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Dustin Bailey

You can now play Super Mario 64 in VR on an actual Nintendo 64, but the frame rate is so bad you'll probably get "really bad motion sickness"

Super Mario 64.

There are plenty of ways to play classic games in VR thanks to various emulator upgrades on modern platforms, but if you've ever wondered whether you could plug a VR headset into a 28-year-old Nintendo 64 console and get a similar experience, wonder no more - one developer has gotten a VR version of Super Mario 64 running on original hardware.

That developer is James Lambert, who you might know as the person behind the sadly canceled Portal 64 demake. He's not quitting N64 development, though, and on top of the original game he's making, Lambert is also at work on various experiments with attaching an Oculus Rift development kit to the console using a custom USB adapter. And what better way to test it than with a VR-enabled Mario 64 romhack?

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