Uploaded April 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
ZA3 is on hiatus for the moment. I'll still get back to it at some point, but for now I'm feeling like moving on to a smaller-scale project, as I feel like progress is going too slowly for my liking.
So yeah, consider this project as a spiritual successor/reimagining for The Missing Stars. This is a small openworld hack (6-7 levels in total) with smaller-scale levels. The main gimmick is that each level can be explored at day or at night, and depending on the time of the day you visit the level, things can be different. There will be several points in the game where you can switch from day to night, this is only one of them.
ROM Manager makes this kind of project a lot easier due to it being much more versatile than SM64 Editor for sub-area importing.
For now, this is just a snippet of (unfinished) course 1 : Luminous City. This is a tranquil town in Mushroom Kingdom, which used to be home to the forgotten Silver Stars...
ZA3 is on hiatus for the moment. I'll still get back to it at some point, but for now I'm feeling like moving on to a smaller-scale project, as I feel like progress is going too slowly for my liking.
So yeah, consider this project as a spiritual successor/reimagining for The Missing Stars. This is a small openworld hack (6-7 levels in total) with smaller-scale levels. The main gimmick is that each level can be explored at day or at night, and depending on the time of the day you visit the level, things can be different. There will be several points in the game where you can switch from day to night, this is only one of them.
ROM Manager makes this kind of project a lot easier due to it being much more versatile than SM64 Editor for sub-area importing.
For now, this is just a snippet of (unfinished) course 1 : Luminous City. This is a tranquil town in Mushroom Kingdom, which used to be home to the forgotten Silver Stars...









![Super Mario 64 1.5 - Ztar Attack! RELEASE VIDEO (download v1.2a-nocrash in desc)
The first episode of the Ztar Attack series is now out, after a long time ! With 170 stars, 15 main levels, and extensive worlds, its the biggest non-extreme hack out there. Difficulty is like Escape from the Jail (aka close to 74 but with some harder stages). You might have trouble with the end of the game if you are new to sm64 hacks, however its far from impossible and should be alright if you are already good with sm64.
Original game by Nintendo, title screen by Mariocrash.
Special thanks to the betatesters : aglab2, gatopumuky, Mazerns, Lunhazel, Mariocrash, Nerghray, MisterAlekss and mopplopmopplop :P
If you want to see an actual trailer, check this, that was a teaser I made at some point before the release : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRvVnajtjh0
download links :
(v1.0 aka original release) http://www.mediafire.com/file/roft5ukbz9u63eb/Super_Mario_64_1.5_Ztar_Attack_%28v1.0%29.zip
(v1.0a) http://www.mediafire.com/file/142rc7vnpdprf0d/Super_Mario_64_1.5_Ztar_Attack_%28v1.0a%29.zip
(v1.1) http://www.mediafire.com/file/2cxjw0vsumrskj8/Super_Mario_64_1.5_Ztar_Attack_%28v1.1%29.zip
(v1.1a) http://www.mediafire.com/file/jx1zwjza0a1m8i5/Super_Mario_64_1.5_Ztar_Attack_%28v1.1a%29.zip
(v1.1b) http://www.mediafire.com/file/qjdm59zm3ot67bt/Super_Mario_64_1.5_Ztar_Attack_%28v1.1b%29.zip
(v1.2) http://www.mediafire.com/file/i5d200d44x9444z/Super_Mario_64_1.5_Ztar_Attack_%28v1.2%29.zip
(v1.2a) http://www.mediafire.com/file/6ff9abstbbyzdf8/Super_Mario_64_1.5_Ztar_Attack_%28v1.2a%29.zip
(v1.2a-nocrash) http://www.mediafire.com/file/22t2xhcx6kpwz7k/ZA1.2a-nocrash.zip [shoutouts to aglab2, this one fixes the recurring crashes caused by kaze objects and also other random stuff] Super Mario 64 1.5 - Ztar Attack! RELEASE VIDEO (download v1.2a-nocrash in desc)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_I8VscZ3-q4/mqdefault.jpg)
