Mario Kart 64 got finally decompiled!

Man, i hope this results in a PC port like with SoH. I'd kill for a native PC version of 64 with a bunch of fancy features. It's my favorite Mario Kart

I'm seeing more of these decompilations lately but never for playstation titles. some things just never emulate quite right with the playstation titles and they are still fun to play. Is anyone working on decompiling original playstation games?
- There's an entire community for PS1 and PS2 https://discord.gg/TzRYk7X3zw
- Yes there is some work for ps1 games for example the crash team racing demp
  https://github.com/CTR-tools/CTR-ModSDK This is the link, tho the repo is being used for ctr mod tools too.
  
  CTR?! YESSSSS!
- Not claiming to be an expert, but I watched this video a while back. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmKjVpVdHDQ
  The impression I got is that PS1 emulation is actually pretty good, and N64 emulation is more like that Homer Simpson meme with all the clothespins on his back.

I won't say if that project is legal or not, but expect it (and many others) to be taken down by Nintendo soon. Make a local copy if you want to preserve it.
- Decomps are legal because no copyrighted material is being distributed. They typically require the original ROM to run (eg for assets).
  
  Yeah but Nintendo doesn't always seem to give a shit just because something is legal. They'll still play the "but our legal department has more money than YOU" card
  
  The code itself is also copyrighted. Decompiled code is a derivative work.
- Why expect this to be taken down if other decomps haven't been taken down already? Why expect other decomps to be taken down?
  
  They will eventually be all taken down. That's the point. They have no legal framework to exist, and Nintendo could strike any time they want, like Rockstar did with the re3 project.
  They also have valid reasons to think that these projects are causing them to lose money, since they give alternative (and technically better) solutions to play their old games, without buying any Nintendo hardware or software (unless you dump your games, but let's be honest. You don't).

So we don't know who it is. All we know is, he's the ToadStig.
- Good. Leave them nameless
  
  Kid… you’re killing me.
  Hey I nominate this guys new moniker to be Private Slow.

so, custom tracks and racers when?
- There's already ROM hacks for MK64.
- MarioKart Vs Diddy Kong Racing

It’s not a stretch to say that n64 romhacks are often of similar gameplay quality to modern titles, albeit with far lower graphical fidelity. With a racer like Mario kart, I’m curious how they’ll go about modernizing it. It seems too fundamentally janky with its controls and visuals to compete with anything within the last 20 years, but I’ve been nothing if not surprised by the ingenuity of romhackers.
- This is not a romhack or a tool for romhacking. This lets the game run natively, on current PC hardware.
  
  Decomp projects accelerate the rate that romhacks come out through new or improved tools and fresh information about the inner workings of the game. Particularly when there was little experimentation previous to the decomp, as is the case here, to allow romhackers find the game’s kinks. It absolutely is not a romhack or romhacking tool, you are correct. It’s better!
  
  Doesn't look like this is quite that, yet. The decomp is just the first step towards native porting. Banjo-Kazooie's been fully decompiled for somewhere around a year at this point, and there's still no ports afaik.

Eat shell Nintendo.

It was alright, MK64, but my only real gripe is the handling. When you start your turn in, the kart strafes opposite of the direction you are turning, which makes small adjustments difficult at best.
- And in this one, if you move the stick back and forth wrong, you can spin out.
  It's pretty janky, but you can get used to it.
- How did you get it to run? I got it to compile, but I cant find a file that I can actually run.
  
  Are you trying to run it on PC?
  This is only the decompilation of the original for N64, the binaries it produces are for the N64 or an emulator. Making a PC port is the next step.
  
  I haven't even looked at it, but don't you need an emulator to run it?

Mario Kart 2⁶

Amazing!

Now that the code is available, anybody who wants to can mod it and create new version of Mario Kart. Without paying whoever produced Mario Kart. But playing devil's advocate, isn't that what people are calling AI evil for doing? So why am I not seeing outrage?
- That was already possible. This lets the game run natively on a modern PC, as long as you supply your legally backed up rom image of your N64 cartridge of the game.
  Also, if they trained AI on programming books which they licensed in perpetuity and free college courses and it became better than people at programming, then maybe vibe coding would be questionably good. But they didnt. In a system designed to exploit labor, they took the fruit of that labor without compensating those who deserved it (a crime that, as you elude to in your comment, is not socially acceptable), then they sold their snake oil which is NOT as good at the job it proposes to eliminate as the human worker, to a company which will pay for the privilege of exploiting that technology at the expense of the humans they will replace with it, while it does a worse job and generally makes life shitter for everyone in that entire supply chain, except for the Sam Altmans. Who, as we’ve seen in recent times, want to build tech bro kingdoms where they can exploit people further.
  The problem isn’t the neural network, it’s the exploitation.
  
  Enough with the AI moralizing. As a software developer I spent my whole career looking at examples of other people's work and incorporating their coding techniques into my own work without ever hunting any of them down and paying them. Possibly other people have done the same with my code. Bottom line, I don't care, it's always been common practice. And I don't see anything wrong with a human being writing code to automate that process - that's the whole idea of coding.
  
  Oh I see. I only took a brief glance at the code on github but it looks like the full game is there - did the devs add the cartridge check to avoid IP trouble? Because if you know what you're doing you could always disable that.
- You can't do what you say, because the original ROM is required to get the assets. Just this repo gets you nowhere w. running the game.
  
  The assets folder in the github repository seems to contain the assets - unless you're talking about different assets.
- I guess because its not for profit.

Good. Maybe now someone can mod it so it isn't the worst Mario Kart in the series
- comforts you
  Hey, it's ok buddy. It's alright to have bad opinions sometimes...doesn't make you a bad person.
- I'm probably gonna get flack for this, but, based take, no clue what everyone else is on about. Must just be nostalgia bias, I remember the whole internet singing the praises of MK64 a decade ago, but like, it is really ass compared to any other game in the franchise.
  For anyone who thinks 64 is better than SMK and SC, check out this video and then come back to me. (granted, video doesn't talk about SC, but like, SC is just an improved version of SMK)
  For anyone who thinks 64 is better than Tour.... fair point, but like, the only reason Tour is so bad is cause Mobile. Outside of that, it's not that bad.
  For anyone who thinks 64 is better than 7.... why? The only thing bad with 7 is it's lack of a single player VS mode. Outside of that, 7 is a pretty good game, although outshined by 8 in every way.
  For anyone who thinks 64 is better than World, chill out, World ain't even out yet, ok.
  For anyone who thinks 64 is better than DD, DS, Wii, 8, or 8DX, I know you're trolling at that point.
  Even still, 64 is still not that bad, and I can probably come up with at least half a dozen worse racing games off the top of my head. I'm really excited to see how people use this decomp to actually make 64 a good game.
  
  It's def nostalgia bias. It is truly terrible.
  
  I hated on it for so long, but i eventually came around and i kinda like it now.
  It is still the worst In the Series lol
- You take that back.
  
  no
- I know the driving is bad, the ai is bad, and it’s full of glitches but worse than Super Mario Kart and Mario Super Circuit?
  
  Never played super circuit
  OG Super Mario Kart is a banger all day long and you know it
  
  I think so
- Wii, Super Circuit, and 7 exist, so your argument doesn't hold water.
  Sure it isn't Double Dash, but it's definitely not the worst.
  
  Wii is one of the best.
  Super Circuit is still better.
  I'll give you 7. It's down there
  But the driving is terrible and so is the AI and so are the tracks
- You should play MK7 if you think 64 is bad.
  
  7 is one of the best wdym
  
  They can both be bad