PLAYING

1. This creates 2 files. One is mario parties 3 and 2 combined (for use on console). The other is mario parties 3, 2, and 1 combined (for use on emulator or flashcarts that can load 96MB roms)
   
2. Download the patcher.zip file from the releases tab and extract it to a folder.
   
3. Now obtain mario party 3, 2, and 1 US roms, and place them into the roms/ folder
   
4. If you are on windows, you can just run patcher.exe, which will output mp3-mp2-combo.z64 (if mario party 1 is included, mp3-mp2-mp1-combo.z64 will also be created).
   If you are on mac, you can run python patcher_macOS.py which will output the combined, but unmodded roms named mp3-mp2-base.z64 and mp3-mp2-mp1-base.z64. Then you can go to here to patch the bps file onto the base roms. (So mp3-mp2-combo.bps should be applied to mp3-mp2-base.z64, and mp3-mp2-mp1-combo.bps should be applied to mp3-mp2-mp1-base.z64)
   
5. In your emulator you will need to make sure the expansion pak is on (8MB of RAM)
   
6. 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
   

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