I still remember the first time I saw the Nintendo 64 incarnation of Super Mario running on my computer, only a couple of days after UltraHLE was released and disconntinued. It all begun when a friend of mine showed me screenshots of Super Mario 64 running on a PII 300 equipped with a extremely fast, it was back then, VooDoo II.
It caught my atention and even today I am still amazed over how far and how fast teqnology has developed over the last years. After UltraHLE there was a void but since Epsilon and RealityMan showed that it was possible others walked in their fotsteps. A whole slew of Nintendo 64 emus was announced, some quitely passed away while others became more and more advanced.
For a long time Nemu was my emu of choice, it offered high compatibility, good graphics and even better sound. I discovered what other emus had to offer, Corn, TR64. And sometime the past summer rumors started to float around the net about a new emu, which later on was released and became known as Project 64. It had a great impact and during the months, end users, had a chance to influate it´s progress a lot of features was added and compatibility increased by nearly fifty percent, which now lays in the eighty to ninety percent range.
Considering how far Nintendo 64 emulation has progressed the latest years, how much more can it evolve. And have the GC had any impact on how fast it has grown, in terms of graphic quality, stability and compatibility. Project 64, which in my book has made the biggest impact, was released mere months before the japanese GC launch, why? Was it a coincidency, the emu had reached a level the authors felt deserved to be shared amongst users, or was is it a deliberate action to avoid lawsuits from Nintendo, since the Nintendo 64 is getting closer and closer to the end of it´s lifespan.
What more can we expect from Nintendo 64 emulation, where do you see it six months or a year from now. Of course we can only speculate but what games and what features will be supported, which emus will narrow down the list of not supported games to a list you could write in you palm, and still have place for a couple of phone numbers, what games do you think will remain unsupported?
It caught my atention and even today I am still amazed over how far and how fast teqnology has developed over the last years. After UltraHLE there was a void but since Epsilon and RealityMan showed that it was possible others walked in their fotsteps. A whole slew of Nintendo 64 emus was announced, some quitely passed away while others became more and more advanced.
For a long time Nemu was my emu of choice, it offered high compatibility, good graphics and even better sound. I discovered what other emus had to offer, Corn, TR64. And sometime the past summer rumors started to float around the net about a new emu, which later on was released and became known as Project 64. It had a great impact and during the months, end users, had a chance to influate it´s progress a lot of features was added and compatibility increased by nearly fifty percent, which now lays in the eighty to ninety percent range.
Considering how far Nintendo 64 emulation has progressed the latest years, how much more can it evolve. And have the GC had any impact on how fast it has grown, in terms of graphic quality, stability and compatibility. Project 64, which in my book has made the biggest impact, was released mere months before the japanese GC launch, why? Was it a coincidency, the emu had reached a level the authors felt deserved to be shared amongst users, or was is it a deliberate action to avoid lawsuits from Nintendo, since the Nintendo 64 is getting closer and closer to the end of it´s lifespan.
What more can we expect from Nintendo 64 emulation, where do you see it six months or a year from now. Of course we can only speculate but what games and what features will be supported, which emus will narrow down the list of not supported games to a list you could write in you palm, and still have place for a couple of phone numbers, what games do you think will remain unsupported?
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