This is not talent. It is far more. There are many talented people but this kind of passion and exacting not mention the productivity is simple amazing. He is the best of all the mario miracle scene (hacking, homebrew, recreating, etc). Take a huge bow Mr. Kaze!
Looking back at this makes me realize just how much you've learned and improved on. The lighting, FPS, the camera everything has come such a long ways.
I played the entire game in 2+ hours, and it is one of the greatest games I’ve ever played. I really like the custom move set and how shells don’t disappear after 5 seconds underwater, the Yoshi star at the end is really interesting too.
I love all of your romhacks/games - you've grown a ton as a game designer too having played just about all of them... your projects are like an alternate universe or a dream wherein we got a sequel to Mario 64. :-) You have a great aesthetic eye and ear, and you are clearly a brilliant coder too - it's great listening to your commentary. 3D Land 64 is one I'll be replaying like I do the rest of the official titles for forever. And unlike commercial games, you're outside of any corporate bottom lines or bad board room decisions; so your games can take risks conceptually and otherwise - and while retaining a beyond-commercial level of polish - they are truly creative labors of love and just good art... Wonderful work! Can't wait for the release. :-) The game feel and flow and pacing of everything seems perfect, the technical upgrades are unreal, and the difficulty is fair. Also, big nod to your comment on letting the player fill in the more breadcrumb of a narrative with their imagination via implicit storytelling and gaps left with intention - it's a more authentic experience showing and not telling; and it's not easy to do. Happy to play test or help in any ways I can if you need a second set of eyes! With kindness
Playing through it now on not64 on my Wii and loving it. It's incredible that you did this all yourself (with some help with music and art, as you mentioned). My favorite moments so far: the music in the All Alone Bubbledome, all the sassy personalities of the NPCs and the full camera controls
This is so awesome - you've really outdone yourself here, Kaze! This is already my favorite SM64 romhack to date. Some feedback if you'll permit: 1) In level 2, there's nothing indicating that Z slows the shell down, or that B cancels out of "shell mode." I wouldn't have known that if I hadn't watched this video, so it might be nice to indicate that somewhere. Even then, I pressed B instead of Z on accident a few times. Perhaps some sort of hieroglyph or rune resembling the N64 controller's Z button near the entrance to the red coin dome would do the trick, since that's where slowing down is most useful? 2) In the 8-bit level in level 2 (the SMB3 themed one), the floor is super slippery. Wasn't sure if that was intentional. 3) In level 3, it feels a bit unnatural to me to try to do precise A presses to jump while you're constantly tapping B to move the mine cart. Perhaps Z could be an alternate button to speed the mine cart up? Or perhaps the mine cart could move quickly by default, and B/Z could be used to hit the brakes instead of speed it up? 4) In level 3, I thought it'd be cute if part of the Boo's motivation to help Mario defeat the nippers is that they've been raising a ruckus and making too much noise, and he just wants peace and quiet. Would work well with the musical theme of the boss! Just an idea. 5) In the cloud cap area of level 3 at 32:51, a few coins going up along the wall might be enough to help suggest to players that they're supposed to go up that wall, and that they haven't hit a dead end like they might otherwise think. 6) For the lazy Yoshi's A-press challenge star, pausing the game and pressing A to continue the game seems to count as an A-press. Perhaps it shouldn't? Not sure if that's feasible to create an exception for. 7) It would be nice to be able to replay the lazy Yoshi's A-press challenge star with the A-press counter, even after beating it. I don't think there's currently a way to replay that challenge once you've beaten it. Hope this helps, and can't wait to see more!
I think what people don't realize about why we seem more impressed about custom sm64 rom hacks than modern games is that knowing how much more a game like this could've handled on such a weaker engine and console and the fact that they are very close to resembling modern mario games, makes us think that modern games like mario odyssey could've been so much more at its full potential.
One of the reasons I am always disappointed with modern games. So much into graphics and impressive blink blink but often no much gameplay content. (at least not compared to what could be possible)
Also - the devs have full tools created to edit the game as much as they want. We don't! People have to develop their own programs just to screw with a game.
