1964 0.9.9 - Not the Big Hit ?

[vleespet]

a) Pokemon Snap still does not work in any way
b) Resident Evil still has the same Problems
c) Nightmare Creatures isn't playable at all (it works on PJ64)
d) The 2 Star Wars Games still don't work
e) Same for Vigilante 1+2
f) Mario Tennis looks worse than it does with PJ64
g) Smash Brothers has graphic issues that were bot there in PJ64
h) Pokemon Stadium 2 works worse than on PJ64
i) Same for Mario Tennis

I will give an answer + explaination about these errors:

a) It's a little core issue which won't let you go further. It also has video-plugin problems (pictures not being displayed and whatnot).
b) Resident Evil isn't supported in a right way due severeal issues with the video and audio plugin (RSP will make it a lot better).
c) Core problem.
d) Battle for Naboo will hang after the boot-screen (when using Rice's or Linker's plugin), and just won't go any further. The other one is playable with Lemmy's d3d8 plugin (from Nemu 0.8).
e) No idea, sorry.
f) I think that if you use the right config that it looks the same as on PJ64
g) Glide64 fixed them all.
h) For me it doesn't.
i) If you like PJ64 so much, why don't you use it? It's a great emulator too!

 

[tygra]

who the hell playes Pokemon ...

 

[schibo]

I guess we should list the dozens of new games that are now playable for you.

 

[rcgamer]

IMHO 0.85 was better than pj64. This release blows it out of the water. If you dont want to work with plugins and settings then i would suggest you pick up an nes emu and forget about trying n64 emulation. Plugins are necessary because of the way the n64 works.

 

[Clements]

I can't believe 1964 is being shuned because of plugin issues not even remotely related to the core.

1964 is a billion times more flexible and a billion times faster now.

Can PJ64 interchange RSP easily?
Does PJ64 have frameskip?
Does PJ64 have pre-game set-up options?
Can PJ64 use Azimer's Audiofix?
Does it have Netplay?
Can you turn off the RSP plugin?
Play DK64 properly?

NO.

And you can use ALL plugins with 1964, including ALL the Jabo plugins. So telling PJ64 and 1964 apart with the Jabo plugins is impossible, apart from the fact 1964 is much faster!

People need to actually configure 1964 correctly before they make stupid judgements.

 

[karth95]

Since there seems to be some sort of problem with 1964, let me point you to this thread.
http://www.emutalk.net/showthread.php?t=16362&page=1

This is approximatly 100 screenshots of 1964, using Rice's and other plugins. I did about 2/3, trotterwatch and others contributed the other 1/3.

 

[NeoNight]

I was wondering does Rices new plugin use hardware frame buffers? if not would it be possible in the future?

 

[Legend]

A little off topic here not that it matters considering the topic but clements are ANY of the azimer's audios best for a certain game (including this audiofix which I can't find). Games like Bond -World is not enough, San Fran 2049, Beetle racing,etc.. I use Jabo's for 95 % of my games and Schibo's for a couple (i.e.Waverace ). I just of course want the best sound possible my all my games. I have onboard Creative sound also.

 

[Clements]

Older Azimer plugins (v0.30) don't work very well with relatively newly emulated games (Banjo-Tooie) and some others. It is also the fastest, so on slow processors it can be used.

Azimer's 0.40 plugin supports such games better. Great all purpose plugin that works great with 1964.

Azimer's 0.50 LLE plugin offers good quality, some games have bugs, but overall is nice if Jabo's doesn't sound right.

Azimer's Audiofix is his best plugin and works with games that have no audio at all with all other audio plugins (Hydro Thunder and others).

Available here:

http://www.emutalk.net/showthread.php?threadid=15514

This plugin does not work properly with PJ64 1.5, only the modified PJ64 1.4 exe, or 1964 0.9.9.

 

[Rice]

Clements,

Thanks for the comments. Azimer's audiofix is not working in 1964 0.99 yet. Schibo and I tried to add it, but it won't work as it should. We need help from Azimer to get it working.

