video showcasing his porting project, which uses intensive optimisation and memory management to reproduce the N64 classic on the GBA. Read the full article on timeextension.com

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