Last month, we informed you about an unofficial PC native port of the classic Nintendo 64 game, Star Fox 64. And today we are happy to report that this PC port, called Starship, is now available for download.
The team behind this unofficial PC port of Star Fox 64 is the same one that gave us Ship of Harkinian. So, kudos to them for bringing another classic N64 game to the PC.
As with the Super Mario 64 PC port, Starship does not include any copyrighted assets. To make it work, you’ll need an official ROM file. By doing this, the team avoids any possible C&D letter. So no, Nintendo will not be able to take it down.
Currently, there are three rendering APIs supported in Starship. These are DirectX11 (Windows), OpenGL (all platforms), and Metal (macOS). You can change which API to use in the Settings menu of the menubar, which requires a restart.
You can download Starship from this link. At the end of the article, you can also find a video from it. This is a full playthrough so it contains spoilers. Thus, make sure to avoid it if you want to play the game yourselves.
Speaking of unofficial PC ports of classic console games, we also suggest checking out the ones for WipeOut, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, and Jak and Daxter. You can also find unofficial PC versions of Super Mario 64, Perfect Dark and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.
Sadly, the only N64 game that received some cool mods was Super Mario 64. Super Mario 64 got some amazing 3D models, as well as a Path Tracing Mod. Ship of Harkinian also got an HD Texture Pack. However, it never received a Path Tracing Mod. And that’s kind of a bummer as those games would benefit from a PT Mod.
Given the really low modding interest in the previous N64 games, I don’t expect to see anything interesting for Starship. Still, it’s pretty neat we finally have a native PC version of Star Fox 64. So that’s at least something.
Enjoy and stay tuned for more!
John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved – and still does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics cards.”
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