Cosmic Dreams
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Windows/Linux only? Nothing for mac?
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More accurate N64 graphics emulation plug-in released
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Enter the Dragon Punch
Banned
Best thing you can do is try to use it, I guess? Just put it in the plugins folder of your preferred N64 emulator.
Cosmic Dreams
Member
Already on it. I'll post my results.
EDIT - I'm new to this. Just drop the .7z file in the plugins folder or do I extract the file?
CrAzY FiNgErS
Member
Yes, but it was successfully funded on Indiegogo though.
Dolphin_Butter
Member
Unless I'm doing something wrong, it looks like it doesn't fix the pink text problems in Quest 64. If anyone else can verify, I'd greatly appreciate it.
Oh, I see, good to hear. Anything positive for the N64 emulation scene is great news.
I have the same question, I always used P64 and it works wonders with me, can this DLL be applied to it?
Why would you play Podracer on N64 emus when you can play the far superior PC version? Is it a hard game to find now or what?
TheAdmiester
Member
Looks weird. I wonder what that "2002 736" meant in the top corner. It seems like something that was meant to render under the jigsaw.
Cosmic Dreams
Member
Okay, so I downloaded the plugin. Now i'm trying to find the graphics folder on my mac for sixtyforce.
Anyone wanna help this scrub? lol
Anyone wanna help this scrub? lol
This. I'm dying to replay Bomberman 64!
You have a link to that? Does it work with project 64?
It's not about parallelization, it's about flexibility.
AFAIK most graphics problems in N64 emulation come from differences in memory management model. The N64 (and most consoles, actually) had no distinction between RAM and VRAM and the CPU could access frame buffer data whenever it pleased. Also, there were a bunch of features that didn't map directly to traditional GPU feature sets. Also, the cost for software emulating the N64 GPU was orders of magnitude greater than the PSOne, due to things like texture filtering, floating point operation and depth buffer, which pushed emulators into HLE since the beginning.
Modern GPUs are far more flexible than those from the heyday of N64 emulation. They can use compute shaders to replicate hardware-specific features of the emulated hardware, like the N64's edge anti aliasing or the Dreamcast's per pixel translucency sorting. They are also much more flexible when it comes to memory management, compared to when emulators had to rely on painfully slow copying of frame buffer pixels to emulate off screen buffers.
I believe an emulator designed around DX12/Mantle/Vulkan, instead of merely a plugin, could do a lot more a lot faster.
themagicalkitsune
Member
Lol I forgot about that thing. Was it still there before the update? Jeez that took a while.
DAREALGUMMY
Member
Seems to crash on my laptop. Any suggestions on a P64 version that is made for older setups?
charlequin
Banned
Hard to find, yes, and to the best of my knowledge not yet digitally re-released. (Though we'll see, it's probably on GOG's radar.)
ReyVGM
Member
It works with any emu. Here's a thread I made on another forum about it with more info and links.
http://hg101.proboards.com/thread/11264/egad-pixel-accurate-plugin-released
It's highly recommended you also use the RSP plugin by the same guy. It avoids any game glitches since the RSP is also going for accuracy.
7DollarHagane
Banned
I found a physical copy last year and its pretty impossible to get running on modern os.
I remember loving the PC version at the time. So smooth and so much sharper than n64.
MagnoSauce
Member
Using this plugin causes one stutter every several seconds for me. Oh well, the puzzle piece effect isn't cool enough for me to wrangle with my stupid switchable GPU right now.
bennywhatever
Member
All I care is whether it'll let me play Pokemon Snap correctly. I still can't
ReyVGM
Member
All I care is whether it'll let me play Pokemon Snap correctly. I still can't
It plays perfectly with Angrylion's pixel accurate plugin.
It plays perfectly with Angrylion's pixel accurate plugin.
However, unless you have an i5 or above, the games will play very slow (since it's going for accuracy). But you can disable the trademark N64 filters if you want, the games will look sharper and run faster.
What's wrong with that one?
Kabuki Quantum Lover
Member
Big Bo: SAH-WEET.
Chaotic-Strike
Banned
Please tell Bomberman 64 is fixed now.
Not Spaceghost
Spaceghost
The game looks unnecessarily dark on a lot of displays, it looks better on the gamepad but only barely.
Shift Breaker
Member
Wow, I remember all those graphical glitches from many, many years back. Strange to see that they're only properly fixed now. Good to see.
1st I heard of that!!!
Robin64
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MiketheBSG
Member
Forgive my lack of knowledge of how this works as I'm just starting to learn but I'm interested in the Raspberry Pi Retropie project. Does this graphics emulator work on it? Or do the developers have to implement it?
EDIT: Figured it out for project64. Use the dll in the bin/win32/zilmar-specs folder and replace the glide64 dll in p64's plugins folder.
I'm also confused here. I feel like an idiot trying to figure out which files to copy, and where. Project64 2.2.0.3 comes with a glide64 dll in the plugins folder, I assume you're supposed to overwrite it but there isn't any indication of which file to use.
I'm also confused here. I feel like an idiot trying to figure out which files to copy, and where. Project64 2.2.0.3 comes with a glide64 dll in the plugins folder, I assume you're supposed to overwrite it but there isn't any indication of which file to use.
Dr. Buni
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Try this: Settings > Uncheck "Hide Advanced Settings" > Configure graphic plugin > Emulation settings > Aspect Ratio > Change it to "4:3 (default)".