Update [Fri 16th Aug, 2024 10:10 BST]: The Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon recompilation project has now added support for the English version of the game, as spotted by the individual Rondleman on Twitter.
The update brings a few fixes from the previous versions of the recompilation project that were available while allowing players to supply a ROM of the localized version of the game. The new link is provided in the embedded tweet above.
And if you want to know a bit more about the history of Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon, why not check out our recent Making Of, which features some never-before-translated interviews with some of the game's developers?
Original Article [Thu 11th Jul, 2024 13:30 BST]: Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon is one of the best platformers on the Nintendo 64, so we were over the moon to discover (via the Twitter user @rondleman and GBA Temp) that the game has recently received a PC recompilation project, allowing players to experience the title with widescreen support and at 60FPS.
The PC recompilation project is reportedly the work of the Ganbare Goemon Discord member "Klorfmorf" and was built using the N64Recomp tool. This is a tool that was released back in May of this year and was also used to create the amazing The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask recompilation.
In case you need a bit of a refresher on what these recompilation projects are, they essentially allow fan creators to recompile native executables of the original N64 game on PC, while introducing various quality-of-life improvements that would be trickier to implement using traditional emulation methods. To get these up and running, players typically have to supply the original ROM, which is then used to extract the game's assets.
Unfortunately, right now, the Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon recompilation only works with the Japanese ROM of the game, but it's still well worth checking out if you're already familiar with the game.
Here's the download link (available via Google Drive).