Fun fact: you can take fall damage in the file select via moon jumping. However, the life bar doesn’t appear. If you manage to die in the file select area, the game will crash. (EDIT: this is for the DEMO version. Not sure about the final release)
I'm a big Yoshi fan and Yoshi's Island is my favorite game, even if I weren't this hack looks AMAZING!! I'd love to play it when the full version releases!
Man u a truly a genuis to make a mari9 game on a N64 cart im damn near wanna LP this on my channel man this looks amazing im am truly impressed man and i subbed had to man u blew me away with this i saw snooplax playing this and wanted to seenthe dev play it and give their thoughts personally incan see and tell the hardwork passion and the touch of u that u added in this game i love the 8 bit sections that was the icing on the cake for me
In case nitpicks are still welcome to better the game: 31:40 You can see the rainbow track clipping through the wingship 32:51 That's an interesting one. Having the player wall jump like that in a more obvious way before this (maybe at the ground mirror chamber to get something optional?) can leave the concept in the back of their minds enough for things to click when this comes around. The good old trail of coins should help guide players too in this situation.
YES. Long live the ground pound dive. Those cutscenes are so good... Music is the best too. Toasterketchup converted it, but who was the guy that made the music?
20:00 -- Only nitpick I've got with this demo is that the 8-bit song for level 2 doesn't loop correctly. There should be a bit of a gap before the actual melody starts again (if you listen to the real song, you'll see what I mean). It's one of those things that probably doesn't matter but would bug the hell out of me. 28:50 - If it's possible to do, making the tendrils animation stop when the Piranha plant dies would be a nice touch. 32:50 - In a traditional 3D mario game, they'd probably use an arrow to indicate that you need to go up... If that's too much like hand-holding, you could have an NPC say something along the lines of "I see something shiny up there but I'm too short to reach it!" or some other nonsense. I'm positive most players would figure it out though as like the second thing they'd try.
a lot of people were actually thinking about where to go at 32:50, but they do figure it out. i believe having the player having those little struggles to overcome is a good thing as long as they dont turn frustrating. you dont have that and your game turns into a movie to mash A through. (look at pokemon lets go... or games that guide you along rails like witcher 3)
What settings are you using? I'm playing on Project 64 and I'm getting various graphical glitches, the most major being that the grass in the first level is white instead of green, so it looks like there's snow everywhere. I've played OG SM64, Star Road, Last Impact, SM64 Odyssey, and SM64 Land on Project 64 with the exact same settings and didn't have any glitches, so I don't know what's up.
In the Zoo Level you should ad a mission where at the start Wario uses a magical tranquilizer that not only puts Mario to sleep but turns him into an Ukiki version of himself and is forced into the monkey and ape pin where Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong and Ukikis are in the pin
I somehow feel like the Piranha Boss' "tentacles" should move around the stage after the first phase. It is kinda repetitive only to dodge. However, I love vibing with together with one of our mother plants to good music.
ooo, i think i’m gonna stop here (2nd world, 3rd star) because i don’t wanna spoil myself (i’m streaming this to twitch rn) but i’m SOO excited for the full game. You said the first two levels still borrow music from other games? I knew the music in the carrot house sounded familiar but i couldn’t put my finger on it. What was the name of the composer you got again? did they do a new arrangement of those songs? because they sound very custom-tailored for the SM64 soundfonts
btw, twitch.tv/sonicthehedgegod is where i’m streaming, but i’ll be uploading the streams here as well (though i might take a while since i’m trying to upload a backlog of my other streams too)
Return to Yoshi’s Island looks legitimately awesome. The final game is going to be sick!
I've been playing it and can confirm it is awesome
@@BlakeBickerstaff is there a way to find these nowadays? I'm having a hard time finding this specific hack and I really wanna try it.
@@RPGgrenadeit’s not finished, he’s been working on it for years
Just like half life 3 😂 @@somedude6647
😪
You’re so talented, appreciate all your hard work 🤙
This is not talent. It is far more. There are many talented people but this kind of passion and exacting not mention the productivity is simple amazing. He is the best of all the mario miracle scene (hacking, homebrew, recreating, etc). Take a huge bow Mr. Kaze!
Looking back at this makes me realize just how much you've learned and improved on. The lighting, FPS, the camera everything has come such a long ways.
I absolutely love Course 2, the details and the OST is amazing!
What is OST full name or is just that?
@@RoseQuartz692 orignal soundtrack
@@Breach-Clear he asked for the OST name, not what OST means.
