Last month, we informed you about an unofficial PC native port of the classic Nintendo 64 game, Star Fox 64. And today we are happy to report that this PC port, called Starship, is now available for download.
The team behind this unofficial PC port of Star Fox 64 is the same one that gave us Ship of Harkinian. So, kudos to them for bringing another classic N64 game to the PC.
As with the Super Mario 64 PC port, Starship does not include any copyrighted assets. To make it work, you’ll need an official ROM file. By doing this, the team avoids any possible C&D letter. So no, Nintendo will not be able to take it down.
Currently, there are three rendering APIs supported in Starship. These are DirectX11 (Windows), OpenGL (all platforms), and Metal (macOS). You can change which API to use in the Settings menu of the menubar, which requires a restart.
You can download Starship from this link. At the end of the article, you can also find a video from it. This is a full playthrough so it contains spoilers. Thus, make sure to avoid it if you want to play the game yourselves.
Speaking of unofficial PC ports of classic console games, we also suggest checking out the ones for WipeOut, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, and Jak and Daxter. You can also find unofficial PC versions of Super Mario 64, Perfect Dark and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
Sadly, the only N64 game that received some cool mods was Super Mario 64. Super Mario 64 got some amazing 3D models, as well as a Path Tracing Mod. Ship of Harkinian also got an HD Texture Pack. However, it never received a Path Tracing Mod. And that’s kind of a bummer as those games would benefit from a PT Mod.
Given the really low modding interest in the previous N64 games, I don’t expect to see anything interesting for Starship. Still, it’s pretty neat we finally have a native PC version of Star Fox 64. So that’s at least something.
Enjoy and stay tuned for more!
John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved – and still does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics cards.”
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Playing OoT and MM at 1440p 120fps with a couple of texture mods was an absolute pleasure, I only have good words for the team behind Ship of Harkinian. But I've never been a big fan of Star Fox, I'll skip this one.
You should try it, it's a pretty fun little space shooter. It brings lore to the Star Fox series, tons of branching paths offering a lot of replayablility, and multiple vehicles. Along the whole 3D fighting that opens up and isn't just linear shooter design.
I covered it today for my RetroCember video and ended just beating the whole thing. It's a good time. If you like the N64, it was a stand out title at the time and totally worth giving it another shot.
I know the game, I’ve played it, not my thing but thanks for the recommendation.
As always, remember to download it right now before the Japanese mafia (((Jewtendo))) notices it and immediately sends their ninjas to the developer's HQ and takes it down in just 24 hours from now, even if you aren't going to play it. That's exactly what I did with Link's Awakening DX and that's exactly what happened right after it was released.
Always the same rant with these PC ports. They can't and the article says why, read it.
Don't expect anything meaningful to be typed from the fingers of someone who uses terms such as "jewtendo". Whut? Best to mute them and move along.
Sr, you are right, my bad, I should have known better xD
Yes manlet, you should've known better that (((Jewtendo))) takes down even fan projects like emulators that are 100% legal; if you've been living under a rock, (((Jewtendo))) took down 2 major Switch emulators just this very year! Who on Earth thinks emulators (not "piracy") are "illegal"?
None other than (((Jewtendo))) with their backward, stone age mentality who also took down 20 years worth of mods in Garry's Mod just this year cuz it's "mUh cOpYrIgHt iNfRiNgEmEnT!!!" If these were paid mods, then it's absolutely understandable to take them down. But no! They were completely free mods just like any other Gmod addon in the Steam Workshop!
Next up for (((Jewtendo))): taking down gameplay videos of their games on (((JewTube))).
Followed by: hunting down artists who make fan arts of their games on DeviantArt.
Final destination: suing (((Jewgle))) for having their games appear on search engines.
What. The. Fak?!
contrary to unpopular belief this guy isnt too uhinged for jewtendo, seriously they are responsible for taking down video reviews from youtube, emulators and preservation. They deserve "the jewtendo fears the samurai" treatment.
While I wasn’t saying that he was specifically a Nintendo fanboy (I don’t even know if this guy usually likes Nintendo stuff or not as his other comments seems to be mostly normal AFAIK, didn’t notice anything toxic nor him fanboying over anything for now), he should’ve known better that Nintendo is just pure evil when it comes to their fans.
Hey snowflake @disqus_t1aq602mmi:disqus who chopped its pp off, blocked me as well as almost everyone on this site despite us never even interacting with you even once in the first place and constantly switches to Incognito mode just to see my comments and then replying to comments replying to my comments without having the balls to fight like a man; if you don't like real, grown up men forums like this site, there're plenty of alternatives for effeminate soylent midgets like you like (((EuroGaymer, PCGaymer, VGC, etc.))) where you can suck your fellow boyfriend's pp online there and then enjoying your AIDS after that.
And shame on you @beck90:disqus for agreeing with this sissy, guess we have another immature femboy here on this site.
lol Nintendon't fanboys will always amuse me.
They spend years porting terrible games to PC and think that people are interested. 🤣
Mario, Zelda, Starfox…
Not even a single good game in these franchises in 30 years.🤣
I'd rather play the new Final Fight hack/port on the Megadrive, thanks.
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Nintendo could have done this themselves and made some profit from it. Are you reading Nintendo?
I remember trying to play this game at my friend’s house, as a high iq PlayStation owner, who could never effing understand that stupid thumb stick position on the n64 controller.
This also works with reshade to add filters like rtx reflecions and global illuminaion fantastic.
Thanks for the heads-up. Just installed and played it. Impressive so far. Anybody know how to make the menu bar at top of screen disappear?