The interest in the Mario 64 PC port died because the people working on the old silicon graphics visuals insisted on...

The interest in the Mario 64 PC port died because the people working on the old silicon graphics visuals insisted on slavishly following the original geometry for speedrunner autism
The geometry is only low polygon and flat because of the limits of the Nintendo 64. Nintendo made plenty of silicon graphics promotional images where the level maps didn't look like a series of prisms.

This fan art is what a Mario 64 remake in the silicon graphics style should look like, and it's clearly entirely possible on modern hardware
youtube.com/watch?v=8MvdLW6btFM&pp=ygUUcmVuZGVyOTYgbWV0YWwgbWFyaW8=

You're right. Maybe redoing the geometry of the levels creates a lot of problems because of the horrible engine?

I'd be very surprised if that were the case, the PC port is totally native, anything can be changed. All I can think of is that a large amount of hitbox complexity might mess with Mario's movement

insisted on slavishly following the original geometry for speedrunner autism

You mean they didn't want to put an enormous amount of additional work into remodelling half the game, because people just want to play mario 64 on their computer, not a fan remake. What a surprise.

In that case why update any models at all? Why chase a weird artstyle mismatch?

SILICON GRAPHICS COMPUTERS

Picture on the right would look 100x better if they used some proper antialiasing. With a game like this you could probably do crazy shit like 8x SGSSAA

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It does look somewhat better on really good builds but still not great

What AA is used here? Could still use more, there are some jaggies left

The engine isn't that bad; it was used up until the 3DS era and ran OOT: 3D well enough. It's just that the way the OG developers used it was crude because they were inexperienced. Ignoring the controls, 64 DS's visuals and geometry are how they wanted it to look.

Are they unable to give the edges of the right-most platform unique textures?

Here is the truth no one wants to admit. Mario 64 is like Earthbound. People like it because they are told it is so great, but never actually played it themselves.
So when the PC port came out, all these zoomers who never played it gave it a shot. As it turns out they don't like it.

engine

Those games didn't used an "engine" per see, they were programming directly bare metal to the platforms they ran. You retarded zoomers take every buzzword and repeat them ad infinity like retards.

is this the current state of Render96? this looks insane, where do I get it?

Honestly, I expected a lot more from the modding community of this port.

Anon that's four years old

implying they weren't already playing it on emulator like their favorite youtubers

you belong here and no where else in the world

SM64's code is kind of like Quake's; it got reiterated on to suit Nintendo's needs and can be found piecemeal in pretty much every 3D project of the N64 and DS era, particularly the library for handling collision.

I never saw this render before. Neat

t. dunning kruger midwit

It's fan made

So, someone got a hold of an SGI rig and is making new renders? Pretty neat.

Looks good

Render96 was pretty good, I like that he was able to add in Luigi and Wario

That doesn't make it an "engine". Engines are modular pieces that let you easily add stages, models, music, etc
They need to manually add every piece of asset and the game logic is different in every case. Reusing a single library means jack shit.

Appealing to speedrunners is so fucking retarded for a project like this. To give you an example, most speedrunners avoid using unofficial emulators at all costs, they would rather use Nintendo's shitty emulation than something more accurate on PC. They would avoid something like in the first place, not to mention decomp isn't even a category on speedrunning.com

Nice texture stretching

Appealing to speedrunners at all is retarded, unless it's obvious stuff that everyone likes such as skipping cut scenes. Games designed for speedrunners aren't fun for the other 99.99% of people

the interest in the pc port died because its a mario 64 pc port. do you have any idea how niche that appeal is?

The interest died because he finished it years ago

Let me guess, the PC port was made by troons, they love piracy and PC gaming

No they just recreated the style in blender

The most soulful thing in the video game industry is when you take the word "Soul", add the letter "e" at the end, and then add the name "Jeremy" in front of it.

I have the impression that Mario World is much bigger in the PC world than Mario 64. One of the reasons is that Mario World is a better game and, of course, there are many more quality romhacks...
Mario 64 is okay, but it's definitely carried by historical importance more than pure gameplay.

Equally neat. What shaders are they using?

I keep seeing anons say this like they haven't even bothered to actually download it or have played multiplayer before.

No one will spoonfeed you here, faggot, if you can't even imagine a way to render that image you're dumb.