There was a
previous thread pushing this idea.
It was announced 2 years ago that users should move onto something newer. Yet plenty of runs are still being made with Mupen64-rr, despite how horrible the emulation is, and that plenty of games aren't emulated quite right, even if you can complete them, and the video output in finished movie files for mass consumption is buggy and
problematic. It also annoys our encoders to no end with
ridiculous quirks.
Mupen64-rr itself is no longer maintained, but there are forks that may end up going somewhere. In any case, we do have a newer emulator with more accurate emulation and sane rerecording tools - BizHawk. It may be lacking certain features you want, if so, ask their developers to add them. You may be unused to its interface - get used to it. BizHawk also offers some tools that did not exist in Mupen64-rr which you might end up liking.
We are deprecating use of Mupen64-rr.
I would like to say: "You have until December 31 2016 23:59 UTC to complete any runs you have started using Mupen64-rr, no exceptions will be made, unless you have been
granted a continuance on your existing run." and: "If you feel you have a long run that already had a lot of work put into it, and will need a while to be completed, you may request a continuance in this thread. We will accept continuances until December 15 2016 23:59 UTC."
But if I said that, some people would probably explode. So I'm not going to say it outright. However, we will be disallowing Mupen64-rr sometime in the future, even though no hard date is yet set. You've been warned.
For developers, if you'd like to work on another N64 emulator and get it to a reasonable level of emulation and rerecording capabilities and performance, we can consider accepting that. You have over a year to get such an emulator ready.