/vr/ - Retro Games

Lost Lunatic Trials by ShiN3, if you like extreme hacks

Also if you like stolen assets, bad level design, and hilarious bucketloads of pedophilia and drama, Super Mario 65: The Rainbow Stars is a good choice by the glorious Skelenio

btw TPP is full of nonces

>>9945829
>TPP
I don't even know what that is

>>9945829
>stolen assets
This is literally all romhacks. They stole the whole fucking game.

What should be my first sm64 romhack that I play? I haven't played sm64 in 12 years so no crazy hard kaizo shit.

>>9945915
star road

>>9945792
None of them

>>9945996
Your opinion is of no value

>>9945792
Dog Collab
Mario Escape From The Jail
Vacation Course
Super Mario 64 Land

>>9945915
SM64 Sapphire is short but sweet.

>>9945792
>Mario 64 Land
Good but the S ranks filtered me
>Mario 64 Last Impact
Good, not as hard as people say. Too many half-baked features.
>Mario 64 Star Revenge 3.5
>Mario 64 Star Revenge 6.25
These were excellent. 6.25 may be my GOAT
>Mario 64 Star Road
Star Road was also excellent and it's a testament to it's quality that little else measure up to it and how it feels like a sequel to SM64 with an appropriate difficulty increase despite how old it is. Make sure you play this version of it though, which fixes the god awful camera which was its only black mark.
https://romhacking.com/hack/super-mario-star-road-with-parallel-camera
>Mario 64 Through The Ages
Kinda fun. Very gimmicky with Kaze's signature half-baked mechanic creep

Other good ones to play are Super Mario Sapphire, which is short but very good in quality and feeling like the original game. Serene Fusion was also pretty great and one of the best looking hacks.

B3313 is not a conventional hack in the slightest but I love it

Chaos Edition

>>9947142
>>9947142
Thanks for the real response bro

>>9947142
You ever try Bowser's Record Revenge, fallen kingdom, peachs fury, the missing stars, or vacation course?

There's so many of these things.

>>9945792
>Mario 64 Star Road Final
Get the parallel cam version or the N64 compatible version. Vanilla Star Road camera is fucking asssssssssssssssssss

My favorite rom hack is at the end of Tall Tall Mountain and instead of fighting that boss, you just watch 2 goombas fuck.

>>9947527
Cringe

>>9945792
stay on the lookout for Kaze Emanaur’s next ROM hack. he reckons he’s optimised the code to run at 60fps on original hardware. definitely worth a look.

>>9947851
I watched that video. That guy is unreal. I hope he makes it so other romhackers can patch in his code, or I hope that other rom hackers use his hack as their base

>>9945792
Bowser's Dank Rave, not even fucking joking.

>>9947527
Based

>>9947527
>it's real

>>9947981
Samefag

>>9945792
>Mario 64 Star Revenge 6.25
this is the best one

>>9947851
>>9947894
Not diminishing what he's accomplishing, but he didn't do all that work from scratch himself, there is a group of people with shoulders he's standing on. Based on this, I have little doubt he will produce a base romhack back to the community.

>>9947851
>60 fps on original hardware
nah, haven't you seen his recent streams, and by recent i mean in the last 365 days?
his target is absolute 30 fps in every possible scenario.
his 60 target is mainly tested in the first level when he's showcasing performance optimizations.

bump

>>9952128
Well, he's aiming for absolute 30 with his own romhack, which has a lot of bells and whistles, but ~60 being possible on the vanilla game with optimizations seems doable. It's just not really what he's focusing on right now.

I love the technical stuff people are working on, but are there any hacks that are just "fun levels"?

I don't want story or "lol spikes everywhere" kaizo challenges. I just want to run around in Super Mario 64 in some new, well-designed levels.

>>9955000
That's what I'm looking for

>>9945829
>pedophilia and drama
Huh? I did a quick google of skelenio and couldn’t find anything like that, just seems like most people hate the romhack.

>>9955000
>"lol spikes everywhere" kaizo challenges
Those are much rarer than people seem to think. Most of the popular hacks are really collections of normal levels, just jump into Star Revenge 1 and play that, you'll enjoy it.

hkt8m

Neither of them.

>>9945792
did any of these romhacks work with the pc source port?

>>9947851
I'm not falling for Kaze stuff again. The guy is a programming wizard but can't design a game for shit. His hacks look good, run good and start good even, but then you get to the janky parts and everything falls apart. Shit I still have nightmares with shit the mermaids in Last Impact or the Sun boss in 64 Land among others. It's not that they're hard parts, they're just a pain to play because of some menial shit like camera placement or collision detections or whatever.

>>9957980
A lot of people feel the same way you do. He'd be far more useful taking a background role as a wizard programmer/modeler who lays off having to do too much design or testing, where he's far weaker compared to others who'd benefit from being able to better utilize his skill, like Carmack did. It's like, he's more than good enough in certain ways, which lead to him digging holes for himself because he's always tempted to take things too far in ways that leads to the work unraveling, leaving the seams showing.

>>9958467
Yup that's his biggest issue. A lot of his custom code turns into pure gameplay jank because he's obssesed with making things the SM64 engine wasn't designed for. And sometimes it works pretty well, a big chunk of his hacks are very playable, but I'm not wasting my time into something that starts up pretty good then devolves into frustrating bullshit again. The guy already fooled me three times.

reminder that kaze emanuar is an insufferable sperg

>>9958467
Following Kaze in general is a ride because he's entirely driven by doing new things whether or not they're actually a good idea, I still remember when he moved the (at the time) Star Road 2 development entirely over to the DS. Why? Fuck knows, more fun to program for? Certainly wasn't what anyone wanted to play, so he came to his senses. His quest to make his BIG romhack has been going on so goddamn long now and I don't think he'll ever actually finish it because there's always more gimmicks to add or parts to optimize or Mario skills to include. Not to mention he's releasing so little you can actually play it's hard to asess if the biggest issues with now ancient hacks like Star Road and Last Impact (i.e camera/collision jank) are actually getting addressed at all. Admirable talent but needs to be told he isn't Studio Pixel or Toby Fox or whatever and accept help.

>>9958946
wait
THREE times?
what has he done?

>download Star Road Retooled which is supposed to fix camera and other things
>lag central

>beyond the cursed mirror
a true masterpiece

>>9959438
>spirit temple

>>9959563
I looked it up
and now I'm extra baffled why he constantly projects a sense of superiority

Has anyone on /vr/ made hacks for sm64?