"Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon" for N64 gets a fanmade PC recompilation project

DragonMals · Jul 8, 2024

WHAAAAAAAAT??????

KiiWii · Jul 8, 2024

This is great.

I know a few people building recomps, I can’t wait to see more!

ShadowOne333 · Jul 8, 2024

KiiWii said:
This is great.

I know a few people building recomps, I can’t wait to see more!

I only care about an RE2 recomp, even if it doesn't make sense hahah.
But I would at least love for RE2 to get a decomp of sorts so the N64 version can be reworked with QoL features.

MariArch · Jul 8, 2024

KiiWii said:
This is great.

I know a few people building recomps, I can’t wait to see more!

Wait what? Is there more recomps than just majoras mask? Do you have links?

The Real Jdbye · Jul 8, 2024

I love this game. I borrowed it once from my cousin as a kid, it was like a weird Asian version of Zelda to me, and almost as good.
Didn't get to play it all the way through until years later on an emulator. The difficulty was a bit high in certain areas as a kid and not having access to a guide it was easy to get stuck not knowing what to do, since the path forward is not always well explained.
This is one of those games that's always been hard to emulate. Every GPU plugin (including GLideN64) struggles with the skybox emulation, which causes slowdowns, high resource usage, and/or graphical glitches depending on the plugin used. So the recomp is much needed.
I hope that multi language will be added to this soon. It's not a text heavy game, but still, not being able to read the text does detract somewhat.
Hoping that my other childhood favorite I borrowed from my cousin, Mischief Makers, will also get a recomp. It works fine on emulator, but it'd just make it more accessible to people. Which is a good thing, that game is so good and there's a whole generation of players that have probably never heard of it.

JuanMena · Jul 8, 2024

Goemon 64 is a "classic" title?

I believe Smash 64 Remix has given him more fame lately, than whatever KONAMI ever did for the character in almost 40 years.

RedColoredStars · Jul 8, 2024

This is very nice

Marc_LFD · Jul 8, 2024

Always been interested, but never actually played it, this looks like the definitive edition.

The Real Jdbye · Jul 8, 2024

JuanMena said:
Goemon 64 is a "classic" title?

I believe Smash 64 Remix has given him more fame lately, than whatever KONAMI ever did for the character in almost 40 years.

It didn't reach the popularity it deserved, but everybody who remembers the game, remembers it fondly. Such an underrated game.

KiiWii · Jul 8, 2024

MariArch said:
Wait what? Is there more recomps than just majoras mask? Do you have links?

They’re not made public yet. But it’s some interesting titles

JuanMena · Jul 8, 2024

The Real Jdbye said:
It didn't reach the popularity it deserved, but everybody who remembers the game, remembers it fondly. Such an underrated game.

I think most people knew Goemon from magazines ads and reviews/walkthroughs, but I believe Poky and Rocky being more famous than Goemon....and that's even more niche than Goemon.

I did knew Goemom back in the day thanks to 90s magazines but I've never seen a Goemon game in the wild... ever! So i might be biased towards that.
Of course, being this time, I do play Goemon for SNES/Arcade occasionally, but I certainly wouldn't classified it as a "classic" for the N64.

xbmcuser · Jul 8, 2024

That theme song is Legendary, proably the best song on the n64 beating even DK64 Rap

M7L7NK7 · Jul 8, 2024

xbmcuser said:
That theme song is Legendary, proably the best song on the n64 beating even DK64 Rap

Buck Bumble would like a word

Deleted member 158512 · Jul 8, 2024

JuanMena said:
Goemon 64 is a "classic" title?

I believe Smash 64 Remix has given him more fame lately, than whatever KONAMI ever did for the character in almost 40 years.

Yeah I meet so many people that love that game. I know a few that play it every single year, like a holiday tradition. The one problem with the game was it required a memory pack to save (Ocarina of Time, which was released later that year, did not).

