Rice's Daedalus Plugin 4.5.0

Congratulation for emutalk to come back. I love emutalk, so I donated to support it. I am working hard to make the new release. It should be quite good over the last version as many many problems are fixed.

What's new:
Rice Daedalus 4.5.0 Plugin Readme
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A lot of problems have been fixed for a lot of games.
A lot of new features of graphic enhancement.


What's new:


1. Graphics enhancement
* 2xSaI
* 2x (double texture size)
* Sharpen filter
* option to apply 2xSaI or 2x for small texture only and/or for textrect only
* option to apply 2xSaI or 2x with smooth filter
* option to force bilinear filter

2. Speed up
* Speed up in DirectX color combiners
* More faster texture loading
* Many code rewritting and rearrangement to speed up

3. Lot of texture problem fixes.
* Textures are not bluring anymore
* Support YUV texture format
* IA4 texture loading bug fix (Zelda tree)
* Irregular texture format supporting

4. Game issue fixes
F-Zero menu
Madden NFL games: field gfx errores are fixed.
FIFA soccer games, I.S.S._64: field gfx
Nascar2000: wall
NFL quarterback 98, working great
All star baseball games, 99/2000/2001, all fixed
Fix pilotwing blackblock problem.
Cruise USA - road
Rayman 2 with OpenGL
Bust 'A' Move games
Army Men - Air Combat: combiner
Centre_Court_Tennis: crashes
Glover: texture
Harvest_Moon_64: texture
Mortal_Kombat_4: triangle culling
PaperMario: texture
Silicon_Valley: combiner
Spider-Man: texture

As I tested, many other games are also improved a lot as so many issues are fixed.

5. Combiner fixes
* Low end DirectX combiner is fixed, working again now
6. Alpha blender fix
7. OpenGL
* Decal rectangle (shadows in Mario, road in zelda)
* Primary depth for textrect


New shots can be seen at Shots


Rice

you are cool

Originally posted by loay
you are cool

Do you have any plans for a possible Linux port? I think Blight would be happy to take a look at that if you want You would help us free ourselves from the eeeevil microsoft

Great work! This plugin is shaping up really well...

I saw among your screenshots a playable Dr. Mario 64, but for me the falling pills are still invisible with the new version. Are there some special settings required for it to work?

/Jonas

This is excellent news, Rice. I'll post this at Emu64. Btw, sweet screenshots.

Another great release Rice.

Congratulation for emutalk to come back. I love emutalk

Who does'nt

Originally posted by JonasP
Great work! This plugin is shaping up really well...

I saw among your screenshots a playable Dr. Mario 64, but for me the falling pills are still invisible with the new version. Are there some special settings required for it to work?

/Jonas

You can use "Copy & back" in the "N64 frame buffer emulation", but the falling pills is still flashing. To be effectively playable, you need to wait for the new version of 1964.

A new wonderfull graphics plugin from Rice .... looks just darn great

No more shadow in Pilotwings!
Significant improvement in MK4!
F-Zero menus improved!
Yoshi's Story is playable (although some sprites are twice the size they should be!)
Donkey Kong 64 works!

The list of improvements is endless! A landmark release!

The plugin looks good so far to me. However I dont know why the Plugin is doing this, but it says that it fails to detect my DX8 settings. I find it weird taht I never had this problem with my DirectX 8.1b before with the others. The speed is a little slow on some ROMS with Open GL, but as I said the quality is really good.