A fan PC port of Banjo-Kazooie may soon be realized

Several of the Nintendo 64 games are undergoing reverse engineering. Among them is Rare’s game.

In fact, Banjo-Kazooie is officially available on PC via Xbox Cloud Gaming (but this requires a [Xbox] Game Pass Ultimate subscription as well, and you have to be in a country where you can play from the cloud, although Hungary is one of them), but there is no mention of a native PC copy, which is not surprising: Nintendo very rarely brings exclusive games released for the platform to Steam games (Sonic Lost World and the first part of Bayonetta can be called exceptions for different reasons; let’s not even dream of a real N-IP).

The native PC port has several advantages besides the fact that it is capable of more stable performance when run locally: we can use a higher resolution, but the modern effects are not left behind either, because we have already seen a working example of ray tracing in Mario 64 PC in connection with porting. THE GitHubon we can see the Banjo-Kazooie project, but the team has no official name. We do know the nicknames of the members (MittenzHugg, Mr-Wiseguy, Ryan-Myers, ThatCowGuy, Kaimeister, RageCage64, Wedarobi, eEarthcrafterman, Isotarge, Mkst), and the completion is currently 80%.

Nintendo cannot get involved in this, as it does not legally have the opportunity to do so. The team is not using the leaked source codes, but is recreating the game from scratch using modern programming languages. There are more than 20 such projects in the pipeline, some of which are: Perfect Dark, Mario Kart 64, Paper Mario, Blast Corps, Body Harvest, Bomberman 64, Conker’s Bad Fur Day, Dinosaur Planet, Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards, Mario Party 3 , Mischief Makers, Mystical Ninja, Pokémon Snap, Pokémon Stadium, Snowboard Kids, Turok 3, and Yoshi’s Story.

Decryption is therefore very popular these days, and we have seen it not only around Nintendo. We wrote a while ago about how a PC version of Jak & Daxter: The Precursor Legacy, released for the PlayStation 2 by Naughty Dog, was made, but it had another serious shortcoming at the time (specifically, it had no sound).

Source: VGC

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