gendoikari4 said:I actually have the origional hardware and I still use project 64. This is very common. Why do we do it? Because playing a game on the computer means higher resolution, higher fps, cheets, textures, gamestates, different controlers, etc. Emulation has always been about making the games better than they were on the origional system.
Aside from that, I think that you may have picked the one and only situation where adding such a draw distance feature would undermine the intended point of the game. Almost all people in Oot draw when they are still fairly far away, the only exception is the kakori children. This is not for any fps reason, but because it is meant to be there. it's magic or something.
Still, I would like that feature, it would make it easier to find patches of grass to cut down on MM, and make the world look larger in general for many games. It would, of course, be an option. Likely off by default.
The style of thought that says anything classic or origional is better by default is simply bad. Often older games are better, and often they are worse. There is nothing inherently sacred about the details of games we play. It's not like the bible where changing a detail is sacrilegious (not that I go for religion).
No, you are wrong. Emulation has always been about preserving hardware and software in the event the stuff stops working someday. It's the hacker mentality like you have, that is screwing things up for us who actually want accurate emulation. You are the people that give emulation a bad name. I think it is sacreligious to hack into games and change them for your own purposes, but that's your deal, but don't impose that crap on me. Ok?
Project 64 as it is, is not cycle-accurate and does NOT perfectly emulate the hardware that already exists... so why the heck do you think MORE features should be added, when it doesn't even do ALL the stuff the original hardware can do?
I'm baffled.