Reviewers on Reddit and N64 Squid frequently praise it for making a 25-year-old game feel brand new. It is essentially the "Smash Ultimate" of the 64-bit era.

To download Smash Remix 1.6.0 is to participate in a ritual of digital archaeology. The process itself—acquiring a legally-dumped ROM of the original Smash 64 , applying the XDelta patch, loading it through an emulator or flash cart—is a deliberate friction. It is a rejection of the frictionless, monetized convenience of modern gaming (the Nintendo eShop’s drip-fed, buggy emulations). The download is a political act. It says: We will not wait for permission to love our history.