New thread for the Super Mario 64 decompilation. The rom recently got decompiled by a small team of super nerds. No, this isn't the exact same as having Nintendos SM64 source code, but it's literally the next best thing, and is just as useful. This might as well be the source for all practical purposes. Technically how this was made, is the raw assembly from the rom was interpreted into C code using some fancy tools, and the team who worked on it has been going through and renaming functions and commenting/documenting things for easier use. It's a touch more complicated than that, but it's a summery.
The download was a leek, so it's not 100% complete. However, all this means is that there's some backend stuff that's still undocumented. The code itself is complete, functional and able to be modified. If you build the code, it will output a 1:1 identical rom to the (U) original. Same hashes and everything. Most of the code is documented and commented on, and most functions are named for easy identification.
You could do just about anything with this decomp, including porting it to other systems if someone had the patience to rewrite all the hardware calls and spend hours tweaking some things that'd inevitably break. We could eventually end up with something akin to the doom source, where there's modloaders and custom packs you can load. Rom hacks themselves will also be far easier to create using this as well. Things that'd take years to create would now only take months.
Be weary of the people who actually worked on this. As good of work as they've done, they're dramafags and have been trying to run damage control wherever the leak is posted by heavily discouraging it's use even though it's more than workable at this point, and extremely useful just on its own. [1/2]
[2/2] Download: anonfile.com/D5rcz5u4n6/sm64_zip Recompiling instructions, from another user in some other thread- 1] have windows 10 or linux. ill just assume you have windows 10 since if you dont have windows who the fuck are you 2] docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10 install WSL here use power shell and shit 3] grab ubuntu 18.04 LTS or smth from the windows store (restart first you idiot) 4] run bash and make a user/pass 5] sudo apt-get update 6] sudo apt-get install make git binutils-mips-linux-gnu python3 build-essential pkg-config zlib1g-dev libglib2.0-dev libpixman-1-dev libcapstone3 6] grab the qemu-irix binary from releases tab of camthesaxman/qemu-irix on github and put it somewhere. 7] echo "export QEMU_IRIX=/mnt/c/mypathtoqemuirix/qemu-irix" >> ~/.bashrc 8] restart bash again you spegger 9] cd to the folder you put this source and run "make" 10] the built ROM is in build/ you fucking idiot 11] get sued by Nintendo
For converting models for n64 use, you can use this tool: github.com/mountainflaw/modconv_2 The main thing we need at the moment for traditional hacking use is a proper level editor to make things less of a pain. Though, there's much more we can do with this than just hacking. If we got a PC ver up and running, it probably wouldn't be too difficult to make a 'in application' editor. Mario Maker 64, anyone?
I'd suggest looking into using grep (Or a windows ver of it if using windows) as a tool to help you search for things within the source to modify, and I'd also suggest using Notepad++ to modify the code since it has a really rough auto-complete and syntax highlighting to make things a touch easier.
Dylan Cruz
How badly will Nintendo BTFO anyone who has this on their hard drive?
Remind me again why it makes more sense to use primitive code instead of just writing your own better, modern code and just re-making Mario 64 with a higher poly count and less garbage textures and whatnot.
All this time, all these years and years, you could have just remade sm64 and been better off, probably completely finished years ago.
Decompiling is dumb.
Parker Campbell
You could argue the same thing for pretty much anyone who hacks roms. It's a lot funner to modify code that already exists and morphing it into your own unique version of something that you and many already love. There's also the fact that each game has intricacies that may not get properly recreated by someone trying to make it from scratch.
Caleb Turner
Bait
Ryder Green
Yeah, people HAVE tried, but they either end up in development hell or get bombed by Nintendo.
Liam Lopez
Hacking and tinkering is a hobby in and of itself. Some people have fun going into the code, picking it apart and putting it back together. Any chump with Unreal Engine can "remake" Mario 64.
Charles Moore
>NINTENDO
Owen Phillips
Dumb, incompetent coders are not my problem and keeping it a secret so ninty doesn't go donkey kong apeshit on my ass is also not hard, like don't go make a youtube video of it before you're finished and have a game plan for distribution that they can't stop.
