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How to Make a Nintendo 64 Game in 2026

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  1. stewx · · focus · HN ↗
    I am in the process of using Claude Opus 5 to build an N64 game, and it really works. I've written no code and it is able to build a fully functional game.

    I got it to write a skill for driving the Ares emulator via GDB Remote Serial Protocol and it uses that for its feedback loop.

    1. dwroberts · · focus · HN ↗

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      1. AussieWog93 · · focus · HN ↗
        On the subject of learning something... Compare your comment to the sibling from Flashtoo. One is genuinely inquisitive and displaying willingness to learn, the other is just dunking all over someone.
        1. bakugo · · focus · HN ↗
          I agree with dwroberts here. Flashtoo's comment is indeed a better faith engagement on paper, but you should consider the question whether the root comment was deserving of such good faith engagement in the first place.

          Going into a post where someone talks about their cool programming hobby project that they do for fun to say "I just made this with AI instead, it was so easy and I didn't even have to do anything myself" is effectively also dunking on the author and disrespecting/devaluing the effort they put into whatever they submitted, just in a slightly more indirect way. Personally, if I read such a comment under something I created, I'd feel way more insulted than if they just called me a slur or something.

          These sorts of comments are everywhere on HN now, every single post not directly related to AI has someone in the comments mentioning [latest AI product] and how they used it in relation to the topic of the post somehow, to the point that I'm starting to believe it's straight up astroturfing. I'd argue that such comments deserve to be dunked on, downvoted, or even flagged, unless you want all non-AI discussion on HN to die off.

          1. TaLiTr · · focus · HN ↗
            > "I just made this with AI instead, it was so easy and I didn't even have to do anything myself" is effectively also dunking on the author and disrespecting/devaluing the effort they put into whatever they submitted

            Yeah! How dare someone share an anecdote about a similar experience they had! On HN of all places. Somebody sharing an experience isn't disrespectful, neither is talking about how they had an easier time doing so.

            > Personally, if I read such a comment under something I created, I'd feel way more insulted than if they just called me a slur or something.

            Yes, you anti's are certainly irrationally offended by AI.

            > ... every single post not directly related to AI has someone in the comments mentioning ... how they used it in relation to the topic of the post somehow

            Have you considered that maybe, just maybe, many people use AI?

            > I'm starting to believe it's straight up astroturfing.

            "Anyone who disagrees must be a shill" is certainly a take.

            > I'd argue that such comments deserve to be dunked on, downvoted, or even flagged

            So everyone that disagrees with your post should flag it right? Since flagging is just a value judgment on something you don't like?

            > unless you want all non-AI discussion on HN to die off.

            Least hyperbolic Anti-AI comment.

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