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Zelda OoT was based on the Mario 64 engine

Relys 7y ago
That makes a lot of sense as it's not like they had a lot of 3D engines for the N64 during launch lol. Wonder if Pilot Wings (for example) also shares similar rendering pipeline.
- Jasper_ 7y ago
  PilotWings 64 was made by a separate company (Paradigm), who used a very different structure for their games which feels a lot more "western" to me (the UltraVision 64 "engine" has a large structured data chunk which it reads a lot of stuff from; most Nintendo 64 games don't really have that sort of structure)
  - bluedino 7y ago
    Know anything about Turok?
    - o-__-o 7y ago
      It’s a very simple 3D engine
- aliswe 7y ago
  I really don't think you can refer to these games as using different 3D engines. The 3D capabilities are ingrained in the N64. The SNES likewise didn't have any 2D engines (except maybe for when the extension chips were used). Perhaps what we're talking about are the game logic engines.
  - Relys 7y ago
    Ah, yeah that makes sense (I know more about SNES internals then N64).
buttsu_ 7y ago
I thought it was starfox 64 actually
- georgespencer 7y ago
  It was a heavily modified version of Mario 64: "Miyamoto: We were using the Super Mario 64 engine for Zelda, but we had to make so many modifications to it that it's a different engine now. What we have now is a very good engine, and I think we can use it for future games if we can come up with a very good concept. It took three or so years to make Zelda, and about half the time was spent on making the engine. We definitely want to make use of this engine again."[1] [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20040619165414/http://www.miyamotoshrine.com/theman/interviews/111998.shtml https://web.archive.org/web/20040619165414/http://www.miyamo...
  - dyarosla 7y ago
    ONLY 3?!! That game was massive! That sounds like an unbelievable feat of engineering even if the base engine was built off of SM64.
    - ObscureScience 7y ago
      Then they made Majoras Mask in around 18 months (which uses same engine and assets).

That makes a lot of sense as it's not like they had a lot of 3D engines for the N64 during launch lol. Wonder if Pilot Wings (for example) also shares similar rendering pipeline.

Jasper_ 7y ago
PilotWings 64 was made by a separate company (Paradigm), who used a very different structure for their games which feels a lot more "western" to me (the UltraVision 64 "engine" has a large structured data chunk which it reads a lot of stuff from; most Nintendo 64 games don't really have that sort of structure)
- bluedino 7y ago
  Know anything about Turok?
  - o-__-o 7y ago
    It’s a very simple 3D engine
aliswe 7y ago
I really don't think you can refer to these games as using different 3D engines. The 3D capabilities are ingrained in the N64. The SNES likewise didn't have any 2D engines (except maybe for when the extension chips were used). Perhaps what we're talking about are the game logic engines.
- Relys 7y ago
  Ah, yeah that makes sense (I know more about SNES internals then N64).

buttsu_ 7y ago

I thought it was starfox 64 actually

georgespencer 7y ago
It was a heavily modified version of Mario 64: "Miyamoto: We were using the Super Mario 64 engine for Zelda, but we had to make so many modifications to it that it's a different engine now. What we have now is a very good engine, and I think we can use it for future games if we can come up with a very good concept. It took three or so years to make Zelda, and about half the time was spent on making the engine. We definitely want to make use of this engine again."[1] [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20040619165414/http://www.miyamotoshrine.com/theman/interviews/111998.shtml https://web.archive.org/web/20040619165414/http://www.miyamo...
- dyarosla 7y ago
  ONLY 3?!! That game was massive! That sounds like an unbelievable feat of engineering even if the base engine was built off of SM64.
  - ObscureScience 7y ago
    Then they made Majoras Mask in around 18 months (which uses same engine and assets).