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A surprise port has just dropped, courtesy of creator Wiseguy. Banjo: Recompiled is a project that takes the beloved Nintendo 64 classic game Banjo-Kazooie, and fully ports it to Windows, Linux, and Mac. The game can run at higher framerates, widescreen, adds in the note-saving feature from the Xbox 360 port, free camera controls, and support for two romhacks--Jiggies of Time and Nostalgia 64. Banjo: Recompiled is available over on GitHub, if you're interested in trying it out.

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[LoggerMan]

Snooplax is streaming it live right now

That dude loves Banjo Kazooie a lot, streams romhacks of Banjo on a real N64 all the time.

 

[Dark_Ansem]

Now these are the news I wanted

 

[Ambers_Crimson_8K]

My cousin, texted me about this today and already has videos up about it!
He said even the HD Textures packs work on it.
This is the positive gaming news and features, we should appreciate more.

 

[Reploid]

n64 is like ps5 now: everything ported to PC

 

[Fyrus]

n64 is like ps5 now: everything ported to PC

And that's a good thing, it brings so much QoL features to the table

 

[SDA]

And it finally happened. Congratulations to the people behind this port!

 

[regnad]

Runs great! Mods easy peasy to use! You can keep notes even though you die! Amazing at high frame rates! All I want now is save states.

Can't wait for Tooie!

 

[jelbo]

Wow, this came as a surprise! I remember never getting BK to run quite right years ago with emulators. Now it's perfect and we have all the modern extra's. I'm very happy this was made.

 

[wurstpistole]

Cool, I hope this runs with hd textures on the steam deck

 

[PatrickD85]

Just saw this Gotta love to see Banjo and Kazooie ... wherever they appear. #childhoodmemories

 

[Djakku]

let's see if a switch port is coming lol..

 

[wurstpistole]

let's see if a switch port is coming lol..

Probably, like for all the other N64 recompilation projects...

 

[VinsCool]

I think the fact they went out of their way to support ROMhacks as built-in mods right off the bat is the most impressive part.

Could you imagine if Zelda or Mario recomp ports did the same thing? It would be insane!

 

[emigre]

As someone who didn't have a N64 growing up (PS1>>>N64), I think I'm going to end up playing more N64 games via recompilations than on the system itself.

 

[naddel81]

how to get other languages into the recompiled version?

 

[wurstpistole]

Cool, I hope this runs with hd textures on the steam deck

@SDA it works absolutely beautifully with HD textures on the Steam Deck. Just create a file called portable.txt in the same folder as the .exe, so it puts everything in the game folder, then run it once to change the rom and activate the mods. Then drop the folder onto your Steam Deck and use Proton experimental. Set to fullscreen instead of windowed so everything is displayed correctly.

You're welcome!

 

[Robert Newbie]

Aaah, it finally happened. I've seen so many posts about it, and now those fans can finally enjoy Banjo on PC. Kudos to Wiseguy.

 

[wurstpistole]

how to get other languages into the recompiled version?

You can't for now, since it only supports the USA rom. Maybe other languages can be added through mods? Let's wait a few days, I'm sure there are going to be a lot of mods for this.

 

[Kioku]

Finally some good news.