While I hope some users get to experience Mario 64 for the first time with what the folks over at froggi.es have made, I’m even more impressed by the overall abilities of the web at this point as a delivery mechanism for digital content. Whether you play it at length or not isn’t really the point, though. This port even comes with all the sounds and music you love from the original. We tested it on high-end Chromebooks and cheap devices alike and everything stayed smooth and buttery the whole time. It also supports controllers (we used the XBOX One controller) and runs like an absolute dream in your browser. Using cookies I’d assume, the game actually allows for saving your progress just like you would have done on the Nintendo 64 console. Or, if you do have a dusty old copy of this game lying around, play all you want, save your progress as you go, and have a great time.Īnd yes, I said save your progress. I’m no attorney and if you think for a second that you don’t want to cross that bridge, I’d say this isn’t for you or to play in an incognito window with a VPN on just to see it running. Sure, the site hosting the files may find legal issue, but you as a user should be just fine taking in the game if you choose to do so. It’s not to say that Nintendo won’t eventually shut this down, but having Mario 64 running in a browser keeps users from needing to go and search out/download ROMs to get up and running. This effort is a bit different, however, bringing Mario 64 to the web to play in a browser with no download or installs necessary. While it is technically legal to have a ROM of a game you physically own (I own a physical cartridge of Mario 64 for what it’s worth), the whole thing is a bit of a gray area and something we’ve never felt comfortable peddling here at Chrome Unboxed despite the existence of some very fine emulators that work on Chromebooks. While there have been emulators in the past that you could use to ressurect this gem of a game, those all required users to also go and download ROMs in order to play.

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