Nintendo 64

[lament escarp]

So was it as complicated as expected?

[cerulean elk]

clearly Brain 64 right there

[mild ether]

Would be nice to have a boot.rom that always passes the crc check.

[solemn maple]

Nicely done, Robert 🙂

[wanton sun]

i'm not sure if it works in all situations, so i'm not sure. What i have done is...lets say acceptable

[orchid nimbus]

aka dirty hack - but TODO is in place? 🙂

[lament escarp]

One of my teachers used to say: die 4 ist die 1 des kleinen mannes. So acceptable is also very good! 🙂

[wanton sun]

there is only one todo: in case a game copies pixels backwards. Not sure it's even allowed. Didn't find any case where it's used

the other things are implemented in a normal way, but with all the modes available, it's hard to tell if all work

[lean spruce]

what exactly did you implement?

[orchid nimbus]

32bit

[cerulean elk]

so what you are saying is @wanton sun is the core comes out tomorrow so I can capture sunday morning and not tomorrow on my wife's day off, potentially getting me murdered?

[wanton sun]

copy mode: writes up to 64bit of data from texture ram to framebuffer in a single cycle

[lean spruce]

Oh, so maybe more black areas will be good now? Like tracks in Mario Kart?

[orchid nimbus]

oops 64bit

[wanton sun]

it's mostly used for 2D elements

e.g. HUD in mario kart or background in the menus

[cerulean elk]

oh wait she works tomorrow and has sunday off. Ok today is fine 😆

[orchid nimbus]

@lean spruce more like 'Pickachu I see you' intro screen

previously it was smashes together in the first 1/4th of the screen

[zinc dew]

Would be funny if we started banning “Brian”

[wanton sun]

yes, everything that was 4 times replicated before SHOULD be fixed

[lean spruce]

its so exciting seeing new stuff working in every build. Better than christmas lol!

[native mesa]

I came.. to play N64

[orchid nimbus]

I think everyone is waiting for Mario 64 to not have less black playing field and the black boxed in Mario Kart 64 to be gone 😄

[wanton sun]

less black for another mario game also ok?

[orchid nimbus]

I just realized that my comment could be taken out of context and thus was adjusted to be more PC

oh nice

@zenith orchid ^^^^

[native mesa]

What's Mario doing with that blue pill

[orchid nimbus]

he looks happy about it

[native mesa]

Is Dr. Mario a different person from Mario

[cerulean elk]

lol I preferred just the pills

[orchid nimbus]

@native mesa plumbers are mostly not doctors

but he may be a clandestine dealer

[cerulean elk]

they also dont wear ties...or so Ive heard

[orchid nimbus]

wrong platform

[cerulean elk]

facts are facts

[wanton sun]

was that working before?

[solemn maple]

No 🙂

[native mesa]

I think he likes teasing us

[wanton sun]

ok ok, i will commit soon

[orchid nimbus]

hahaha

[versed cairn]

lol

[lament escarp]

In oot no, in mm somewhat

[cerulean elk]

looks like its N64 tomorrow night again lol

[wanton sun]

not so many changes this time i guess. hopefully later this weekend i have at least a prototype for 2 pass rendering

[carmine kettle]

wait for the weekend

[cerulean elk]

people would watch you hang wallpaper. You are officially a meme. People think you are a Terminator, an AI and on uppers via comments lol

[wanton sun]

but i'm just a guy who writes hdl code for fun 😦

[cerulean elk]

you've transitioned to an FPGA terminator in peoples eyes lol

[daring meteor]

WHAT

Robert does it again

I can't believe it hahahaha

[desert crow]

name checks out

[lament escarp]

I'd watch a livestream of you coding. Maybe mumble a bit to yourself so I can follow on what you're doing

You could be the bob ross of fpga programming @wanton sun !

[zenith orchid]

woohooo!!! 🙌🥳🙌

[pallid falcon]

Looks like a good time to finally open this. Thanks for the amazing progress Robert.

[zenith orchid]

ayyyyyyy

oh man this should a big deal for 2d games!

[lament escarp]

Get rid of the black boxes and mario kart looks perfect man

[ripe prism]

There’s a pinned file to map that controller easier

[orchid nimbus]

puzle bubble bobble 99

[daring meteor]

That was like that beforehand

[orchid nimbus]

never came this far

oh

then I was impatient

[daring meteor]

Ah wait I did Puzzle bobble I think?

On the last update

This is the best update ever, Ronaldinhio Soccer 64 now works

It worked beforehand but not menus

[frail jolt]

Robert being all modest... we are throwing panties on the stage of this Rockstar and he's blushing like "guys..im just a normal human being, I put my pants on one leg at a time like all of you......by the way, I added a soda dispenser option to the n64 core... and it somehow qctually turns pixels and electricity into drinkable soda.... I hope thst is ok"

[pallid falcon]

I downloaded it when MARIO posted it, thank you though.

[worldly flint]

Woah I thought Zelda was on the TLB no-no list

[neon heron]

“I put my pants on like everyone else— one leg at a time, then I go and materialize fully formed hdl”

[worldly flint]

Maybe it still is, but I'm surprised to see even that much of the game.

[cerulean elk]

Lol we’ll see you all tomorrow at 4 pm then I guess 🤷🏻‍♂️

[viscid gate]

Bangai-Oh is a lot more navigable now, but seems unstable

[orchid nimbus]

full menu

nice

also player positons

[zenith orchid]

niiiice

I have high hopes for yoshi story

[cerulean elk]

Lmk how it goes. I like to revisit to do side by side comparisons for visual improvements

[desert crow]

who says he puts pants on?

[manic basin]

'remove flickering lines' == A+++

[orchid nimbus]

background shows perfectly now 🙂

[lament escarp]

Pokemon puzzle league playable! Edit: by which I mean mostly visible!

[fair stump]

can someone check if the faces in shadows of the empire are still stretched in cutscenes?

[ripe prism]

Just like momma used to make it

[cerulean elk]

Time to pull over and start testing

[zenith orchid]

@cerulean elk btw are you feeling better yet?

[cerulean elk]

95%. Stjll a tiny bit of congestion. The cold that lingers

[zenith orchid]

that's one hell of a cold

[cerulean elk]

That’s what happens when you haven’t been sick for three years. Hits hard

[manic basin]

I bet Famista 64 looks way better too.

[pallid falcon]

I had a cold that lasted for about a month recently. Took ages to go, and it's summer

[cerulean elk]

It’s going around apparently. All over the place

For real it’s been like 25 days

Beat the shit out of me for like 10 days then just lingered and slightly improves daily

[zenith orchid]

I also had a month long cold, and the following month I got the rona

[zenith orchid]

ayyy

[inner bronze]

ayyyy

[pallid falcon]

I hope playing jank makes you feel better. it works for me

[wanton sun]

still no background ingame

[cerulean elk]

How is it in game? That was the fun example of it playing blind

I was impressed I remembered as much of where stuff was as I did

[lament escarp]

I feel really smart now

[manic basin]

It does!

