Last week, a video was released that demonstrated a major performance increase in certain areas of Mario 64, if you recompile the code with optimizations turned on.
Modern Vintage Gamer just did a full analysis of the situation and came to the conclusion that Nintendo didn’t make a “mistake”, they just did the best they could, with what they had access to at the time. Definitely check the video out if you’re interested though, as MVG did a great job walking us through everything and demonstrating the differences.
Also, my point in the original post still stands: The reverse engineering of Mario 64 was an incredible achievement and something the team should be incredibly proud of!
EverDrive 64 X7
(313)Development cartridge for N64 UltraCIC III with region auto detection. Supports both PAL and NTSC systems. Supports .nes ROM format via built-in emulator. USB port for development.
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EverDrive 64 v2.5
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