- Savesates don't seem to be perfect in bizhawk, as desyncing movies do sync from states. Still, only two desyncs means it's a hell of a lot better than mupen.
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Thankfully this should be fixed now with release 1.7.0!
Why do all the N64 emulators suck so much? It's hard to believe that even a wii emulator could be better as of now. Shouldn't an N64 be easier to emulate?
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Stevmay09 wrote:
Why do all the N64 emulators suck so much? It's hard to believe that even a wii emulator could be better as of now. Shouldn't an N64 be easier to emulate?
It's more a question of interested developers who cares about accuracy and sync-stability. The N64 isn't a system that interests this kind of developer in great numbers, which is sad, but that's how it is. There is a project called CEN64 that aims to be both correct and cycle accurate, but it's developed by a single person, which slows down progress.
Thankfully this should be fixed now with release 1.7.0!
Are you sure? Doesn't sound like it from the changelog. What was fixed was movies that start from a state.
Stevmay09 wrote:
Why do all the N64 emulators suck so much? It's hard to believe that even a wii emulator could be better as of now. Shouldn't an N64 be easier to emulate?
Why do all the N64 emulators suck so much? It's hard to believe that even a wii emulator could be better as of now. Shouldn't an N64 be easier to emulate?
It's more a question of interested developers who cares about accuracy and sync-stability. The N64 isn't a system that interests this kind of developer in great numbers, which is sad, but that's how it is. There is a project called CEN64 that aims to be both correct and cycle accurate, but it's developed by a single person, which slows down progress.
From what I recall, Ilari told me that the N64 is programmed in a way that is much harder to emulate, or even do a game than a Gamecube.
It's not a question of power of the console, it's a question of coding headaches.
Warning: I may be wrong, someone would need to valid my statements.
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niamek wrote:
From what I recall, Ilari told me that the N64 is programmed in a way that is much harder to emulate, or even do a game than a Gamecube.
It's not a question of power of the console, it's a question of coding headaches.
Warning: I may be wrong, someone would need to valid my statements.
Yes, but I assume they did the same thing with the Gamecube.
And yet, the gamecubed emulators is more accurate than the N64 ones.
So that means that it's not only no information, but also the coding process... I think?
The N64 has a lot of custom chips with unknown specs, which makes it hard to emulate.
The Gamecube has a standard Power PC Processor and a ATI (now AMD) graphics card. Those specs are known, their PC counterparts are well understood and thus it's a lot easier to make a good emualtor.
The ArtX chip in the Gamecube doesn't have a PC counterpart. However the system architecture is much simpler and the graphics pipeline is much closer in design to a modern 3D accelerator than the RDP in the N64, despite some weird idiosyncracies that have required leveraging very recent GPU features to allow for pixel-accurate rendering in hardware.
Guess I confused that with the Wii, which had an ATI graphics card...
On the other hand the ArtX seems to be a predecessor for the ATI Radeon 9700 cards, so tomato, tomato. ;D
I am waiting to see some more Majora's Mask action. Anyone got any?
well i have been working on some little cool songs as i do SoTS.
I am wondering if I can get someone to maybe request a song to play as i am voiding out.
snow head might feature the back to the future theme, since this game is about time and stuff.
what do you guys think?
also on a side note i think MrGrunz hates me because of a certain video i posted o youtube.
I’m sorry. Really I am... I am so sorry for what I did. Forgive me.
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TAG wrote:
i think MrGrunz hates me
Shocking. I didn't see that one coming.
TASvideos Admin and acting Senior Judge 💙 Currently unable to dedicate a lot of time to the site, taking care of family.
Now infrequently posting on BlueskywarmCabin wrote:
You shouldn't need a degree in computer science to get into this hobby.
So a few little things for the future people:
First I made 100% Bizhawk Savestates for every MM version. Should help for testing and small tases (once tasing from savestates is fixed). https://mega.co.nz/#!XYgWnaKY!DdQqCFGUa75t4qhc0_IFr2h0qmdex7wQApbXlZfIwM8
Then I would like to share my video plugin settings. Glide64 seems to be almost perfect with the right settings. I wouldn't recommend Rice.
My Glide64 settings are these:
Differences from defaults:
- Activated the "Zelda corona fix" for obvious reasons
- Activated motion blur. Without it some cutscenes, like the Zelda and being cursed to be a deku CS mess up.
- Deactivated "Disable GLSL combiners". If this option is active magic arrows, zora shield and SoS warp animation mess up.
-Deactivated "Disable dithered alpha", because it probably can't hurt.
The Per game settings I left on "Use defaults for current game"
Things that could be better:
- Motion blur could be a little smoother
- Deku bubble still messes up. There is a weird reflection of the enviroment in it.
If anybody has solutions for these problems it would be great if you'd let me know.
But those are really minor things, that basically never happen in the game. So I'd say with this settings a TAS would be good to go.
I just noticed that the per game settings of MM 1.0 U mess up the start menu, SoS menu, bombers notebook screen and SoS screen. If you change them to the same as the japanese version it fixes it. If you don't want to compare, here it is:
Use bizhawk if you don't want to smash your PC in a fit of rage.
In other news, this is probably the most heart broken I've ever been: https://i.imgur.com/QH332Kh.png
Fixing page 142.
Some one should find out why this happens
Bugged post deletions.
Oh.
Yea, that sounds like it would cause it.
Why not have a placeholder post that has THIS POST WAS DELETED until someone posts after them, which then the post is actually deleted?
Message me here for my discord.
Current Project: Psycho Waluigi
Project on wait list: None?
Differences from defaults: - Activated the "Zelda corona fix" for obvious reasons - Activated motion blur. Without it some cutscenes, like the Zelda and being cursed to be a deku CS mess up. - Deactivated "Disable GLSL combiners". If this option is active magic arrows, zora shield and SoS warp animation mess up. -Deactivated "Disable dithered alpha", because it probably can't hurt. The Per game settings I left on "Use defaults for current game" Things that could be better: - Motion blur could be a little smoother - Deku bubble still messes up. There is a weird reflection of the enviroment in it. If anybody has solutions for these problems it would be great if you'd let me know. But those are really minor things, that basically never happen in the game. So I'd say with this settings a TAS would be good to go.
