Paper Mario just got a native PC port, no emulator required

Paper Mario ReCut has released a native Windows build of Paper Mario using an N64 recompilation pipeline instead of traditional emulation.

The game is reportedly playable from start to finish and includes RT64 rendering, live texture swapping, and texture capture tools.

It still requires the user’s own US Paper Mario ROM and is described as early in development.

The project highlights a growing path for turning N64 games into native PC apps with better performance and modding support.