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SM64EX Creator - Build A Super Mario 64 Native Port For Intel Tiger With An Easy To Use All In One GUI

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alex_free

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This software can create a native Super Mario 64 Port for Mac OS X 10.4 Intel Tiger on your Mac's desktop with an all in one easy to use GUI.


It compiles my fork of SM64EX. Currently this requires:


  • Xcode version 2.5.
  • A valid USA or Japanese Super Mario 64 .z64 ROM file (for extracting game assets).
  • An Intel Mac on Mac OS X 10.4.11 (More OS X/PowerPC specific versions are coming!)

There IS controller support available, see the usage section for more info.

This is based off my earlier SM64EX Leopard Compiler, but actually works correctly and is everything I envisioned for a proper SM64 native experience on early Mac OS X.
 
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Thank you so much for this, especially for your more recent port of SDL2 to pre-Objective-C 2.0! I had patched all of the SM64 build scripts and tools to work on big-endian, but never got past the SDL2 dependency. I had started trying to fix this in 2020, but had never gotten around to finishing it!

I feel it's high time we take these patches applied to src/video/cocoa and friends and try to upstream this with new some macros or with a new src/video/oldcocoa frontend.

Feel free to drop me a line in PMs, Discord (tuxlovesyou#0001), or Twitter (@tuxlovesyou) if you ever want to chat. I'm very curious what your MacPorts tree looks like! It's been awhile since I've upgraded my MacPorts on my old Macs...
 
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tuxlovesyou said:
Thank you so much for this, especially for your more recent port of SDL2 to pre-Objective-C 2.0! I had patched all of the SM64 build scripts and tools to work on big-endian, but never got past the SDL2 dependency. I had started trying to fix this in 2020, but had never gotten around to finishing it!

I feel it's high time we take these patches applied to src/video/cocoa and friends and try to upstream this with new some macros or with a new src/video/oldcocoa frontend.

Feel free to drop me a line in PMs, Discord (tuxlovesyou#0001), or Twitter (@tuxlovesyou) if you ever want to chat.
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I'd definitely would like to do that. I want to go through the patches again and see how well we can get everything working for say Panther, Tiger, Leopard, and Snow Leopard all in one source tree first.

tuxlovesyou said:
I'm very curious what your MacPorts tree looks like! It's been awhile since I've upgraded my MacPorts on my old Macs...
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I put this on the web page as well, here is the list of installed ports:

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isl                            @0.24           devel/isl
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libtextstyle                   @0.21           devel/gettext
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python310                      @3.10.2         lang/python310
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rsync                          @3.2.3          net/rsync
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texinfo                        @6.8            textproc/texinfo
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xxhashlib                      @0.8.1          devel/xxhash
xz                             @5.2.5          archivers/xz
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zstd                           @1.5.2          archivers/zstd
 
alex_free said:
I'd definitely would like to do that. I want to go through the patches again and see how well we can get everything working for say Panther, Tiger, Leopard, and Snow Leopard all in one source tree first.
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Fair enough ;)

alex_free said:
I put this on the web page as well, here is the list of installed ports:

Code: 
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Did you have to patch any Makefiles to get these ports working or were they all compiling as-is from the ports tree? Curious to see if I can bring my tree up-to-date like this! I'm also excited to see you got Python 3.10 working! (I'm on 3.7.)
 
tuxlovesyou said:
Fair enough ;)


Did you have to patch any Makefiles to get these ports working or were they all compiling as-is from the ports tree? Curious to see if I can bring my tree up-to-date like this! I'm also excited to see you got Python 3.10 working! (I'm on 3.7.)
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No, I just slightly modified my sm64ex fork. Everything still works great on Tiger due to the continued support of MacPorts contributors towards Tiger.
 
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No, I just slightly modified my sm64ex fork. Everything still works great on Tiger due to the continued support of MacPorts contributors towards Tiger.
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I was mostly talking about your MacPorts installation. ;) Good to see that people are still fixing the packages in the tree!
 
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edited: I thought I had 8,1, turns out its a 5,1 PPC. Just got the number wrong.
Carry on...

Hello, thank you for all your work and knowledge.
I started with an apple 1 I mounted on plywood.
Ive used almost every available model of apple since.
I currently own a Apple Imac 5,1 G5 PowerPC with Leopard.
I want to install Snow Leopard.
I've mucked around trying to install anything I can since I
bought it for $20.
I've got Linux running dual boot with Leopard.
Still cut from the net for lack of a browser.
I've got all the roms I need and just grabbed your files and looking for old
retroarch files for powerpc.
My wife wants to turf it or give it away, she's tired of it "taking up space".
Please help me get emu going on it and save it from her wrath.. ;-)
Just had a thought, I wonder if theres Linux based Powerpc emus out there?
Well anyway, thank you for the all the info, and I hope I can contribute to the site.
Sorry for the non-intel based question now that Ive seen what forum Im in.
 
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LoneBlackBear said:
I currently own a Apple Imac 5,1 G5 PowerPC with Leopard. I want to install Snow Leopard.
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The final Snow Leopard doesn’t run on PPC. You can check out this thread on getting early Snow Leopard betas (not the final version!) running on PPC.

But...

LoneBlackBear said:
I thought I had 8,1, turns out its a 5,1 PPC.
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An iMac5,1 is a Late 2006 Core 2 Duo model, not a PPC one. That iMac will run Lion out of the box. Mountain Lion or Mavericks needs patches. You can use About This Mac or System Profiler to see what iMac model you have.

In any case, you may want to post a new thread with your question in either the "Early Intel Macs" or "PowerPC Macs" subforum depending on what iMac you have, given that this thread is about something else. :)
 
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