[zenith orchid]

pokemon puzzle league is looking good now? 😮

[brisk edge]

wow things are starting to really look good now

[lament escarp]

Not good. But mostly visible.

[daring meteor]

I'm surprised this build fixes Dr Mario and Puzzle League, were those sprites IA16?

Also Mario kart still E8000s in menus for some reason

[wanton sun]

E8000 may be kept over after reset

i need to find a better way to clear it

[zenith orchid]

that brick texture makes it look like a psx game

[wanton sun]

Dr Mario was the copy mode. It's the fastest way to draw sprites if you don't need any scaling or blending or whatever

[daring meteor]

Ah, surprising but alright

You have any idea what Toad's Turnpike uses?

[lament escarp]

Resident evil 2 looks really good now... until it crashes in its usual place.

[wanton sun]

2 pass

[daring meteor]

Just 2 Pass, alright

[wanton sun]

2 pass can fetch 2 textures and blend them together. Currently as there is no second fetch, the second texture is always black

[daring meteor]

Wait, is that also the transperencies in MK64?

[wanton sun]

no

[orchid nimbus]

Mario 64?

😛

[daring meteor]

Bomb Omb Battlefield is 2 Pass

[zenith orchid]

the blackness in wave race?

[cerulean elk]

@zinc dew has made 2 passes at me. It’s getting weird

[daring meteor]

Robert has made (more than) 2 Passes of everyones expectations

[orchid nimbus]

they redefined blackjack 😄

[wanton sun]

they already took most money from you?

[daring meteor]

Blacker Jack

[orchid nimbus]

I was a bit hasty you can play this game 😄

[zenith orchid]

so 2 pass would probably be the next big visual leap?

[daring meteor]

Yeah

[orchid nimbus]

\o/

[zenith orchid]

I wonder if they'll be what's needed to make starfox playable

[daring meteor]

2 Pass would fix the all black BoB, MK64 courses, and probably Yoshis story, wave race etc etc

[zenith orchid]

@wanton sun excellent work yet again! looking forward to the next build 🙂

[cerulean elk]

I may as well just rename the channel to Video Game N64’oterica now 😂

[zenith orchid]

anyone testing THPS3 on N64?

[cerulean elk]

I tried last core. Nothing did much

[hollow rune]

I can again if zou want, I am booting up now

damn german keyboard

[lament escarp]

But it has öäü!

[hollow rune]

and yet, for my little Panda paws, attached to an American panda brain, everything else is a mess

[native mesa]

Doesn't appear to be newly booting games, yeah?

I don't fully understand the error codes

[foggy stirrup]

i just won a game of MK trilogy .. did that work ?

[orchid nimbus]

sculpters editon works too

[zenith orchid]

yeah that would be great

I have a feeling that it's 2 pass

[orchid nimbus]

Chopper Attack perfect HUD

[zenith orchid]

the THPS games play so much better on N64, but unfortunately the music leaves much to be desired

[little socket]

that's why the dc exists

[native mesa]

Well you can play a youtube playlist in the background

[hollow rune]

Mystical Ninja still doesn't get into gameplay

opening looked largely the same

[zenith orchid]

eh, I'd rather play the xbox version if I'm going to the next gen consoles 😂

[orchid nimbus]

what do you mean 'still' - make your own core if you want to play the game 🙂

[rapid prairie]

Well I know what I’m messing around with tonight. Does OOT get past the name entry screen?

[native mesa]

This is a testing channel is it not?

[orchid nimbus]

@native mesa the word 'still' is not needed

it triggers me

[desert crow]

be still

[native mesa]

He clearly meant between versions

[hollow rune]

I get here but am not sure what to do

[orchid nimbus]

freezes in place

[desert crow]

simon didn't say

[zenith orchid]

go to free skate

[daring meteor]

You lost

[orchid nimbus]

Diddy Kong racing gets ingame

[daring meteor]

Is it all black?

It used to be all black on the last version

[orchid nimbus]

but probably much better with 2 pass as it's all black

[daring meteor]

Yeah

[zenith orchid]

free skate is the third option from the top

[viscid gate]

Bangai-Oh

[native mesa]

The Buck Bumble theme still works

[zinc dew]

I wonder if it would be helpful to have a running list of games that are running well?

[hollow rune]

Yeah, past that menu it goes to black and crashes. Some music and stuff before that

[zinc dew]

Could be a good slate to compare new builds against.

[cerulean elk]

I think it would

[rapid prairie]

At this point Robby I think that would be cool

[rapid prairie]

Lots more is getting in game!

[cerulean elk]

And then we know what to test when new cores come out to see if games that didn’t work show signs of life

[zenith orchid]

I'm pretty sure THPS games all use TLB

oh well

[cerulean elk]

I can’t test today but I’ll batch capture / test tomorrow and report what I find

[native mesa]

I wonder how much of it is new booting vs actual navigable menus

[little socket]

that's where people using sound have the advantage

[vagrant ivy]

Moondandy has his google sheet linked in the pins for testing

[oblique remnant]

looks a lot better now with background but crashes soon enough... still progress 🔥 👍🏻

[orchid nimbus]

fifa98

[zenith orchid]

I don't know about you guys, but I think the core might be a bit buggy

[orchid nimbus]

works fine for me here

as expected

[zinc dew]

Yeah that’s true, I don’t want to divert from that. Having one source of “truth” is the biggest benefit.

Good call.

[foggy stirrup]

mega man 64 i am watching the intro

[hollow rune]

Harvest Moon 64
World's most bizzare funeral is still weird. @wanton sun what would caust the ground to draw like triangles on a hexagon?

[oblique remnant]

boots but crashes @ titlescreen 🙂

[orchid nimbus]

it's magical

[native mesa]

What's Dark Rift? sounds cool

[daring meteor]

What's it supposed to look like?

[orchid nimbus]

❤️ compile

[native mesa]

oh a scifi fighting game

Well you get a few frames into the fight

[orchid nimbus]

what is this? 😄

[oblique remnant]

Tetris 64 looks kinda perfect not sure if that was before?!

[hollow rune]

Something like this

[native mesa]

Here's how the tetris challenge menu should look.

[versed cairn]

way more hud in rush 2

[daring meteor]

My guess is texture filtering+2Pass

We'll see after Robert Tackles 2 Pass

[zinc dew]

Whaaaaat

[zinc dew]

Battlezone?

[native mesa]

Dark Rift

[zinc dew]

Ohhh!

[native mesa]

It freezes there

[zinc dew]

😢

[zenith orchid]

didn't turok have HUD issues?

[native mesa]

0442 is the error

whatever tha means

[cerulean elk]

Nice

[zenith orchid]

hey maybe rampage will look alright on this build

it was mostly texture glitches if I remember right

[vapid hawk]

turok used to be rendering like a grey void iirc

[fallen sparrow]

What game is this please?

