The PC is a strange and wonderful platform. It is where all other games go to die, have the code picked from their bones and be reborn, more powerful and terrifying than ever before. We’ve all wanted to play Super Mario 64 with our friends before, and now thanks to the tireless (and Patreon-funded) work of prolific modder Kaze Emanuar, we can. And it works great.

Consoles may be horning in on our turf now, but the PC will always be the home of the best online multiplayer.

Rather than a hack of the ROM itself, the Super Mario 64 Online tool seems to tap into the virtual RAM of your emulator of choice, sharing choice bytes of it - such as those relating to player position and gamestate - back and forth across a player-run server, and injecting the extra info required to render other players, and remodel them into a variety of new characters if so desired. It takes a little bit of setting up, but nothing too bad if you’ve ever monkeyed around with emulators before.