/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.7935059]

why are N64 rom hacks so based?
Goldfinger 64, Star Fox Survival, Goldeneye X, Super Kek 64, Smash Remix, Super Mario Bros. 64, etc. etc.
Honestly if you don't have an N64 with a flash cart or if you're not emulating these at the very least you're missing out big time

[Anonymous No.7935064]

I've been wondering this, too. The two big things I know for its equivalent consoles are Nude Raider, Sonic X-treme restoration, and loads of fan translations; but seems like there are some I'm missing.

[Anonymous No.7935067]

I like goldfinger, but there's a glitch that keeps me from finishing the second level.

We need more hacks. If I knew how to contribute I would

[Anonymous No.7935073]

If I knew how to mod, I would start work on The Living Daylights 64. But, I guess there has to be an Octopussy 64 between it. Goldfinger looks cool though. I still think the single player campaign in Golden Eye is one of my favorites in an FPS. Most of my favorite FPS games have antiquated gameplay styles anyway. As much as I loved Perfect Darks multiplayer. I felt the single player dragged on for a bit longer. I would get a little disinterred in completing the final stages. The game still has a lot in Perfect Dark. Bond had a perfect selection of levels with multiple challenge levels.

[Anonymous No.7935305]

>Goldfinger 64
I've yet to play it, but from what I've seen it looks like total ass.

[Anonymous No.7935328]

Has anyone tried the Zelda romhack that takes place between OoT and MM?

[Anonymous No.7935448]

>>7935059
I was playing through Goldeneye earlier and IMAGINING there being a thread on this hack here. Very weird..

Based hack by the way. Can't believe it's been 4 years alreqdy.

[Anonymous No.7935458]

>>7935059
what is this expression on his face supposed to be conveying?

[Anonymous No.7935464]

>>7935458
He's about to bitch slap him

[Anonymous No.7935465]

>>7935458
karate chopping minorities and women gets his dick hard

[Anonymous No.7935468]

Is there even a level editor for Goldeneye?

If there were more public tools available for N64 games I imagine maybe there could be a larger community. This is why decompiling projects are great cus they might be able to make level editors and modding easy as fuck.

[Anonymous No.7935469]

>>7935305
>hack of a game that looked like ass looks like ass
You don't say.

[Anonymous No.7935576]

>>7935059
I saw a .webm of Goldfinger 64 and it was just a guy going into a bunch of small rooms in a long hallway, where there'd be two guards in each room and you'd shoot them, and they didn't hear as you did this, so it's just a bunch of worthless padding.

Is there more to Goldfinger 64, or is it full of shit like this?

>>7935073
>The Living Daylights 64
Based. One of the very best 007 films.

[Anonymous No.7935707]

ROM hacks are all cringe. Zero exceptions.

[Anonymous No.7935728]

>>7935576
there's changes in location plus some janky driving, but mostly it's what you describe. would have been better to have to have fewer level and make them better.

[Anonymous No.7935778]

>>7935576
>Based. One of the very best 007 films.

Dalton Bond did make it into one game.

[Anonymous No.7935785]

>>7935059
I always say this, the goldeneye guys that made the editor are code gods but they can't map even if their lives depended on it, I'm still waiting for a good custom goldeneye level

[Anonymous No.7935791]

>>7935778
kek what is up with thwt xover art, there's no way that's his body

[Anonymous No.7935792]

>>7935468
>Is there even a level editor for Goldeneye?
of course anon, how do you think it was made?
is not trenchbroom though, it's really a pain in the ass and that's why we will never have good maps because actual capable level designers are not going to put up with its shit
https://github.com/carnivoroussociety/GoldEditor

[Anonymous No.7935808]

>load Goldfinger
>level is completely silent
>too dark to see more than a few feet in front of me
Bad patch? I'm new to this, only got my ED64+ a week or two ago.
I did load up Mario64 multiplayer with a friend though and we had a good time cooperating to get two stars at a time, it was fun.

[Anonymous No.7935824]

>>7935064
Half-Life: Paranoia was released for Dreamcast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4XSCzlyOLc

[Anonymous No.7935834]

>>7935064
>>7935059
Short answer is that N64 is the newest generation for which the Assembly opcodes can actually be read through and understood. This makes modding more approachable than newer consoles.
Add to that the lack of a BIOS, and you can screw directly with the hardware with relative ease.

[Anonymous No.7935847]

>>7935059
>Goldfinger 64
complete trash with some of the most amateur level design I've seen in a first person shooter
>Goldeneye X
incomplete and buggy
>Smash Remix
not bad, probably the best hack on the console
N64 hacks are overrated and the vast majority are missing a lot of polish compared to hacks/translations on other consoles. I've had more fun playing prototypes or the 64DD games than any ROM hacks I've tried. If there's decent ones out there, post them.

[Anonymous No.7935852]

>>7935791
>kek what is up with thwt xover art, there's no way that's his body


It's sourced from the License to Kill movie poster. I have a feeling that the original was Dalton's head pasted on somebody else body. It's a weird edit. The Duel is kind of interesting in that it is an original James Bond game based on the Dalton Bond. But Timothy Dalton was only Bond for two movies before being replaced by Pierce Brosman. The Duel came out in 1993, four years after Dalton's last Bond movie.