[zenith orchid]

bangaio

[reef trench]

other than some black boxes, it looks almost perfect

[vagrant ivy]

No one has asked the real question How does the one true Game Quest 6 4 run !

[storm parrot]

Gratz on RDP copy mode

[zenith orchid]

sweet! I bet once mk64 is perfect, rampage will be as well

[modern sleet]

NHL 99 looks almost perfect

[versed cairn]

not finding as many changes but theres now sky in the mystical ninja intro. still freezes before gameplay though

[rare halo]

MK trilogy runs pretty good!

[oblique remnant]

its seems those divided into 4 title screens have been fixed. not sure what caused that before 🙂

[vagrant ivy]

it has the code for being too Awesome to run

[vapid hawk]

re2 probably needs one of the unsupported save types right

[vagrant ivy]

E8000 means I tried to run it but it so overwhelmed me I had to stop

[fallen sparrow]

thx

[worn delta]

Core needs to go Super Saiyan to run Quest 64

[modern sleet]

Needs *over E9000

[oblique remnant]

we have a baseball stadium now 🙂 menu also improoved

[versed cairn]

custom robo menu!

[zenith orchid]

@orchid nimbus are we marking today the day of copy mode, IA16, and PaletteIA modes?

[wanton sun]

seems harvest moon still has some bugs with the copy mode?

[oblique remnant]

S. Mihumacher 🙂

[neat sierra]

https://tenor.com/view/onepunchman-gif-20178641

[vague sun]

I know the analog output is not officially supported and may be addressed the post above, but the 20230825 build crunches the OSD when first booting. In game looks the video and OSD look fine.

[viral swift]

Star wars sote playable now

[vague sun]

Going to stream testing some N64 games. Come hang if you can! https://twitch.tv/owlnonymous

[oblique remnant]

it's over 900000000 🙂

[compact depot]

Is Mario Kart 64 capped at 20fps in real hardware too?

[kind nimbus]

Booting Wayne Gretzky's

to check progress 😉

[modern sleet]

We found another Canadian

[paper orchid]

On real hardware, Mario Kart 64's framerate is "it depends"

[kind nimbus]

I live in Ohio, don't even like hockey, but that game rules 😉

[paper orchid]

Anyone who's played Skyscraper in multiplayer knows what I'm talking about

[compact depot]

Single player

[paper orchid]

I believe it's intended to run at 30FPS, but it'll drop to 20 in some areas

[compact depot]

Ok. So I think the core needs some more work for Mario Kart 64 then

[kind nimbus]

Does "boots" count if all you see is a single splash screen

[native mesa]

I also Ohio

[kind nimbus]

Woot, which part HMP

[viral swift]

Extreme G Text working now

[quasi storm]

I think it's interesting that in Rampage World tour, the sprites draw correctly in one direction but not the other.

[oblique remnant]

the menus progressed the most imo with this update

limited testing of course 🙂

[hearty python]

CPU Datacache isn’t implemented yet, so it will speedup then.

[compact depot]

Is "CPU Datacache" something that the real hardware had or are we talking about the "hacks" for making this work in the DE10-Nano?

[hearty python]

Real hardware

[compact depot]

Awesome! Thanks!

[kind nimbus]

Your time to shine Rush 2 fans

[oblique remnant]

it's been a while since i booted Wave Race is the colored racer new?

[remote hatch]

in the previous core he was already colored 😉

[worldly flint]

I wonder if that's the game ”copying pixels backwards" like Robert mentioned earlier, or a different problem.

If so that's the one thing he didn't implement in this render mode

[foggy stirrup]

Ok who is gonna be the first to beat MK trilogy on the core? not me

[oblique remnant]

so nothing new here? Huds Menus etc. ?!

[dreamy ridge]

i know whenever i see screenshots flooding the chat we got a NEW BUILD BABY

[viral swift]

Or Papa agoo is showing Off His stuff again 😅

[quasi storm]

Yeah man! Get in here and start testing with us!

[vagrant ivy]

what you dont know is thats a 14 inch screen in his mini house

[kind nimbus]

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1H4KYg0gsOWGayioXKSETtlM7d7g3Tk4w0QXqtXvugG8/edit?pli=1#gid=0

[marble cargo]

Mischief Makers still fails to get past the title screen

[real void]

How well do these work with the core?

[viral swift]

Still Not Bad for such a "small Release"

[fallen sparrow]

Just tried it on MK trilogy so far. Dpad placement is bad.
Need to try some analogue games in a bit.

[reef trench]

these sumo dudes have less face than Mario

[kind nimbus]

Can't get Hydro Thunder past that Get Ready screen, but it boots

Going to try other courses

See if another works

[remote hatch]

yeah , no change

[real void]

Yeah I'd say anything relying heavily on the dpad will be a bit of a pain alright

[fallen sparrow]

I'll probably use a different controller for Dpad only games

[kind nimbus]

Any time 3D is about to load Hydro dies, demo loop confirmed

the menu music is cool tho....

I have not been using the Error Overlay for my "testing", I should do that

[quasi storm]

I'd like to update the N64 compatibility sheet. Hopefully someone sees my access request.

[ocean lily]

same

[kind nimbus]

they let me in real quick, fyi

[quasi storm]

Nascar 2000 gets this far...

[remote hatch]

nice!

[quasi storm]

The main menu will still sometimes freeze with an EC code.

Sup, @orchid nimbus! Nice website, as usual. And yes, I did actually read through it.

[manic basin]

Me seeing all this testing while sitting in traffic trying to get to I90: <Imagine the David Tennant in the rain gif>

[remote hatch]

Last legion UX

[quasi storm]

You said that, and My first thought was the "Tears in the rain" monologue I'm Blade Runner. I got depressed for a moment 😆

[stoic parcel]

Well that's a lovely bit of progress, isnt it? Nice work @wanton sun

[orchid nimbus]

lol - I see you did it till the end

[oblique remnant]

in time trail MK64 runs at 30fps on the core

[quasi storm]

I wonder what component is missing that contributes to the slowness

[manic basin]

Literally my favorite monologue. "In a box" from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead is close though.

[versed cairn]

cpu is missing data cache is what robbert has said causes the slowdown

[quasi storm]

Hey, Toads turnpike is doable in MK64... Just follow the traffic!

[young mesa]

great progress on n64 core, i still think bot is lying.

[stoic parcel]

The core is a lie

[quasi storm]

Let's see...

[oblique remnant]

yeah is the AI (+7 players ) stressing the core out more in the singleplayer ?

[quasi storm]

When is MiSTer getting N64 core?

...aw. Thought it would pop up haha

[remote hatch]

Hiryuu no Ken Twin

[cerulean elk]

Cheers. No testing today. Coffee date with Mrs Esoterica

[manic basin]

It is a triumph. Making a note here, huge success.

