? Plus I’ll check out the remake whenever it comes out. Then I can play Mario 64 on N64 or the Wii U and use real copies of the game instead of this emulation crap. I’m going to do this the right way and most likely pick up an HDMI capture box that can send my consoles into the computer. ![]() ![]() Here’s my prediction, we see a wave of DMCAs across YouTube and Twitch right before a Mario 64 remake comes out. NA and EU get their releases on September 11th, and Australia on September 12. Septem– Nintendo launches Super Mario Maker in Japan. Septem– Gamasutra – Nintendo cracks down on speedrunner, ROM-hacker YouTube Basically top-ranking romhack videos were DMCAed off of YouTube right before Super Mario Maker launched, a clear stunt to use the DMCA to eliminate possible search ranking competition when people searched for that kind of content on YouTube. However, I’m abstaining from this Mario 64 emulation scene because of one notable precedent in all of this – specifically when Nintendo went on a DMCAing spree right before the launch of Super Mario Maker. It’s nice that Project 64 can make Mario 64 look amazing, and even turn it into a 60 FPS game with the right ROM mod, but at the same time I’m choosing to be the lone voice of reason here by acknowledging that no matter how much fun people are having, Nintendo is still Nintendo.Īs a recent reminder of this, Nintendo is currently getting Streisanded all over the place after someone ported Super Mario 64 into the Unreal engine on PC.While the unofficial port is a cool technical accomplishment, the attempts to scrub it from the Internet is yet another reminder that Nintendo is often stuck in the stone age when it comes to this internet stuff, although to their credit they do seem to be working on some more modern remakes of classic Mario games for the Nintendo Switch. The one wart on this entire Mario 64 speedrunning scene is that all the big streamers who are doing this stuff night after night are using emulators, specifically Project 64. However, as popular as it has suddenly become to blast your way through Mario 64 as quickly as possible, and despite me having many fond memories of Super Mario 64 when I was growing up, I will not be joining this scene just yet. In a way you could say that everything has come full circle with how things have really fired up lately, sometimes to the point where Super Mario 64 is eclipsing popular games like World Of Warcraft on Twitch. I first checked out Twitch one evening watching two speedrunners speed run their way to 120 stars one night. I’ve known about the speedrunner scene in Mario 64 for years. Over the past several days I’ve seen several large Twitch streamers with concurrent views in the thousands each start speedrunning the heck out of Mario 64. Super Mario 64 is back, and in a big way.
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