Glide64 0.7 released!

[DuDe]

Gonetz has released a new version of his awesome Glide plugin, Glide64, after six months of hard work. Here's what he had to say :


New version of Glide64 is released after 6 month of hard work. I have
implemented tons of new features and improvements. Some of these features are
long awaited, some were not even expected to be supported by ancient 3dfx
hardware. Many novelties are never seen before in N64 emulation. Beta testing
has proved that new features work well, surprisingly well. That's why this
version is called "Miracle Edition". It's impossible to list all changes here,
I'll describe only most important ones:

• Hardware frame buffer emulation (HWFBE).
  Such feature was first introduced in glN64 plugin by Orkin. HWFBE allows plugin
  to use video memory for auxiliary frame buffers. This greatly speed ups frame
  buffer emulation and improves image quality. Frame buffer effects like motion
  blur now work as smooth as on real console and in high resolution. This feature
  also allowed me to emulate many things which are hardly possible to emulate with
  usual frame buffer emulation, e.g. dynamic shadows. HWFBE is fully
  supported only by Voodoo4/5 and partially by Voodoo3 and Banshee. Read
  readme.txt for details. Many thanks to KoolSmoky who gave me Voodoo5 card and
  hints how to implement this feature.
  
• Long long long awaited Conker's Bad Fur Day support!
  This game was partially supported yet by v0.1, but it was unplayable due to
  heavy graphics errors. I found that these errors were caused by improper dynamic
  lighting emulation. When I removed dynamic lighting, problems were gone! Of
  course, the game looks incorrect without lighting, but currently no video plugin
  emulates lighting in this game correctly. PJ64 plugin by Jabo also does not
  emulated it at all. Beside this, the game looks perfect. As usual, all frame
  buffer effects are supported, including dynamic Conker's shadow (HWFBE is
  required for shadow).
  
• Perfect Dark support.
  The game works nearly perfect, almost all frame buffer effects emulated
  correctly, including lens effect when cam spy is used. Voodoo4/5 users should
  use HWFBE to get full speed with frame buffer effects. I have used sources of
  TR64Ogl and glN64 to get information about microcode for this game, thanks to
  Icepir8 and Orkin!
  
• Jet Force Gemini and Mickey's Speedway USA support.
  
  These 2 games use the same microcode as Diddy Kong Racing, only slightly
  modified. Again, all frame buffer effects are supported. Voodoo3/4/5 and Banshee
  users can get dynamic shadows in JFG thanks to HWFBE. I have used sources of
  glN64 and RiceDeadalus to modify microcode for these games, thanks to Orkin and
  Rice!
  
• Dr.Mario 64 support.
  Rice and schibo have added few extensions to Zilmar's plugin specifications.
  These extensions are designed to help video plugin with some kind of frame
  buffer emulation and they are supported by new 1964 and Rice's video plugin. I
  have implemented these extensions too, so Dr.Mario 64 is fully playable now.
  
• Partial YUV textures support.
  N64 allows game to store images in JPEG format to save valuable space in ROM
  cartridge. This possibility is rarely used though, may be because JPEG
  compression leads to quality lost. However one game, Ogre Battle 64, uses it a
  lot, probably because it's the only way to put huge number of backgrounds into
  N64 cartridge. YUV is intermediate format for JPEG compression/decompression.
  Texture must be converted from YUV into common RGB format to be usable. This
  could be done by lot of ways since there are lot of YUV formats, and it was
  unclear which one is used by N64. I have decrypted format used by Ogre battle
  64, and now this game is fully playable! However, my decoding method may not
  work for other games which use YUV textures.
  
• Large textures support in sprite microcode.
  This fixes a bug in Yoshi's Story and makes Neon Genesis Evangelion playable!
  
• Fixed a bug in TexrectFlip - all problems with text in Wetrix are gone!
  
• Implemented/fixed combiners for many many games. Most drastic results
  can be seen in Beetle Adventure Racing and Roadsters Trophy.
  
• Configuration dialog is changed a bit to avoid confusions when "Use custom ini
  settings" option is used. Ini file is greatly improved to make this option
  really useful.
  
• Tons of other fixes and improvements.

Big ups to ggab for the news tip. Grab this amazing release from the Glide64 downloads page.

[Falcon4ever]

Good job Gonetz, nice too see glide64 is still alive and kickin'.

[ryanraab]

This plugin rocks with evoodoo. It's kinda wierd though emulate a card to use a emu plugin. lol Also does anybody know if the evoodoo gets updated any more and does Gonetz support people that are using evoodoo and don't have a voodoo card?

[h3h3]

for me it sucks :-/

1)its real slow
50 fps is what i get
2)the texture are all very flat

my computer is not that bad
i got geforce4 Ti and the latest drivers installed

[ryanraab]

I have alot worser graphics card then you and it works perfect for me.

[vleespet]

for me it sucks :-/

1)its real slow
50 fps is what i get

50 fps is normal speed.

[Gent]

Nice but for me a big problem with Glide64 and evoodoo is that fact on End Emulation it crashes PJ64.

Aerogauge looks like crap
and Conkers i must say is looking exellent But:
when you press Start to pause (to go into the options menu) it also Crashes PJ64

also is there a way to have it auto window instead of having to click Alt + Enter when Full screen isnt ticked ?

and of course a Alt + Enter or Esc to toggle between Window/Fullscreen would be great

[Doomulation]

This plugin rocks with evoodoo. It's kinda wierd though emulate a card to use a emu plugin. lol Also does anybody know if the evoodoo gets updated any more and does Gonetz support people that are using evoodoo and don't have a voodoo card?

Yes, we support eVoodoo. However, if the issues is by eVoodoo, there is nothing to be done. Of course, if the problem isn't eVoodoo, then we'll all gladly help.
But NO eVoodoo bug reports!
About eVoodoo updates...no one knows, simply put.
Gent: Go bug McLeod about it...if you can find him

[Gent]

Yes, we support eVoodoo. However, if the issues is by eVoodoo, there is nothing to be done. Of course, if the problem isn't eVoodoo, then we'll all gladly help.
About eVoodoo updates...no one knows, simply put.
Gent: Go bug McLeod about it...if you can find him

lol right hes like the Loc Ness Monseters these days

Is he real or a myth ?

oh and Doom notice this is the 1st time ive i havnt included a not a bad vid progression

[rcgamer]

This plugin rocks with evoodoo. It's kinda wierd though emulate a card to use a emu plugin. lol Also does anybody know if the evoodoo gets updated any more and does Gonetz support people that are using evoodoo and don't have a voodoo card?

noone seems to know where mcleod is to ask him about updating. but im sure he is aware that there is a new version of glide64. no, gometz does not offer support for evoodoo users.