Astounding that swimming and collisions and all that stuff seems to function!

Commenter explains how it works:

  I can see not enough people know how this addon works. Allow me to explain.

  It is a mod, but it was only possible with a plugin, it can be (with a bit of  tweaking) used for other games and already has been, for example rocket league, sonic generations, blender and minecraft. the way it works is that mario 64 is  running in the background so that the mario physics and gameplay functions work, but the actual character is invisible but the hitbox is still there, so that mario actually can be hit for example. with the plugin mario can pretty easily be put into any game, though some fixes might be needed at some times, for example in sonic generations for the rails to work, mario has to be disabled and sonic's control is taken over again so that "mario" can grind on rails.

  TD;LR: Basicilly this addon use libsm64 which contains original SM64 assets and ported into GMod. So yeah, it's not a recreation and that's also explain why you need a Mario 64 ROM (in z64 file format) to get this addon working.

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

That is amazing and it makes me smile

> 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.

Just ask Codex / Claude Code to do it for you :)

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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