Dr. Mario 64: Recompiled Plus

drmario64_recomp_plus

Overview

Dr. Mario 64 Recomp is a modernized recompilation build focused on improved rendering, smoother motion, and quality-of-life enhancements while remaining faithful to the original game.

Highlights (v1.0.0)

• Custom icon set (red and blue capsule)
• Updated main menu with tuned default Recomp64 settings
• Pills are now rendered on the GPU instead of the CPU
• Interpolation support for smooth 60+ FPS gameplay
• 4-player controller support
• CRT effects support

Requirements

• Dr. Mario 64 (US) ROM
  A clean, vanilla US ROM is required at runtime.

Known Issues

• Very lightly tested overall

Dependencies

• git

• C (C17) and C++ (C++20) compilers

  • Clang 15 or newer is recommended

• SDL2

  • Must be built from source on Linux

  • Example:

    wget https://www.libsdl.org/release/SDL2-2.26.1.tar.gz
    tar -xzf SDL2-2.26.1.tar.gz
    cd SDL2-2.26.1
    ./configure
    make -j $(nproc)
    sudo make install
    

• libgtk-3-dev

Build

The listed commits below are known-good and able to build this repository.

These instructions target Linux.
For Windows builds, Visual Studio is required. Refer to the Zelda recomp repository for Windows setup guidance.

• Clone with submodules:

  • git clone --recurse-submodules
  • or git submodule update --init --recursive

• Follow the decomp setup instructions up to and including make setup
  (https://github.com/AngheloAlf/drmario64, commit 91dab37987bdad4d100958685cc10a011d4917dd)

  • Copy the generated baserom_uncompressed.us.z64 from the decomp root
  • Place it in this project’s root and rename it to: drmario64_uncompressed.us.z64

• Build N64Recomp
  (https://github.com/Mr-Wiseguy/N64Recomp, commit a13e5cff96686776b0e03baf23923e3c1927b770)

  • Copy the following binaries into this project’s root:
    • build/N64Recomp
    • build/RSPRecomp

• Run recompilation steps:

  ./N64Recomp drmario64.us.toml
  ./RSPRecomp aspMain.us.toml