Thanks to u/nul9o9@lemmy.dbzer0.com for turning me on to Ship of Harkinian. It’s my opinion after messing with it for a half hour that this is THE way to experience OoT again.
Here’s a link to their comment if you’d like to upvote it.
“Hey, Mom. Can we have OoT?”
“We already have OoT at home!”
The OoT at home:
I’ve been running Ocarina when I can. I just completed the Water Temple. All I need now are the Fire and Shadow Medallions, then I can whack Ganondorf.
I don’t even have a Switch 2, and I’m not buying it just to be sold nostalgia I can already relive with stuff I’ve had for like 20 years. That said, I am running it on Gopher64 this time around.
Been having a good time of Ship of Harkinian. https://www.shipofharkinian.com/
Dude, I wish I could launch this to the top of the thread. I just set it up, and it’s so much snappier than running on emulator.
so much snappier than running on emulator.
Yep, that’s because it’s a decompilation of the original game’s code under the hood, which was then recompiled as a native PC application.
Meaning Nintendo can’t do shit about it, unless HarbourMasters decides to start making charging for their PC ports?
If you haven’t already, grab a hi res texture pack. OoT in 2k at 200fps is awesome.
Okay, fine! If you’re gonna twist my arm about it lol
I love it! 60fps, high quality textures, and quality of life options make it feel so much better to play.
I’m already pretty blown away at widescreen support. I never thought I’d get to play '98 OoT in widescreen.
switch 1 is the last nintendo platform I’ll support. i hope they improve in the future, but console exclusivity is a way of the past
I don’t mind console exclusivity if the console were unique in some way, and the exclusive games made use of that feature.
Nintendo games in the past did this quite well. Many games I’ve played on the DS just wouldn’t work or feel the same way with traditional input.
Nintendo’s online stuff has always been junky and I don’t love the move to key carts.
Hey! Listen!
Personally I can’t wait for the OoT remake to inevitably get its own Ship. It might take 20 years, but I’m willing to wait that long to finally be able to play the definitive version of OoT.
I am also not buying the remake, but honestly mostly because I’m an achievement whore. SoH doesn’t support RetroAchevements though, but I’m ok being a purist.
I’ve had it on N64. Emulators. and still have it for the 3DS. I only replay it to glitch max. Granted the hex editor is way more fun.
That’s okay.
I’m going to purchase the Fable remake when it drops.
That’s not a remake, it’s a reboot. They’re starting from near the beginning of the timeline again, but it’s not the same story or same company. I’m genuinely excited from gameplay trailers.
Honestly Fable was getting a tad messy by the third game, starting over from scratch but using the original as a framework is probably the only way to do it. I feel like if Bethesda were to do a remake of any of the pre Morrowind games it’d be the same way, also I really wish they would remake Redguard because its such a cool game idea wrapped in a jank fest of an engine which funfact is technically 2d fucken Bethesda black magic.
I can’t play OoT. The controls are too terrible. Even the decomp project SoH still uses the god awful N64 control scheme.
I played the gamecube version and it was perfect controls-wise. It’s basically a port, not a remake or anything. It also includes the master quest on a separate disc, which is a harder version of the game.
I’ll have to give the Gamecube version a try