@@timbtw3656 hahahahah lmao im a retard sry
@@RoseQuartz692 I am pretty sure it's from Pokèmon Mystery Dungeon Explorers of Time/Darkness/Sky
I love seeing how far you've come in rom hacking. The constant improvements (even just minor physics tweaks) we see from hack to hack is awesome
I played the entire game in 2+ hours, and it is one of the greatest games I’ve ever played. I really like the custom move set and how shells don’t disappear after 5 seconds underwater, the Yoshi star at the end is really interesting too.
just wait for the full game!! all the first 3 levels have been reworked and it is so much better now.
@@KazeN64will it release this year?
You're actually insane with how quick you make these
That's what I was thinking
I love all of your romhacks/games - you've grown a ton as a game designer too having played just about all of them... your projects are like an alternate universe or a dream wherein we got a sequel to Mario 64. :-)
You have a great aesthetic eye and ear, and you are clearly a brilliant coder too - it's great listening to your commentary. 3D Land 64 is one I'll be replaying like I do the rest of the official titles for forever. And unlike commercial games, you're outside of any corporate bottom lines or bad board room decisions; so your games can take risks conceptually and otherwise - and while retaining a beyond-commercial level of polish - they are truly creative labors of love and just good art...
Wonderful work! Can't wait for the release. :-) The game feel and flow and pacing of everything seems perfect, the technical upgrades are unreal, and the difficulty is fair. Also, big nod to your comment on letting the player fill in the more breadcrumb of a narrative with their imagination via implicit storytelling and gaps left with intention - it's a more authentic experience showing and not telling; and it's not easy to do.
Happy to play test or help in any ways I can if you need a second set of eyes!
With kindness
That yoshi cart is like "DOES THIS LOOK LIKE THE FACE OF MERCY"
Thank you for making these games
It's so cool to learn about all of the intricate engine fix stuff you guys did for your ROMhacks, love the videos!
This hack is so cool. I love all the added enemies, soundtrack, and unique environments. Great job! Can't wait to for the final product.
Playing through it now on not64 on my Wii and loving it. It's incredible that you did this all yourself (with some help with music and art, as you mentioned). My favorite moments so far: the music in the All Alone Bubbledome, all the sassy personalities of the NPCs and the full camera controls
Wow, this is awesome! Keep up the good work on your newer rom hacks! Also I like the original Mario eyes texture bit more, but it's still ok.
I had never been invested in the plot of a Rom Hack until I met Elder Boo
I respect your work a lot man.
Oh and also how are you not a programmer at Nintendo, Nintendo should be running at you with a job opportunity
Loved the way you showcased your GFs artwork!!!! This Rom hack is so kickass
This showcase was already awesome, and it has been very exciting seeing how much you've improved upon this ROM hack. Keep up the great work!
This is so awesome - you've really outdone yourself here, Kaze! This is already my favorite SM64 romhack to date. Some feedback if you'll permit:
1) In level 2, there's nothing indicating that Z slows the shell down, or that B cancels out of "shell mode." I wouldn't have known that if I hadn't watched this video, so it might be nice to indicate that somewhere. Even then, I pressed B instead of Z on accident a few times. Perhaps some sort of hieroglyph or rune resembling the N64 controller's Z button near the entrance to the red coin dome would do the trick, since that's where slowing down is most useful?
2) In the 8-bit level in level 2 (the SMB3 themed one), the floor is super slippery. Wasn't sure if that was intentional.
3) In level 3, it feels a bit unnatural to me to try to do precise A presses to jump while you're constantly tapping B to move the mine cart. Perhaps Z could be an alternate button to speed the mine cart up? Or perhaps the mine cart could move quickly by default, and B/Z could be used to hit the brakes instead of speed it up?
4) In level 3, I thought it'd be cute if part of the Boo's motivation to help Mario defeat the nippers is that they've been raising a ruckus and making too much noise, and he just wants peace and quiet. Would work well with the musical theme of the boss! Just an idea.
5) In the cloud cap area of level 3 at 32:51, a few coins going up along the wall might be enough to help suggest to players that they're supposed to go up that wall, and that they haven't hit a dead end like they might otherwise think.
