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Monday17th May 2021
Random Speedrunner Beats Super Mario 64 With Nothing But Drums
Super Mario is now a rhythm game. We don't make the rules
Look up. Do you see that? Way, way up in the sky? That's the new bar for coolness, set by speedrunner CZR, who just completed a sub-1:30 70-Star Drum% run of Super Mario 64 using only a drum kit. Let's explain a little for people who don't speak speedrunner. Speedrunners are gamers (and...
Friday7th May 2021
Random This Minecraft Version Of Peach's Castle Includes A Secret Wario Room
MinecWAAAAAAAft
Super Mario 64 never claimed that it was a realistic rendition of a castle, but still, we have to wonder — why are so many rooms in Peach's Castle empty? Why does she have a massive basement, but no bedroom? Did she ask her architect to include a bunch of long corridors, and forget to install a bathroom? The inclusion of...
Random There's A Project Aiming To Make Super Mario 64 Fully Ray Traced
Let there be next-gen light
It took some time, but with the release of Super Mario 3D All-Stars we got an official version of Super Mario 64 that was fully modernised for the HD era, to a degree. It retained its original screen ratio and ran at 30fps, but Nintendo did nonetheless sharpen up the visuals and produce what is arguably the definitive...
Thursday22nd Apr 2021
News You Can Play Super Mario 64 In Your Browser
Browser's Inside Story
Nintendo is known for cracking down on downloads, torrents, and ports of their games, but they have to take breaks some time, right? Just last week, the developers of the "Super Mario 64 Plus" PC port of the game stated that they weren't too worried about DMCAs, since they weren't actually a threat to the sales of the game...
Monday19th Apr 2021
News 'Super Mario 64 Plus' Is An Unofficial PC Port With 60FPS And A Permadeath Mode
Kill Mario! For real!
Super Mario 64 is a classic, but if you've ever wished that Mario would die in the game for real, your wishes are about to come true. A fan-made PC Port called Super Mario 64 Plus came out earlier this month, and has since hit 30,000 downloads, showing that there's a huge market for killing Mario once and for all. But it's not...
Tuesday9th Feb 2021
Random Super Mario 64 Gets A Ray Tracing Makeover Thanks To Fan Mod
Fan support continues on
You may recall that before Super Mario 3D All-Stars was formally announced, Super Mario 64's source code was reverse engineered and released on PC. Offering greater modding possibilities than emulation for the platforming classic, naturally, Nintendo tried shutting this down.
Tuesday19th Jan 2021
News Fall Guys Adds Super Mario 64 Easter Egg
It's still not been announced for Switch, though
We know what you did. You're supposed to take the baby penguin back to its mother in winter-themed Super Mario 64 level, Cool, Cool Mountain. But some of you dropped the little guy off the edge of the world, and you're all monsters. Monsters. Fall Guys - the multiplayer party game that was a 2020...
Friday8th Jan 2021
News Tune In To AGDQ Later To Watch Someone Speedrun Super Mario 64 Blindfolded
What do you call Luigi with no eyes? Lug
Awesome Games Done Quick, the charity fundraising speedrun tournament held at the start of every year, is ending on Sunday, January 10th with an all-dungeon run of Ocarina of Time. Before then, however, you can tune in to watch speedruns of Luigi's Mansion, Majora's Mask, Super Mario Sunshine - a
Monday14th Dec 2020
News A Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Fan Has Created A Super Mario 64-Inspired DLC Expansion
And they're releasing it for free
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild remains one of the Switch's greatest titles almost four years since its release, providing us with hours of fun across its main campaign and DLC expansions. But what if we could get even more content to enjoy? Well, a modder by the name of
Monday19th Oct 2020
Random See Super Mario 64's Jolly Roger Bay Like Never Before In This 360º Interactive Video
Or watch in VR
With the release of Super Mario 3D All-Stars last month, plenty of us have been reexploring the glorious, nostalgic locations found within Super Mario 64. If you find yourself in a particularly strong Mario mood at the moment, you might want to check out this lovely recreation of one of the game's famous levels. YouTuber user...
