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#1 Luigi

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Posted 17 March 2013 - 01:36 AM

I normally buy N64 games for the Wii's Virtual Console but I've been wanting to play Conker's Bad Fur Day for a while and that's not there. So I decided to go with an emulator.

I remember when I was a kid I used to use Project64 but now that I tried it again it is very glitchy and mediocre with graphic errors left and right, and it hasn't been updated for more than a decade now. I found one called 1964 but the website is down and I don't know if it's worth going crusading for it.

Thanks in advance.


Edited by LuigiIsHungry, 17 March 2013 - 01:38 AM.


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Posted 17 March 2013 - 01:50 AM

I normally buy N64 games for the Wii's Virtual Console but I've been wanting to play Conker's Bad Fur Day for a while and that's not there. So I decided to go with an emulator.

I remember when I was a kid I used to use Project64 but now that I tried it again it is very glitchy and mediocre with graphic errors left and right, and it hasn't been updated for more than a decade now. I found one called 1964 but the website is down and I don't know if it's worth going crusading for it.

Thanks in advance.

I'm running Project 64 it works really well for me I suggest searching for graphic plugins. If anything that should work.



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Posted 17 March 2013 - 01:55 AM

I'm running Project 64 it works really well for me I suggest searching for graphic plugins. If anything that should work.

I rather use something that hasn't been going for a decade without updating.



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Posted 17 March 2013 - 01:58 AM

http://www.coolrom.com/emulators/n64/

 

there are some here try theses.



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Posted 17 March 2013 - 02:00 AM

You could do what I did and buy the console for £40 and the game for £90...

The only emulator I have used is Project64 and that ran Super Mario 64 perfectly



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Posted 17 March 2013 - 02:07 AM

You could do what I did and buy the console for £40 and the game for £90...

The only emulator I have used is Project64 and that ran Super Mario 64 perfectly

I would LOVE to have the original but I don't have that kind of money. Is a 2001 game really worth 90 pounds? It's definitely worth the $10 the Virtual Console charges but nintendo doesn't have the rights for the game anymore.

That's the problem with Project64, it only runs what it's designed to run. Super Mario 64 runs wonders but Goldeneye 007 runs like crap.


Edited by LuigiIsHungry, 17 March 2013 - 02:08 AM.


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Posted 17 March 2013 - 02:11 AM

Goldeneye ran like crap anyway (I may be biased, I hate that game)

Conker would be a more similar game to Mario anyway so would be likely to run well. Theres no cost to trying :)



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Posted 17 March 2013 - 02:12 AM

You could do what I did and buy the console for £40 and the game for £90...

The only emulator I have used is Project64 and that ran Super Mario 64 perfectly

I'm running Legend of Zelda, 007 Golden eye and a few other games perfectly fine on Project 64. 



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Posted 17 March 2013 - 02:18 AM

Goldeneye ran like crap anyway (I may be biased, I hate that game)

Conker would be a more similar game to Mario anyway so would be likely to run well. Theres no cost to trying :)

Goldeneye 007 was the best shooter at the time. It may have not aged well but it was as popular as Call of Duty is today. You should play the Activision remake.

 

Sorry if I didn't explain myself well. I DID try it. There were a bunch of graphical glitches.

 

 

I'm running Legend of Zelda, 007 Golden eye and a few other games perfectly fine on Project 64. 

You should look gameplay of the original 007 on youtube to see that it shouldn't run like that.


Edited by LuigiIsHungry, 17 March 2013 - 02:18 AM.


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Posted 17 March 2013 - 02:26 AM

You should look gameplay of the original 007 on youtube to see that it shouldn't run like that.

Run like what? My runs normally...



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Posted 17 March 2013 - 02:27 AM

Goldeneye 007 was the best shooter at the time. It may have not aged well but it was as popular as Call of Duty is today. You should play the Activision remake.

I respect the game for what it was but I hate what it represents to me, that is my friends recently insisting we play it for 2 hours while they both nostalgia-gasm and I get tortured by a game I never played when I was a kid and just doesnt hold up today.

Sorry if I didn't explain myself well. I DID try it. There were a bunch of graphical glitches.

You tried Conker? I missed the implication there.


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Posted 17 March 2013 - 02:32 AM

Run like what? My runs normally...

Would you stop trying to defend Project64? I made my decision I don't want an glitchy and old as hell emulator that promised an update in 2008 and we still don't hear anything about it.



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Posted 17 March 2013 - 02:33 AM

Just had an idea. If you are using a ROM of a game that is not of the same region code as the emulator it may cause some issues



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Posted 17 March 2013 - 02:35 AM

Would you stop trying to defend Project64? I made my decision I don't want an glitchy and old as hell emulator that promised an update in 2008 and we still don't hear anything about it.

I'M NOT DEFENDING THEM! K? Just stating that it works for me! 



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Posted 17 March 2013 - 02:39 AM

Just had an idea. If you are using a ROM of a game that is not of the same region code as the emulator it may cause some issues

Both are (U)

 

Anyway, I didn't come here to troubleshoot Project64, I came here to find a better one.


Edited by LuigiIsHungry, 17 March 2013 - 02:40 AM.


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Posted 17 March 2013 - 02:42 AM

Anyway, I didn't come here to troubleshoot Project64, I came here to find a better one.

Honestly I dont think there is one, what sort of graphical issues were you getting?



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Posted 17 March 2013 - 02:46 AM

Honestly I dont think there is one, what sort of graphical issues were you getting?

Parts of Conker's eyelids disappearing when he blinks, cutscenes going completely black, some sprites showing as white squares, and that's about the time I decided I was done.



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Posted 17 March 2013 - 02:55 AM

The best thing I can think is to try re-installing the emulator, its running mostly fine for me, Im not getting any of those issues



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Posted 17 March 2013 - 03:47 AM

I played with the plugins a bit and Glide64 seems to solve those issues. I still have some pet peeves like the text being a bit blocky.

 

I still want an emulator that's up to date though. So if anyone knows of one I would appreciate it.



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Posted 17 March 2013 - 03:54 AM

I like

http://m64py.sourceforge.net/

http://code.google.com/p/mupen64plus/


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Posted 17 March 2013 - 03:55 AM

Never tried Mupen but I might now that you bring it up.



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Posted 17 March 2013 - 04:04 AM

These are good builds

https://bitbucket.or...4plus/downloads

 

Alternate GUI

http://m64py.sourceforge.net/


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Posted 17 March 2013 - 04:08 AM

I played with the plugins a bit and Glide64 seems to solve those issues. I still have some pet peeves like the text being a bit blocky.

 

I still want an emulator that's up to date though. So if anyone knows of one I would appreciate it.

Nevermind this. Tried it with Goldeneye 007 and there was a lot of framerate dropping, screen tearing, and audio skipping.



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Posted 17 March 2013 - 07:12 AM

Ugh. I want to try out 1964 but the website is down!



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Posted 17 March 2013 - 02:41 PM

http://www.emulator-...p/n64/1964.html

You can get it there :)



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Posted 17 March 2013 - 03:40 PM

I'm telling ya Mupen64 is a good emulator & I posted 2 good GUIs to use with it

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Posted 17 March 2013 - 10:16 PM

I'm telling ya Mupen64 is a good emulator & I posted 2 good GUIs to use with it

Yeah but I want to try them all out to see which one I like best.




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