That water
I do not think I can accurately determine how many times I have played Mario 64. Whether it means on the original hardware, the DS or different collection / Virtual Console, every level is burned in my brain. But not so.
In the defiantly titled video ‘I bought a $ 1500 GPU (an RTX 3090) to play Super Mario 64 with RTX’, YouTuber Dario shows Mario 64 with beam tracking. Now this video with Wet-Dry World is a bit old, but it’s a project that’s underway, that may finally see the light of day.
No matter how much time the classic people try to suppress, it’s a losing battle. People will love water for these kinds of games forever, and I have to say that it’s an explosion to see the amazing level designs of the game preserved about a million times.
Of course, the community is very polarized in terms of how much the radiation track effects actually contribute to the game. It’s a little more advanced than many other mod projects over the years (which “improves” the appearance of Mario 64), but it looks good to me. A wide variety of projects is never bad.
[Thanks Chris!]
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