Skate 3 Really Has a PC Port Now
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About a week ago, the modder Alex McHugh released the v1.0 initial public release of their Skate 3 recompilation project. To many people’s surprised, it seemed to work out of the box with zero hiccups! Alex kept pushing on the project and at the time of writing, they’re up to v1.03 - boasting support for Windows, Mac and Linux, plus all the game’s DLC is working!
Jov’s Gaming Lounge has a really good tutorial showing off how to install the game plus how they use the open-source games manager Lutris to organize their library.
It kind of feels like magic seeing Xbox 360 games recompiled already. I remember maybe a year ago the Xenia teams stating they’ve got their second game with Perfect compatibility - Perfect Dark Zero. Then earlier this year ReXGlue had their initial launch, ushering in a new means of letting fans fix up the code of their favorite games in C++ and start the porting process.
If you’re just looking for some quality Skate 3 content, you can’t go wrong watching all of HelixSnake’s compilations of them finding new ways to break the game and film some truly hilarious moment!
You can find Alex McHugh’s Skate 3 PC Port on their Github located here! https://github.com/mchughalex/skate3recomp
Why do games cost so much to make?
Jason Schreier recently started a YouTube channel and the first video I’ve seen of his was a banger! It’s linked below and worth a watch, but here are some numbers I learned spun up into examples I care about.
Maafia Monthlies are the Smash 64 Wave to Ride!
Last night marked new beginning — Maafia, the content creator who put Smash 64 back on the map for me, hosted his first Netplay tourney for Smash Remix — the community driven mod that’s already tripled the roster of the vanilla game and added seemingly endless amounts of new stages and custom content.
Paper Mario: Star Nova is the Biggest Romhack for this Classic RPG YET!
The Paper Mario romhacking community has recently seen it’s most ambitious work yet. The mod author know as NicTube has released a brand new campaign for Paper Mario called Star Nova - a mod they’ve been working on for over four years.