PLAYING

1. Download the patcher.zip file from the releases tab and extract it to a folder.
   
2. Now obtain mario party 3, 2, and 1 US roms
   
3. Name them mp3.z64, mp2.z64, and mp1.z64 respecitvely, and place them into the roms/ folder extracted from patcher.zip
   
4. Now run patcher.exe, which will output the modded rom to mp3-mp2-mp1-combo.z64
   
5. In your emulator you will need to make sure the expansion pak is on (8MB of RAM)
   
6. Also if on project64, you need to set the save type to 16kbit eeprom
   

KNOWN ISSUES

1. Waluigi and Daisy are unselectable (they dont exist in mp1/mp2, so they will crash if attempted to be loaded)
   
2. If you turn off too many minigames, the game will softlock as it'll fail to populate the minigame wheel
   
3. Battle minigames, item minigames, or any other mid turn minigames from mp2 or mp1 are ignored if selected as they cannot be correctly loaded at this time
   

BUILDING

Follow this to set up armips https://hack64.net/Thread-Importing-C-Code-Into-SM64-Using-n64chain-and-armips

After armips is set up, clone this repo

1. Copy a big endian mario party 1 rom named mp1.z64 to rom/mp1.z64
   
2. Copy a big endian mario party 2 rom named mp2.z64 to rom/mp2.z64
   
3. Copy a big endian mario party 3 rom named mp3.z64 to rom/mp3.z64
   
4. Run python ./initial_pack_mainfs.py to repack custom images into mario party 3
   From this point on, calling python ./initial_pack_mainfs.py is only required if more images are added.
   
5. Now you can run python ./configure.py with or without the -mp1 flag depending on if you want mario party 1 to be built in the mod
6. Run ninja to build the project, which will output to rom/mp3-mp2.mod.z64 or rom/mp3-mp2-mp1.mod.z64