Monday21st Sep 2020
Random Forget The Switch, Super Mario 64 Has Been Ported To Dreamcast, PS2 And PS Vita
The ports we REALLY wanted, right? Right?!
Super Mario 3D All-Stars is available now on Switch, and it's a good time indeed. However, if you're of the opinion that Mario's 3D adventures should be available on even more consoles, then you'll be pleased to learn that industrious coders have converted the sublime Super Mario 64 to three non-Nintendo...
Tuesday28th Jul 2020
Update: We chat to Modern Vintage Gamer about the leak
Update (Tue 28th Jul, 2020 14:45 BST): To provide some extra clarification about the recent Nintendo 64 leaks, we reached out to the YouTube channel Modern Vintage Gamer. How significant is this N64 leak - can much be achieved with all of the data that's been discovered? MVG: Nintendo has...
Thursday2nd Jul 2020
News The Super Mario 64 PC Port Just Got A 60fps Patch
Smoother than before
The Super Mario 64 PC mod - that Nintendo tried to take legal action against - has certainly come a long way since its unofficial release in May. When it first arrived it included 4K and ultra-widescreen support and in the following month, modders added in a modern Mario model and some imp
Tuesday2nd Jun 2020
News Legal Crackdown On Mario 64 PC Port Not Enough To Stop Modders From Improving It
And download links are still circulating online
Despite Nintendo's crackdown last month on the Super Mario 64 PC port, it's reportedly not been enough to stop the project from being improved upon. According to VGC, the modding community is still continuing to enhance the visual elements of the not-so-original release - even though many of the...
Saturday9th May 2020
News Nintendo Cracks Down On The Super Mario 64 PC Port
Download links and YouTube videos are being targeted
Nintendo's legal eagles have reportedly begun targeting sites hosting compiled versions of the Super Mario 64 PC port which was made available on the internet last week. According to a follow-up story by Torrent Freak, after the initial VGC report, links to download the exec
Monday4th May 2020
News Super Mario 64 PC Port Shows The Game Running At 4K And With Ultra Widescreen Support
The latest fan project goes big
Plenty of classic games have found themselves in the hands of modders and hackers over the years, as they try to push anything and everything to the limit or uncover new secrets, but few seem to have been played about with quite as much as Super Mario 64. The latest fan-made project to catch folks' attention is this...
Tuesday7th Apr 2020
Random "One-Line Code Fix" Resolves Super Mario 64 Smoke Bug
A long time coming
An apparent "one-line code fix" for Super Mario 64 has supposedly fixed a visual bug in Mario's first 3D outing. The smoke Mario emits when he makes contact with lava or anything else hot has been replaced with a "much better looking" particle that's reportedly been within the game all along, according to Polygon. All it took was...
Wednesday4th Mar 2020
News New N64 Mod Combines The Worlds Of Super Mario 64 And Banjo-Kazooie
What's Mario doing in Spiral Mountain?
When taking a nostalgic look back at the good old Nintendo 64, it's hard to imagine how things might have been without its adored platforming greats. The likes of Super Mario 64 and Banjo-Kazooie now form unforgettable childhood memories for many, and while the two might get a little muddled in our ever-ageing...
Monday17th Feb 2020
News Modder Recreates Super Mario Sunshine Inside Super Mario 64's Engine
Super Mario Sunshine 64
What would happen if you combined the graphics, style and input of the wonderful Super Mario 64 with the gameplay of the equally wonderful (yes, we said it) Super Mario Sunshine? Well, probably something like this. Modder Kaze Emanuar has released a new Super Mario 64 mod which plays out as a miniature version of GameCube's...
Wednesday29th Jan 2020
Random Super Mario 64's Shifting Sand Land Becomes A Dungeon In This Zelda: Ocarina Of Time Mod
The ultimate crossover?
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Super Mario 64 are considered to be some of the greatest games of all time. To this day, there are still many people enjoying them on a regular basis. There's also a community dedicated to modding and speed-running these classic N64 titles. One individual known as Kaze Emanuar...
