Best N64 emulator?

darkbenny · Post by **darkbenny** » Wed Mar 31, 2010 9:32 pm

Been years since I tried N64 emulation, and I'd like to know which emu has evolved the most since then. Years ago I used Project64, but it doesn't seems to have been updated in ages.

darkbenny · Post by **darkbenny** » Wed Mar 31, 2010 10:07 pm

bah, can this be moved to emulators plz

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Wed Mar 31, 2010 10:12 pm

Done.

Post by **grinvader** » Thu Apr 01, 2010 6:21 am

mupen is stable enough to rerecord on it, but there's been no improvement on base emu quality that I can see

paulguy · Post by **paulguy** » Thu Apr 01, 2010 6:36 am

Yeah I think it's pretty much stalled completely. project64 and 1964 are still the same version they were years ago. Mupen I guess is getting some progress, especially with emulation on new handhelds getting popular, and the closed, Windows-only nature of project64 and 1964. We'll see how this benefits mupen64 and emulators in alternate platforms overall.

Still a shame directx is so preferred when people write emulators, or much anything at all. Makes porting difficult, and the opengl/portable plugins are generally half-assed or nonexistent.

kode54 · Post by **kode54** » Thu Apr 01, 2010 6:46 am

Or even worse, that the Glide64 plug-in is probably the most compatible plug-in available. How many people even still have Glide hardware installed in their primary system?

escapee · Post by **escapee** » Thu Apr 01, 2010 7:05 am

AFAIK, the glide plugin is just a wrapper. I don't think anyone expects someone to still be using a glide card.

N64 emulation is fine if all you want to play is the most popular stuff. I'd still use stock PJ64 if I didn't feel like experimenting with plug-in setting Yet Again.

Gil_Hamilton · Post by **Gil_Hamilton** » Thu Apr 01, 2010 8:18 am

escapee wrote:AFAIK, the glide plugin is just a wrapper. I don't think anyone expects someone to still be using a glide card.

No, there's a GLIDE wrapper YOU have to install to use the GLIDE plugin.

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Thu Apr 01, 2010 1:59 pm

Try Mupen64 PLUS, it has seen a fairly recent new release.

Post by **Agozer** » Fri Apr 02, 2010 1:01 am

Project64 1.7 is still coming along believe it or not, although progress is slower than slow. We'll see a new public version within a decade. Probably.

Clements · Post by **Clements** » Fri Apr 02, 2010 2:25 am

There has also been a tiny bit of work on 1964 since it went open source. The most interesting recent improvements I've seen are to do with LLE approaches that get a few troublesome games running, but very slowly of course.

paulguy · Post by **paulguy** » Fri Apr 02, 2010 8:27 am

Who will win? Zsnes 2.0 or project64 1.7?

Gil_Hamilton · Post by **Gil_Hamilton** » Fri Apr 02, 2010 10:46 am

paulguy wrote:Who will win? Zsnes 2.0 or project64 1.7?

REAS 1.0, of course.

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Fri Apr 02, 2010 6:11 pm

http://moogle-tech.com/blog/ had some interesting posts, but the last N64-related one was more than a year ago...

Post by **grinvader** » Fri Apr 02, 2010 7:12 pm

Gil_Hamilton wrote:REAS 1.0, of course.

would you settle for a REAS 0.1a

and a klondike bar

DancemasterGlenn · Post by **DancemasterGlenn** » Sat Apr 03, 2010 3:06 am

I'd also go with Mupen64Plus, they've been doing some good work over there. They're in beta for a pretty large refactoring of their codebase, and currently are working on a new GUI, but even the older version is very solid.

That said, I'm not sure what platform you wanted it for. I know the linux version works, and they're working on a windows re-port. Maybe a mac version as well, but who has the time to search the internet for information like that? Seriously.

Gil_Hamilton · Post by **Gil_Hamilton** » Sat Apr 03, 2010 7:16 am

grinvader wrote:
Gil_Hamilton wrote:REAS 1.0, of course.
would you settle for a REAS 0.1a

and a klondike bar

I'd play REAS 0.1a for a Klondike Bar.

Hell, I'd play ZSNES 0.800c for a Klondike Bar.

ShadowFX · Post by **ShadowFX** » Sun Apr 04, 2010 10:52 am

DancemasterGlenn wrote:I'd also go with Mupen64Plus, they've been doing some good work over there.

Is core emulation being worked on in this emulator? If so, source?

DancemasterGlenn · Post by **DancemasterGlenn** » Sat Apr 10, 2010 5:19 pm

I BELIEVE core emulation may finally be being worked on, but I could be totally wrong. I don't know what you mean by you one-word "source?" question, so... it is open source? If you want to tinker with the code, you can.

If you meant something else by "source", my apologies.

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Sat Apr 10, 2010 6:12 pm

H means a credible news piece demonstrating that the core is being worked on again.

ShadowFX · Post by **ShadowFX** » Sun Apr 11, 2010 7:52 pm

franpa wrote:H means a credible news piece demonstrating that the core is being worked on again.

Exactly. Because I have a hard time believing core emulation is being worked on these days in any emulator other than MESS.

DancemasterGlenn · Post by **DancemasterGlenn** » Sun Apr 11, 2010 10:12 pm

Oh, hm. Well, this is the last big announcement made recently, so no, it doesn't look like anything substantial has been done in terms of the core emulation. Sorry.

paulguy · Post by **paulguy** » Mon Apr 12, 2010 6:16 pm

You can get information on all changes to the source code from the Mecurial repository.

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