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There's a recent trend that seems to be generating a lot of excitement online lately: that is, implementing VR in PC ports of classic N64 titles.
It was only a little while ago, for instance, that we told you about Alex Le Tux's unofficial VR port of Perfect Dark for PCVR headsets and Meta Quest, and since then, not a week has gone by without people inundating us with tips about other VR projects based on N64 titles.
The latest of these to be brought to our attention is a VR version of Mario Kart 64, which was recently demonstrated on Twitter/X by the VR YouTuber BeardoBenjo. This showed him racing on 64's Koopa Troopa Beach in stereo 3D with full head tracking, and looks pretty remarkable from the footage shown, though I imagine it's probably a pretty surefire way to lose your lunch if you don't happen to have your VR Legs beneath you.
The project shown in the video is the work of a developer named RaYRoD TV, who claims to have "Twenty years of pulling shipped engines apart," and is based on Harbour Masters' unofficial PC port Spaghetti Kart. It was released over two months ago on GitHub, and is one of many VR projects listed on the developer's website, alongside VR support for Lighthouse (a recent PC port of Banjo Kazooie), Dr Robotnik's Ring Racers, Sonic Robo Blast 2, and the Super Mario Kart 64 multiplayer PC project sm64coopdx.
As outlined on the GitHub page, the new version of the game features an in-game menu, letting you tweak the view mode, world scale, stereo depth, and other settings, and there's also the option to further customise your races and load texture packs like MK64 Reloaded.
Instructions for getting it up and running are available in the GitHub repo, and players must provide their own Mario Kart 64 ROM in .z64 format.
Obviously, given our fairly well-documented stance on AI and the speed at which these projects are coming out, we're curious about RaYRoD TV's methods for getting them up and running so quickly.
As a result, we've reached out to the creator to see whether they can shine a light on how these projects are being built.