16 Years Later, Super Mario 64 Gets Co-op

12 responses to “16 Years Later, Super Mario 64 Gets Co-op”

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   bangers

   October 26, 2012 at 4:25 pm

   Why is P2 not Luigi?

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      brent3000

      October 26, 2012 at 5:09 pm

      Cuz there was prob no Luigi characters in all the data files, changing the colour is prob the simplest method (my idea that is)

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         Mr Unicorn

         October 26, 2012 at 5:47 pm

         Extrapolate height, turn green. It’s easy to make a luigi sprite. Maybe making the sprite taller messes with combat? In which case a short Luigi would work, but look awful. Hence that guy. ^

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            mrtaco

            October 26, 2012 at 6:36 pm

            Worked for the first few games…

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            ashuramgs2sub

            October 26, 2012 at 9:12 pm

            I would imagine that it would mess with physics collision as well. As the Luigi model would be taller than the Mario model, any collisions would need to take into account the additional height, otherwise certain objects (like ceilings) would appear to collide partially inside Luigi’s head. If there were small gaps that were Mario-size, Luigi would not fit through them. Also, technically Luigi is a little bit thinner than Mario, so you would need to take this into account.

            It’d be much easier to duplicate any code related to Mario and code in some fringe cases to deal with players colliding with each other than it would be to do that on top of tweaking physics collision to work differently depending on which character you were playing as. It certainly wouldn’t be impossible by any stretch of the imagination though, and I’d personally love to see it done.

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         plmko

         October 26, 2012 at 8:23 pm

         That’s what Luigi was originally anyway, just a colour change.

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   terrak

   October 26, 2012 at 4:27 pm

   they seriously need to make a game like this for the Wii U (Super Mario U), no excuses now Nintendo you have 2 screens so use them – coop as many games as possible i say.

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      superdeadlyninjabees

      October 26, 2012 at 8:05 pm

      Indeed, sir! Co-op for all! If Nintendo want to increase their female demographic, then co-op will turn a video game hating girlfriend into a new Nintendo nerd. Seen it happen many times.

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   Ledbetter14

   October 26, 2012 at 4:37 pm

   Looks cool but I can’t figure out how damage is handled. Also what happens if you split up?

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      Mr Unicorn

      October 26, 2012 at 5:39 pm

      Yeah… There is only so many different angles and levels of zoom that will allow both to be on screen. I don’t see how this can work. They can’t exactly put up a barrier either as if someone jumps off screen or down a slide they can’t drag the other person with them. Must be something dodgy.

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   weresmurf

   October 26, 2012 at 4:51 pm

   16 years…. jesus….that long?????

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      Mr Unicorn

      October 26, 2012 at 5:42 pm

      I’m only 18 and I still remember this as being cutting edge when I started gaming. It doesn’t feel like that long ago… I think I’m almost up to the stage where I start feeling old. =/ A couple more years left hopefully.

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