Monday15th Jul 2019
Random Someone Has Recreated Super Mario 64's Physics In PS4's Dreams
Gameplay and graphics combine in this impressive recreation
With Super Mario Maker 2 offering a huge palette of options for creating your very own 2D Mario levels, you might be wondering if Nintendo plans on making a 3D counterpart. It would seem unlikely due to the complexity of 3D game design, but it appears that PS4 user PieceofCraft has beaten...
Saturday15th Jun 2019
Random Have We Been Missing A Zelda Easter Egg In Mario 64 All These Years?
Amazing planning, or sheer coincidence?
Easter eggs in video games aren’t a new thing, but it’s rare to spot one decades after the event – but that’s what Twitter user Hitei he’s found in Super Mario 64. There’s a picture in Peach’s castle which we’ll all have dashed past many, many times over the years, and Hitei thinks this image...
Tuesday14th May 2019
Random Mario Gets A Safer Sleep In His Original 3D Outing On Nintendo 64
Sweet dreams
If you've ever taken a break from Super Mario 64 or Super Mario Odyssey and left either game running, there's a good chance you've returned to find Mario sleeping on the job. In Odyssey, Mario could get some shuteye wherever he liked. He was such a solid sleeper, in fact, he didn't even need a proper ledge to nod off. It turns out his...
Monday29th Apr 2019
News Charles Martinet, Voice Of Mario, Clears Up A Decades-Long Debate
We all agreed on the "so long" bit
Anybody who's trounced Bowser in Super Mario 64 (and if you haven't, away with you this instant!) will likely be familiar with the line Mario utters as he flings Bowser, King of the Koopas, from the floating platform during the boss battle. Or, more accurately, they'll likely be familiar with the confusion...
Tuesday9th Apr 2019
Video Rare Early Footage Of Super Mario 64 And Super Mario RPG Resurfaces Online
A blast from the past
Super-early footage of Super Mario 64 and Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars has resurfaced on the internet. The clips uploaded by the YouTube channel kukun kun, originally come from a '90s Japanese video game show hosted by Famitsu and are now being shared around by The Cutting Room Floor Discord channel and Nintendo
Tuesday5th Mar 2019
Video Player Beats Bowser In Super Mario 64 Without Using A Joystick
This looks so frustrating
Something about Mario's wonderful selection of games seems to make players want to cause themselves hours and hours of misery. In the last few months, we've seen a player try to beat New Super Mario Bros. U without collecting a single coin, and that very same player went on to attempt a Super Mario Odyssey completion
Thursday8th Nov 2018
"I vowed never to play this game again"
You'll have to forgive us here, as we're going to go a bit misty-eyed and nostalgic. Dave "The Games Animal" Perry - one of the most instrumental figures involved in the creation of the iconic UK TV show GamesMaster - has just launched a new YouTube channel which aims to replicate the '90s vibe that drew so...
Monday5th Nov 2018
Random NPD Reveals Best-Selling N64 And Game Boy Color Games From The Mid To Late Nineties
Retro flashback
While we're used to seeing the latest video game charts, it's easy to forget how they looked roughly twenty years ago. NPD Video Game Industry Analyst Mat Piscatella recently shared the best-selling game charts from the mid to late nineties. In terms of Nintendo charts, he featured the big systems of the time including the Nintendo...
Tuesday9th Oct 2018
Random Super Mario 64's Main Menu Was Apparently Based On A Silicon Graphics Software Package
Simpler times
A computer enthusiast known as "Dodoid" posted a video on his YouTube channel in August about Silicon Graphics' Onyx RealityEngine² - a $250,000 graphics supercomputer from 1993. What's interesting about SGI machines is how Nintendo, at the time, developed N64 games on the hardware; the console's internals were jointly developed by...
Tuesday18th Sep 2018
News Get Discounts On Metroid, Mario 64 And Pokémon In The Latest European My Nintendo Rewards
Metroid 3DS theme available too
Another new batch of games has been added to the European version of the My Nintendo site, giving players the chance to spend their hard-earned coins on some lovely games. As usual, this time around sees various titles across both Wii U and Nintendo 3DS on offer, with Samus' latest adventure, a classic Mario title,...