There's a lot more that could be done with modern code and I could care less if it's not a 1/1 perfect match as long as they got the controls and physics right.
The only problem would be if they were stupidly arrogant enough to think they know better than the graphic style and changed the look of objects/enemies/textures.
Higher resolution and poly counts would be welcome, there's no reason to be retarded enough to not get that nintendo would have done exactly this if they could have so you'd actually be getting closer to their true vision.
I know I'm ultimately right and your excuses are pedantic.
Jackson James
>There's a lot more that could be done with modern code and I could care less if it's not a 1/1 perfect match as long as they got the controls and physics right. Then this project isn't for you.
Jaxson Moore
>I know I'm ultimately right and thats your first issue
Ian Cook
>I know I'm ultimately right absolutely fucking based
Jacob Adams
You realize people can build on top of this to make sure they have the physics and engine right and still re code things to be modern instead of going from scratch right
Jace Watson
>Mario 64 is ported to ps1 >PS1 officially becomes the best console of its generation. THANKS FOR BETA TESTING
Thomas Ward
Retard question: why are they renaming functions and variables? Wouldn't it be originally written with names that make sense? It was written by humans, not machines.
Parker Nguyen
Why is this a big deal?
Christopher Morales
retard
Gavin Edwards
Is this the full version or just the incomplete one that leaked awhile back?
Zachary Bell
>Why do people need a recipe for this dish? Why don't they just copy the flavor?
Owen Taylor
When code gets compiled, the names of variables, functions, etc, don't get compiled with it. When you decompile the game, you get a bunch of junk symbols/names back. So they're renaming everything to make it all readable.
>Have, for all intents and purposes, the full source code of SM64 >Not a big deal Nigger please.
It's the same one that got leaked awhile back. Though I guarantee you that anything you'd want to do with it can still be done. The only real difference between this version and the 'full' one later on is some things will be a little more documented.
Nicholas Roberts
they won't because this is only as illegal as owning a rom of the game that you did not rip yourself, using a decompiler isn't illegal or very impressive, the only impressive part here is the build tools that allow you to rebuild the rom.
Ryan Smith
Because it has been "de-compiled" from assembly back in to de-assembler generated C code
Carson Brown
because it's not a source code leak it's a decompilation of assembly code auto-generated by a disassembler that is then cleaned up by a human.
Jace Richardson
>>Have, for all intents and purposes, the full source code of SM64 >>Not a big deal >Nigger please. And? Nobody is going to bother making fun ports like a PSX port. Nobody is going to bother making a PC port when Emulators play just fine. Assembly hacking is already extremely well-documented.
Evan Wilson
not him but >food analogy
Easton Young
the only impressive part about this is the build tools, anyone with knowledge of MIPS assembly and C can and has been able to decompile any N64 game. i don't know when these build tools were developed but they are interesting to say the least
Asher Hughes
>And? Nobody is going to bother making fun ports like a PSX port. Yeah probably not. It'd be neat though if so.
>Nobody is going to bother making a PC port when Emulators play just fine. Excuse me? That's the number one thing people keep talking about wanting to do, and not too long ago someone got a PC version working with the logic and code and it's only been a couple weeks. Only thing it seemed to be missing was proper asset handling. A PC version 'will' be coming. You underestimate the mario hacking community.
>Assembly hacking is already extremely well-documented. This is just factually wrong. Sure it's more documented than some other games, but that's really not saying much. Working with this will also be far more efficient and far easier than working in assembly.
Jordan Cook
if thats it then please decompile oot
Benjamin Jones
has there been anything new made with this stuff yet?
Joseph Cook
not true. many games have specific compiler optimizations that make them nearly impossible to decompile. SM64 was only able to be decompiled because one of the releases was left unoptimized by accident
John Mitchell
As far as I'm aware, not quite yet. Though it's only been a couple weeks. A few people are already working on a PC port though. As soon as a level editor comes out to make actor positioning and level editing a little easier, I'll probably make something small for the hell of it myself.
