To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Mario 64 has been unofficially on PC for years through emulators but not having to process the game through an emulator means the DirectX 12 version could reportedly run faster and smoother with less input lag, as well as with easy support for 4k and ultrawide resolutions.
Supposedly it's built on community efforts to decompile and reverse-engineering the original. This fan-made PC port requires you to provide a ROM of the N64 game, with the PC port coming distributed as an executable or source code you can compile yourself. A wholly unsurprising conclusion to a whole lot of work. Nintendo are less than wholly impressed with this technical feat, sending in their lawyers to try to shut down downloads.
It doesn't need an emulator or anything, it's just Super Mario 64 running on PC. Mariomaniacs recently completed the astonishing task of reverse-engineering Super Mario 64 and making an unofficial PC version.
