PaperBoat

What you need: A ROM of Paper Mario, US version, dumped from your own cartridge.
SHA-1 of a correct dump:
3837f44cda784b466c9a2d99df70d77c322b97a0

PaperBoat is a native PC port of Paper Mario from Harbour Masters, released in September 2026. It is built from the Paper Mario decompilation.

It adds widescreen, higher resolutions and frame rates, a settings menu, custom controls and support for mods.

The download contains no Nintendo data. It asks for a ROM of the US version of the game, dumped from your own copy.

How to set it up

1. Extract the whole archive to a folder you can write to.
2. Windows: run paperboat.exe. macOS: run paperboat.app.
3. When prompted, select your ROM.
4. Linux: put your ROM in the same folder as paperboat.appimage, then run it (you may need to chmod +x it first).