Super Mario 64

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Super Mario 64

Developers
Original	Nintendo EAD
Publishers
Original	Nintendo
Release dates
Windows	May 2, 2020
Linux	May 5, 2020
macOS (OS X)	June 1, 2020
Taxonomy
Perspectives	Third-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Platform
Series	Mario

Key points

Unofficial port of the original Nintendo 64 game with native support for widescreen & 4K.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Official website

Compilation requires the ROM be encoded in big endian (.z64) format. To convert a ROM using little endian (.n64) or byte-swapped (.v64) encoding to big endian, use Tool64 or ucon64.

Essential Improvements

sm64ex

sm64ex is a fork of the original SM64-port, that allows for many improvements over original port, although can still be made completely vanilla.

Includes an in-game options menu that includes controller configuration and an optional cheats menu.

Allows for many improvements, such as: 60FPS support, better camera, no drawing distance, texture fixes and support for external resources such as texture and sound changes, that can be applied before build.

Can support older machines and OS with SDL 1.2 or OpenGL 1.1 build options.

Has the biggest mod support over other forks.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\sm64config.txt
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\sm64_save_file.bin
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Video

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		By default. Freely resizeable. Toggle to fullscreen with Alt+↵ Enter or by editing configuration file.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS		See Essential Improvements.
120+ FPS		Game's speed is bound to frame rate.
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
Ray tracing (RT)		See sm64rt.

sm64rt

Can be built with any of the programs on Super Mario 64 PC Port Central.

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		Some keys cannot be mapped to, such as Ctrl, Alt, or ⇧ Shift.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus		No mouse support.
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support		Cursor stays in the middle of the screen.
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts		Prompts are for Nintendo 64 controller.
Impulse Trigger vibration

DualShock 4 controllers
DualShock button prompts		Prompts are for Nintendo 64 controller.
Light bar support
Connection modes	unknown

Generic/other controllers
Button prompts		Prompts are for Nintendo 64 controller.

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

In-game audio settings.

In-game audio settings (PAL ver.).

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls
Surround sound		Only supports Headset audio.
Subtitles		Huge majority of dialogues are text based. Cannot be turned off for voice acting.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio		The BGM songs are listed by Nintendo in various auto-DMCA systems.

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French
German
Japanese

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Notes
Local play
LAN play		See sm64ex-coop.
Online play		See sm64ex-coop.

Connection types

Type	Native	Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP

sm64ex-coop

Can be built with any of the programs on Super Mario 64 PC Port Central.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	11, 12	Can be selected when compiling the game.
OpenGL	1.3, 2.1	Can be selected when compiling the game.
Vulkan		Can be selected when compiling the game.

Executable	PPC	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows				Depends on the user's choice when installing the compiler.
macOS (OS X)
Linux

Middleware

No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.

Super Mario 64 Plus

Super Mario 64 Plus is a fork of the SM64-port, that focuses on customizability and aims to add features that not only fix some of the issues found in the base game but also enhance the gameplay overall with extra options, which are all optional and can be turned off to maintain vanilla feeling.

Has its own launcher, that allows to change options and turn on/off features without rebuilding whole game, like other forks do.

Adds more responsive controls, extended moveset, ability to continue the level after getting a star, 60FPS support via interpolation and improves camera controls.

Introduces optional extra modes.

Fixes various bugs.

Patches

These can be installed with the programs from the Super Mario 64 PC Port Central website.

• 60 FPS - Patch for sm64ex which interpolates the game logic from 30 FPS to 60 FPS.
• 3D Coins V2 - Makes coins 3D.

System requirements

Windows

macOS (OS X)

Linux

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)
Processor (CPU)
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD)

No official system requirements have been officially-released.