[quasi storm]

Oh, Dang. Forgot to watch your latest... Brb

[native mesa]

Tell Mrs Esoterica you're selling all your arcade boards and taking a trip to Europe

[hexed knot]

Bomberman Hero looking great and playable.

[oblique remnant]

crashes entering game 😦

[cerulean elk]

She’d never believe it

[desert crow]

They probably have to go cups

[compact depot]

I bet everyone will be playing OoT on this core by xmas! 🎅

By the speed of things so far!

[native mesa]

Lol by the speed of things by next week

[remote hatch]

Golden Nugget

[hasty kayak]

Unbelievable this is. To see how quickly things have progressed.

[fair stump]

Looking good now

[manic basin]

Oh hot damn!

[remote hatch]

Glover

[brisk drum]

Aka flying dragon!

Is it playable ?

[remote hatch]

yeah

[brisk drum]

How’s the speed?

[pallid falcon]

I've added the N64 config for the NSO controller, but the MiSTer won't let me set up the buttons etc. I'm wired. Any suggestions?

as in add the controller to MiSTer, not the core

[remote hatch]

Very good

[brisk drum]

Oh yeah this looks full speed!

[manic basin]

I'd rather be testing. Should have grabbed the Jackery....

[remote hatch]

at my place it is already 10 pm

[pallid falcon]

Ah, someone on the forum said it doesn't work wired (for some reason) only bluetooth. Oh well.

[remote hatch]

Prost

[vagrant ivy]

You need to buy a Tank. No traffic Jams

[remote hatch]

Poland 🙂

[safe robin]

can be so many places 😄

[vagrant ivy]

Not the UK we are in a sensible TimeZone ! 9pm here

[pallid falcon]

Looks like I'll need to get a dongle for the MiSTer to use the controller

[safe robin]

https://tenor.com/view/bye-europe-gif-18386702

[manic basin]

UTC ...we're all in this together.

[safe robin]

a bluetooth?

[pallid falcon]

Yes

I prefer wired, but apparently doesn't work

[safe robin]

Im using this one since like 6 Months and its perfect.
https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B08SC9M9K3?psc=1

[vagrant ivy]

This one woks for Mister

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08SC9M9K3/

[cerulean elk]

It’s not legal to jack it in a car

[vagrant ivy]

snap !"

[safe robin]

i had a small one without Antenna before and i always had lag and disconnects when playing 2 player

[cerulean elk]

I don’t recognize this?

[safe robin]

haha

must be a good dongle then when we drop the same 😄

[pallid falcon]

I'll use the one I use on the PC for now

[manic basin]

Stupid hands free laws....

[vagrant ivy]

Buy a Tesla, Hands free till you die

[manic basin]

It's pretty great. Solid little fighter.

[remote hatch]

Hiryuu no Ken Twin

[elfin depot]

I always hit "jump to bottom of convo" and start reading upwards to catch up, this was a mistake in this instance:

[remote hatch]

Fox Sports College Hoops

[manic basin]

Omae ha chibi da.

[zenith orchid]

I'm so thrilled that I can play Dr. Mario 64. That game should be considered playable

even though some HUD elements are missing

[manic basin]

So @remote hatch ... my family name is Dopieralski. Does it mean anything or is it just a regional thing like "From Dopierala" or something...? I've always wondered.

[safe robin]

it means you should learn how to make Pierogi

[remote hatch]

it can't be translated 😄

[lilac scroll]

Wait does the NSO controller work wired? Maybe buying used controllers to mod with the 8bitdo kit was a waste of money, I didn’t realize it was that versatile if so

[manic basin]

Of course!

[zenith orchid]

I hope 2 pass will make doom 64 playable

[weary palm]

I'm in Sveden xD

[remote hatch]

but it is a well-known Polish surname 🙂

[hollow orbit]

Is this working? https://www.raphnet-tech.com/products/n64_usb_adapter_gen3/index.php

[manic basin]

Yeah, there's a hacker named Radomir "The Sheep" with the name that I'd occasionally get communication for back in the usenet days.

It's not very common in the US. But there are more of us every year.

I think there are like 3 of us on IMDb. And my son and I are two of those.

[zenith orchid]

It appears that going into battle in KI calls the TLB. it appears to be a very similar visual artifact to when you try to get into the mario face screen.

[desert crow]

maybe The Sheep can hack it

[carmine kettle]

should have grab portable

[manic basin]

Yeah. I really should have.

[carmine kettle]

damn already night time mygoodness its 4pm here

[karmic locust]

There's a reason goldeneye speedrunners spend most of their time looking at a wall/the floor.

[manic basin]

007 is the average framerate.

[paper orchid]

Reading up on it, so MK64 has two pieces to it: the actual framerate and then an internal time scale that's set in certain cases

[karmic locust]

No you just didn't see color in the 90's modern politics means you can't ignore racial element.

[paper orchid]

That time scale is usually increased for e.g. multiplayer, so in multiplayer the game feels like it's running a lot faster than the actual framerate of the draws

[carmine kettle]

what chip is fps?

[cerulean elk]

If you can do it without hands color me impressed 🤣

[manic basin]

Thanks! It's a medical condition!

[remote hatch]

Choro Q

[cerulean elk]

I wish my wife could drive. I’d play MiSTer in the car

[frail jolt]

like you are scared of her driving skills? - or she just cant drive?

[karmic locust]

Aww yeah I discovered choro q played it on the psx core last year. The music rules. Drunk handling models fun too.

[cerulean elk]

She didn’t get her license till 35 and she hasn’t driven in about 3 years. So it’s more of a “can’t”. She was a good driver. But Chicago is sketch as fuck so I always drive

I’ve been driving for 22 years. Chicago is sketchy as fuck. You need to panic avoid accidents weekly

[karmic locust]

Potential for overclocked core has me hype so I can try perfect dark cos I know I'd find native framerate unplayable

[cerulean elk]

Perfect Dark is very hard to go back to these days

It’s a slideshow. Amazing game. But a slideshow

[quasi storm]

I think so...

[karmic locust]

Driving is way more stressful these days. Irish populations jumped 30% in 20 years with no infrastructure upgrade and modern cars accelerate so fast they're at speed limit all the time. Makes me hate cycling on roads too I'm hoping they pull the finger out do greenway tracks near me eventually

[quasi storm]

Boom!

[cerulean elk]

I love driving. Just not in Chicago

[ocean lily]

toad's turnpike in reverse is the only way to play

[cerulean elk]

Give me a road trip and I’m your guy. I’ll do 12 hours at 95 MPH standing in my head

I do tend to go too fast though. But in a controlled manner 😂

[quasi storm]

That took me WAY too long to do... MK64 is a sonofagun sometimes.

