News The N64 is still being pushed past its limits, 28 years later — homebrew devs won't give up on the Nintendo 64, compare 2024 Mario to his 1996 ance...

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Real N64 hardware development on Super Mario 64 and Super Smash Bros. 64 expansion packs and other homebrew continues 28 years after development, leveraging optimizations never thought possible in the N64's age.

The N64 is still being pushed past its limits, 28 years later — homebrew devs won't give up on the Nintendo 64, compare 2024 Mario to his 1996 ance... : Read more

 

[ezst036]

It proves two things:

These corporations give up on their consoles way too soon.

These corporations should not be so quick to kick their loyal fan base in the throat. When modders come around that is the ultimate compliment. It proves that you have developed an amazing product that is so fun or influential that people want to take time out of their busy day to improve the experience. But when the parent company starts suing their own fans out of existence what could be a bigger insult?

"You made my childhood amazing" "You made my adulthood a living hell"

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

Imagine getting kids to do a 4 way Goldeneye battle on a 13 inch CRT TV today.

 

[Devoteicon]

These corporations give up on their consoles way too soon.

Oh, they haven't giving up on them. ..They send out plenty of cease and desist letters.

 

[TerryLaze]

It proves two things:

These corporations give up on their consoles way too soon.

These corporations should not be so quick to kick their loyal fan base in the throat. When modders come around that is the ultimate compliment. It proves that you have developed an amazing product that is so fun or influential that people want to take time out of their busy day to improve the experience. But when the parent company starts suing their own fans out of existence what could be a bigger insult?

"You made my childhood amazing" "You made my adulthood a living hell"

There are modders for even the most obscure consoles, people being crazy (in the good sense) doesn't say anything about the consoles.
And no I would not like it if nintendo were still on the wiiu and didn't release the switch (even though I do have an wiiu but no switch) they don't give up too soon but they have to give up at some point because the general public will just go to something more flashier.

 

[subspruce]

Imagine getting kids to do a 4 way Goldeneye battle on a 13 inch CRT TV today.

Finding the TV is half of the challenge, but any 4:3 monitor will do.

 

[JamesJones44]

There are modders for even the most obscure consoles, people being crazy (in the good sense) doesn't say anything about the consoles.
And no I would not like it if nintendo were still on the wiiu and didn't release the switch (even though I do have an wiiu but no switch) they don't give up too soon but they have to give up at some point because the general public will just go to something more flashier.

It's not even that it's flasher. Hardware to assist game development speeds up time to market. You could pay 20 engineers and take a year to optimize a game to run on Radeon ATI 256, 128 MB of RAM and 800 MHz processor or you can release new hardware and cut a year off the average games development time or keep it the same while adding more advanced gameplay instead of optimizing for obsolete hardware.

 

[Sluggotg]

If anyone is really into Retro Gaming, I highly recommend Retro Gamer Magazine out of the UK. They have been around for a long time and have excellent coverage of most platforms. Back issues of the Mag are really nice to find. They have most likely covered your favorite game from 15-45 years ago at some point.