N64
Nintendo 64
Mischief Makers (Trouble Makers)
Trouble Makers
SourceGitHub ↗
RequiresMischief Makers (US 1.1),
.z64, SHA-256 e00ab74c3dee79efaafe8e10f2a6b67784d7327ab588d8ef90ad8945427da627PlatformsWindowsLinux
A native port of Mischief Makers, recompiled with N64Recomp, linked against N64ModernRuntime and rendered through RT64. The launcher validates your own ROM and remembers it, and the port adds remappable input, EEPROM saves, high-resolution rendering, opt-in widescreen and opt-in frame interpolation.
¶ Compatibility
- Dumps: Mischief Makers (US 1.1),
.z64, big-endian. The known-good SHA-256 ise00ab74c3dee79efaafe8e10f2a6b67784d7327ab588d8ef90ad8945427da627. - Upstream: Public repository and releases, GPL-3.0. The game code is translated from your own ROM; no game data ships with the port.
- Builds: Windows, Linux, Steam Deck. No macOS build.
- Status: Version 0.8.4, published 2026-10-05, marked prerelease.
¶ Rating
🥈 Silver. Boots, plays the intro with correct music, and runs many verified levels with working saves, remapping and high-resolution output, but it is a 0.8.x prerelease: widescreen and frame interpolation are experimental, high frame rates can misalign multipart sprites, and a full playthrough has not been independently verified. Provisional.
¶ Notes
- Launcher: pick the ROM, then set display and controls before starting. The port keeps its own validated copy of the ROM, plus saves and settings.
- Saves and settings stay with the port when an empty
portable.txtsits beside the binary; otherwise they go to the user config folder. - Widescreen is opt-in and renders the real scene into the side wings instead of stretching it. Cinematics keep the original presentation. CERBERUS (3-12) and PHOENIX have known background defects in widescreen; original 4:3 avoids them.
- Above 60 fps the game logic still runs at 60 Hz and RT64 interpolates between frames. Some animated characters blur or split at higher rates, so native 60 fps is the safe setting.
- Input: keyboard and controller bindings are remappable, with two bindings per N64 control. F1 or L+R+Start opens the debug overlay, Tab fast-forwards and F11 toggles fullscreen.
- Licence: GPL-3.0, because the port statically links the GPLv3 N64ModernRuntime. N64Recomp and RT64 themselves are MIT.