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Thanks to the community efforts of many N64 enthusiasts, we got a full Mario Kart 64 decompilation, and from that, a native PC port was born soon after, as is almost always the case with decompilation projects, but it doesn't stop there, since once a PC port becomes available, unofficial console ports start popping up, and depending on the game, we see some pretty interesting ports to consoles not thought of.

Developer jnmartin84, who has previously released other N64 -> Dreamcast ports like Doom 64 and Wipeout, has been working for several months into a fully functional Dreamcast port of Mario Kart 64, which has now been officially released, complete with full open source code on jnmartin84's GitHub, with one of the major hurdles of this port according to Martin was without a doubt the sound and making it work on the Dreamcast.

Mario Kart 64 on Dreamcast features the following control scheme:

• Dreamcast DPAD - N64 DPAD (move in menus)
• Dreamcast Analog Stick - N64 Analog Stick (move in game)
• Dreamcast Start - N64 Start (... start)
• Dreamcast A button - N64 A button (accelerate, menu select)
• Dreamcast X button - N64 B button (brake, menu back?)
• Dreamcast B button - N64 right C button (HUD change)
• Dreamcast Y button - N64 up C button (camera)
• Dreamcast L trigger - N64 Z trigger (use item)
• Dreamcast R trigger - N64 R trigger (jump/drift)

The game's only official supported format by the developer for both emulators and real hardware play is CDI, and the compilation process for the Mario Kart 64 DC port outputs said format. Users insterested in using other formats besides CDI won't have any support from the developer, however, so they're on their own when trying to play in other formats. The game features saving through VMU, and uses 3 blocks for the main EEPROM game save, while time trails require 67 blocks.

As usual with this type of fan ports and PC ports, the repository does NOT include any kind of copyrighted assets, so the user must provide their own dumped Mario Kart 64 ROM in order to create the CDI/ISO for the Sega Dreamcast out of the source code.

Source
jnmartin84's MK64 DC GitHub repository

 

[yankii]

64 is the best Mario Kart ever, and that's counting the SNES one. Guess I'll have to get a Dreamcast.

 

[LoggerMan]

A lot of video game esoterica videos here recently as news.

 

[KiiWii]

A lot of video game esoterica videos here recently as news.

He makes decent videos

 

[linuxares]

64 is the best Mario Kart ever, and that's counting the SNES one. Guess I'll have to get a Dreamcast.

64 got the best rainbow road. I just love the soundtrack on it as well

 

[yankii]

64 got the best rainbow road. I just love the soundtrack on it as well

Rainbow Road so good it's on the cover of 8DX.

 

[KiiWii]

FWIW Sonic will be appearing in place of Toad in a future update.

Gotta go fast!

 

[x65943]

I kinda wish I still had my dreamcast for all these neato ports lately. Would love to play GTA vice city and MK64 on that wacky little controller

 

[SDA]

Sega doesn't make consoles anymore, but who cares? Nintendo is not going to like this.

 

[icegod]

I really have to put those ports on my GDEmu. Fun new way to play a classic.

 

[Ferris1000]

Man I hate when people talk like thiiiiiiiiis.

 

[Robert Newbie]

Hahaha, the Dreamcast dev community at it again. I love it.

I think Super Mario 64 has been ported to the Dreamcast, but it has graphical issues.

 

[x65943]

Hahaha, the Dreamcast dev community at it again. I love it.

I think Super Mario 64 has been ported to the Dreamcast, but it has graphical issues.

It just mainly hasn't been worked on enough

To quote a comment on the comparison video

"Dreamcast Mario looks like he drives around in a bad touch van."

Spoiler: Video

 

[a_username_that_is_cool]

CDI? What is this, some king of Hotel Mario?

 

[AmandaRose]

He makes decent videos

He does but I always find it hilarious that he struggles every time to say his name at the start of every video. Dude if you can't say your name change it to something easier

 

[Retrojunkies]

Now this would be a massive thing to piss the nintendo fanboys off.

A Nintendo game on a Sega console powered by Microsoft.

 

[The Catboy]

Classic DC community move! Ya love to see it!

 

[x65943]

Now this would be a massive thing to piss the nintendo fanboys off.

A Nintendo game on a Sega console powered by Microsoft.

Ah yes nothing makes Nintendo fan boys madder than...being able to play Nintendo games on 26 year old consoles?

I'm pretty sure retro game console fans are all happy

Now maybe you meant Nintendo "lawyers"?

 

[ploggy]

It just mainly hasn't been worked on enough

To quote a comment on the comparison video

"Dreamcast Mario looks like he drives around in a bad touch van."

Spoiler: Video

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Haha. progress has been made with the Mario 64 port, Mario no longer has his Trucker-Tash




EDIT: Actually this is probably the better vid to show off the latest build. the one above is a mod

 

[x65943]

Haha. progress has been made with the Mario 64 port, Mario no longer has his Trucker-Tash




EDIT: Actually this is probably the better vid to show off the latest build. the one above is a mod

Mario Galaxy models in M64 on Dreamcast is so damn cool