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Ghostship - the new Super Mario 64 PC port gets a Linux release

Liam Dawe — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 08:46:52 +0000

Ghostship was a recent announcement from the HarbourMasters team bringing a new Super Mario 64 PC port, and now there's a fresh release with a Linux version.

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Ghostship is a new Super Mario 64 PC port from HarbourMasters

Liam Dawe — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 10:34:00 +0000

From the HarbourMasters team is another Nintendo PC port, this time it's Super Mario 64.

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Super Mario Bros Remastered open source fan project brings an impressive remake to PC

Liam Dawe — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 10:14:15 +0000

Nintendo likely won't be happy about this one, so get it while it's hot, Super Mario Bros Remastered is out now and open source.

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Nintendo get another problematic patent in their fight against Palworld for summoning characters

Liam Dawe — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 09:09:34 +0000

With the ongoing Nintendo and Pokemon versus Palworld lawsuit, another patent has been found recently that's rather problematic for the whole gaming industry.

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Nintendo 64 emulator gopher64 recently added save state slots and netplay cloud servers

Liam Dawe — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 09:12:25 +0000

If Nintendo 64 is your thing, keep an eye on the gopher64 emulator which is steadily adding in more features and has Linux support.

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Mario Kart 64 gets a fan-made PC port

Liam Dawe — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 12:23:46 +0000

Hosted by Harbour Masters who also provide ports for other Nintendo classics, the PC port of Mario Kart 64 is now available to test.

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Fan-made PC port of Star Fox 64 gets a Linux version in a big update

Liam Dawe — Mon, 26 May 2025 13:36:24 +0000

Starship, the fan-made PC port of Star Fox 64 announced by the team who also made PC ports of Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Ship of Harkinian) and The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (2 Ship 2 Harkinian), has a new release out which includes a Native Linux version.

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Palworld devs confirm game changes due to the Nintendo / Pokemon lawsuit

Liam Dawe — Thu, 08 May 2025 09:12:59 +0000

As we all suspected, recent changes to Palworld game mechanics were as a direct result of the ongoing lawsuit filed against developer Pocketpair from Nintendo / The Pokemon Company.

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Zelda 64: Recompiled (Majora's Mask) adds modding support, texture pack support, optimizations and more

Liam Dawe — Mon, 05 May 2025 09:28:09 +0000

Zelda 64: Recompiled is a project to play The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask on modern platforms with many new features, enhancements and now modding support too.

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PC port of Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Ship of Harkinian, gets a huge Randomizer upgrade

Liam Dawe — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 09:34:35 +0000

Ship of Harkinian is a free community-made PC port of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time from the Harbour Masters team. A massive Blair Alfa (9.0.0) release just went live with a Randomizer and other major new features.

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Fan-made PC port of Star Fox 64 is out now

Liam Dawe — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 15:37:02 +0000

From the team behind PC ports of other Nintendo games like The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, a new PC port has arrived for Star Fox 64.

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Star Fox 64 is getting a Native PC port from the devs of Ocarina Of Time and Zelda Majoras Mask ports

Liam Dawe — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 10:04:40 +0000

The Harbour Masters community of developers who are behind the PC ports of Ocarina Of Time and Zelda Majoras Mask have revealed a Star Fox 64 Native PC port is coming.

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Unofficial PC port of Zelda: Majora's Mask, 2 Ship 2 Harkinian has a big new release out

Liam Dawe — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 13:22:38 +0000

Released originally back in May, 2 Ship 2 Harkinian allows you to play Nintendo's Zelda: Majora's Mask properly on PC and a new release just shipped.

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Palworld dev details the patents Nintendo and The Pokemon Company are suing for

Liam Dawe — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 11:20:26 +0000

Back in September Nintendo and The Pokemon Company filed a lawsuit in Japan against Palworld developer Pocketpair, and now we actually know why.

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Nintendo Switch emulator Ryujinx gets shut down

Liam Dawe — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 21:17:54 +0000

Well, there it is. After what happened with yuzu, many wondered if it would happen, and now it has. Nintendo has shut down the Nintendo Switch emulator Ryujinx.

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Pocketpair respond to the Nintendo and Pokemon Company lawsuit for Palworld

Liam Dawe — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 16:35:02 +0000

Pocketpair, developers of Palworld, have put up a statement on the new lawsuit that has been filed against them from Nintendo and The Pokemon Company.

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Nintendo and The Pokemon Company file lawsuit against Palworld maker Pocketpair

Liam Dawe — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 07:38:37 +0000

You might want to grab a big bucket of popcorn for this one, as the big fight is about to begin. Nintendo and The Pokémon Company have formally gone after Palworld maker Pocketpair.

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Wii U emulator Cemu 2.1 out now with AppImage and Flatpak support for Linux

Liam Dawe — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 12:30:49 +0000

After going open source back in mid 2022, the Wii U emulator Cemu started providing experimental builds with Linux support and now it's out proper with the new Cemu 2.1 release.

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GameCube emulator Dolphin adds RetroAchievements support

Liam Dawe — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 10:00:33 +0000

Another nice win for people who love hitting challenges, as RetroAchievements support has now been added to Dolphin for GameCube.

