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[mrfcrougar]

I have tried attaching my entry in Doc format. I hope this works (after battling the password and username re-registration for the last two hours :baaa: ).

Cheers guys.

[mrfcrougar]

I take it it didn't work?

[Trotterwatch]

It worked, but 2 things I would say are not too good:

7) subsection roms is a little dubious in content for this site.

Section 9) 9) It is illegal to keep a Rom on your Hard Drive for more than 24 hours after downloading (Damn, It took 32 to download “Conkers Bad Fur Day”). Check Law 5.

That statement is totally wrong.

[katon]

It worked, but 2 things I would say are not too good:

7) subsection roms is a little dubious in content for this site.

Section 9)

That statement is totally wrong.

agreed... there is no such law... do ure research

[mrfcrougar]

agreed... there is no such law... do ure research

I would post sites that have his written down on them, but for the intrests of this site, I have not.

.1. Only if you own the actual arcade or gamepak of a ROM you are downloading.
.2. You must delete all the fils download from this site in 24 hours.
.3. You will never attempt to sell any of these files.
.4. You will not make them available packaged with any emulator or front end.
.5. You will delete files that you do not hold the legal rights of ownership.
.6. Distributing roms together with an emulator is a crime. Unless you have the corresponding license to make it.
.7. ******* has no part in dumping the ROMS available on this website,and our purpose is to provide a service to repair arcades.
.8. ******* will not be held responsible by any crime or any damage caused by downloading these files.

Check any site with downloadable roms, and that/something similar is written on it. Furthermore, in the intrest of your comments: a modified script:

********

My Life With Emulation.

This is an almost comic look at the joys and sorrows associated with my experience of N64 emulation, from the release of Nemu 0.7, to the rise of Project 64 I have been hooked as a continuous player.

In the beginning

I can recall one blustery winter day when a friend mentioned something called Bleem. After questioning him about this, I was introduced to something called an emulator.
‘What? Isn’t that a song by U2?’ I replied.
He reeled in stock horror and bit back, ‘No! It allows you to play Playstation games on your PC.’
So I began a private investigation into this thing called Bleem, and quickly discovered that it did, in fact, work. Then it crashed the computer. After much swearing and hair loss, we were happily playing Crash. But the emulation bug was now in my system. The next real leap was to try to find something that emulated the N64, my personal favourite.

God created light

Later that fateful month I entered the search string “N64 emulator” into google, and soon found some good hits. They were Nemu 0.7a, Project64 1.2 and UltraHLE. As UltraHLE seemed to be the most popular, I made haste downloading it, and after hours of searching, Mario Kart.

It crashed the computer.

Failing that, god created darkness and set it as standard.

With my lack of success I tried again (after recovering all lost files, and doing a bit of maintenance) and tried Nemu. This time I saw a spark of life, and the opening image flashed onto the screen in a bright array of colours. I could not believe this, a real emulator? Working on my computer? The same was true for Project 64, then came Goldeneye and a whole range of pleasures I had never imagined.

So how do you move in darkness?

This was the point were I didn’t know anything, and was really starting to get into emulation in a big way. Trial and error seemed to be a pretty standard method of getting things to run, and this still seems to be prevalent today (after nearly two years). I found that there were
several key things to remember, you may call them “My Commandments of Emulation.” (Like Bill Gates Rules for life, except practical).

1) Choose thy plugins with care. There are so many emulators that have Jabo/Zilmar compatibility, but often there are games that behave better with different plugins. Even though these will pretty much run everything, keep in mind that Rice’s, Nemu’s and OpenGL plugins will probably catch just about everything else, and may work better on your system...

2) Your system. Shut down all extra junk when you wanna run something well and learn to tweak thy graphics card. Do not overclock thy graphics card, or thy graphics card shall start to smoke. Thy smoking graphics card gets expensive. Just get thy graphics card new drivers.

3) Now, here is where the fun starts. I am most versed in PJ64 and 1964 (these are my main systems) and often small things affect in a big way. Although there have been many excellent emulation guides posted on the web, I have found that playing with things will often give my
best results. That means trying different buffer types, resolutions, color depths (think ram and Native res), changing depths etc. Oh, and sometimes the simplest solution is the synchronisation to sound checkbox.

4) Remember thy emulation settings for specific games.

5) Check thy rom directory: Things do run better unzipped, and CD’s work.

