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Fan-made Mario Kart 64 PC port released, with track editor and ultrawide support
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POV: you ported an old Nintendo game
this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2025
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I played this for 6 hours straight. Lovely port so far but there are some minor bugs. Namely in the point scoring results screen with flickering text sometimes probably z fighting. I also had the mini map get bugged position and overlap the lap times upper right a couple times.
Other thing I noticed was timing differences at higher frame rates like the steam train crossing the desert road.
OpenGL is very slow considering what it has to render. Used Vulkan but I tested OpenGL briefly and it chugged at 2160p with 120hz and frame interpolation on. AA was off.
You can verify you have dumped a supported copy of the game by using the SHA-1 File Checksum Online at https://www.romhacking.net/hash/.
It's so sad that Windows still doesn't ship with an easy-to-use hash toolkit
Indeed. I usually use 7-zip's built in tool to do it when I need to.
Powershell's Get-FileHash does exactly this though.
certutil is built into windows and can be used in cmd.
I do agree there is no built in GUI method though.
Might as well link to it:
https://github.com/HarbourMasters/SpaghettiKart
You need to supply your own ROM of the correct version.
I will honestly never understand why people link shit articles instead
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.
Nintendo cease and disist in 3...2....1....
Nope. Ship of Harkinian and 2 Ship 2 Harkinian have been around for years with no issues from Nintendo, and this port is being developed by HarbourMasters, the same people behind those ports. It's not going anywhere anytime soon.
Probably not, they don't provide copyrighted files and Nintendo reeeeeaaaally doesn't want to create precedent that decomp is fair use (which it probably is) which could make emulators 100% legal.
Emulators ARE 100% legal.
It's the roms that are illegal.
If you are in the US, ROMs aren't illegal either. You're just required to rip them from a cartridge/disc you acquired legally (including second-hand purchases) and you can't distribute it to others. It's the latter part that makes it illegal (but not at all immoral). If you wanna do that last part, god bless. Fuck these companies.
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Decomps are legal because they're clean room reimplementations of the original code rather than exact copies.
It's the same approach IBM PC compatible manufacturers used back in the day to create their own BIOSes.
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Nintendo hasn't really C&D any of the previous decomps. they can for people who upload the whole precompiled executable, but none of them that requires actually ripping the original assets yourself to create the required game.
Animal Crossing is next, as 6 days ago, the gamecube version of the game was decompiled to completion. It's a extremely big prime candidate for modding IMO.
Not just ultrawide support, but also interpolated frames for super smooth frame rate.
What is that?
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.
Let me know when Diddy Kong Racing's done. GOAT.
This game would greatly benefit from a PC port. It barely reaches 15FPS at times on N64, it's damn near unplayable.
Man, MK64 already had a pretty high FOV as it was, and now with ultra wide support lol
How else am I supposed to see the green shells behind me?
360° monitor setup including rear view mirrors.
I love the idea of having a 360° monitor and rear view mirrors instead of just smaller rear view screens, or even digital on-screen rear view mirrors. 😄
New proposal:
360°~~C~~ monitor setup
3 small (something like 10") monitors as side/rearview mirrors
actual side-/rearview mirrors
360°C monitor setup
Better wear some oven mitts. 🔥
Lol...Neat typo xD
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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.
PC gamers: Look what Nintendo needs to mimic a fraction of our power.
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.
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