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Rovertronic

@rovertronic.com

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Super Mario 64 ROM hacker. Known for Mario Builder 64, Mario in the Multiverse, and Beyond the Cursed Mirror.

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Rovertronic @rovertronic.com · Sep 4

I need to put that ice in my mouth

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Rovertronic @rovertronic.com · Sep 2

iProgramInCpp

Rovertronic @rovertronic.com · Aug 31

It was a commission from SMG4, lol. He didn't make it of his own volition.
Also this was like 7 years ago... People can grow and change.

Rovertronic @rovertronic.com · Aug 28

What game engine DO you use? Unity and Godot are the 2 most common 3D engines afaik, especially for making gamws with PS1 graphics.

Rovertronic @rovertronic.com · Aug 28

They are the support pillars for society at large. They keep our aeroplanes in the sky.

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Rovertronic @rovertronic.com · Aug 28

Exceptional work! Love the way it sounds so far.

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Rovertronic @rovertronic.com · Aug 16

mario 64 if it was made by an indie game developer in 2025

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Rovertronic @rovertronic.com · Aug 11

Tuff

Rovertronic @rovertronic.com · Aug 7

Magicians never reveal their secrets... Luckily, I'm not a magician, but a wizard! Under the hood, there's no actual normal map calculations; rather it's mixing DOOM billboards with some render bakery. Not entirely satisfied with my renders ATM, so I will polish them more later.

Rovertronic @rovertronic.com · Aug 7

Proof of concept: Normal mapped coins (And yes, they're computationally faster than vanilla coins)

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Rovertronic @rovertronic.com · Jul 25

Always love a good IK system. They're great for making natural terrain adaptation. Zelda64 actually had leg IK for varying slopes of terrain!

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Rovertronic @rovertronic.com · Jul 4

the mario fangame i made on my grandma's old computer in 2009

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Rovertronic @rovertronic.com · Jun 18

And actually ruby is 50 mil not 100 mb

Rovertronic @rovertronic.com · Jun 18

That's the ruby play button, diamond is 10 mil

Rovertronic @rovertronic.com · Jun 18

Wouldn't it be 3%

Rovertronic @rovertronic.com · Jun 3

You can choose what objects are able to activate the bridge collision model, so you can put actors on it.

Rovertronic @rovertronic.com · May 30

LMAO I completely forgot that line existed, totally contextually relevant here

Rovertronic @rovertronic.com · May 30

Of course!

Rovertronic @rovertronic.com · May 30

Vertex animation alone isn't that impressive. Custom vertex animations have been done several times before. The awesome part here is the scalability. You can click on any arbitrary mesh in Blender and turn it into a bridge in under a minute, using just a start and end empty.

Rovertronic @rovertronic.com · May 30

Buttery-smooth suspension bridge physics in my SM64 engine. It utilizes real-world spring physics! A cool byproduct of this is the emergence of standing wave harmonics.

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Rovertronic @rovertronic.com · May 28

I've become a big boy and use quaternions in my work now. I've given SM64 animations infinite precision with the power of turkey SLERPee! Shown are animations slowed 8x in my engine VS. vanilla's engine.

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Rovertronic @rovertronic.com · May 27

It's fairly inexpensive, actually. It's rendering untextured no zbuffer no AA triangles to a 64x64 auxillery framebuffer, using an approximation of Mario's mesh.

Rovertronic @rovertronic.com · May 27

Gonna start showing off some clips from my SM64 engine as features become more polished. Today's showcase is a realistic shadow for Mario. This is not PC port and can run on the N64. No blobs, just pure rasterization.

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Rovertronic @rovertronic.com · May 10

I'm always astounded by such incredible shaders running with such simple, compact code.

Rovertronic @rovertronic.com · May 9

Is this on the new Deltarune website pages

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