Super Mario Galaxy's PC port arrives without Nintendo's blessing

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The takeaway: Mario fans with a penchant for PC gaming, rejoice! An unofficial native PC port of Super Mario Galaxy is now available to download and best of all, you don't need an uber powerful computer to run it.

The PC port comes courtesy of keepvaibin, and is described as a work in progress. The game is fully playable on Windows 10 and newer machines, and requires just 8GB of RAM at minimum. Visually, it supports aspect ratios from 4:3 to 32:9, anti-aliasing, anisotropic filtering, AMD FidelityFX FSR 1 upscaling, and per-pixel lighting.

The least powerful machine it was tested on consisted of an Intel Core Ultra 9 185H with integrated graphics and 16GB of RAM. There, it ran at 60 FPS at 1440p.

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