underfrance
New member
Hey all. I'm pretty new to the community, finally managed to have the time to delve into emulation for the last few days. Basically, from what I've seen it's a pretty huge mess. Could anyone drop in with their own summative bits about the most up-to-date emulators and plugins and where to get them?
Here's what I've got so far - tell me where I'm wrong:
Also, after going through all this, I'm sort of interested in the community's history - So if anyone wants to wax eloquent and spend a couple paragraphs on the history of the N64 emulation - the important sites, the important people, what happened to the PJ64 project, where to poke my nose if I ever want to try contributing to the community, etc, I'd be grateful.
Thanks!
Here's what I've got so far - tell me where I'm wrong:
- PJ1.7 is never going to come out, but that's ok, the big things are pretty much done.
- PJ1.6 is the standard for newbies, has its issues, but it stands the test of time.
- 1964 is basically just as good, except it's open source so finding release notes and source for it isn't an apocryphal adventure.
- There's some other stuff that's less important - the most important work these days is in the plugins.
- The best/popular video plugins are Jabo's dx8 and rice.
- Jabo ggnore'd and released 1.6.1 (I'm not sure - is video1.6.1 or 1.7.x better?)(come to think of it - what actual benefits are there to running a 1.7 beta?)
- rice is worse, but has shiny custom textures, and became mudlord which became aristotle which became 1964video. (is 1964video better than jabo at this point?) (also, is 1964video fully backwards compatible with rice textures?)
- some people have made custom inis to optimise the plugins (which ones should i be looking at?)
- I'm not sure about the best audio plugin.
- There's a bunch of input plugins, they all pretty much work. the big names are jabo and nrage, and mudlord is/was working on one that supports rumble features and stuff.
- Still not completely sure what RSP does.
- ROM dump type doesn't really matter anymore, unless you ditch goodn64 for nointro because that's what frickin' hyperspin uses and hyperspin looks sexy, except nointro only likes CRCs from byteswapped ROMS so you have to find a way (tool64) to convert the files.
Also, after going through all this, I'm sort of interested in the community's history - So if anyone wants to wax eloquent and spend a couple paragraphs on the history of the N64 emulation - the important sites, the important people, what happened to the PJ64 project, where to poke my nose if I ever want to try contributing to the community, etc, I'd be grateful.
Thanks!