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The result is often a classic game running on a modern system without needing to jump through hoops, which is a huge win to people who enjoy playing the game in

The result is often a classic game running on a modern system without needing to jump through hoops, which is a huge win to people who enjoy playing the game in question. OpenTTD, OpenRCT2, and OpenMW all come to mind, not to mention the many ports of Id games.

soup10 7y ago
AFAIK the n64 emulators don't have any real issues with SM64, this seems more useful for easier rom hacks
- Narishma 7y ago
  Emulators require much more resources than a native game.
  - AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y ago
    True, but in perspective a decent N64 emulator requires less than a modern web browser. Though admittedly that's a really low bar.
    - Wowfunhappy 7y ago
      It would be cool to get SM64 running at fullspeed on something like an older Rasberry Pi, which I think should be feasible now. I also wonder if you could add stuff like raytracing given the original source. (Obv not on the Pi)
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      - AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y ago
        That should be feasible even with emulation. My memory seems to be a bit faulty, but IIRC UltraHLE could run SM64 at full speed on systems with less than 1GB and 1Ghz.
        fb03 7y ago
        I agree. Still, it would be a nice 'code golf' style project to do on weekends or rainy days. You guys remember mario.com on MS-DOS? A full clone of Super Mario running fullspeed on DOS? Can you guys imagine mario64.exe? ^^
        Wowfunhappy 7y ago
        The Raspberry Pi 1 and 2 are slower than 1 Ghz, and ARM has less IPC than x86 (although I'm admittedly not sure about 90s-era x86).
        Newtonip 7y ago
        I can't remember if it was full speed but it was perfectly playable to emulate SM64 with UltraHLE on my Pentium 200MMX OC to 225MHz with a Voodoo 2 8MB and 96MB of RAM. I had to run it in Windows NT5 beta though, it stuttered in Windows 95.
ekianjo 7y ago
OpenTTD and al are clean room implementation of the original engines, not reverse-engineered ones. That's massively different legally speaking.
- Danieru 7y ago
  They are reimplementations but sadly far from clean room. The ASM was often referenced and even used side by side as the projects migrated to their own code base.
- darkpuma 7y ago
  It's really a matter of how badly the community wants it I think.
roywiggins 7y ago
OpenMW has no code from MW, it's a reimplementation. It doesn't use any of MW's code, and doesn't try to. Technically, yes, you could use a decompiled game code to port the game to another platform, but the legalities are not in your favor.

soup10 7y ago

AFAIK the n64 emulators don't have any real issues with SM64, this seems more useful for easier rom hacks

Narishma 7y ago
Emulators require much more resources than a native game.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y ago
  True, but in perspective a decent N64 emulator requires less than a modern web browser. Though admittedly that's a really low bar.
  - Wowfunhappy 7y ago
    It would be cool to get SM64 running at fullspeed on something like an older Rasberry Pi, which I think should be feasible now. I also wonder if you could add stuff like raytracing given the original source. (Obv not on the Pi)
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    - AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y ago
      That should be feasible even with emulation. My memory seems to be a bit faulty, but IIRC UltraHLE could run SM64 at full speed on systems with less than 1GB and 1Ghz.
      - fb03 7y ago
        I agree. Still, it would be a nice 'code golf' style project to do on weekends or rainy days. You guys remember mario.com on MS-DOS? A full clone of Super Mario running fullspeed on DOS? Can you guys imagine mario64.exe? ^^
      - Wowfunhappy 7y ago
        The Raspberry Pi 1 and 2 are slower than 1 Ghz, and ARM has less IPC than x86 (although I'm admittedly not sure about 90s-era x86).
      - Newtonip 7y ago
        I can't remember if it was full speed but it was perfectly playable to emulate SM64 with UltraHLE on my Pentium 200MMX OC to 225MHz with a Voodoo 2 8MB and 96MB of RAM. I had to run it in Windows NT5 beta though, it stuttered in Windows 95.

ekianjo 7y ago

OpenTTD and al are clean room implementation of the original engines, not reverse-engineered ones. That's massively different legally speaking.

Danieru 7y ago
They are reimplementations but sadly far from clean room. The ASM was often referenced and even used side by side as the projects migrated to their own code base.
darkpuma 7y ago
It's really a matter of how badly the community wants it I think.

roywiggins 7y ago

OpenMW has no code from MW, it's a reimplementation. It doesn't use any of MW's code, and doesn't try to. Technically, yes, you could use a decompiled game code to port the game to another platform, but the legalities are not in your favor.