You Can Now Play Super Mario 64 Online With Your Friends
…What a time to be alive. Back in 1996, children had no way of proving their superiority in Nintendo's classic Super Mario 64 except for bragging on the playground. If Timothy said he could get the 8 Red Coins Star in Bob-omb Battlefield faster than you, you could argue, but you could never know. Until now.
Yesterday, Kaze Emanuar, the modder behind such notable Nintendo fan projects as Super Mario 64 Maker and Super Mario 64: Last Impact, unveiled Super Mario 64 Online, an online multiplayer version of the game that allows players to race, collaborate, and basically do whatever they want in the world of Super Mario 64. By joining a room, up to 24 players can take control of either Mario, Luigi, Waluigi, Wario, Princess Peach, Rosalina, Yoshi, or Toad and enter the Mushroom Kingdom. Each character has unique abilities; for example, the trailer showcaases how Yoshi's jump (which Nintendo fans will recognize as the character's jump from Super Smash Brothers) allows him to get to hard-to-reach stars that Mario would normally require the help of a cannon or owl to reach.
The two-minute trailer, slightly tongue-in-cheek, offers "more players than you'd even want" and a run-through of playing hide and seek in King Boo's mansion. The trailer also provides a tutorial and download link in it's description on YouTube. Emanuar also uploaded an online tutorial video on how to run the game (shown below).
As of today, the game looks like a big hit, with an already healthy community of players on its servers. This likely means that Nintendo, notorious for filing copyright claims on fan-made projects, will kill it quickly. So play it while you can! Be the Super Mario 64 superstar you always told your friends you were!
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Bunger, Voiced By Chris Pratt
Well, no DMCA so far, but Nintendo did take down the original video and Kaze had to make another upload. Guess I was proven wrong.
Swift
It's an independent thing that hooks into SM64. I'd compare it to a game genie, I suspect that was done intentionally. I'm not sure Nintendo has any grounds to do anything akin to a C&D.
Bill-Stan, Gaijin Supreme
Email isn't working, no matter how many times I resend it. I keep checking my regular mail folder, and even my spam mail folder like it tells me to, waiting, refreshing, waiting and refreshing, but it never shows up. What do?
Bill-Stan, Gaijin Supreme
QUICK, USE IT BEFORE IT GETS TAKEN DOWN
Electric Dictator Bedebao
If players can cooperate as in getting stars simultaneously… Plus the new characters… new speedrun categories?
The Christmas Pyro
The Christmas Pyro
also shoutout to SimpleFlips
MIMU
I also don't think they have too many legal grounds to stand upon. It involves modding a ROM. As long as it's your ROM (which would be hard to prove either way), in the US, it's perfectly legal to play around with code for personal nonprofit use.
classified
>you can play as waluigi
Sherwood McCloud
After experimenting with friends, I have to say this tool has been released too prematurely and is still very flawed. Not to mention the many issues people have been having including intense player lag, and the tool being detected and removed by their antivirus. It was also announced that it would work with any SM64 hack, but that is simply not the case at the moment. I was really looking forward to showing my friends this madman's creation known as Last Impact.
Admiral Loadsamoney
INB4 DMCA.
Bunger, Voiced By Chris Pratt
About Nintendo taking it down, I'd say it's unlikely, since it's a romhack, not a standalone game like AM2R was. As long as Kaze's only distributing the patch without a rom included, there should be no legal repercussions. Or maybe not, who knows.
fastbreak333
Nintendo has taken down an SM64 hack called Last Impact (which is also made by Kaze), so it is possible.
digital_m3m3
But it is also possible that Kaze learned from Last Impact how to legally avoid the DMCA takedown that Nintendo will in all likelihood launch.
Dave Lylia "Pigeon"
Magnificency at its best. Godspeed him.