[quasi storm]

Yeah, no. This was bad enough, as it currently stands. 😆

[remote hatch]

Hanafuda 😆

[ocean lily]

anyone ever figure out of reverse is faster than 150cc? always felt like it was

[hasty kayak]

Snap, I have been driving since 2001 as well.

[cerulean elk]

My wife gets after me…”how fast are we going” (at 1 am in Wisconsin)…”um….124”

[hasty kayak]

haha 🙂

These days I am like driving Miss Daisy. My wife says "You're too slow!"

[cerulean elk]

I haven’t slowed down but as I’ve gotten older I’ve gotten more….”mortal”? Like I now realize I am not invincible

Unlike Mario Kart 🤣

[desert crow]

must be part irish

[hasty kayak]

We had a big head on shunt (not our fault). I was driving and since then, I am very hesitant.

[hasty kayak]

I am Part Irish yes.

[manic basin]

I've driving for 30 years (not in a row....) and if I could give it up forever I would in a second. But it's not feasible in the cities in the us.

[hasty kayak]

Anyway 🙂 1 thing that isn't hesitant is this N64 core 🙂

[pallid falcon]

Bottom of the 9th (thought it might be a golf game, alas, it is rounders).

[quasi storm]

Just tested this... Oh yeah. ~50% speedup without AI.

[cerulean elk]

I love it too much

I love driving. I love cars. I love new cars

[frail jolt]

What kind of a guy get.... who currenlty owns a 2007 WRX, and need a new family vehicle

[karmic locust]

Can't say I've ever enjoyed it much. Sat nav is good tho least I can zone out catch up on podcasts. Since zoom came in I barely need to go to meetings thank god. Been mostly working from home since 2010 do not miss commuting.

[pallid falcon]

That's my weekend sorted.

[quasi storm]

Naturally, all the crap games look great...

That reminds me...

[desert crow]

grandpa smoking a pipe in a nintendo game

[cerulean elk]

We got an X2. I guess if your family isn’t huge it would work. In between “sports car” and “boring car”. Engine isn’t as fast / 0-60 as the Golf R it replaced but I love it

[frail jolt]

i was contimplating Bronco

[quasi storm]

Of course it works...

[cerulean elk]

Don’t. They break. Like if you look at them the wrong way

Buddy of mine got one. It’s spent more time in the shop then on the road in the first year

[karmic locust]

My grandmother was driving till she was 90yo she'd be doing 70mph in center of town "If I go fast it helps me concentrate". This town had a lot of old people in it would just abandon their cars in the street wherever pop in and out of shops so the police were particularly tolerant.

[cerulean elk]

Entire engine went a month out of the dealership brand new. They got it back…started to leak water in the rain. Still leaks after two repairs. Then the ECU died

[carmine kettle]

hows ddk racing?

[zinc dew]

As people are playing games please remember this request from Robert - #1096015979055697940 message

”one little request: there is a bug where the new palette texture sometimes have a random flickering pixel. If anyone find a reproducible situation in a game, still image prefered, where this happens and the Errorcode is without bit15(smaller than E8000) , please tell me where, so i have a chance of fixing it”

[languid dune]

Oh god, just noticed that there's another update!?

And here I was ||not|| wasting my time playing some Soldier Blade.

[desert crow]

<#1096015979055697940 message>

[remote hatch]

Haha madness !

[oblique remnant]

Trump collection 😃

[frail jolt]

What year?

My buddy has a 23 and so far so good...it's been a year

[zinc dew]

Ohhh ok, thanks for posting that. Should I keep that message still pinned?

[frail jolt]

I mean new platform is always crap for the first 2 3 years

[manic basin]

Bottom Uppu!

[frail jolt]

So I figure..if I get a 24 in a few months..a lot of bugs should be worked out

[worn delta]

Does Sin And Punishment have a different Japanese name in the rom packs? I can't seem to find it

[pallid falcon]

Nagano seems playable.

[desert crow]

sounded like it was a false alarm so maybe people don't have to look for it Rob can tell you for sure later

[viscid gate]

Tsumi to Batsu - Hoshi no Keishousha (Japan)

[worn delta]

Ah, thank you!

[cerulean elk]

Much improved

[worn delta]

I've added a column to the testing sheet for Exclusive Yes/No on Japan and Europe, so can easily see what the exclusive ones are and their status (if they have been tested)

[zinc dew]

Is Nagano cool?

[pallid falcon]

Wnter Olympics game. If you like those kind of games, I would say so (been a long time since I played it)

[vague sun]

core is looking great

[cerulean elk]

It’s alright. Better with friends

[fallen sparrow]

Tried Mario Kart, no issues. I'll be doing a video review in the next couple of days, that'll go over a few more things. In a nutshell

Dpad bad
Analogue - no issues

[zinc dew]

it’s cool because it’s a winter game

very cold

[pallid falcon]

The Snowboard Kids games and 1080 also feature snow (and Mario 64)

[zinc dew]

also cool games

[vapid hawk]

banjo kazooie has a great snow level

[languid dune]

Nice! The fighters show up now in Mortal Kombat 4!

[cerulean elk]

D pad no good?

[cerulean elk]

Winter Olympics are best Olympics

Only one foolish enough to let my ass in 😂

[languid dune]

Big improvement to Bangai-O as well!

Sadly, Bust-a-Move 2 still looks like an Atari 2600 game.

[cerulean elk]

Bummer

[karmic locust]

Hopefully the voice samples aren't working yet

[pallid falcon]

Ful voice audio working on both Elmo games - could try those if you are a masochist?

[cerulean elk]

Now I almost want to put them in a vid

[languid dune]

Masochism compels you!

[karmic locust]

I haven't played ddk in 25 years I'd probably find it quaint not annoying now

[fallen sparrow]

Nah, too close to buttons, also not entirely accurate

[cerulean elk]

Bummer. I wanted that one to be good

[pallid falcon]

There was something I found annoying on DKR, but I cannot remember what it was

[fallen sparrow]

I'm not too disappointed, as I more wanted it for the analogue and button layout

[pallid falcon]

Had the nice touches that Nintendo and Rare often add (butterflies on a screen somewhere?)

[cerulean elk]

Yeah I guess what games really need a D pad? If so I’d use my something else

[fallen sparrow]

That's the plan

[cerulean elk]

I’ll wait your review. I’m in no rush

[karmic locust]

If you're not trying to use the analog stick gripping the dpad grip then I'm sorry but you're not getting proper period accurate ultra 64 experience. When are we getting vaseline filter I can't deal with these pixels?

[languid dune]

Heck yeah, Pokemon Puzzle League is somewhat playable now! You can actually see most of the visuals in-game.

Your cursor unfortunately obscures what's behind it though.

[cerulean elk]

It’s not real N64 if you don’t have a hand cramp

Or a palm blister from being an idiot on Mario Party

[pallid falcon]

and blisters on a palm

[desert crow]

Dpad in the middle was an odd choice. something like mortal kombat might use that

[covert bough]

golden eye was interesting in that you could use the strafe on the d-pad if you're left handed

[unkempt vortex]

is there any way to move analogue stick from right on my ps5 controller to left?

