Paper Mario: TTYD64
Mario Story · マリオストーリー
Brings The Thousand-Year Door's battle system, items, badges and recipes back to the original Paper Mario, along with dozens of new and reworked areas.
What it adds
TTYD64 grafts the mechanics of the GameCube sequel, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, onto the Nintendo 64 original. Battles play by the sequel's rules, and its items, badges and cooking recipes are available, with new sprites drawn for them. The creator stresses that it is not a remake of The Thousand-Year Door: the story and world are still those of the first game, but expanded.
The new content includes more than 60 badges, about 50 items, 35 extra Star Pieces and 30 Shine Sprites to hunt down, 35 brand-new maps and 70 reworked ones, plus new enemies and music.
Version 1.0.0
The full release opened a Thousand-Year Door-style pipe in Chapter 3, added a settings character to Toad Town's badge shop area, restored a map on Star Summit and fixed crashes and battle bugs, including one in the Pit.
Playing it
The patch goes on your own copy of Paper Mario (USA) in .z64 format, following the instructions in the creator's GitHub repository, which also explains Project64 settings the hack needs. Made by elDexter, with sprites by BossBuzz, Typografx, ShyGuyXXL and others and music by StevenBlue.