What do you want in Project64 ?

[[SS] Starscream]

I'm new to the boards and just want to say Project64 is great and thanks for dedicating your time for all to enjoy.

I'm not sure if this has been talked about as i have not read all the many pages in this thread. I think a good idea would be a built in front end with screen shots near each game title in the menu.

I know you guys are working hard and don't take requests but getting vigilante 8 second offence to work better would be nice.

Thanks.

 

[Urameshi Yusuke]

my suggestion list :bouncy:

• Cheat Creation Tools
• Built in Debugger
• 7zip Support
• Net Play

 

[squall_leonhart]

7zip support is already planned for 1.7, net play, maybe,.. maybe not.. its all about compatibility atm.

 

[Nighty0]

Hi emutalk ppl... long time no see and good to see this project alive.

My wishlist for PJ64:

- A better gui, with icons or boxarts/screenshots. For more "wow" effect, for better visualization on bigger screens, for easy handling of games.
- If devs can implement netsupport will be great, because play Mario Kart or Super Smash bros with friends is priceless
- Some command-line polishing: switches like [-fullscreen] [-exit on stop emulation] for better integration with frontends (like GameEx).

I know that the devs are already working hard on this, but:
Better Mario Tennis support in the new graphics plugin. This is one of the best N64 games, so deserves it

Thanks for all your hard work.

 

[Dudemango]

hi, i would like to see somesort of auto-save feature where it could automatically create a savestate every few minutes. This would be useful because some of the games i play crash sporadically, this would help me recover from that. I apologise if this has already been said or even implemented in 1.7

 

[Agozer]

Maybe you should check your hardware and that the plugins work with your hardware before requesting a feature that searves no actual pupose to the usual gamer exect to fill his or her HDD with savestates that take well over 1 megabytes each.

So it's not a good idea. look for ways to fix the crashes (i.e. use the Direct3D6 plugin instead of Direct3D8 plugin is you have below minimum specs hardware, etc.) before requesting features that don't really fix the problems you have at all.

 

[squall_leonhart]

Auto save state would be a disaster for code errors :O

 

[zilmar]

Auto save state would be a disaster for code errors :O

what do you mean ?

 

[squall_leonhart]

well you guys are always telling us not to use save states all the time coz bad code can remain in the save state, causing it to crash later on.

if save states saved automatically, then it could save just before the game crashes causing the game to crash everytime you load it.

 

[zilmar]

it is better to use native saves .. but that does not mean instant saves are nessarly bad. One thing I have planned but still have not done is to give the option to back up instant saves .. say your saving on slot 1, you save the game, it will back up the last save on this slot. So if you acidently erased that save or oversaved it then you could manually recover it. It would only keep like 3 saves per slot.

 

[squall_leonhart]

that does sound like a great idea.

i have another idea for saves.

is it possible to remove the link between save states and native saves.

i have found that if i load a savestate that is older then a native save, that it reverts the native save to the last time saved.

i dunno if its possible though...

 

[carbon900]

Maybe having more save states where there is a load button for each, because sometimes the saves build up like .pj6 .pj7 and overwrite eachother when pressing F5 -- maybe like the Shift + 1 to save, 1 to load, but the shift+1 is kinda hard to do sometimes when u wanna save smth quick

 

[Doomulation]

You can hit pause, then save. Then Shift+(Key) would work better.

 

[squall_leonhart]

you can change save slots by pressing a number

1-0 i believe, 0 being the default save slot. (not the numpad, the numkeys at the top of the keyboard)

 

[Allnatural]

1-0 i believe, 0 being the default save slot. (not the numpad, the numkeys at the top of the keyboard)

Tilde (~) is the default, so there are 11 slots total.

 

[squall_leonhart]

ah, thank you for the correction

 

[Cheezyphil]

the problem with that is when you save something in hast, you might accidentally brush the 5, 6, or 7, which i have admittedly done wuite a few times.

 

[Doomulation]

Hit pause, then save. Even better, use the game's pause function. Then saving is a piece of cake.

 

[metalkobra]

Hmmm, first and foremost, netplay.

Secondly i dont know what else, honestly i think everything is just fine minus games that have a few graphical errors and such, i dont really see anything wrong with pj64.

 

[squall_leonhart]

lol, netplay netplay netplay.

its the most requested feature lol. one of em anyway.

Zilmar MIGHT put netplay in.

he knows the people wants it, but theres other things to do atm, such as increasing compatibilty, fixing core issues etc.