[zenith orchid]

Alright, now I'm beginning to understand why people love MK64 so much.

I was never crazy about it because I would always be up against people way better than me, and I never had a chance to get familiar with the controls and the levels.

[safe robin]

WCW Nitro goes in game. but it crashed after 1 minute of playing

[zenith orchid]

Now that I've played Time Attack for while, I'm starting to get it

[safe robin]

Tried it again, its crashes very quick

[rapid prairie]

Hmm I’m also using a Dualsense and my analog is mapped to the left stick. Maybe try remapping the controller for Mister as well as the core settings?

[ripe prism]

The Xbox 360 port I believe fixed all that

Think Xbox live arcade? Saw it on YouTube years ago

[zinc dew]

Such an amazing port. It’s also on Rare Replay.

[pallid falcon]

Running at a mostly stable 5fps.

[tidal zenith]

cinematic

[safe robin]

Wipeout 64 works 😮

It's maybe working better than Mario kart 64 right now.

[zenith orchid]

Oh my, Harvest Moon is really bugged 😄

[pallid falcon]

Fire Electric Pen works.

[languid dune]

Rampage World Tour works a lot better now as well. No more of the weird warped sprites.

[native mesa]

Flip it upsidown

[pallid falcon]

Susume! Is also playable.

[fair stump]

But what about vivid dolls

[zenith orchid]

Cruis'n World is flawless

[zenith orchid]

eww, wtf man

[worn delta]

I am afraid it does not

[pallid falcon]

Now that's a retro injury.

[fair stump]

https://tenor.com/view/beckyhabbersberger-becky-ycswu-tryguys-trywives-gif-24679179

[zenith orchid]

yeah wrong nobody asked for that shit dude

[native mesa]

If she's doesn't know what that is shes too young for you

[languid dune]

You mean Cruis'n USA?

[zenith orchid]

I am trying it now @languid dune

[languid dune]

World works, but is really slow and has texture issues.

[zenith orchid]

Oh, I played Egypt, and the only texture issue I see is the boxes around the palm trees

Well, USA has some black vertical lines popping up

[languid dune]

Damn, Wonder Project J looks so much better here than it does on the emulator I tried it on recently.

[zenith orchid]

This might be the first build release in which there are significantly more playable games, albeit with visual issues

[safe robin]

iss 64 also works only the gras is a bust dark 😂

[brisk drum]

Nighttime mode

[brisk drum]

I hereby adopt Robert in the name of America

It’s official

[native mesa]

America isn't good enough for him

[brisk drum]

Yo what the fuck you say?

[brisk drum]

I’ll bust yo lip open!

[fair stump]

East coast calls dibs

[brisk drum]

Nah he Midwest fo sho

[native mesa]

AMERICA ISNT GOOD ENOUGH FOR HIM

[brisk drum]

That’s it! Frenchie!

I’m gonna clobber you Francois

[native mesa]

🥖

[brisk drum]

https://tenor.com/view/homer-ninja-homer-ninja-the-simpsons-simpsons-gif-15961702

[brisk drum]

It’s over we have claimed Robert as our own

https://tenor.com/view/kravatie-french-viva-kravatie-france-gif-25816482

[zinc dew]

please keep gifs to a minumum, thank you for understanding 🍻

[karmic locust]

I think I read somewhere xbox are more committed to reconfigurable controls cos they build stuff compliant to differently abled people and their custom controllers

[compact depot]

https://tenor.com/view/ok-alright-then-fine-great-okay-gif-23114127

[zinc dew]

Good for Microsoft, I worked with them and they're very comitted to accessibility in both control and experience. In this example though it's a MiSTer specific request. @unkempt vortex , I think you can achieve that by swapping the stick mapping in Main. You'll want to set your controller back up.

[cerulean elk]

That does lead to a good question. MiSTer is big enough now that accessibility is probably a good question.

[carmine kettle]

still expensive

[karmic locust]

Mk64 controls/physics are kind of weird easy bounce off initially but give you nice autonomy when you get to grips with them reason speedrunners like them. Something like the Sonic Adventure games the controls too esoteric but maybe speedrunners find a different type of satisfaction trying to tame the camera through practice.

[drowsy junco]

Could Colorblind modes be added at the end of the hdmi output, right before it goes out? Be sort of a hack, since most games weren't developed with that in mind. But it would be something

[cerulean elk]

Do we know anyone with a MiSTer and an Xbox accessible controller? It would be interesting to know how it pairs. Maybe I can ask around. Do a video on accessibility. Help more people enjoy the hobby

[zenith orchid]

Yeah I can see that. And since I'm using a DS3 analog stick, I'm not sure how authentic the sensitivity is, but it's workable.

[karmic locust]

I've plugged my dildo into Mister not recognised properly but if someone wants to troubleshoot I'm enthusiastic tester

[cerulean elk]

It might be possible to change the color space post processing but I wouldn’t be certain on that

[bronze tree]

What does such a mode actually do to the colors? (I'm color blind)

[karmic locust]

Sorry I've been drinking and lord saucisson inspired that last comment

[zinc dew]

I'm pretty sure we have one at the office. I'm actually AbleGamers accessibility certified - https://twitter.com/RGarciaLago/status/1605342424997691393?s=20

Roberto Garcia-Lago ⛩️ (@RGarciaLago)

Thank you so much to @GearboxOfficial for sponsoring me for the @AbleGamers accessibility training. It was an eye-opening and very educational experience. I'm proud to say I've been APX certified!

#SoEveryoneCanGame https://t.co/cfB9PqtLil

Twitter · Dec 20, 2022, 11:20 PM

[cerulean elk]

If it works and you have a loaner I’m happy to do a video on accessibility options and then ship it back. I’ll cover the shipping too. Least I can do

[drowsy junco]

You know, I'm not entirely sure

[zinc dew]

Ohhhh, yeah I wouldn't be able to ship that at all. I'm sorry.

Stays in the office!

[karmic locust]

N64 has the indents on the analog informs part of Mario 64 movement maybe lost on ds3

[cerulean elk]

Well if it works maybe I can buy one and then after the vid maybe we could find a gamer in need who can’t afford one and get it to them?

[zenith orchid]

Yeah, well the stick is pretty sensitive, I rarely ever get to the edge

[cerulean elk]

Or if you have insider buying @zinc dew I can give you my CC info then gift it after. All ideas 🤷🏻‍♂️

And yes I trust you enough with my credit card 🤣

[orchid nimbus]

@vague sun tried it and it indeed does not work - to everyone’s disapointment

[karmic locust]

N64 sticks dogshit wears out quickly so subtlety is not the way

[orchid nimbus]

@karmic locust the solution

[cerulean elk]

Ok Xbox accessibility controller is only $100. If someone can confirm it works I’ll do a vid and then do a charity giveaway. @zinc dew your my point man!

