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The Wonderful World of Mario Party Mods

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 It's time to talk about something that I've delved deep into over the last few years and even gotten a few articles published on: Mods!  There's a surprisingly large amount of them, whether it's on the internet or the Steam Workshop, and they come in so many varieties.  There's character mods, level mods, and depending on the game, even game mode mods. One type of these I recently discovered was Custom Mario Party boards, where folks create all new experiences in place of the standard boards. When I discovered these only a month ago, I knew I had hit something great to talk about. There's a surprising variety of them for all three original N64 games in the series, and there's 2 ways to even get them in.  These can be made to work on the regular N64 hardware, but since this is a more technical and difficult, the easiest method to use is the Project64 Emulator. But this article is less about that part, though the knowledge of how it all works was necessary...