6) For the lazy Yoshi's A-press challenge star, pausing the game and pressing A to continue the game seems to count as an A-press. Perhaps it shouldn't? Not sure if that's feasible to create an exception for.
7) It would be nice to be able to replay the lazy Yoshi's A-press challenge star with the A-press counter, even after beating it. I don't think there's currently a way to replay that challenge once you've beaten it.
Hope this helps, and can't wait to see more!
As always, so much love and care (detail) went into this game! Now let's hope the gameplay will hold up nicely!
This is very cool. Congrats on releasing your next great game!
always at a lost of words. thank you for such joy.
I appreciate the explenation regarding the physics of the game and the insights of the mechanics.
too good, bravo kaze :)
This hack's been awesome so far! Keep up the good work!
I think what people don't realize about why we seem more impressed about custom sm64 rom hacks than modern games is that knowing how much more a game like this could've handled on such a weaker engine and console and the fact that they are very close to resembling modern mario games, makes us think that modern games like mario odyssey could've been so much more at its full potential.
One of the reasons I am always disappointed with modern games. So much into graphics and impressive blink blink but often no much gameplay content. (at least not compared to what could be possible)
Also - the devs have full tools created to edit the game as much as they want. We don't! People have to develop their own programs just to screw with a game.
You're a madman, Kaze
And I love it😍
This looks amazing and would love to play a full version of this fan game. I mean this is breath taking.
Looks awesome, congratulations!!!
Immediately recognized the music in area 2 lol
(Honestly surprised I haven't heard more PMD2 music in romhacks)
Absolutely loved this 😍
Love the boat that Mario travels in. :)
OMG - looks like the best hack you make !
JUST AMAZING!
The save file menu is my favourite thing so far 😀
I just subscribed hopefully the full game will be out soon this looks amazing
Fun fact: you can take fall damage in the file select via moon jumping. However, the life bar doesn’t appear. If you manage to die in the file select area, the game will crash.
(EDIT: this is for the DEMO version. Not sure about the final release)
You are amazing, great work
omg, I love the Duck Tales soundtrack remix!
OH MY GOD THIS LOOKS SO COOL, CUTSCENES IN MARIO 64? HOW DID YOU EVEN DO THAT?
This is the most incredible thing I've ever seen!
Awesome Video Kaze
Oh what a beautiful ga- wait that's Just the file select screen?!
Been playing it for myself, those new movement controls are godly
Nice video Kaze and i have 8 stars so far in your rom hack
I'm a big Yoshi fan and Yoshi's Island is my favorite game, even if I weren't this hack looks AMAZING!! I'd love to play it when the full version releases!
Amazing project!
Man u a truly a genuis to make a mari9 game on a N64 cart im damn near wanna LP this on my channel man this looks amazing im am truly impressed man and i subbed had to man u blew me away with this i saw snooplax playing this and wanted to seenthe dev play it and give their thoughts personally incan see and tell the hardwork passion and the touch of u that u added in this game i love the 8 bit sections that was the icing on the cake for me
I love the little mini icons as well, they remind me of Kingdom Hearts
This gane is is amazing Kaze Emanuar
Cool slogan idea for the game: better call Dr Mario cause this game is sick!
Five seconds in, it looks amazing.
This looks frikin' awesome.
In case nitpicks are still welcome to better the game:
31:40 You can see the rainbow track clipping through the wingship
32:51 That's an interesting one. Having the player wall jump like that in a more obvious way before this (maybe at the ground mirror chamber to get something optional?) can leave the concept in the back of their minds enough for things to click when this comes around. The good old trail of coins should help guide players too in this situation.
YES. Long live the ground pound dive. Those cutscenes are so good... Music is the best too. Toasterketchup converted it, but who was the guy that made the music?
Man you're really talented! Nintendo should hire you
this looks really cool! Reminds me of DK 64 but with the Yoshi's Island IP
Where do get the time to do all that amazing work... pretty cool!
This is awsome.
Do you mind making a Hi Rez Texture Pack coming along?
Perhaps with ESRGAN?
You're a game design god.
the old bunny brushwoods skybox was so much better than the new one damn
Hey Kaze! Will this game have retro achievements? Looks amazing!
Btw this game is already 10x better than any game released in last 15 years
Es hermoso quiero jugarlo completo .. Kaze eres un genio.
