I Built an Open-World Engine for the N64 [video]

(youtube.com)

80 points | by msephton 2 hours ago

4 comments

  • azertify 28 minutes ago
    In case anyone is interested, this creator built a remake of Portal for the N64, uploading a really cool set of videos describing the work that went into building it.

    He's since stopped to work on his own IP, I believe that the issue was that Valve couldn't allow it because they'd never get Nintendo to agree to it. Something along those lines, anyway.

  • cubefox 0 minutes ago
    The same guy, James Lambert, also implemented texture streaming (which would not be invented until two console generations later) in an N64 demo. The textures look uncharacteristically high res: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Sf036fO-ZUk
  • gryfft 2 hours ago
    I watched this on YouTube the other day. Another beautiful example of the creative power yielded from building within constraints.
    • msephton 17 minutes ago
      Such a clever way to approach the problem! I'd say only possible with a detailed understanding of the N64 constraints.
  • AdmiralAsshat 8 minutes ago
    Somewhat annoyingly, the actual homebrew z64 seems to crash both of the N64 cores that RetroArch supports. :(