Harbour Masters--the team behind porting decompilation projects such as The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Star Fox 64, and others to PC--has done it again. The recently completed decompilation for Mario Kart 64 has now been ported over to PC, allowing you to play the game natively, instead of having to imperfectly emulate it. Of course, in order to build the port, you'll have to have your own copy of Mario Kart 64 backed up. A Nintendo Switch build and Steam Deck/Linux build are also available. The project is available to download from GitHub, linked in the source.

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[Valkyrie743]

happy to see this but im waiting for that F-zero X decomp to 100% and pc port. that game was my childhood and it would be amazing to see that at 144 fps with an hd texture pack !!!! plus that soundtrack !!!!!

 

[NinStar]

Tripping? In a kart? How? Sure I slip on bananas, if that's what you mean.

If you change directions too fast in 150cc you start spinning the same way you would if you touched a banana peel. That mechanic only exists in Mario Kart 64 and it is insanely stupid.

 

[Viri]

Can't wait for the mod to keep the music ON during 3 and 4 player matches!

Also, I'm hopeful for a decomp of this. As Square doesn't know the game exist, and I ragequitted trying to run it on Switch via emulation, as the sound and music crunch kept distracting me. Some difficulty mods would be really cool.

 

[Purple_Shyguy]

Would it be possible to do anything with the camera? The swaying camera always gave me a headache. I know it's the way it is to maintain the 3D illusion and perspective of the kart racer but my god is it obnoxious. And seeing it happening in widescreen at 60fps just exacerbates the whole thing.

Some coding wizard needs to eradicate it somehow

 

[lordelan]

Is there a list of all currently available decomps btw?

 

[SDA]

Just as I expected.

 

[emigre]

Best mario kart release this month.

 

[Marc_LFD]

Hopefully we get a mod that makes the game look like the renders!View attachment 512606View attachment 512605View attachment 512604View attachment 512603

That brings memories of magazines from the 90's, nowadays they use AI for kids magazines.

 

[Robert Newbie]

That brings memories of magazines from the 90's, nowadays they use AI for kids magazines.

Those renders really take me back. I remember my early days on the internet, and I found a ton of official Yoshi renders related to Yoshi's Story. I thought to myself, "why have I never seen these in the official Nintendo magazines?" To be honest, I don't think I recognize some of those Mario Kart 64 renders, either. Maybe I was too busy with schoolwork or something. Still, it'd be nice to go back to the late 90's, especially around the time of Ocarina of Time's release. Even though the N64 was a turbulent time for Nintendo and its fans, it was still a great time to be alive.

I'm afraid to ask what children's magazines look like, these days. Nintendo Power was all we needed back in the day.

 

[SuffahBish]

If they add a server browser for online multiplayer I'll be all over this. I'm not planning on getting a Switch 2 anytime soon (if at all) so this'll scratch that Mario Kart itch real well.

 

[eyeliner]

happy to see this but im waiting for that F-zero X decomp to 100% and pc port. that game was my childhood and it would be amazing to see that at 144 fps with an hd texture pack !!!! plus that soundtrack !!!!!

I would flip my mother loving dung if there would be a decomp from F-Zero GX.

X I always found it a little too twitchy.

 

[PhyChris]

One of the harder mario karts IMO... Love it!

 

[Keylogger]

What other N64 games were ported to PC?
Mario Kart
Zelda OOT
Zelda MM
Perfect dark

Other?

 

[LightBeam]

I find it interesting that it appears a full decompilation of MK64 is finished and will likely have many easy to install mods before an original modular kart racer released as an indie game.

My thought being that there's clearly a void for a modable kart racing game, and instead of that being created an older game was instead entirely reverse engineered.

I had the same sentiment, but I guess the best we got in that regard is Robotnik's Ring Racer

 

[The Catboy]

Steam Deck Port!

 

[SuffahBish]

I had the same sentiment, but I guess the best we got in that regard is Robotnik's Ring Racer

That game is insanely impressive visually considering it's running in a fork of the Doom 2 engine. There's animated textures and moving environment set pieces all over the place.

 

[PhyChris]

What other N64 games were ported to PC?
Mario Kart
Zelda OOT
Zelda MM
Perfect dark

Other?

StarFox64
SuperMario64

Other?

 

[Keylogger]

StarFox64

Other?

Starship, thanks didn't know about this one

No super mario 64 port?

 

[PhyChris]

Starship, thanks didn't know about this one

No super mario 64 port?

I tried to edit it in before a reply haha

 

[Keylogger]

I tried to edit it in before a reply haha

Do you have the github project page of this one please?