Kaze Emanuar went over 30 thousand lines of Mario 64 code to optimize it and remove any bugs he could find. The result is a Mario 64 engine that can run the game up to 6 times faster on native N64 hardware. Mad respect for this guy.
Are you saying that Nintendo should hire this man?Incredible. Wow. I'm still watching the video but this is incredible.
Imagine a Sonic Mania-style project where someone who understands Super Mario 64 so deeply got a shot at making a special title.
Isn't this about code optimization?Incredible. Wow. I'm still watching the video but this is incredible.
Imagine a Sonic Mania-style project where someone who understands Super Mario 64 so deeply got a shot at making a special title.
It is, but I think anyone who has invested 100s of hours into optimizing thousands and thousands of lines of code in an effort to support their own mod of the game probably has a really strong understanding of the source material.
Didn't watch the entire video, but at one point he says he removed code that his mod didn't use. Does that mean that the improvements he's made are specific to his mod (which I assume are custom levels?), so you can't play the base game with these improvements?
Really hope he commits to this. After all of this work he's done it would be tremendously impactful for people to be able to play an optimized version of the original game on original hardware. People all over would stream it, speedrun it, review it, rave about it... that just won't if it's only for a mod of the game. Even if the mod is really good, you'd need people to be able to play the OG game first to get them excited about mods.As far as I've seen Kaze hasn't committed to doing a reoptimzied Mario 64 so these are exclusive to his hacks so far
To be fair, a lot of his code optimizations could be seen as "more to the metal" than C code would generally be. He made several changes that look messy, but specifically target the N64's MIPS processor to the point where some of the code he wrote won't work when compiled on other platforms. (e.g. it exploits its big endian nature.)Well, no. It's still a compiled language. The optimizations he goes over make a lot of sense though.
That last part made me chuckle. :)Only if they released a new version with the RAM expansion pack and took lessons on C from the future.
Ram bus!I laughed everytime he went vroom vroom. Most off it was over my head.
ugh this is awful.Last time I expressed excitement for one of his releases, someone showed me some evidence from his Discord that he's a total bigot. I can't remember exactly what it was, but just cautioning.
edit: Found it
https://imgur.com/a/zWf7NIv (CW: racism, transphobia)
Last time I expressed excitement for one of his releases, someone showed me some evidence from his Discord that he's a total bigot. I can't remember exactly what it was, but just cautioning.
edit: Found it
https://imgur.com/a/zWf7NIv (CW: racism, transphobia)
Last time I expressed excitement for one of his releases, someone showed me some evidence from his Discord that he's a total bigot. I can't remember exactly what it was, but just cautioning.
edit: Found it
https://imgur.com/a/zWf7NIv (CW: racism, transphobia)
yikesLast time I expressed excitement for one of his releases, someone showed me some evidence from his Discord that he's a total bigot. I can't remember exactly what it was, but just cautioning.
edit: Found it
https://imgur.com/a/zWf7NIv (CW: racism, transphobia)
Last time I expressed excitement for one of his releases, someone showed me some evidence from his Discord that he's a total bigot. I can't remember exactly what it was, but just cautioning.
edit: Found it
https://imgur.com/a/zWf7NIv (CW: racism, transphobia)
Last time I expressed excitement for one of his releases, someone showed me some evidence from his Discord that he's a total bigot. I can't remember exactly what it was, but just cautioning.
edit: Found it
https://imgur.com/a/zWf7NIv (CW: racism, transphobia)
I'm not very good with Discord. I see the comments he made directly, but what's up with the extra two or so sections where he isn't commenting? Did he like those comments, or just showing his fan base is garbage?
I dont know the context it was collected in, but I think it was about general toxicity in the SM64 modding scene. I think it's his server.I'm not very good with Discord. I see the comments he made directly, but what's up with the extra two or so sections where he isn't commenting? Did he like those comments, or just showing his fan base is garbage?
It's his discord community where it's all happening. He not only fosters that behaviour, he encourages and participates in it.I'm not very good with Discord. I see the comments he made directly, but what's up with the extra two or so sections where he isn't commenting? Did he like those comments, or just showing his fan base is garbage?