Soon you’ll be able to play Diddy Kong Racing natively on your PC
The Diddy Kong Racing Decompilation project is around 80% complete.
The Trend of Decompilation
This process allows the homebrew community to recompile native versions of classic games like Star Fox, Super Mario 64, and Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
Diddy Kong Racing’s Place in N64 History
Released in 1997, Diddy Kong Racing is one of the best examples of a kart-based racer on the N64. Fans even claim it trumps Nintendo’s own offering on the same console.
Creating motion capture and being in control of a set of fighting characters was like a dream for me. But after taking a break from two ‘pretty gory’ and dark games, Diddy Kong Racing was like a breath of fresh air and happiness.
– Kev Bayliss, former Rare staffer (2023)
The Road Ahead
The project is 80% complete. It should be noted that, in these projects, the final percentage points often take the longest to complete.
Potential enhancements include
- 4K resolution
- Ultra-wide screen support
- Improved frame rate
- Support for mods like new characters and tracks.
How do you think Diddy Kong Racing compares with Mario Kart?
Awesome, both of those are great. I’ve never actually played perfect dark so that one’s definitely on the list. I also saw that there’s one for majora’s mask as well.
I’m sure they’re probably working on getting the star fox to work on linux. That will be cool getting back into that one too.
I never got into the sonic games too much.
Same, the only one I ever enjoyed was sonic adventure 1. Perfect dark is really amazing, but some of the level objectives on the hardest difficulty can be annoying because of escort mission type stuff where the person you need to keep alive keeps tanking enemy fire and then dying.