Tutorial: How to load a texture pack

[NES_player4LIFE]

Glide64 Tutorial:

1. Download and install Project64 1.6
2. Download Glide64 Final
3. Download Rice’s Video Plugin and install it (optional)
4. Patch your emulator to allow Large Address Aware
5. Download aTexture Pack and unzip with 7zip to \Project64 1.6\Plugin\hires_texture\
6. Run Project64
7. Go to Options->Settings->Plugins and pick "Glide64 Final or later"

8. Go to Options->Graphics Plugin and check “Show Texture Enhancement options”

9. Go to Options->Graphics Plugin->Texture Enhancement and check “Load hi-res textures if available”

10. Open the ROM and the textures will load.

11. Play the game.

I would like to thank Rice for giving the community the option of High resolution textures.
I would like to thank Gonetz for bringing us Glide64
I would like to thank JHdD for his tutorial format.

 

[Ruku]

What about version 2.1? I have progress on that that I'd like to keep..

EDIT: Where do I put the texture pictures?

 

[NES_player4LIFE]

Same location, be sure to use the Glide64 plugin linked in the top post.

 

[M4sterJ0e]

So, I'm trying to load the texture pack from the OoT Community Retexture Project thread. I'm running Project64 with the Glide64 Final and Rice Video plugins (glide3x.dll is outside of the "Plugin" folder with the Project64 executable.) I have all the Texture Enhancements options set to a T, as shown in that one screenshot.

When I start the OoT rom, the hi-res textures begin to load, like in that last screenshot. However, when it says that 1200+ textures have been loaded (taking up around 330 MB) and still counting, Project64 automatically closes. No error messages even appear. Is there a setting or two I'm missing that isn't shown in the screenshots above?

EDIT: What's the latest revision of Project64 that I could run hi-res texture packs on? Could I run them on Project64 2.0, 2.1, etc.?

EDIT2: I tried loading the hi-res textures on Project64 2.2 with the same plugins and settings. This revision was able to load about 2000 textures (~420 MB) until it caught an exception on line 265 and stopped loading the textures.

 

[NES_player4LIFE]

Large Address Aware.

 

[chrisj03]

I Did everything the same but I kept getting this error message (I'm using 2.3.2.202.) that said this

CN64System::Emulation Starting: Exception caught
File: .\N64System\N64Class.cpp
Line485

 

[riahc3]

Update this tutorial for new versions of PJ64

 

[NES_player4LIFE]

I would but from my experience 1.6 is the last stable release.

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