Did Nintendo really forget to Optimize Super Mario 64 ? | MVG

Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended as a well-researched rebuttal of the idea that Nintendo simply forgot an optimization flag.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Modern Vintage Gamer

Topic

super mario 64 optimization

Format

commentary

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

3

Recommendation years in dataset

2020–2022

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• I just watched a documentary about how Super Mario 64, a game for Nintendo consoles, was reverse engineered in a way that will also generate byte-identical objects when being compiled. I found this nothing short of amazing. This is the link to the part of …

• The whole "Nintendo forgot to set the O2 optimization flag" thing has been somewhat debunked, or at best it's misleading. ModernVintageGamer did a video discussing the topic that's pretty well-researched [VIDEO] To summarize what he says: since the game was a launch title, it was …

• But notably not in SM64, where they disabled compiler optimization for some reson. Vintage Gamer has a good video about this. [VIDEO]