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Mario Builder 64 is the N64's answer to Super Mario Maker

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With the vast success of Super Mario Maker and its Switch sequel Super Mario Maker 2, Nintendo fans have long been calling for "Maker" titles for other iconic genres and series. In 2017 we saw Mega Man Maker, and since then we've seen a range of various Zelda-esque dungeon makers pop up (with another one due to release in just nine days!). While these releases do a fantastic job of capturing the spirit of their respective games, they're often released as PC games using unique assets such as to avoid scrutiny from the powers that be. What's far more unique is a Maker title not only built in the engine of its game, but one that even runs on native hardware. It's here we introduce Mario Builder 64.

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Built on top of the source code for SM64: Beyond the Cursed Mirror, Mario Builder 64 is a fully-featured Super Mario 64 level creator with everything you could want to build and share your very own Super Mario 64 stages. The game is available now and can be downloaded as a patch here. Be aware that while this will work on both flashcards and emulators, only emulators that support virtual SD card emulation are supported. According to the setup guide, Parallel Launcher is the only emulator currently available with such support.

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I was able to get it setup myself with no real issues outside of my Nintendo Switch Online N64 controller needing to be setup in Parallel Launcher. Once that was sorted, the game booted with no issues, and I got stuck in trying it out. It's a seamless experience to the point of it feeling like it really should be official, and I'm incredibly excited to see what the community comes up with. Adding levels is as easy as mounting the virtual SD card and grabbing the mb64 file from a friend or other online source, and those on flashcards obviously don't need to worry about virtual SD cards.

Will you be checking out Mario Builder 64? Are you eager to make a level or just try what the community comes up with? Share your thoughts below!

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Can be stop the dmca crap comments?

This does not use any Nintendo copyrighted content or resources, so no, Nintendo will not take it down. It's why Zelda's SOH is still freely available.

That out of the way, this looks awesome, gonna try it out later this week!
 
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I have it running on my retroarch Android and it plays awesome from what i tinkered with...

Anyone know if the Parallel core supports virtual sd?? Can't see an option and there is zero info anywhere thats it even a thing!
 
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Lostbhoy said:
I have it running on my retroarch Android and it plays awesome from what i tinkered with...

Anyone know if the Parallel core supports virtual sd?? Can't see an option and there is zero info anywhere thats it even a thing!
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From what I read on the setup page the only thing that supports virtual SD at the moment is the Parallel Launcher:

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From what I read on the setup page the only thing that supports virtual SD at the moment is the Parallel Launcher:

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Ah! My understanding was that the parallel emulator used it.

Unfortunately when using the launcher on my pc it just disappears when booting any rom. (it is an OOOOLD pc!!)
 
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bintendo, DMCA soon, insert mario pointing gun at child
anyway cool hack, if i had shit like this as a kid i would have played so much, also, i was watching someone play on real hardware and it runs like shit, it really has to be played on emula- i mean overclocked n64
 
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M7L7NK7 said:
So funny seeing everyone saying this to fit in, it's just a patch like every other romhack.. plus lunar magic was never taken down and that inspired mario maker
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And also who cares if it's getting dmcaed, it's not like it's getting removed from the Internet anyway
 
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hope this can be ran on wii u vc... well i've tried UWUVCI AIO and another injector and i've gotten failure for UWUVCI AIO, but i will be reporting on the other injector soon.
 
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Yeah and they gave up on it unless I’m wrong, I barely played their version.I think it lasted less than a year. I never got a chance to play Mario Royal though.
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Eventually Mario Royale came back, guess 'cus both Mario 99 got canned, and the creator (or someone else?) figured "fuck nintendo", lol
 
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Scarlet said:

With the vast success of Super Mario Maker and its Switch sequel Super Mario Maker 2, Nintendo fans have long been calling for "Maker" titles for other iconic genres and series. In 2017 we saw Mega Man Maker, and since then we've seen a range of various Zelda-esque dungeon makers pop up (with another one due to release in just nine days!). While these releases do a fantastic job of capturing the spirit of their respective games, they're often released as PC
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games using unique assets such as to avoid scrutiny from the powers that be. What's far more unique is a Maker title not only built in the engine of its game, but one that even runs on native hardware. It's here we introduce Mario Builder 64.

Built on top of the source code for SM64: Beyond the Cursed Mirror, Mario Builder 64 is a fully-featured Super Mario 64 level creator with everything you could want to build and share your very own Super Mario 64 stages. The game is available now and can be downloaded as a patch here. Be aware that while this will work on both flashcards and emulators, only emulators that support virtual SD card emulation are supported. According to the setup guide, Parallel Launcher is the only emulator currently available with such support.


I was able to get it setup myself with no real issues outside of my Nintendo Switch Online N64 controller needing to be setup in Parallel Launcher. Once that was sorted, the game booted with no issues, and I got stuck in trying it out. It's a seamless experience to the point of it feeling like it really should be official, and I'm incredibly excited to see what the community comes up with. Adding levels is as easy as mounting the virtual SD card and grabbing the mb64 file from a friend or other online source, and those on flashcards obviously don't need to worry about virtual SD cards.

Will you be checking out Mario Builder 64? Are you eager to make a level or just try what the community comes up with? Share your thoughts below!

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Truely amazing. Is this possible to play on the Wii U does anyone know?
 
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I wonder if they can expand it to go beyond Mario 64. And bring back things that were lost in Super Mario Bros 3 and World.

I would love for example if one could recreate supermario world here. If you can bring in the feather cape, the p wing, the tanooki suit. Flower Fire Mario. Enemies that we might see in Super Mario Galaxy 2.

I want this level desing to allow you to recreat Super Mario World with the 64 engine.

I also think that they should allow you to make extended versions of the blocks of the caps to give you more time.
 
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