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• Mizza
  Libdragon has been improved massively in the past year or so, there are now simple demo games that show capabilities far beyond the original N64 games (bump mapping textures, HDR, seamless loading of massive overworld maps, etc.) Really talented core team, fun to give them a follow.Demos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP8g2ngHftY
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  boricj
  I'm tinkering with a PlayStation homebrew (voxel space renderer) and development for fifth generation consoles has never been easier.Modern toolchains, programming languages, dev cartridges and libraries from the community makes all the difference. Outside of some niceties like ICE (gotta write that GDB stub for target hardware at some point), it's not that different from what you'd experience with modern embedded work.
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  coryadams
  "Modretro customer service address and, to my surprise, heard back from the head of publishing within a day."This makes me want to jump in. But also, I wonder how many people will ever buy and play your game.Does Modretro's target market buy this type of stuff? Or are they the type to just download and emulator and ROM.
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  FlavioMacedo
  Great work! I didn't even know it was still possible to publish new games for old consoles like the N64.
• negative_zero
  Obligatory link to an interview with three of the Goldeneye developers about the development of the game. I found it very fascinating.https://youtube.com/watch?v=bNN9XhGZ3Yw(Also The Centre for Computing History YouTube channel is seriously underrated)
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  ninjin
  Tried to see if it was possible to buy the Rom itself. But it seems like you would need to buy a physical copy at this point:https://modretro.com/products/xibalba-64
• ayanb
  Super interesting article - thanks for sharing your journey. As AI slop takes over the internet, well written and original technical content like these will be important.Also,2026 web dev: 4MB of JavaScript to render a button. 2026 N64 dev: entire FPS in 1MB
• Taikhoom2010
  So is Nintendo Online a popular service? I'm curious if I should get it.
• TZubiri
  Anyone know a vendor that might sell SummerCart in amateur quantities? Doesn't need to do that specifically, but maybe there's custom low volume board makers, like with 3D printer economics.
• valorzard
  At some point I reallly gotta sit down and play around with Pyrite64, it looks super cool
• ltsSmitty
  Great writeup. Thanks author!
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  crest
  Strange choice to go for a raycaster with sprites on the N64. The hardware is basically begging to be fed textured polygons.
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  pelasaco
  if I am not wrong, the game described in this article, is presented in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gOJUEcKYRk, from Palmer Luckey[1]. Wild this guy find time and energy for this side quest. That's passion.References: [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmer_Luckey
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  stewx
  I am in the process of using Claude Opus 5 to build an N64 game, and it really works. I've written no code and it is able to build a fully functional game.I got it to write a skill for driving the Ares emulator via GDB Remote Serial Protocol and it uses that for its feedback loop.