God I love the SMB3 underground area
Looks so damn good
Looks really fun.
I'm going to use these levels in some sm64 machinimas
Looks great.
Nice
Also I found a way to speedrun this in 2:00 with no stars
Also found a out of bounds in the hub with the cannon
Congrats you are First but don't edit this comment
Oh, it's Mario's House in the beginning. I hoped to come back to the room later on but I thought it's the boat first.
20:00 -- Only nitpick I've got with this demo is that the 8-bit song for level 2 doesn't loop correctly. There should be a bit of a gap before the actual melody starts again (if you listen to the real song, you'll see what I mean). It's one of those things that probably doesn't matter but would bug the hell out of me.
28:50 - If it's possible to do, making the tendrils animation stop when the Piranha plant dies would be a nice touch.
32:50 - In a traditional 3D mario game, they'd probably use an arrow to indicate that you need to go up... If that's too much like hand-holding, you could have an NPC say something along the lines of "I see something shiny up there but I'm too short to reach it!" or some other nonsense. I'm positive most players would figure it out though as like the second thing they'd try.
a lot of people were actually thinking about where to go at 32:50, but they do figure it out. i believe having the player having those little struggles to overcome is a good thing as long as they dont turn frustrating. you dont have that and your game turns into a movie to mash A through. (look at pokemon lets go... or games that guide you along rails like witcher 3)
Also clouds don't get a blue variant when close to blue Cristals. Don't know if he can change it
I have looked on the entirety of the internet where is split screen multiplayer with the official beta Luigi model
You are amazing, i am currently playing super mario 64 land, it's so cool
I played through the demo and holy shit its amazing.
Me too man
i seriously wanna listen to the soundtrack
i couldn't figure out how to get into the boo's house so i tried to blj into the door but i just phased through the house
What settings are you using? I'm playing on Project 64 and I'm getting various graphical glitches, the most major being that the grass in the first level is white instead of green, so it looks like there's snow everywhere. I've played OG SM64, Star Road, Last Impact, SM64 Odyssey, and SM64 Land on Project 64 with the exact same settings and didn't have any glitches, so I don't know what's up.
i'm impressed
Cool. Greetings from Germany!
In the Zoo Level you should ad a mission where at the start Wario uses a magical tranquilizer that not only puts Mario to sleep but turns him into an Ukiki version of himself and is forced into the monkey and ape pin where Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong and Ukikis are in the pin
Noticed a lot of Paper Mario references. +rep
I think this hack is going to be the best Super Mario 64 hack yet, better than even Last Impact!
kaze does this in his free time lol
I somehow feel like the Piranha Boss' "tentacles" should move around the stage after the first phase. It is kinda repetitive only to dodge. However, I love vibing with together with one of our mother plants to good music.
The final game should be amazing! Already, this demo puts Last Impact to shame!
the orange yoshi got my name love it !!!
🐰 Goomba?
Here's a thumb up for you.
right? Who does that?
I had an idea for the 3rd star for the 2nd level. maybe you could have eels swimming around in the cave
What's the music that plays inside the carrot house? Also my game crashes when the yoshi ufo lands
I wanna ask something did the rail grinding from Sonic the hedgehog inspired you to make it like that?
Here is the part : 5:53
The link for Get the game here in the description just takes you back to this video.
Do you think you could make modeled skyboxes?
Nice!
When you’re going to make the full rom hack
ooo, i think i’m gonna stop here (2nd world, 3rd star) because i don’t wanna spoil myself (i’m streaming this to twitch rn) but i’m SOO excited for the full game. You said the first two levels still borrow music from other games? I knew the music in the carrot house sounded familiar but i couldn’t put my finger on it. What was the name of the composer you got again? did they do a new arrangement of those songs? because they sound very custom-tailored for the SM64 soundfonts
btw, twitch.tv/sonicthehedgegod is where i’m streaming, but i’ll be uploading the streams here as well (though i might take a while since i’m trying to upload a backlog of my other streams too)
Im EXCITED
That ifinite happy hole is so cool holy shit
Bro when will the full version be out? It been a year
I like how King Goomboss looks like now compared to former hacks
I noticed Mario loses his health a lot quicker underwater than in the original game. Was this intended? It makes level 2 very hard to play