Discussion

azertify: In case anyone is interested, this creator built a remake of Portal for the N64, uploading a really cool set of videos describing the work that went into building it.He's since stopped to work on his own IP, I believe that the issue was that Valve couldn't allow it because they'd never get Nintendo to agree to it. Something along those lines, anyway.

gryfft: I watched this on YouTube the other day. Another beautiful example of the creative power yielded from building within constraints.

msephton: Such a clever way to approach the problem! I'd say only possible with a detailed understanding of the N64 constraints.

AdmiralAsshat: Somewhat annoyingly, the actual homebrew z64 seems to crash both of the N64 cores that RetroArch supports. :(

user____name: This is really cool. Kaze Emanuar[0] seems to be able to hit 60hz consistently with his Mario 64 rework, I wonder if such perf is achievable for these wide open landscapes. Iirc Shadow of the Collosus rendered distant geometry into the skybox, which always struck me as a neat trick.[0] http://www.youtube.com/@KazeN64

b00ty4breakfast: At the end of the video he says it needs real hardware or a "highly accurate emulator like Ares".

Frenchgeek: I think the main issue was he used Nintendo owned tools and libraries to make his game instead of the GPL ones, making the release of the port dependent on Nintendo's approval too. I guess even Valve didn't want to deal with their lawyers.