Glide64 SP5 is out

[ggab]

good news, isn't it?
COOOOOOOOOL
u rock as usual ! :p

[i]posted by emuxhaven:[i]

Glide64 V0.7 Me Service Pack 5 Out!
Thats right folks, another great release of the Glide64 Plugin has been released today!!



Here's whats new :
-Fixed gfx errors in Banjo Tooie.
-Fixed 2D gfx in Super Robot Spirits.

Download it from the Glide64 Site !!
http://glide64.emuxhaven.net/

[-Shadow-]

Cool ! That are good news ! It would be even better if someone would've work on Hacky's glide wrapper...

[Federelli]

Your damn right

[MasterPhW]

Cool ! That are good news ! It would be even better if someone would've work on Hacky's glide wrapper...

Yeah, that would be great, but who knows... probably he will do some work like more filters... hq4x would be great...*dreaming*

[Hexidecimal]

/me laughs at the non glide owners, then realizes he has no more N64 roms and goes back to being quiet.

[Modem]

Thank god I have another machine with a voodoo4... too bad it's in Seattle... and... I'm... in... Wyoming... and I won't be able to use it 'till October... *goes back to being quiet as well*
- Modem

[Qun Mang]

I would just like to use hardware frame buffer on my Radeon. I wait hopefully for a new release of Hac's wrapper...

[BountyJedi]

ya hardware frambuffer emulation in the wrapper would be great...

then the framebuffer would be as nice as the direct64 ones...

[minkster]

what exactly does hardware framebuffer do? i never realy understood what it does for n64 games

[olivieryuyu]

what exactly does hardware framebuffer do? i never realy understood what it does for n64 games

The framebuffer is a part of RAM in a computer allocated to hold the graphics information for one frame or picture. This information typically consists of color values for every pixel (point that can be displayed) on the screen. A framebuffer can either be:

- off-screen, meaning that writes to that memory don't appear on the visible screen,

- or on-screen meaning the memory is directly coupled to the visible display.


extracted from glide64 readme.txt:

"N64 games often use auxiliary frame buffers to implement special game effects
like motion blur or for optimization purposes. The console can allocate as many
auxiliary frame buffers as needed and then use them as usual textures. PC video
cards usually use only one buffer for rendering, thus emulation of frame buffer
effects is always a hard problem. The usual method of emulation, which
theoretically should always work, is to render auxiliary frame buffer into main
video buffer and then read it from video memory into main memory and put into
the structure representing N64 memory (RDRAM)."

"Hardware frame buffer emulation is in fact a hack - auxiliary frame buffers
are not put into N64 memory. When a game uses texture located in area in RDRAM
corresponding to auxiliary frame buffer, the plugin uses texture located in video
memory instead. The game may use this area in RDRAM for different textures
later, but the plugin will use it's auxiliary buffer anyway, which leads to
serious glitches. I (Gonetz) have tried to reduce probability of this situation, but it
is still possible. If you encounter it, switch to windowed mode, and then back
to full screen again."

read n64 manual for futher info