In context: Earlier this yr, a courageous, nameless PC consumer launched their very own correct Mario 64 port for PC, with out warning or fanfare. Although Nintendo was fast to crack down on obtain hyperlinks, the port already made its manner out into the wild, and modders have been having a area day with it ever since.
Some mods uncap the sport’s framerate (which we do not advocate), take away the draw distance restrict so you possibly can see objects and enemies from additional away, and even add in completely new HD fashions for a number of key characters.
Extra spectacular than all of these, although, is a mod made by Twitter consumer Darío that provides true ray tracing to the sport.
Subsequent-gen builders: Raytracing {hardware} is so nice, we are able to lastly do correct reflections on water puddles and automotive home windows!
Me: raytraced steel mario motherfuckers pic.twitter.com/07ioVkZhpz
— Darío (@dariosamo) October 11, 2020
It isn’t accessible to the general public but, however the modder has been posting common progress photos on his Twitter web page.
For now, Darío has solely polished up his implementation of ray traced reflections, and it appears to be like fairly good. Thus far, we have seen a ray traced model of steel Mario, and a ray traced droplet of water (or, not less than, we assume it is water), which you’ll be able to see within the photos above.
We stay up for seeing Darío’s progress over the approaching months, and we’ll actually let you understand if his mod ever releases to the general public or receives any main enhancements.
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