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Libsm64: Mario 64 as a library for use in external game engines

160 points by klaussilveira 12 hours ago | 19 comments

This is one of my favorite libraries from the premise alone. Here is an example of Mario in Half-Life 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld3qhqkegNw

Dwedit 8 hours ago

How many Portal test chambers could be solved with Mario 64 jumping alone, and no use of any portal gun?

PcChip 9 hours ago

That is amazing and it makes me smile

pizzathyme 5 hours ago

This is incredible. This was the promise of the proclamations of "the metaverse" or interchangeable crypto game items/characters, but is using none of those things. Like Ready Player One come to life without the hype.

Curious how easy the setup is for gamers who are non-engineers

bigfishrunning 54 minutes ago

> Curious how easy the setup is for gamers who are non-engineers

You're still writing a mod for whatever game, it's just that this library gives you an easy way to get the mario-jumping physics right. So unfortunately, non-programmers will probably have to wait for someone to insert mario into your game of choice, although this library will make that process a bit easier.

echelon 5 hours ago

Metaverse without Crypto/VR/Facebook is fantastic and is bound to happen.

Metaverse is just people building cool stuff in a way that builds and compounds.

Critically - hopefully - in a way that can't be owned as a central platform.

dev0p 10 hours ago

Wrap it in an API, sell Mario 64 as a service.

(@Nintendo: this is a joke, you can put down the rifle)

thebruce87m 10 hours ago

I imagine Nintendo is a bit more like malfunctioning ED-209 in the office scene than a person with a rifle.

fhn 8 hours ago

Nintendo did put down their rifles after they fired multiple shots into the head and then the sued.

ddjdhhd 8 hours ago

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ParadisoShlee 11 hours ago

Any demo videos? or just need to imagine it?

found this: https://youtu.be/NXpOCfg8O64

starkparker 4 hours ago

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgYx8k428sTnDkWtc8kIv...

Retr0id 11 hours ago

Looks like this has been around for a while now, are there any interesting projects using it?

Edit: https://github.com/SuperSonicHub1/awesome-libsm64

kanemcgrath 34 minutes ago

My favorite one was the blender addon https://github.com/libsm64/libsm64-blender

cshores 9 hours ago

Someone created an AR sandbox using it on the Quest 3. The player draws platforms and mario can jump around on the platforms and on your couch and stuff. That is probably the killer app of VR that everyone has waited for.

deadbabe 11 hours ago

So let me get this straight, is the intent of this so that if you have some game like Call of Duty, you could use this to just add Mario running around in there jumping around like it was SM64?

guipsp 10 hours ago

It's specifically about the mechanics/physics rather than the model, but yes.

tosti 2 hours ago

It has the vertices, the surfaces, the textures and the animations.

There's a minecraft mod too, you press m and f5, boom you're mario.

anthk 7 hours ago

I'd love the Perfect Dark recompilation working under GL 2.1:

https://github.com/perfect-dark-pc-port/perfect_dark

pipes 5 hours ago

That port is amazing, probably one of my most played games on my steam deck. What is GL 2.1?

physicalecon 3 hours ago

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fleahunter 10 hours ago

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