There is a glitch in the Footrace with Koopa the Quick mission that allows the player to win against Koopa the Quick in zero seconds. Given that the Footrace with Koopa the Quick mission becomes accessible earlier on, before Mario is unlocked, the mission features a Goomba that Yoshi can defeat for its Mario Cap. In addition, Mario is the only character whom Koopa the Quick wishes to race, so if Yoshi, Luigi, or Wario talk to Koopa the Quick, he asks if they have seen Mario. They still had the code for a working Mario-grade platformer, so John Carmack and his friends tweaked it a bit, built their own game with an original protagonist and plot, and founded Id Software to sell it.Not much has changed for him aside from receiving a graphical update. When they went to Nintendo with a working product, looking for a licensing deal, Nintendo shut them down hard because they had no interest in people being able to play Mario, even paying them for the software, without also paying them for an NES console.īut at least the kids didn’t give up and quit trying. 3, and got to work creating a proof of concept demo recreating it on the PC. They thought at once of one of their favorite games, Super Mario Bros. When a group of high school students figured out some tricks to greatly improve graphical performance on the PC’s EGA graphics chipset, they smelled a real opportunity. This is a story that dates back all the way to the early 90s. Collapse replies (4) Reply View in chronologyĪnd the question is why? The company could figure out a way to officially license these fan projects if it wanted to.īecause they’re more interested in the hardware. For mods that only require a ROM patch or two, is available.) (And that’s for fully-fledged fan remakes. In the same places where they would exist now, only without having to worry about those places being DMCA’d into non-existence. In a ‘perfect world’ where these mods were allowed to exist, where would a Nintendo fan access them? And it’s also easier for people to use emulation if they plan to play modded ROMs (including randomizers). Lots of people use emulation to play those unavailable older games because it’s easier (and cheaper) than buying the original hardware and cartridges…or a Switch and a Nintendo Online subscription. But the Switch has an atrocious lack of access to a lot of classic games from Nintendo’s older days (both first- and third-party). How many Nintendo fans would be able/willing to access these games via PC?Ī not-zero number, which is really all that matters.ĭon’t Nintendo fans play primarily on consoles?įor modern games? Yes. For example: The randomizers for The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and Super Metroid (as well as the Link to the Past + Super Metroid combo randomizer) each have their own communities and speedrunning competitions. They’re for people who want to play older Nintendo games in a new way. I’ve hated it since Golgo 13 on the NES, so no tears if this gets shut down. Except that the feel and ambiance is all wrong and there’s a mystery afoot, featuring what appears to be a tiny ghost version of Princess Peach. The castle has been recreated, as has a bunch of familiar characters. Via Nintendo Life, this is Another Princess Is In Our Castle, “a Super Mario 64 inspired horror experience,” where you “decide to come back to Peach’s castle a few years after the princess’ death, but something isn’t quite right…”įor those of us of a certain age that played the original Mario 64, this really does look cool. It’s due to these actions and many, many more that I have taken to referring to Nintendo as the Disney of the video game industry.Īnd so here we are, where I’ll show you a fan-made project, built from the ground up, to create a first-person horror game based on Mario 64.Ī guy gets a mysterious letter from his girlfriend, arrives at a castle to find her missing, and loads of rooms full of monsters… It’s the setup to 1996’s classic Super Mario 64, sure, but it’s also very much also a survival horror pitch, which is why this new fan-made project is such a perfect fit. that allowed up to 75 players to play a level at the same time, and getting a video of a fan project for a first-person Pokemon game taken down. This happens all the time, with Nintendo shutting down remakes of games that are decades old, a fan-made modded up version of Super Mario Bros. I’m going to show you something cool that Nintendo fans did, you’re going to get moderately excited, and then you’ll immediately become depressed when you realize that Nintendo will absolutely shut this cool project down in the name of copyright. This post will serve as the start of what will be a familiar cycle for fans of Nintendo. Mon, Aug 8th 2022 03:34pm - Timothy Geigner
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