You can remember it before Super Mario 3D All-Stars was formally announced, Super Mario 64’s The source code was inverted and released on a computer. Obviously, Nintendo offered greater modding capabilities than emulation for the platform classic, and tried to turn it off.
Uninterrupted, support continued and if you have the right setup, it can be played at 60 fps with 4K resolution. There is an ongoing community effort for further mods, and although we missed it at the time, ray tracing is next.
Using Wet-Dry World to showcase it, Dario unveiled a work-in-progress mod in November that adds realistic reflections and lighting to the Super Mario 64 PC. Played using a GeForce RTX 3090, it looks absolutely stunning, and we’re curious to see the end result.
What features would you like to see added to Super Mario 64? Let us know in the comments.