Enemies
Goomba and Huge Goomba, Bob-omb, Boo, Chuckya, Bullet Bill, Whomp, Piranha Plant, Mad Piano… spawn in front of Mario with the viewer's name on top.
Getting started Runtime + your ROM Launched from the app
Super Mario 64
Your chat moves into Peach's castle: they drop Goombas, Bob-ombs, Chuckyas and a killer piano with their name on top, give Mario the Wing or Metal Cap, shrink or grow him and flip the world around.
6Steps
6Effect types
5Answered questions
A GIFT'S JOURNEY
How a gift reaches the game
Four stops, in under a second.
A viewer sends a gift
From TikTok, Twitch, Kick, YouTube or Starvios: a gift, a follow, likes or a chat command.
OverInteractive
Receives the event, checks your active profile for the matching effect and sends it.
Runtime
The program the app uses to run Super Mario 64 on your PC, plus the OverInteractive connection the app adds to it.
Super Mario 64 · your ROM
The effect comes out through the game's own engine: real enemies in front of Mario, caps and statuses in an instant.
STEP BY STEP
Getting started
Everything happens from the game's status bar, at the bottom of the app.
- 1
Download the runtime
In the bar below press «Download runtime». It downloads once and the app keeps it in its own folder.
- 2
Choose your ROM
Press «Choose ROM» and pick your .z64, .n64 or .v64 file (if it's in a .zip or .7z, extract it first). The app checks it is the US or Japanese one; if not, the step turns red and tells you why.
The exact list of versions that work and don't is behind the help icon in the bar below.
- 3
Enable the connection
Press «Enable connection» with the game closed: the app downloads what the game needs to receive effects and puts it in place.
- 4
Press «Launch game»
The first time, the game reads your ROM and builds its files in a few seconds. It asks nothing: don't close the window meanwhile. After that it starts straight away and the ROM is no longer needed.
Before that first launch the app shows you these steps in a window.
- 5
Pick a save and wait for «Connected»
With Mario's face on screen press Start (Space) and select MARIO A with the A button (X). The bar below shows «Connected» and effects land as soon as you control Mario in front of the castle.
- 6
Choose what each gift does
In «Profiles» create an example one in a click or build your own: each gift, follow or chat command fires the effect you pick.
EFFECTS
What your chat can do
Each effect is assigned to a gift, a follow, likes or a chat command.
Chaos
Lit Bob-ombs, explosions and coin rain.
Hurt Mario
Take health, burn, electric shock, launch him into the air, lose his cap, fall asleep, steal coins, lose a life… and Game Over.
Help Mario
Heal, give coins, a 1-Up, invincibility or half damage for a while.
Mario status
Wing, Metal or Vanish Cap, giant or tiny Mario, high or low gravity, slippery floor, reversed controls, no jumping and one-hit KO, for as long as you choose.
World
Mirror mode, earthquake, no HUD or another course's music.
IMPORTANT
Before you go live
Only the original US or Japanese ROM
The European version, the Shindou edition, fan translations and romhacks can't be converted, so the app won't let you use them. With the Japanese one the in-game text is in Japanese. The app doesn't download or distribute ROMs.
With the game closed
Enabling the connection, installing or removing the texture pack and uninstalling the runtime are done with the game closed.
Effects wait for their moment
They land when you control Mario inside a level. If they arrive in a menu, a text box, a cutscene or while paused, they wait in a queue and play on their own afterwards (for up to 10 minutes). Timed effects don't spend time while paused.
When the level fills up
Once the level can't fit more objects, the next enemies wait in the queue and come out as soon as there's room.
KEYBOARD
Controls
WASDMove Mario (stick)
XA button: jump
CB button: punch and kick
ZZ button: crouch and ground pound
Arrow keysC buttons: move the camera
SpaceStart: pause
F1Opens the game's options menu
FAQ
No. OverInteractive doesn't distribute ROMs: you bring your own copy. The game uses it only once to build its files and doesn't need it after that.
Yes: the viewer's name shows above the enemy while it lives. In «Settings» → «Viewer name» you can turn it off or pick the lettering: «The game's» (colored, capitals only) or «White with shadow». It applies with the game open.
Yes: in the game's «Settings» tab, «High-definition textures» offers SM64 Reloaded HD, the whole game in high resolution, faithful to the original. It installs with the game closed and switches on by itself; the «Use the installed textures» toggle turns it off without deleting it.
That version doesn't work, and the «Choose ROM» step turns red with the reason. It's usually the European one, a translation, a romhack or a compressed file. Use the original, unmodified US or Japanese one.
In the ⋯ menu of the bar below, «Uninstall runtime». The runtime, the generated files and the packs are deleted, but your saves are kept unless you tick «Also delete saved games». Your ROM is not touched.
Ready for your chat to play with you?
Download OverInteractive for free: this same guide is waiting inside the app, in the game's «Start» tab.
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