Show HN: UltraEd – A level editor/game engine for the Nintendo 64 (opens in new tab)

What's hard about a VM? You can download an entire VM complete with OS and all relevant dev tools and have zero leakage of viruses or workspaces into your normal client. It's a great way to encapsulate your development for a specific task.

I use a Win10 VM in my Win7 machine for almost all of my dev work. It stays on an SSD and completely keeps all that outlook, Microsoft SQL, Visual Studio, IIS, NAV, CRM crap from destroying what is normally a fast machine for gaming. I also host it on a separate IP so I can RDP into it from my crappy work laptop (which becomes nothing more than a thin client) and have remote access (from say my phone wireless hotspot if wifi is unavailable) and I've got all my work stuff exactly as I left the house.

Recently, I put together a XP VM with Visual Studio 2003, 2005, and 2008 for supporting and upgrading an old .NET 1.1 project for a client. There's no way I was going to try and get that crap running on my 64-bit computer.

Last thing I want is FL Studio (and all my related audio tools), Photoshop (and all related graphics tools), and Visual Studio (across over a decade of versions) all on the same machine destroying each other. You can't even get multiple versions of Java to run on the same machine these days.. Ugh.

Haha yeah I don't expect many people to actually setup a VM to use this but it's a big learning project for me! :) My end goal is to create a new game for the N64 but I need tools. So this project is really for me and anyone else who wants construct new content for the system as well!

I keep around old hardware, running old OSes, that occasionally sees use with things like this. Wine (on a Linux system) might be an option too.

Someone earlier in the thread posted some short videos of the interface in operation that the developer had posted to their Twitter, if you're just interested in seeing examples of what it does: https://twitter.com/_deadcast/status/907485256827023360

The N64 came out in 1996. Be lucky it isn’t Windows 95 you have to install.

Haha thanks for providing that! :) I should eventually add some gifs/png showing the editor working.

These files are necessary to setup the dev environment if you want to compile. I use the link myself when setting up a new build machine.

If you don't trust the files that's perfectly fine. You could pretty easily, I believe, find them all from repositories you trust.

Also yep Win XP only! Keeping it authentic lol. :)

Out of curiosity, what cart are you using? And are you using a Nintendo or custom expansion pack?

It's really easy actually to load on an emulator or on real hardware. The build process I'm working on now creates a production ready ROM that can be placed on an EverDrive 64 or 64 Drive cart. I always test on real hardware when developing the engine for the N64 part of the system. :)

Just Windows XP/NT sadly. :/

Good idea! I'll take some today and add them to the github repo. Maybe that will be helpful. :)