![]() Some of the mini-games were notorious for making you spin the Control Stick round and round as quickly as possible. Not least of all because, being based on board games, there was a degree of luck involved, meaning sometimes your elder family members would be able to score a rare victory. Essentially creating another genre that continues to grace consoles to this day (or plague them, depending on your viewpoint), the Mario Party games are the pinnacle of ‘everyone can join in’ multiplayer. Why it’s Essential: If you needed more literal evidence of N64’s reputation as a party console, here’s the Mario Party series. What they are: A trio of interactive board games in which players move their Mario character of choice around a board in an attempt to collect more stars than anyone else. To this day, 25 years later, there’s still nothing like it. ![]() Not only does this add a massive level of strategy to proceedings, it also keeps things fresh as one minute you’re driving a bulldozer and the next you’re a giant mech that destroys buildings by somersaulting into them. This is where Blast Corps’ most genius mechanic comes into play: the ability to get out of one vehicle, leg it across the game world and climb into another. Each level is essentially a time-based puzzle, as you try to figure out not only which buildings to destroy before the oncoming nuke hits them, but also what you’ll use to destroy them in the most efficient manner. Why it’s Essential: Blast Corps isn’t as immediately accessible as Banjo or many of Rare’s other games, but that’s sort of the point. What it is: A top-down action game in which you’re in charge of destroying a series of buildings to clear a path for an out of control, unstoppable truck carrying a nuke. There’s something oddly satisfying about whipping your jetski around corners, getting flung about by the unpredictable waves.Ĭontinuing the theme of Nintendo nailing it the first time around, Wave Race 64 was its first attempt at doing realistic water physics and even today it’s still convincing. Why it’s Essential: Nintendo fans keep asking the Japanese giant for a new F-Zero game, but many would rather see a new Wave Race instead. What it is: The sequel to Wave Race on the Game Boy. But the N64’s arsenal consisted of so many gems that, on the contrary, there are many great games that didn’t make the cut. With a game library so small then, you’d think coming up with a list of the 25 best N64 games list would be tricky. Even though the N64’s cartridges meant near-instant load times, the fact was these cartridges cost a fortune to make. Ultimately, most developers sided with Sony and its use of CD-ROMs. Overall, the Nintendo 64 didn’t have a lot of games: The company’s infamous split from Sony led to not only a new console war between companies, but a format war too: CDs versus cartridges. If you ever want to remove it for some reason, delete that file.Notice: To display this embed please allow the use of Functional Cookies in Cookie Preferences. The compiled texture pack will be in "retroarch/system/Mupen64plus/cache/TSUMI TO BATSU_HIRESTEXTURES.hts". Delete the TSUMI TO BATSU directory within hires_textures. ![]() Congrats, it's now in English.ĩ (optional). Wait a minute on a black screen for it to compile the texture pack for you. Go to the start of the Options menu and hit Save Game Options file (this keeps those settings restricted to this specific game).Ĩ. Enable the following options: Use High-Res textures, Use High-Res Texture Cache Compression, Use High-Res Full Alpha Channel, Use enhanced Texture Storage, Use alternative method for High-Res Checksums, Use enhanced Hi-Res Storage.ħ. Press F1, guide, or whatever menu button you use and go down to Options.Ħ. Create a "cache" directory next to "hires_texture" if you don't already have one.ĥ. ![]() If your system directory is somewhere else, adjust the path accordingly.ģ. You can ignore the rest of the files in the archive. Extract the "TSUMI TO BATSU" directory into retroarch/system/Mupen64plus/hires_texture/. Feel free to ignore the instructions, they aren't intended for Mupen.Ģ. It can be used in RAP64, but I won't be explaining how because I can't (and won't) use RAP64.ġ. This is an odd translation, done via texture pack rather than patch. English translation of this game is available here:
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