Today’s game is Mario Galaxy. I decided today was my day to be productive for once, and I dumped all my Wii games ROMs for safe keeping, along with all my Blu-Ray discs. While I was testing the Wii Games to see if they worked, I got distracted by Mario Galaxy.

I chose this screenshot specifically because it shows off the water. Mario Galaxy is one of those games that has gorgeous water.

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[–] timo_timboo_@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What a coincidence. Just yesterday I saw a video about how Mario Galaxy works from a technical perspective, and water was one of the topics.

As it turns out, the water effect was done by manipulating the floor texture with a noise pattern to make it squiggly, and then putting a transparent layer above. It looks pretty good and doesn't need much processing power.

I just thought that was interesting.

[–] Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Nintendo + Water = beautiful efficiency

[–] hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah Mario Galaxy is one of those creative masterpieces imo

[–] MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

The whole game is gorgeous. I’m in love with the water especially. There’s just something I find very charming about it

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The inherit calm of a Mario game when no enemies are present.

[–] PriorityMotif@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

https://youtu.be/SybPxb_DjZ4

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This visual is uniquely soothing, reminds me of artist Cory Arcangel, who did an art piece with just the Super Mario clouds drifting on a television screen - hacking into the NES cartridge and getting rid of everything else - to much admiration.

I remember reading an art journalist applauding the Impressionistic feel of the thing, the way Arcangel brought a background object to the fore, and in the process transformed it into something new entirely, with a surprising character and strength of presence.

Here's a Whitney Museum link to the work.

[–] MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

That’s really fucking clever. As a Programming major I love seeing Art and Programming combined like this. It’s amazing to me

[–] camr_on@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I should dump my Wii games. They're just sitting there since my wii disc drive doesn't work

[–] MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I started doing that for my entire library after setting up a Media Server and dumping my BluRays and DVDs a while ago. I figured having those backups would be good. The hard ones are going to be my N64 cartridges I think, since there’s now CFW for the N64 and there’s no way to connect it to the PC without an external device.

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

try to not upload it to archive.org, or they get another lawsuit.. bankrupting them slowly. I really love archive.org, but it doesn't look good

[–] MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Not to sound greedy, but I was planning to keep these backups for myself. I don’t have anything rare, so anyone who wants the same games I have can easily get them from other places.