Rare games N64 port

AlfredoDore · May 21, 2026

A large portion of Rare's games have already been decompiled and people are porting them to PC, wouldn't it be good to port them to Gamecube, Wii, and Wii U? This would solve the lack of Rare titles on the Wii, since the Wii only has about 12 titles officially on the console.
Furthermore, N64 games are excellent to play with the NGC controller.

KiiWii · May 22, 2026

AlfredoDore said:
A large portion of Rare's games have already been decompiled and people are porting them to PC, wouldn't it be good to port them to Gamecube, Wii, and Wii U? This would solve the lack of Rare titles on the Wii, since the Wii only has about 12 titles officially on the console.
Furthermore, N64 games are excellent to play with the NGC controller.

Only Banjo-Kazooie and Perfect Dark have been 100% decompiled ready to make working ports, though GoldenEye and Tooie should follow soon, but other Rare games haven’t been decompiled yet because apparently the microcode is so complicated.

It also takes individuals or teams that want to port the games to these platforms.

In an ideal world, yes, it would be great to have these on those platforms, but I think the focus is PC, Linux, Mac, Switch and Android over other platforms.

We are lucky to have Rinnegatamante porting to vita and JNMartin83 porting to Dreamcast; two niche platforms.

AlfredoDore · May 22, 2026

KiiWii said:
Only Banjo-Kazooie and Perfect Dark have been 100% decompiled ready to make working ports, though GoldenEye and Tooie should follow soon, but other Rare games haven’t been decompiled yet because apparently the microcode is so complicated.

It also takes individuals or teams that want to port the games to these platforms.

In an ideal world, yes, it would be great to have these on those platforms, but I think the focus is PC, Linux, Mac, Switch and Android over other platforms.

We are lucky to have Rinnegatamante porting to vita and JNMartin83 porting to Dreamcast; two niche platforms.

Quest 64 is ready.

KiiWii · May 22, 2026

AlfredoDore said:
Quest 64 is ready.

Quest 64 is Imagineer, not Rare

Disorarara · May 22, 2026

AlfredoDore said:
A large portion of Rare's games have already been decompiled and people are porting them to PC, wouldn't it be good to port them to Gamecube, Wii, and Wii U? This would solve the lack of Rare titles on the Wii, since the Wii only has about 12 titles officially on the console.
Furthermore, N64 games are excellent to play with the NGC controller.

I agree, although like with anything it's all dependant on someone being interested and motivated enough and so far all the motivation seems to be towards Dreamcast, probably because of KalistiOS making homebrew development easier for Dreamcast. Meanwhile Wii and GameCube development is not as straightforward, particularly when it comes to 3D graphics, although OpenGX helps out a lot in that regard.

I mean there isn't even a fully functional port of Mario 64 to the Wii, you'd think that'd be an obvious first choice!

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