6) Tell thy mates that drawing a weapon in Perfect Dark causes system to hang.

I have no real wish to post a guide, as so many have been done, and one has already been submitted to this contest, so onward we continue.

Input

*Anyone remember Johnny Five of short circuit?*
The addition of a Joystick was a most wonderful advancement to my game - no control lockups. If you get too many keys held down at one time, the Keyboard will stop reading, and players start walking into walls. We had to start thinking. A good setup will allow four people
to play Mario Kart on one machine, without any lockups. Time to get smart. Most computer Mice today have two buttons plus a scroll wheel. These, inclusive of the two axis makes up nearly all of the N64 controls needed to play most games. Think about having left as forward,
right as reverse, centre as fire, wheelup as A wheeldown as B, and the mouse as turning/aiming. Now toss a few unnecessary things on keyboard. (Remember that Joystick). Players on keyboard suffer lots of different surprises also. Try to avoid using Control or Alt as a key, as combinations will call up different emulator functions.

7) Thou hast two hands. So use them.

Often a players ability to play is impaired because they use a crummy setup. There is one thing that needs to be remembered: This is no longer a PC - it is the godsend of all consoles, the N64 - so the keys will need to reflect the controller, not the PC.

Audio

I would advise putting a Rammstein CD on your Discman if your system is slow. Otherwise, the same rules apply as to audio.

Roms

When searching for roms, remember to add things like like “-gay” or “-Porn” or “-erotica” or “-Bush” or "-Britney" or "-Playstation" which should cut out most of the crap that you get as a return.

8) There is no such thing as a perfect emulator; but sometimes something should work. In that case you need something to verify your roms. Use GoodN64 to properly name everything, according to the current conventions.

9) Bear in mind the efforts of those who worked towards making these roms. It took many years work, and deserves thy gratitude.

Now let us take 1 minute of silence to mark our respect to those who made these games, and those who made these emulators.
*in this time*
Remember the joy when you heard “Itsss meee Mario!” Which Lemmy later declared to drive him insane.
Remember how fun it was to get something new Remember to go back and play them again for the hell of it.
Remember the first time you ever got stung by a bee And think: What reference does this have to anything?
Remember the joys when Goldeneye first started running And when you got the Nude Natalya cheat.
Remember the thrills and spills of Beatle Adventure racing And the fact that you and your partner could fit in those things easy...
Remember the absolute rush, on the Christmas of 2001 when PJ64 1.4 was released And you finally played Perfect Dark again.

Now, remember the 10th commandment:
10) If thou hath the misadventure to crash thy computer. Pick up thy woes, and try again. Because if at first you don’t succeed, sky diving is not for you.

But seriously folks, emulation has been a massive part of my life since 2001 and there have been lots of laughs, good times and fond memories.

********
Apoligies for overstepping the boundries, I hope I revised in time.

[FliPsk8r]

I would post sites that have his written down on them, but for the intrests of this site, I have not.

.1. Only if you own the actual arcade or gamepak of a ROM you are downloading.
.2. You must delete all the fils download from this site in 24 hours.
.3. You will never attempt to sell any of these files.
.4. You will not make them available packaged with any emulator or front end.
.5. You will delete files that you do not hold the legal rights of ownership.
.6. Distributing roms together with an emulator is a crime. Unless you have the corresponding license to make it.
.7. ******* has no part in dumping the ROMS available on this website,and our purpose is to provide a service to repair arcades.
.8. ******* will not be held responsible by any crime or any damage caused by downloading these files.

Check any site with downloadable roms, and that/something similar is written on it. Furthermore, in the intrest of your comments: a modified script:



yes it's true that a LOT of rom sites have something like that on their site telling you the "24 hour rule" or something of the such...but the fact is...that's just another internet myth. my bet is that someone must have started this myth thinking it would make downloading roms legal...at least temporarily.

[blizz]

http://www.eidolons-inn.de/emufaq2000/

lots of legal goodness inside

[katon]

lol... yep... a myth... do ure research again

[mrfcrougar]

Thats one sharp document.

I stand humbly and corrected (yes, I know when to say die) and slightly relieved, that there will be no knocks on the door, with some guy asking "Do you have N64 Roms?" or asking for "Sarah Connor?". I just hope that the revised version is suitable for entry now.

Cheers

-Fredric J Crougar
"Sleep Tight"