Joshua Foster
SM64 Randomizer
Camden Nelson
SM64 Randomizer
Christopher Wood
Don't need to double post it, silly goose.
Hudson Price
Decompiles of the pokemon games have been on github since 2010, Nintendo apparently doesn't care about this sort of thing. github.com/pret/pokered
I could've sworn I remember hearing about a hack or something that made it so that your controls were bound to the touch screen instead of the d-pad or something so that you had better control when using controllers.
Alexander Gonzalez
Is Mario 64 or OoT the most fan documented game in history?
Anthony Moore
Super Mario 64 is definitely the most documented N64 game, but I couldn't say that it is the most fan documented game in history.
David Peterson
SM64 definitely has more documentation. As someone who has spent about a decade in the Z64 hacking community, I can tell you from personal experience that the people in the Zelda64 hacking communities are way too scattered and a bit too into themselves to properly share documentation and encourage community growth. Whereas the Mario hacking community as a whole are full of people who genuinely care to see the scene grow, and people share and exchange knowledge because of it.
I'd love nothing more to see OOT get decompiled. I'd be all over that in a heart beat. But this decomp is still really cool to see.
John Jackson
Pokemon gen one is. What's happening now happened 9 years ago to pokemon red/blue, and every 2D pokemon has been disassembled since (including a few of the spinoffs).
Jordan Lewis
He was specifically asking SM64/OOT, but yeah, the pokemon community as a whole is hands down the best hacking scene I've ever seen. Both in terms of knowledge and in terms of the community themselves.
Christopher Parker
why bother when you still need some insight on how, for example, physics work
Jonathan Brooks
>in terms of the community themselves.
Mind explaining that part to me. I was a super hard core Pokefag up until the culling was announced and from all my time in the community, at least half of it deserved to be gassed. How is the hacking community mostly alright?
Connor Cruz
The poke hacking community is kinda full of dumbasses who think they're smarter than they actually are. That's more or less the biggest issue I've seen in that community. Overall they still try to help eachother out, and share things they know between eachother and encourage growth, which I think is vital to any community to flourish.
That said, you probably have more experience within that community than I do, so if you think otherwise, you're probably right. I've only spent a few months off and on hacking Emerald and Crystal. And that was about ~5ish years ago.
I'm only speaking from my own experience within pokecommunity. Full of autism and some lite elitism, but otherwise there's a strong community there from what I've seen.
Zachary Lewis
Ah, well look into the drama regarding the Crystal Clear romhack if you want an example of them being faggots. IIRC it went
>Guy makes Romhack of Crystal using other people's open source shit >Makes himself and friends the E4 >Refuses to release code despite the code he's using being from communities who expect everyone to open their shit >Makes final version of the hack discord exclusive and you need to give to his Patreon to get in.
Colton Martin
Sounds like a fag. How's the community as a whole though? Is this kind of stuff very common?
Anthony Stewart
The Star Revenge series are the best romhacks around and nothing Kaze shits out will ever be close to them, change my mind.
The community is half and half at best. So may autists, furries, some pedos (actual pedo's that were Bulbapedia/Smogon mods, not people fapping to Pokegirls), and people who defend every stupid decision Gamefreak does. /vp/ makes fun of them when they pop up but it's /vp/ so they have some on there.
TL:DR: /vp/ is /vp/ and somehow the least cancerous part of the internet to discuss it from all the sites I've used.
Ethan Brown
Has anyone done anything with the code yet? Other than 1 line of code mentioning Luigi haven’t seen much about it
This is cool and all but SM64 doesn't seem like the best choice OOT would have been a much better choice unless that's already been done
Lincoln Phillips
Fucking mario 64 functional online when
Jacob Bell
Mario 64 is the primordial ooze of N64 games, I'm not a programmer but since Nintendo's non Rare output was just reusing the fuck out of that engine, seems like the best place to start.
Logan Parker
>when Emulators play just fine Dolphin can't run Mario 64 and it's the only emulator that works 100% correctly.
Leo Mitchell
fucking revo lmao. he may not want to admit it but he did fuckin leak it. shoutouts to my decomp niggas aka red, devwizard, that's really it.
