Quest 64 Official

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October 26 2000, Majora's Mask debuted on the N64 in the Americas! Development started out of a lack of enthusiasm to work on the expansion for Ocarina of Time, N64DD's "Ura Zelda". Eiji Aonuma protested, so Miyamoto challenged him to make a sequel for the game by next year! And he did!

October 25 2021, Dr. Mario 64 debuted on the Nintendo Switch Online for the N64! While this date was 20 years after the original release of the game, it's notable for being the first time Dr. Mario 64 was released in PAL regions; the game was originally an American and iQue exclusive!

My own two cents on spotting genAI crap within retro game modding/hacking & homebrew communities: One of the easiest telltale signs of something being vibecoded is if the "project"/"mod"/"hack" in question uses a particular faux "pixel font" with zero variation:

No idea where I got this but maybe it means I need to play Quest 64? Feels like a reason enough for me

Hot nights at the YASE arcade

#devtober day 24, outdoor night lights Playing with outdoor torches to help light Melrode given everyone's so worried about Bart being gone, Ralph lights these since he's always calling people lazy. Also fighting an intrusive thought to add fishing so there's a pier now etc.

lex luddy has received "record-breaking interest" in her off-off-off-off boardway, one-woman adaptation of quest 64

October 24 1999, Tonic Trouble debuted on the N64 in PAL territories! Developer Ubisoft created the game side by side with its sister project, Rayman 2: The Great Escape, with Tonic Trouble being focused on 3D adventure and Rayman leaning more towards 3D action platforming!

#devtober day 23, starting to think about small doorways Nothing interesting today, this dumb little door has been on my mind but my door stuff embarrassingly does not support something like this existing -- will try again tomorrow when baby is less fussy lol.

#devtober day 21, thinking about door insets Many of the Quest doors have frames that are cut into the wall, which adds coziness to that person's home, but my actual workflow for this feels very roundabout. I feel like people probably have nicer tools for doing this.

FINALLY

Give me four versions of you

#devtober day 22, more insets + garden planning Started treating the little shapes I use for inset cutouts as their own important thing and keeping their shapes as prefabs. I'd love to make the garden visible from the dorm hallway, but they don't actually seem to line up?

#SpookyMonth64

Stylishly low-polygon or just 'all that was possible at the time'? Let's call it both, for Quest 64's first boss Solvaring, from this press CD provided to GamePro in 1998: https://archive.gamehistory.org/folder/09643a3a-8ad4-479f-8b33-3fa40b9ed7e0

#devtober day 20, NPC interactables Town folks can now be aware of things they may want to interact with, like a lamp when it starts to turn dark etc. Couldn't find a close-enough bookshelf so didn't do much with their library yet.

N64 successfully RGB modded! Even with my shitty soldering iron. Need to buy a new one. The thing would get so cold it was soldering itself into the pins! But what a great opportunity to post something related to #Quest64 again. 😀