Harbour Masters release 'PaperBoat' their Paper Mario 64 PC port

Harbour Masters released PaperBoat, an unofficial PC port of Paper Mario 64 built on the PaperMario-DX decomp project, according to a Discord announcement from the group. Harbour Masters said the project aims to let users easily port existing texture packs and create new mods, and that its menus are light at this time. The release drew attention to Harbour Masters' AI policy, which states the group is "not an Anti AI organization, however, we are Anti Slop," with PCGamingWiki noting the team appears to use Claude and Copilot.

Another Nintendo game has a new unofficial PC port with PaperBoat https://github.com/HarbourMasters/PaperBoat from Harbour Masters for Paper Mario 64. In their Discord announcement said: "It is with great pride that we announce the release of PaperBoat, our Paper Mario 64 port based on the PaperMario-DX decomp project. Our goal with this project is to provide the means to easily port existing texture packs as well as create new mods and experiences. We are excited to continue working on this effort, our menus are light at this time but I'm sure folks will have ideas of things to add that will bring the quality of life enhancements that the community has grown to expect." Before you get too excited though; if AI use is something you feel strongly about, you might want to look away from Harbour Masters. As popular as their ports are for various retro Nintendo games, they appear to be using generative AI quite a lot from PCGamingWiki https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Topic:Zljvpivt5x0j7zzx . Like a growing number of open source releases on GitHub, they appear to be using Claude and Copilot . They have an AI Policy https://github.com/HarbourMasters/code-of-conduct/blob/main/AI POLICY.md and all that notes "Harbour Masters is not an Anti AI organization, however, we are Anti Slop". There was another project with Paper Mario ReCut https://github.com/SMCGames/Paper-Mario-ReCut , but it doesn't seem to see active development. External Sources: GitHub - PaperBoat https://github.com/HarbourMasters/PaperBoat , GitHub - Paper-Mario-ReCut https://github.com/SMCGames/Paper-Mario-ReCut , GitHub - code-of-conduct https://github.com/HarbourMasters/code-of-conduct/blob/main/AI POLICY.md , pcgamingwiki.com https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Topic:Zljvpivt5x0j7zzx Some you may have missed, popular articles from the last month: All posts need to follow our rules https://www.gamingonlinux.com/index.php?module=rules . Please hit the Report Flag icon on any post that breaks the rules or contains illegal / harmful content. Readers can also email us https://www.gamingonlinux.com/email-us/ for any issues or concerns.