project-restoration VS sm64

hmm try an older build and follow the old directions (basically copy the code.bps and exheader_legacy.bin renamed to exheader.bin), I don't know if the mod creator made a mistake or if it was intentional not mentioning the exheader_legacy thing (like maybe they changed it in the new version), you can find the previous build here https://github.com/leoetlino/project-restoration/releases/download/v1.5.8/mm3d_project_restoration_v1.5.8-0-gac45fa5.7z

Here is the link: https://github.com/leoetlino/project-restoration

When this project started the 3DS version was inferior to the N64 one due to a large number of issues (mostly addressed in Project Restoration. There is currently a community effort underway to port Nerrel's work to the 3DS version, and while some of it translates directly, other parts need to be reconsidered due to lighting and texture placement changes.

You might be interested in the project restoration for MM3D by leoetlino. It restores Zora Link's original swimming, removes eyes on the first 3 bosses, fixes ice arrows, improves controls and more. It basically makes MM3D the definitive edition of the game as it should have been from the start.

Anyways, Majora's Mask on the N64 was a masterpiece, but the remake on the 3DS made it worse, by removing beloved features, adding hated features, and not bothering to add improvements to annoyances in both the original and the remake. Luckily, a developer made a patch to remove the hated features, restore the beloved features and add quality of life improvements. There's the info here restoration.zora.re and you can get it from here github.com/leoetlino/project-restoration.

Majora's Mask is also easily my favorite. The theme, the story, the dungeons, items, characters, bossfights, and unique concepts. So nostalgic. Just use the Majora's Mask 3D restoration project by leoetlino. Make sure you have Luma3DS on your 3DS (thanks to the active community, its really fast and easy to set it up). Here is the link to the project: https://github.com/leoetlino/project-restoration/releases. Download the latest 7z file, extract it, and to make it short, just follow the guide on the official website https://restoration.zora.re/. I hope you don't miss out!

The SM64 is still going strong https://github.com/n64decomp/sm64

Nintendo won't allow any binaries floating around though.

Romhacks are typically modifying the compiled binary ROM image. Kaze' work is based on the painstakingly disassembled code from the n64decomp project[1]. He's working in C, modifying the game and compiling it again for the original hardware. Not sure I'd call that a "romhack".

Great videos though!

[1] https://github.com/n64decomp/sm64

A team or something reverse engineered super mario. I think that's the repo and it's mostly in C

From course_table.h and course_defines.h we can find that: COURSE_MIN == 0 and COURSE_MAX == 25 - so it looks like every secret stage is a full-fledged "course" for the purposes of counting stars, bringing us to 25 courses + castle stars (COURSE_NONE). So, the maximum possible value for starCount should be 7 * 26 = 182.

Multi-year decompilation project: https://github.com/n64decomp/sm64

The port source code of the decompilation is still up on github and Nintendo hasn't taken it down in years, cause they can't since everything has been done with legal methods

This is false, the source code never leaked; it was meticulously and painstakingly decompiled by hand.

It sounds like, rather than a ground-up rewrite, COBOL should be treated as an object-code language, and "hand-decompiled" (ala efforts like https://github.com/n64decomp/sm64) into an HLL that can, at every point, be losslessly transpiled back into the original COBOL.

I know the tooling for doing that doesn't currently exist... but paying someone to develop it would be cheaper than any one of these ground-up rewrite projects!