Or PS5 accessible one

[karmic locust]

I know there are now alternatives I'm just talking about my historic experience while I hold out on aforementioned alternative peripheral support

Derp I'm forgetting about Rez this joke has been done 25 years ago

Arcade magazine used write a lot of innuendo filled captions

[hollow rune]

XBOX accessabity controller works but you should watch a video about them, cause there are other parts you might have to buy to see the full potential. I think All Access LIfe does a good one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHOYQQTvQu4&t=265s

It is a great channel by the way. Eye tracking also has great video game potential

[cerulean elk]

Thanks. I will look into this

[plush summit]

I've met a couple of folk who were really interested and got into more Accessibility roles at other companies, always good to explore and grow.

[zinc dew]

Well first of all you’re too kind, thank you. But I don’t think I could help in any official capacity since my certification is company endorsed and I’d have to involve legal for clearance.

[cerulean elk]

Well if you just want to unofficially confirm functionality before I launch into something that just doesn’t work we can leave it at that

[vapid moat]

Turok 1 boots now to in-game!

(Since last build huh, nevermind)

Turok 2 doesn't still show anything aside from black screen however

[hollow rune]

It is important. My dad uses a wheelchair, and while it doesn't affect his gaming (except games like Ring Fit Adventure which don't have alternate modes), it is hard navigating a world designed without your consideration.

[vapid moat]

Mario Party 1 crashes past title screen

[hollow rune]

I managed to get here on the last version, but it didn't look as nice

[vapid moat]

How to gain access to compatibility sheet editing btw?

[plush summit]

Yeah, I've been always thinking about making games better for as much people as possible, unfortunately, it always bummed me out how selfish the industry is, just being a cog in the wheel

[cerulean elk]

Sadly it’s such a small percentage I am sure it’s often overlooked as a budget line item of “is it worth it”

[plush summit]

Like yeah, we have controllers, but ultimately, it comes down to the games themselves

[cerulean elk]

When I worked at Burton we had a whole lab dedicated to testing bindings with prosthetic limbs. Below and above knee amputations. Fitting custom parts to accommodate that. Same with sit ski and sit boards. Custom molded seats. The works

It was a fun place to hang out. Keeping people in the sports they loved after accidents. Sometimes sad when an athlete was paralyzed. Sadly it wasn’t completely uncommon

Been to too many funerals

[languid dune]

I managed to beat Mortal Kombat 4! 🤘

[native mesa]

They don't call it extreme for nothing

[quasi storm]

Dang, the battle left Scorpion looking...rough.

[cerulean elk]

Wow

[native mesa]

@cerulean elk are you in thps2?

[cerulean elk]

Lol as in did I get it to boot or am I in the game? Because one I don’t know the answer to and the other def not

[zenith orchid]

thps2 will get you in game for a couple seconds or two

black screen though

I think all THPS games have TLB related crashes

once you go in game

well, the first one seems to hang on boot for me

Man I'm so ready for this weekend!

[native mesa]

I wish I better understood the error codes

[carmine kettle]

i think this core is like 50-60% done but is not probably less then that mygoodness

[fast swan]

Few graphical glitches but RE2 title screen looks better since the last time I checked it. Cool to see progress being made!

[hollow rune]

I wasn't around for psx, but I imagine things bog down in the last 20% trying to figure out the smaller more annoying stuff

the core's development I mean

[mortal apex]

There should be a view only button if you are logged in a google account. If you click on it you can request edit access.

[vapid moat]

Ah, Ok-

[orchid nimbus]

The only I can tell you is to have patience - it’s a one man development project (with some help on the side once a while)

[fair stump]

I don't believe the hud was displaying in the last test build

[hollow rune]

Oh I totally understand. I was just responding to someone else. I expect things will take many months

[fallen sparrow]

https://youtu.be/NxTmPjZFe9k

[orchid nimbus]

August 12 message

[fallen sparrow]

Nice

[orchid nimbus]

For those who missed it

I screenshotted that since I knew it would come in handy 😉

[fallen sparrow]

Well played

[worldly quartz]

Any word if we will still end up with 3 builds or still not defo yet?

[fallen sparrow]

if it was 7 x times faster it would be dog time

[carmine kettle]

when was this?

[orchid nimbus]

Scroll 3 lines up

[fallen sparrow]

Aug 12

whoops

[carmine kettle]

rejected lol

[orchid nimbus]

Whatever - I am a manager I always try to give accurate and correct information

I am also pretty hands off and let people fail for themselves

[marble cargo]

I can't wait until it's possible to play Smash Remix on the core.

[carmine kettle]

probably the other day too much to scroll up

[fair stump]

Interesting, you can now see tom and Jerry but they're back behind the scenery

Doesn't that have to do with the z buffer?

[hearty oar]

Oh wow, I think someone else mentioned it earlier but yeah, this update did have an unfortunate side effect for the menu on analogue video out, hopefully something easy to fix in future

Still useable at least so not a huge deal, surprised how well it works at this early stage given that it’s not really properly supported yet

[fair stump]

Beyond a low framerate and some graphical corruption, nfl quarterback club 98 seems fully playable

[storm parrot]

Not necessarily

[karmic locust]

Cherry ninja I know you're a video editor by trade so you can likely knock these videos out faster than most but some days I wonder why do you put so much graft in. You must be on the 30th Saturn core test at this point. I guess the fact you've got all these likely incredibly hard to source arcade boards speaks to your interest beyond sharing videos.

I work a 6 day week but I'm just impressed how you tackle a hobby that way. I'm just doing it as a consultant cos I get a barrage of emails Friday evening telling me I should have finished a job yesterday. 😂

[cyan pagoda]

Lmao the ques-.. ahem Robby 64 part

[fallen sparrow]

It had to be done

[cerulean elk]

Lol did he mean me?

You collecting arcade boards and not telling me @fallen sparrow

[cerulean elk]

Blitz was this for me?

[brisk drum]

I can hear this picture

[cerulean elk]

It’s everywhere 🤣

[timid torrent]

Haters gonna hate, sign me up for 30 more sega saturn videos

[timid torrent]

And my twice daily n64 updates

[cerulean elk]

Lol I just wanted to know if pixel is holding out on me and not telling he’s got arcade boards

[dreamy ridge]

https://imgflip.com/i/7wzs5c

[cerulean elk]

I am itching for more boards

[orchid nimbus]

Checkers / chess / monopoly / D&D ?

Cheese board

Cutting board

Luigi board

[quasi storm]

So good to see that last aspect sorted out! I think the background eye was garbage before.

[hollow pebble]

https://youtu.be/15nNY7uofNw

I’m surprised no one linked this yet.

[paper orchid]

help quija

[hollow pebble]

Can I buy one from a witch or vegan?

