The Render96 team has shared a trailer, showcasing a new mod that attempts to make the unofficial PC port of Super Mario 64 look like its 90s CG artworks. This mod will transform the looks of the game, and consider a must-have for everyone that has already played the SM64.
Going into more details, Render96 is a free-to-play fan modification for Super Mario 64. The goal of this project is to match the game’s promotional artwork during the late 1990s. The team has recreated every model and asset was using images found online from the Nintendo 64 era.
Render96 will have multiple playable characters. As such, you can use Mario (duh), Warior and Luigi. The team is also remaking most, if not all, levels. Not only that, but the mod will be compatible with the RTX build of Super Mario 64 (not at launch though).
In short, this will be a dream come true for all Super Mario 64 fans. Unfortunately, there is no ETA on when Render96 will come out, however, we’ll be sure to keep you posted.
Enjoy!
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come on now, this is pretty cool but I bet the comments in here will still sh*t all over it.
What this game really needs is a proper freelook mouse camera and keyboard controls, is there a mod for that?
Yep, when build it (yes you’re build this game on your own with provided text based command line program, with your own Mario 64 ROM) you can choose the mod you want to build. My build have Right analog support for camera along with HD textures and 3D model from one of the mod.
the raytracing looks terrible, it simply doesn’t belong in that game
For some game its adds a lot, Quake II RTX , DOOM, and minecraft for example. But in my own taste, I never turn RTX ON on latest game because of performance reason and it didnt add that much compared to rasterized rendering,especially that can affect gameplay (graphic in raster, with all of its trickery to mimic real world, is already more than enough to enjoy gaming in its current state, except if you purposely dissect tiny bit of its flaws one by one, like all Ray Trace fanboy usually did)
Awesome but Hot Damn – ONLY took 26 years!
So much for fast progression right Bubba ..!
Back then or like forever; we Allways heard that mantra: Well in 10 years graphics will look photo realistic and like perfect CGI yada yada..Well we are nowhere close yet and that frigging Sucks :/
It’s even more disturbing the garbage that Developers get away with. Great graphics are enough for most gamers these days but they aren’t what makes games great.
There Allways been trash games, so nothing new here buddy!
This is really dream come true for my child self. No, I never have N64 back then, but the tease of it in one of our country first gaming media, whic is in tabloid form, is what always on my mind while daydreaming of having N64 replacing my NES-Clone someday. Yeah, Im ended up having Playstation ,btw, in February 2000, when I was a teen.
The N64 was and still is a great console. I played Super Mario and Mario Kart 64 with my son. On the SNES we played Donkey Kong Country.
Me and my son played this game on his N64. The only irritating thing was that damn monkey that stole Mario’s hat.
This is pretty much heading on the way to where I was hoping it would go. Just need them to change the trees and grass to moving flora/leaves/vegetation and this would be top notch
Look like awful compared to actual Mario game… Game play should be same.
Remake by boomers to boomers, who will cry when this crap will be deleted by Nintendo.
I remember the dev team’s discord server being filled with trannies and sodomites, big shocker there.