A libdragon port of Living Worlds — Mark Ferrari's color-cycling pixel art running on Nintendo 64 via the CI8 texture format and per-frame TLUT animation.

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• libdragon toolchain installed and N64_INST exported.
• Python 3 for the asset-fetching and scene-conversion scripts.
• A working internet connection to fetch the assets.

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/meeq/living-worlds-n64.git
cd living-worlds-n64

If you already cloned without --recurse-submodules:

git submodule update --init

The libdragon/ submodule tracks the DragonMinded/libdragon repo preview branch and is checked out for source reference; the build itself links against $N64_INST, not the submodule.

To setup libdragon, see libdragon/README.md.

This repo does not include scene or audio assets — they're pulled from the upstream reference demo on first build. Two one-shot targets:

make scenes   # JSONP scene payloads -> scenes/*.js
make sounds   # ambient MP3 loops    -> sounds/*.mp3

Both scripts skip files that already exist; pass --force to re-download. scenes.json (the per-scene metadata catalog) is committed so you don't need to regenerate it, but you can with tools/fetch-catalog.py.

make

Run living-worlds.z64:

• Emulator: Ares or Gopher64 (other emulators may not be accurate enough).
• Hardware: Runs on Nintendo 64, Analogue3D, and ModRetro M64.

The ROM header configures the eeprom4k save type and enables the RTC.

src/                   # C source code
Makefile               # build pipeline
scenes.json            # scene catalog (regenerated by tools/fetch_catalog.py)
scenes/                # fetched JSONP payloads (see tools/fetch_scenes.py)
sounds/                # fetched MP3 loops (see tools/fetch_scenes.py)
filesystem/            # build outputs that go into the DFS image (gitignored)
tools/                 # asset fetching + scene-conversion scripts
libdragon/             # submodule: DragonMinded/libdragon @ preview

make clean   # deletes build artifacts

Scene and sound caches under scenes/ and sounds/ are kept so subsequent builds don't re-download. Delete those directories manually for a fully clean state.

• Artwork: Mark Ferrari
• Original Code: Ian Gilman & Joseph Huckaby
• Nintendo 64 Port: Christopher Bonhage