Dario and Wise Guy are Nintendo 64 hackers and modders. They are the creators of multiple projects,

including RT64, which is an N64 graphics renderer for enhancing games and emulators and

native ports. This year, they released N64 recompiled, which is a tool to statically recompile

N64 binaries into C code that can be compiled for any platform.

The advance promises to usher in a revolution in N64 native ports for PC. To demonstrate

the tool's capability, it was used to produce a working copy of the Legend of Zelda Majora's Mask

on PC. Dario and Wise Guy joined the podcast to talk about their journeys in the N64

hacking scene, the N64 we compiled project, obscure N64 game bugs, and more. Joe Nash is a

developer, educator, and award-winning community builder who has worked at companies including

GitHub, Twilio, Unity, and PayPal.

Joe got a start in software development by creating mods and running servers for Gary's Mod.

And game development remains his favorite way to experience and explore new technologies and concepts. Welcome. Thank you so much for joining me on the show today. Thanks for having me.

So let's dive into, I guess your backgrounds where I want to start.

I'm always fascinated when we get into the N64 modding or N64 hacking topic about how people got into this. So I guess

to start with Dario, what is your journey into N64 scene? My start is actually very recent because

while I do work as a software developer in general and used to mod other games.

I actually only started looking at N64 stuff when the Super Mario 64 PC port released.

Basically, I only got interested in that because a friend challenged me with the idea of adding

rate tracing to that.

And I didn't know how to do rate tracing through hardware or anything about N64 or anything about the compilation.

I'm like, sure, let's try to learn all of those things at once.

What was the background to that challenge?

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