Years later I finally got a used copy of the game and a memory pack and finally got to play through the whole thing. Great soundtrack, great stages... it was the definitive "Japanese" Zelda-like until Okami came out. The locations you visit (and even the order you visit them in) is very similar between Okami and Mystical Ninja 64.

I have definitely met more people that were obsessed with the SNES one though, that was a classic "play with your siblings" game.

Exidous · Jul 8, 2024

JuanMena said:
I think most people knew Goemon from magazines ads and reviews/walkthroughs, but I believe Poky and Rocky being more famous than Goemon....and that's even more niche than Goemon.

I did knew Goemom back in the day thanks to 90s magazines but I've never seen a Goemon game in the wild... ever! So i might be biased towards that.
Of course, being this time, I do play Goemon for SNESS/Arcade occasionally, but I certainly wouldn't classified it as a "classic" for the N64.

The Goemon franchise is a generally well made Japanese comedy franchise. It probably has inflated importance relative to its gameplay because of the import community. The analogy for its popularity and distribution that I would use was Fire Emblem - mostly Japan only, but poking into Western markets in ways that make a big splash/leave it with outsize cultural significance, Smash in the case of Fire Emblem, almost total lack of competition for localized Japanese comedy, in the case of Goemon in Western markets.

As for this title, Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon continued the franchise's affectionate ripping off of Zelda for the gameplay it filled in between its Japanese cultural (meta) comedy. It might not mean much now, but this is a 3d Zelda-like game that came out before Ocarina of Time.

M7L7NK7 · Jul 8, 2024

I've never heard a single person praise goemon outside of this thread

The Real Jdbye · Jul 9, 2024

DS1 said:
Yeah I meet so many people that love that game. I know a few that play it every single year, like a holiday tradition. The one problem with the game was it required a memory pack to save (Ocarina of Time, which was released later that year, did not).

Years later I finally got a used copy of the game and a memory pack and finally got to play through the whole thing. Great soundtrack, great stages... it was the definitive "Japanese" Zelda-like until Okami came out. The locations you visit (and even the order you visit them in) is very similar between Okami and Mystical Ninja 64.

I have definitely met more people that were obsessed with the SNES one though, that was a classic "play with your siblings" game.

Yknow, I've only ever briefly tried out the SNES game (and was disappointed that it was so completely different from the N64 game), but now that you mention it has multiplayer, that might be a good reason to revisit it. I'm always looking for good multiplayer games to play with my brothers and cousins.

Gunstorm · Jul 9, 2024

ShadowOne333 said:
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The Nintendo 64 has been the main console for modern recompilation projects to PC, and with the recent release of the N64Recomp tool just a couple of months ago, more recompilation projects would start showing up with due time, and today another game joins the ranks for proper PC ports.

"Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon" was just the 2nd entry of the Goemon series released in North America back in 1998, however, the franchise had been going strong in Japan for far longer, and this title helped to further cement the presence of the Goemon series in the west.

Today, this classic title for the N64 joins the growing list of recompilation titles that get a proper PC port, with 60fps and widescreen support in this initial state. The recompilation was developed by user "Klorfmorf" from the Ganbare Goemon Discord Server, where the recompilation project was released based on the N64Recomp that was unveiled back on May of this year, with a very similar interface to that of the Majora's Mask recompilation that got released almost alongside the N64Recomp tool.

The recompilation for "Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon" only supports the Japanese release/ROM of the game so far, and the recompilation project requires the user to provide its own copy/dump of the Japanese ROM in order to run, so those interested can download the recompilation files and bring their own Japanese ROM of the game to play and test out this new PC port thanks to the recompilation tools.

Ganbare Goemon Discord Server
Initial release of the Mystical Ninja Recompilation (Requires a dump of the original Japanese ROM in order to work)

Gambare so gambare

Xdqwerty · Jul 9, 2024

Wanted to play it since it looks neat but its hard to emulate so atleast it will run a lot better if running natively (dunno if you understand me)

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