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How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026

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Re: How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026

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Post by ndiddy »

reasonabl_human wrote: post #129
ndiddy wrote: post #91

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The whole point of Anduril is to create autonomous weapon systems that can kill people autonomously without human involvement. When you look at interviews and speeches that Palmer Luckey has given, they are always deeply unsettling. In a 2024 speech, he said "Societies have always needed a warrior class that is enthused and excited about enacting violence on others in pursuit of good aims. You need people like me who…

Creating “autonomous weapon systems that can kill people without human involvement” is not the whole point of Anduril. That is against SROE which are controlled by the DoW and it’d be a monumental ethical dilemma if this were to be changed. Also, Palmer is one of many Anduril co-founders, and is not the acting CEO. His opinions are an input but are not ground truth for the company. He has effectively been a marketing…

> Creating “autonomous weapon systems that can kill people without human involvement” is not the whole point of Anduril. That is against SROE which are controlled by the DoW and it’d be a monumental ethical dilemma if this were to be changed.

From a 60 Minutes interview Luckey did last year ( https://www.cbsnews.com/news/palmer-luckey-ai-powered-autono... ):

> Right now, there are so many weapon systems that require manning. You know, if I can have one guy command and controlling 100 aircraft, that's a lot easier than having to have a pilot in every single one. And it puts a lot fewer American lives at risk.

> To be clear, "autonomy" does not mean remote controlled.

> Once an autonomous weapon is programmed and given a task, it can use artificial intelligence for surveillance or to identify, select and engage targets. No operator needed.

> If you were having to require the human operator to actually map every single action and say, "Hey, do this. If that, then this." It would take so long to manage it that you would be better off just remotely piloting it. It's the AI onboard all these weapons that makes it possible to make it so easy.

To me that seems like he's describing a system where you give it a task like "kill all the insurgents in X area" and it'll go and do it without needing an operator.

> Also, Palmer is one of many Anduril co-founders, and is not the acting CEO. His opinions are an input but are not ground truth for the company. He has effectively been a marketing figurehead for years.

If the company's really good at heart, I'm not sure they would have kept a guy who keeps telling the media that the company is working on autonomous weapons to kill people without requiring an operator, and that he's frustrated that he can't make what he REALLY wants to because of all the pesky war crime treaties.

Re: How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026

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Post by chungusamongus »

101008 wrote: post #42
FlavioMacedo wrote: post #40

Great work! I didn't even know it was still possible to publish new games for old consoles like the N64.

It may be counterintuitive at first, but why wouldn't be possible? It's one of the perks of "offline" hardware without subscriptions or DRM. You build a piece of hardware (cartridge) that attaches to another one (console) and it works. As long as the console works, there shouldn't be a problem.

Nintendo is notoriously litigious.

Re: How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026

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Post by kendalf89 »

dabluecaboose wrote: post #130
edent wrote: post #127

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Comparing a run-of-the-mill defense contractor to a serial rapist and murderer is certainly up there in the most unhinged justifications that I've seen on HN.

Yeah, one of them kills school kids for money. The other does it for the love of the game.

Re: How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026

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Post by ifjeicjwidj »

kridsdale1 wrote: post #139
pjmlp wrote: post #69

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To put this into perspective for youngsters, that horrible Sony SDK was considered a wonder for its time, and what kickstarted the movement away from Assembly into C for home console development, as main language. Until then, only arcades had already made the switch. On PS2, PS2Linux, Dreamcast there was already C++ support, by the way.

I’ve started to adapt my historic accounting of gaming away from hardware centric (console generations) and toward languages and compilers, and the force-multiplication they provided to developers which is tangibly evident in the products. Though these do correlate strongly with orders of magnitude of RAM being made available. - Physical logic gate era of gaming. - Assembly era - C era - OOP era - Interpreted languag…

> Fully Gen-AI era?

Yeah, no.

Your historic accounting is not to be trusted by any means if “gen-AI era” is something that you really believe is happening.

Re: How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026

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Post by unleaded »

ifjeicjwidj wrote: post #145
dabluecaboose wrote: post #130

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Comparing a run-of-the-mill defense contractor to a serial rapist and murderer is certainly up there in the most unhinged justifications that I've seen on HN.

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exactly. who in their right mind would ever hate Microsoft?

Re: How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026

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Post by ifjeicjwidj »

zuzululu wrote: post #123
officeplant wrote: post #82

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it should instead say "AAA gaming is dead now" All we see out of mainstream AAA gaming is abused devs, private equity scalping, and mindless remaster regurgitation. Basically going through the same problems as Hollywood is with major films. You get a massive banger of a production every few years, and the rest is just endless money burning and developer harm. Meanwhile the good indie devs are a dice roll on if they a…

Main issue with AAA gaming was studios consulting people who wanted to tell gamers what they should want, using their capital on paying influencers and media to demonize said gamers for rejecting their games and so on. That's what pisses off the mostly straight hetrosexual male crowd that make up most of the gaming market. A big reason why many east asian game studios are doing so well by rejecting that tried and fai…

> That's what pisses off the mostly straight hetrosexual male crowd that make up most of the gaming market.

Honestly, the hell kinda remark is that?

It’s nothing to do with sexuality or “companies telling you what you want” but everything to do with companies putting out complete and utter slop and people ACTUALLY buying it all. They wouldn’t waste all that time and investment money if they knew there wasn’t a market for it, but guess what? There is.

Gamers seem to have the memory span of a goldfish. Horse armour? Bad. GTA VI at 80 bucks and no physical release on consoles? OMG YAAAAAASSSS GIVE ME MORE OF THE SAME HOOKER-SEX SIMULATOR WITH CRIMINAL ACTS SPRINKLED ON TOP!!!

Don’t complain about gaming companies’ behaviour if you keep giving your money to them.

Re: How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026

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Post by ifjeicjwidj »

wsc981 wrote: post #43
shoobiedoo wrote: post #21

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There is something so charming about the N64/PS1 era. They were so unique in their own right and you could tell at a passing glance which system was displaying on the screen even if you didn't know what game it was. Two radically different systems at the dawning of 3D console games. I bought a MiSTer for me and my son and we played the heck out of Mario Kart 64 and Mario Golf. I think he picked up my "gaming is dead…

I'm a bit of an old-timer now (almost 45), but I enjoy a lot of the classics on GOG. And at a price that can't be beat. Totally no interest in playing modern games.

“Old timer” “44 years old”

Now come on. The greybeard act was never believable nor interesting.

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