 

[Legend]

Holy Beefcakes!!I can't believe I never heard about this!I can't wait until I'm off and go home and play around with it. It's sad how tweaking all my games is as fun as playin them.
Clements I'm going to fly over to England and give you a fat kiss-not in a gay way but in a hetrosexual, masculine way.
I do really hope that audiofix gets fixed. I've never heard Hydro Thunder before.
Lastly, what is this Hle.55.1 Alpha. Is it an upgrade from .40I also can not find this anywhere and would really appreciate a link.

 

[Clements]

I do really hope that audiofix gets fixed. I've never heard Hydro Thunder before.

I hope so too! I thought that it was compatible with 0.9.9, so maybe it will be in v1.0 if Azimer helps the 1964 team with his changes.

Lastly, what is this Hle.55.1 Alpha. Is it an upgrade from .40I also can not find this anywhere and would really appreciate a link.

That is in actual fact the name of the plugin that comes with the Audiofix version of PJ64. (Modified version of PJ64 1.4) It is extended zilmar spec so it only works with the executable included. (and maybe a future version of 1964!) The link to it is in my other post.

 

[Kunio]

The emulator now suports a ton of games that were not playable at all. The emulator is an AMAZING improvement over all others, if you can't see the difference your an idiot. Go ahead and keep using whatever emulator you perfer.

 

[My95ZR2]

First off, like Trotterwatch said, pull your head outta your butt and see the light! You are running a N64 on your PC. Maybe some of you don't get it, but you're telling a computer how to run another computer inside it. It's not just the processor, it's the whole friggin' system. Not to mention it has a different architect (sp?) than a PC. The processor is able to edit video ram to produce framebuffer effects...guess what? PC's can't do that. On Resident Evil, sounds and video (I guess, I never got that far), are compressed with a variation of MPEG. Only RARE knows the specifics on this AFAIK. The N64 may not be an extremely powerful system, but it can do little things that throw our computers into single digit framerates. Next time you want to complain about 1964 not being up to par, go d/l the oldest verson you can find (0.1.1?) and try it out...and spare us the list of games that don't work.

Adam

 

[karth95]

Last I checked, audiofix does work, just not all the extended features that make it really cool.

 

[Jimbot]

I'd say the big factor in 1964 is the fusing of a great best-version-out emulator with netplay. You can't do that with PJ64. With PJ64 you had to have the good one and then the netplay one. In 1964 they are one and the same, and will continue to be.

 

[Legend]

I'm sorry I gotta to know. What are the extended features. And I'm glad to here it is at least partially working.

 

[Clements]

The extended features are what Azimer added to make the games with no working audio to work. Zilmar spec didn't allow for this, so Azimer extended the spec.

The plugin will produce audio but Azimer stresses that it is not intended to be used with anything other than the modified exe that allows for the fixed audio.

 

[Legend]

Just to let everyone know I followed Azimer's instructions precisely and tested on the four games that need it with me: Hydro, Bond, san fran and Beetle racing. Well, Beetle can use it use it perfectly but no sound in the other three. Oh well, 1 out of 4 ain't that bad. I have no doubt that Schibo and Rice will make sure it's available in the final version though.

 

[tuw]

first game

The first game i tried was Zelda, Orinca of time. Well lets say. I didn't realize the video could get that bad. Sound appears fine for the 5 minutes i played. There are japaniese letters on the name entry screen instead of the dark english alphabet (yes i know it is greek, but the order of the letters makes it english).

Then once you get into play almost a 3rd of the screen at all times seems stretchs off as if one pixel was from the center and stretch off to all sides. Very noticable and makes the game very hard to play. Ironicaly there is a small part of the game in the pause/menu section that looks better than most other emulators but everything else is far worse.

Hopefully we will see a 0.9.9.1 release very soon fixing all the problems that didn't excist in the last one since obviously the 3 months of beta testing was done by one man who played only one game and it wasn't zelda.