Super Mario 64 (1996) Port for DSi

I noticed black areas on the edge of the screen. Usually the skybox not rendering there. This could be the effect of hitting that polygon limit perhaps? The new polygons fail to get rendered until there's space. So edges of the skybox come into view not rendered for a short time resulting in the black space I'm seeing at the edge of the screen when the view moves? I haven't noticed holes in other geometry yet. Could be luck that it's always the skybox getting impacted. Could also be an unrelated bug with the game.

 

Okay, super odd issue I had, but there's a likely chance it was just caused by my weird setup.

When I saved for the first time, the game froze. The music still played, but nothing else worked. After rebooting my console and going back into the game, it seemed to save normally (the sm64_save_file.bin file was on my SD card too), and when I saved again, the game didn't freeze this time. Seems like the issue had something to do with initializing the save file.

Now, my setup is definitely weird. I had to resort to using Memory Pit since I'm playing this on a 3DS and TWiLight Menu++ doesn't support large DSi homebrew on 3DS consoles yet. Also, I'm using a 64GB SD card, which I haven't had many issues with in the past, but has been known to cause issues in general when it comes to DS(i) homebrew.

I haven't seen anyone else have this issue, so it's very likely that something I have set up is causing this (most likely my 64GB SD card) but I just wanted to put this out there.

 

Huh, that's weird. I guess I can try to look into the issue and see if I can reproduce it. Glad to know it isn't because of my setup though.

Also yeah, I had to install the DSi Camera app. It works with the pit.bin payload designed for DSi Firmware versions 1.4-1.4.5 (which I assume just use the same DSi Camera app).