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Fan-made Mario Kart 64 PC port released, with track editor and ultrawide support

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  • B blue_morpho@lemmy.world
    20 days ago

    There's no precedent. Nintendo sues, the developer doesn't have money for lawyers to defend themselves so they remove it.

    That's how it's been going for a long time.

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    altima_neo@lemmy.zip
    wrote 20 days ago last edited by
    #29

    Problem here is Nintendo doesnt have much to sue them on. They were even pretty careful about how they named the project. Naming it Spaghetti Kart and making no references to Nintendo or even Mario Kart.

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    • M mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      20 days ago

      Not really; The emulator doesn’t use any copyrighted code, but the ROM is copyrighted. That’s just basic IP law.

      What is fucked up logic is Nintendo encrypting their ROMs, then providing decryption keys on the console. So the emulator itself is legal, but actually booting a ROM requires decrypting it, which requires keys from a legitimate console. Nintendo has argued that those keys are illegal to use in an emulator, even if the user rips them directly from the console that they own. So you have the keys. You own the console they’re stored on. But it’s illegal to use those keys anywhere except on the console they came on, because Nintendo said so.

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      yucandu@lemmy.world
      wrote 20 days ago last edited by
      #30

      Because US DMCA law has provisions in it about copyright circumvention. Same thing led to the "you can't repair your own John Deere tractor" debacle.

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      • B baldingpudenda@lemmy.world
        20 days ago

        For making a port? A succulent Japanese port of a 30 year old game? Unhand me, sir!

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        the_q@lemmy.zip
        wrote 20 days ago last edited by
        #31

        This is Nintendo manifest!

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        • T tonytins@pawb.social
          20 days ago
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          deflated0ne@lemmy.world
          wrote 20 days ago last edited by deflated0ne@lemmy.world
          #32

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          • T tronn4@lemmy.world
            20 days ago

            Nice try, diddy

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            deflated0ne@lemmy.world
            wrote 20 days ago last edited by
            #33

            HEY. Diddy Kong does not deserve that slander.

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            • A altima_neo@lemmy.zip
              20 days ago

              Not just ultrawide support, but also interpolated frames for super smooth frame rate.

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              secret300@lemmy.sdf.org
              wrote 20 days ago last edited by
              #34

              What is that?

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              • A amillionmonkeys@lemmy.world
                20 days ago

                Might as well link to it:
                https://github.com/HarbourMasters/SpaghettiKart
                You need to supply your own ROM of the correct version.

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                secret300@lemmy.sdf.org
                wrote 20 days ago last edited by
                #35

                I will honestly never understand why people link shit articles instead

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                • H hddsx@lemmy.ca
                  20 days ago

                  And Nintendo has not yet sued because…?

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                  cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca
                  wrote 20 days ago last edited by
                  #36

                  Well I think for one, you need to supply your own rom so it doesn't contain any Nintendo stuff?

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                  • S secret300@lemmy.sdf.org
                    20 days ago

                    What is that?

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                    zalgotext@sh.itjust.works
                    wrote 20 days ago last edited by
                    #37

                    In a nutshell, interpolated frames are basically just extra generated frames that go between the frames outputted by the video game itself. They're used to combat things like motion blur, and to make animations look smoother.

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                    • T tonytins@pawb.social
                      20 days ago
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                      astro_plane@lemm.ee
                      wrote 20 days ago last edited by
                      #38

                      I played it on my modded Switch, had to overclock it just to keep a stable 30fps. I hope we get a vulkan renderer in the future.

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                      • T tonytins@pawb.social
                        20 days ago
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                        slaacaa@lemmy.world
                        wrote 20 days ago last edited by
                        #39

                        POV: you ported an old Nintendo game

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                        • D deflated0ne@lemmy.world
                          20 days ago

                          HEY. Diddy Kong does not deserve that slander.

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                          mondomon@lemmy.world
                          wrote 20 days ago last edited by
                          #40

                          You never heard of the banana oil freakoffs?

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                          • C cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca
                            20 days ago

                            Well I think for one, you need to supply your own rom so it doesn't contain any Nintendo stuff?

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                            hddsx@lemmy.ca
                            wrote 20 days ago last edited by
                            #41

                            Does this differ from emulators with which you have to supply a rom? I thought they sued for that too

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                              20 days ago
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                              stoy@lemmy.zip
                              wrote 20 days ago last edited by
                              #42

                              Impressive to see that the software can distinguish between a legal and an illegal ROM file

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                              • S secret300@lemmy.sdf.org
                                20 days ago

                                I will honestly never understand why people link shit articles instead

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                                addie@feddit.uk
                                wrote 20 days ago last edited by
                                #43

                                They might be former users of FARK, where submitting stories didn't allow duplicate links? And so you would see the top article in the aggregator frequently being blog links and some right weird 'news' websites.

                                Lemmy has the opposite problem, where the same link can be posted again and again even on the same instance, of course.

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                                • S stoy@lemmy.zip
                                  20 days ago

                                  Impressive to see that the software can distinguish between a legal and an illegal ROM file

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                                  psythik@lemmy.world
                                  wrote 20 days ago last edited by
                                  #44

                                  lol sarcasm aside, it actually can't. This port is being developed by HarbourMasters, the same people behind Ship of Harkinian and 2 Ship 2 Harkinian (PC ports of OoT and Majora's Mask, for the unaware.)

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                                  • A astro_plane@lemm.ee
                                    20 days ago

                                    I played it on my modded Switch, had to overclock it just to keep a stable 30fps. I hope we get a vulkan renderer in the future.

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                                    psythik@lemmy.world
                                    wrote 20 days ago last edited by
                                    #45

                                    PC gamers: Look what Nintendo needs to mimic a fraction of our power.

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                                    • L lost_my_mind@lemmy.world
                                      20 days ago

                                      Nintendo cease and disist in 3...2....1....

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                                      psythik@lemmy.world
                                      wrote 20 days ago last edited by
                                      #46

                                      Nope. Ship of Harkinian and 2 Ship 2 Harkinian have been around for years with no issues from Nintendo, and this port is being developed by HarbourMasters, the same people behind those ports. It's not going anywhere anytime soon.

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                                      • V victorz@lemmy.world
                                        20 days ago

                                        Man, MK64 already had a pretty high FOV as it was, and now with ultra wide support lol

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                                        psythik@lemmy.world
                                        wrote 20 days ago last edited by
                                        #47

                                        As someone who uses a 65" LG OLED as my primary monitor and sits 5ft away, the FoV can never be high enough in nearly every game.

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                                        • P psythik@lemmy.world
                                          20 days ago

                                          lol sarcasm aside, it actually can't. This port is being developed by HarbourMasters, the same people behind Ship of Harkinian and 2 Ship 2 Harkinian (PC ports of OoT and Majora's Mask, for the unaware.)

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                                          stoy@lemmy.zip
                                          wrote 20 days ago last edited by
                                          #48

                                          Yeah, I just found the article really annoying at constantly talking about legal roms...

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