Super Mario Sunshine’s Biggest Mod Now Ready for Download

Kain1@lemmy.world to RetroGaming@lemmy.world – 204 points – Super Mario Sunshine's Biggest Mod Now Ready for Download
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Super Mario Eclipse is an ambitious fan-made mod of Super Mario Sunshine, designed to expand and enhance the original game with a wealth of new content and features.

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Let's spread the news far and wide so Nintendo takes it down.

It's a set of patches for the base ISO, so hopefully it's pretty resistant to takedown? In either case I'm downloading it now while it's up.

At least it's already available for download.

Yup, this is where these projects usually fail. The creators get too excited not to share the work in progress and it gets killed before a proper release. A release is available forever.

I've been hearing about this one for a few years already, I think if there were grounds to take it down it would have happened already

It's a patch that requires a "legitimately" acquired ROM to work. This is how sites like SMW World avoid C&D's, they host patches and mods and don't have the actual ROMs on site. Nintendo can't take it down because none of their code is there.

Didn't stop them for C&D plenty of mods for BOTW and TOTK.

Wasn't that more about cracking the encryption on those games and leaking them early rather than modding them?

No? There's no leaking happening over at gamebanana, why are you confusing it with the Yuzu situation?

Downloaded it right away anyway before it gets taken down lol since you never know

These things being taken down is an eventuality no one can avoid, however if no one but Nintendo sees it, and takes it down, not many people will know about it.
By spreading these things when they are good it encourages a lot of things. It encourages backups, communities dedicated to preservation of files or at least discussion of them (through piracy of course, though still counts). Making more people aware of them also makes some talented individuals realise that they have the capability to get into these things themselves. Etc.

I for one had no idea about this prior to this post, and Super Mario: Sunshine is one of my favourite games, so I'm excited to try this mod out later.

Nintendo really only has a history of taking down fan remakes of existing Nintendo games or games that are charging money. They've never to my knowledge had a free fan game or romhack taken down nor do I think they'd have any sort of legal grounds to do so even if they wanted to. And this essentially boils down to a ROM hack. Which is almost certainly completely safe from Nintendo's lawyers since it doesn't contain any Nintendo made assets.

Did anyone try this on real hardware yet? Is it made to perform well on the GameCube or does it really only work well in emulators?

Edit: I just tried it out and it works great on a real GameCube.

Latest update from their discord is that there’s gonna be a patch released later today.

I just finished the original yesterday, after 20 years of playing it! It was quite good, somewhat surreal to finally beat a childhood game.

No love for Linux (outside wine), eh? Well, dangit. I'd love to play it on my Orange pi zero 3 without making it explode.

What do you mean? It's a GameCube game. Use it on Dolphin which has great Linux support

Without me putting in all that much effort to confirm, I believe the patching software is an .exe - it probably does run on wine, but without you'd have to pirate an already patched copy of eclipse (which is usually pretty frowned upon)

Ah, well you should be able to use the terminal utility 'xdelta3' to patch the ROM but it is true that that isn't clearly explained