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GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin moves to a more rapid release cycle

Liam Dawe — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 17:22:17 +0000

The team behind the free and open source GameCube and Wii emulator Dolphin have announced a big change to their plans, along with a new much more rapid release schedule.

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Garry Newman of Facepunch comments on the Nintendo takedown of Garry's Mod content

Liam Dawe — Thu, 30 May 2024 10:04:06 +0000

Recently it was pretty big news that Nintendo issued takedowns to Facepunch for Garry's Mod content, and now Garry Newman of Facepunch (developer of Garry's Mod and Rust) has written up a blog post with some comments on it.

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Zelda 64: Recompiled, the Majora's Mask PC port v1.1 brings various upgrades

Liam Dawe — Tue, 28 May 2024 17:38:06 +0000

Zelda 64: Recompiled was pretty interesting news recently, a PC port of Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask using the new N64: Recompiled tool and now a fresh update is out to improve it further.

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2 Ship 2 Harkinian, another unofficial PC port of Zelda: Majora's Mask is out now

Liam Dawe — Mon, 27 May 2024 16:25:01 +0000

While we only recently had the Zelda 64: Recompiled release, we've now also got another PC port of Zelda: Majora's Mask thanks to the Harbour Masters team with 2 Ship 2 Harkinian.

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Zelda: Majora's Mask gets a PC port with a new open source tool for Nintendo 64 games

Liam Dawe — Tue, 14 May 2024 08:50:36 +0000

Well, Nintendo aren't going to be happy about this one are they. A developer going by Mr-Wiseguy released an open source tool for bringing Nintendo 64 titles to any platform, and released a PC port of Zelda: Majora's Mask.

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Nintendo DMCA nukes 8,535 GitHub copies of Switch emulator yuzu

Liam Dawe — Fri, 03 May 2024 14:11:30 +0000

The battle continues! The fallout is ongoing from the legal battle between Nintendo and yuzu that saw the yuzu team fold.

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Garry's Mod forced to remove Nintendo content after takedowns

Liam Dawe — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 14:48:46 +0000

Facepunch issued an announcement for Garry's Mod players, to explain that a whole lot of user content is being taken down due to Nintendo.

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Lemonade is an attempt to continue on the Nintendo 3DS emulator Citra

Liam Dawe — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 10:41:54 +0000

While Nintendo took down the Nintendo Switch emulator yuzu, the collateral damage was the Nintendo 3DS emulator Citra which was also taken offline but Lemonade is an attempt to keep it going.

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GitLab takes down Nintendo Switch emulator suyu due to the DMCA

Liam Dawe — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 20:12:12 +0000

Well, that didn't last long did it. After a first release, GitLab have already pulled down the Nintendo Switch emulator suyu, due to a DMCA hit as a result of it being forked from yuzu which Nintendo shut down.

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Nintendo Switch emulator suyu continues on from yuzu - first release is up

Liam Dawe — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 17:44:01 +0000

There's a new Nintendo Switch emulator named suyu, which has been forked off from the original yuzu before Nintendo shut it down and a release is now available.

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Nintendo DS emulator DraStic became free of charge after Yuzu case

nwildner — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 12:57:47 +0000

After Yuzu emulator owners agreed to pay Nintendo $2.4 million USD and EmuDeck also announcing Yuzu and Citra removal right after the court settlement became available on the internet, Nintendo DS emulator DraStic is now free.

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Yuzu agrees to pay Nintendo $2.4 million and will entirely shut down (Citra for 3DS too)

Liam Dawe — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 19:56:13 +0000

After Nintendo recently filed a lawsuit against the Yuzu team, it was pretty much inevitable this was going to happen wasn't it.

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Godot Engine gets a free Nintendo Switch port for game devs

Liam Dawe — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 10:57:06 +0000

Here's one less reason for game developers to skip over using the free and open source Godot Engine, as it now has a free port available to bring games over to the Nintendo Switch.

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Nintendo 3DS emulator Citra gets a performance boost on Linux / Steam Deck

Liam Dawe — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 12:28:05 +0000

Recently I highlighted that the Nintendo 3DS emulator Citra was doing a big move over to Vulkan, giving it a modern rendering system to keep on pushing performance. The latest updates also give a big boost for Linux / Steam Deck.

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Nintendo 3DS emulator Citra adds Vulkan support

Liam Dawe — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 12:58:10 +0000

Nintendo 3DS emulation is about to get a whole lot better, as Citra now has Vulkan support bringing better performance for players.

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Nintendo Switch emulator yuzu gets lots of optimizations, fixes for Pikmin 4

Liam Dawe — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 10:57:28 +0000

The team working on the Nintendo Switch emulator yuzu have another progress report up, and as usual it's looking mighty fine so here's a little run over what they've done recently.

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Dolphin Emulator devs give up on Steam release

Liam Dawe — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 09:52:46 +0000

After all the ruckus recently about the Dolphin Emulator for Wii and GameCube coming to Steam, and then being blocked - the team has now given up with the Steam release.

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Nintendo blocked Dolphin emulator release on Steam

Liam Dawe — Sat, 27 May 2023 10:24:38 +0000

Back in March the plan was announced for the Wii and GameCube emulator Dolphin to release on Steam, along with some useful Steam features but now that seems unlikely to happen.

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