[Anonymous No.7935892]

>>7935728
That sounds fucking terrible. This is supposed to be one of the standout romhacks for N64? There must be better stuff.

[Anonymous No.7935928]

>>7935576
>>7935892
That's obviously not literally what it's like. How fucking stupid are you?

[Anonymous No.7935940]

I mean you see a random person give a carless one-sentence description of it and it's as if your mind is made up and you know all about the game. It is renowned in the N64 romhacking community and is pretty good imo.

[Anonymous No.7936037]

>>7935852
I think it was around Dalton's tenure they ditched Robert Mcginnis and all subsequent posters started looking boring or straight up ass

[Anonymous No.7936068]

>>7935940
It's shit, sorry bud

[Anonymous No.7936416]

Is there any alternative to Project64 yet? It's mildly irritating to have to wait half a minute before being able to access the emulator.

[Anonymous No.7936564]

>>7935808
Nah the patch is fine, you have to switch the saving method on the OS screen to force EEP16k, then the game will start up with sound and you'll be able to save. The first level is very dark though.

[Anonymous No.7936597]

>>7935059
>>7935067
>>7935305
>>7935469
>>7935576
>>7935847

Likes others have said, here's the biggest problem with Goldfinger 64 THE LEVELS ARE TOO FUCKING BIG
it can take you 3 minutes to walk across the pool at the hotel, all while the distance fog clips your view 10 feet ahead of you. On levels like where you have to get to fort knox you're walking around for 10 minutes in a fuck-huge outdoor area with zero direction on where to go
scale down the levels by 50% and it would be much better

on the positive side theres a lot of new guns, new enemies and music i guess

[Anonymous No.7936601]

>>7935778
There were several Dalton games for UK micros

[Anonymous No.7936629]

>>7936601
The Living Daylights was actually pretty decent on the c64.
I think it was Domark who had the rights for 007 and pumped out a lot of shit games based on both Moore's and Dalton's James Bond movies in the 1980s for home PCs and Micros until they just made one up in The Duel for Sega consoles, their last and best Bond game.

[Anonymous No.7936681]

>>7936601
>UK micros
Miss me with that misery, those machines can't convey the brutality or charm.

[Anonymous No.7936804]

>>7936416
RetroArch, which is irritating in its own way.
>>7936068
Bodhisattva

[Anonymous No.7936834]

>>7936416
ParaLLEl and Mupen64

[Anonymous No.7936962]

>>7935328
It looks very short and like there isn't much to do. Also the Saria ghost is just plain retarded.

[Anonymous No.7937347]

>>7936416
You can skip the nag screen by starting the ROM from the command line / opening the ROM via file association / dropping the ROM file onto the.exe.

Alternatively, you can use m64p with its integrated low-level RDP emulation (powered by ParaLLEl).

[Anonymous No.7937409]

>>7936416
Everdrive 64 in a real N64, though the downside is most of the lesser hacks out there (especially older ones from before 2015) rarely play well on real hardware.

[Anonymous No.7939489]

>Best Tier
Roger Moore

>Good Boomer Tier
Sean Connery

>Bad Boomer Tier
Pierce Brosnan

>Nigga wat
George Lazenby
Timothy Dalthon

>Zoomer shit
Daniel Craig

[Anonymous No.7939510]

One of my favorite 80's Bond movies is Never say Never Again. It was an off brand Bond movie with Sean Connery in the 1980's, while Roger Moore was the official Bond. I love it because it is a weird "what if".

[Anonymous No.7939518]

>>7936597
shoulda just done it in Source eh?

[Anonymous No.7939545]

>>7935778
I beat this not too long ago. Not a great game but it was ok. Basically every notable Bond villain henchman makes an appearance.

[Anonymous No.7939591]

>>7935059
I watched a playthrough of this a few years back. Seemed unnecessarily bloated. The developer put together a lot of very large rooms, either for abstract fidelity to the movie or in order to show off, and it didn't look fun for gameplay.

Still, I never played it. Anyone have a positive take on it?

[Anonymous No.7939598]

>>7936037
My gran went to school with Diana Rigg. Anyway, true

[Anonymous No.7939667]

>>7939591
The most positive things I can say about it is that it's another James Bond FPS in the Goldeneye engine and that it is very accurate to the film it's based on. You're right about its levels being too large and unfun though.

[Anonymous No.7939682]

>>7939489
>Nigga wat
>George Lazenby
Say what you want about him but On Her Majesty's Secret Service is unironically one of the best Bond films

[Anonymous No.7939687]

I just want a ding-dong diddly No Mercy hack that will run on N64 hardware but all the austist that make them only design them for emu.

[Anonymous No.7939727]

>>7935059
Goldfinger 64 is incredible. My brothers and I played the multiplayer levels for hours on our fishing trip last year.
Haven’t heard of most of those other hacks, but they seem awesome. Especially Star Fix survive.