[paper orchid]

No, you have to make your own wedgie

So many years later and that video never ceases to be funny

[quasi storm]

Ghost!!! Ghost!!! Ghost!!!.?

[hollow pebble]

The pregnancy one is even better imho

[orchid nimbus]

If thought people knew I was referring to that video 😉

[vapid moat]

How many errors to list is too many errors on the compatability sheet?

[languid dune]

Live footage of Awbacon.

[cerulean elk]

I was browsing tonight

Nothing caught my eye

[languid dune]

But the itch never dies.

[cerulean elk]

My most recent non arcade “took multiple years to find” game came in last week though

Completed the “nightmare collection”; Dead of the Brain, Dead of the Brain II, Marine Philt and the Dead of the Brain 1&2 PC Engine CD version (the last official PC Engine game ever published)

[languid dune]

It's been so long since I bought an old school game. Pretty much my entire collection was bought back when they were new off the store shelves.

But I do have a nice collection.

I just never sold anything.

[thick terrace]

Arcade boards? I have several arcade boards. Most of them are neogeo mvs boards. and I have two playatation arcade boards. Ehrgeiz and Tekken 3

[languid dune]

Except my poor 3DO.

[cerulean elk]

Marine Philt was a bitch to find. Apparently it had a stupid low run; apparently 100 copies per platform

If you believe old Japanese forums that is

[cerulean elk]

Bad choices

[cerulean elk]

Ehrgeiz is a good board to have

[languid dune]

I had a pretty large collection of 3DO games at the time too. I hate myself for selling it.

[cerulean elk]

Get a 3DO and Fixel’s ODE. Get back in the game

[languid dune]

I'd love to, but it would probably just end up like my other older consoles and sit in my closet as a collector's item. I have so much stuff hooked up to my TV as it is, there are no ports or power outlets left!

I think I have 10 devices hooked up right now to my TV?

[cerulean elk]

I gave up on keeping things connected. I just connect them when I want to use them now

[languid dune]

Looking at my current set up, it's my PS3, PS5, Xbox Series X, Switch, Gamecube, Wii U, Apple TV, Steam Deck, 4K BlueRay player, and MiSTer. And I actually use most of them pretty regularly.

[cerulean elk]

The power, the cables, the scalers and switches. Became a headache

On the living room tv I keep PS5/Series X/Switch and MiSTer connected plus a scaler for retro stuff

Office I keep my Saturn and another MiSTer connected to my PVM and my capture / scaler setup into my PC

Bedroom I keep Steam Deck and PS3 weirdly

[languid dune]

I really want to drag out my Saturn for some fun, but I don't own a scaler to hook it up.

[cerulean elk]

Time for a PVM

[languid dune]

My Gamecube is my oldest console hooked up, and it's with a component cable with a single converter cable to HDMI.

[night saddle]

Saturn, X360 and PS2 are the only consoles I still have hooked up

Do all "modern" gaming on PC, and even that not very commonly just a few games

[cerulean elk]

Don’t feel bad. I’ve got an i9 and a 3090 and I’ve played exactly zero games on it that weren’t retro emulation 🤣

But I’m out for the night. See you tomorrow for more 64 fun

[night saddle]

nice encoding for videos on the 3000 series though 🙂

[brisk edge]

I swap stuff out because I have no space, but I keep the current gen set up and then whatever else I was in the mood to play. Saturn, GC and SNES are out. Though, every time I want to play the SNES I really debate why I'm not just playing it on MiSTer instead lol

[cerulean elk]

Exactly why I have it; Resolve encoding

[languid dune]

That's why I want the Saturn and N64 cores so much! I have both of them still, but it's just not convenient to hook them up anymore.

[quasi storm]

Virtual Pool 64 is a rather pleasant experience!

[brisk edge]

Yeah, I'm very excited with progress on N64. I dig mine out pretty often but the thought of just turning it on and playing through Goemon or like Castlevania and not having to wire everything up to my upscaler is very appealing

[quasi storm]

I think props go to Virtual Pool for most stable game so far. Any contenders?

[brisk edge]

Cruisin USA looked pretty good, still some graphical issues but I think someone finished it successfully

Haven't tried it myself, need to copy it over still

[languid dune]

Yeah, Cruis'n USA is super playable right now.

[cold pollen]

Ironic considering it runs shitty on a Pi lol

[languid dune]

Same with Mortal Kombat 4 and Trilogy. I actually did a full play through of MK4 earlier today.

N64 emulation never looks or feels quite right to me.

[brisk edge]

Absolutely beautiful, 100% how I remember it lol

[languid dune]

I've tested some of it out on my Steam Deck, and the emulation just disappointed me.

[brisk edge]

Might be because usually they bump up the internal rendering target?

Plus the filtering on textures looks wrong

[languid dune]

This is one of the hardest things to get right

It's why the Doom 64 port to modern platforms is so impressive. They nailed it.

[brisk edge]

Yeah, I think it's like tri point filtering? Something that isn't standard

[languid dune]

I messed with a bunch of the emulator's options and still couldn't get games like Beetle Adventure Racing to look right.

[brisk edge]

Ares looks pretty accurate, though I'm not sure how that would run on a steam deck

[languid dune]

Even Nintendo's own N64 emulation doesn't look right most of the time.

[brisk edge]

Oh the switch N64 emulator is pretty awful lol it's one of the worst they've produced. Ironically the GBA emulator is one of their best though

[vapid hawk]

ares is the first pc n64 emulator that looks even vaguely correct afaik

everything before it is extremely approximate

[brisk edge]

It almost looks like you're looking at like an s-video capture

[vapid hawk]

they did patch the switch n64 emulator a bit

its still kind of crap but the most obvious missing effects are sorted out

[languid dune]

F-Zero X doesn't even run at a smooth 60fps on the Switch emulator. That's the game's defining feature!

[brisk edge]

I think Ocarina still has some bugs, they got a lot of them though. And I think you can still crash paper Mario

[languid dune]

This conversation is just making me want this N64 core even more. 😅

[trim seal]

Did you find that the inputs weren't all reading quickly enough to pull off all the special moves? I had a heck of a time with Reiko.

[languid dune]

It didn't seem that bad to me. Trilogy is worse because it slows down fairly often in the current build.

[hearty oar]

Ares used parallel rdp, which builds on the work of angrylion rdp and accelerates it on the GPU using compute shaders. n64 emulation has actually been reasonably accurate and fast for a little while now, you just needed to use the right emulator

[vapid hawk]

before ares it needed a massive cpu i think?

[hearty oar]

Nah parallel rdp was used first by versions of mupen64-plus

Which could run just fine using hardware accelerated rdp

The situation is a bit confusing because I think it was first integrated into a fork owned by retroarch?

[vapid hawk]

ew

[hearty oar]

But yeah for sure ares is the best and if not the most accurate yet it is certainly heading that way

[vapid hawk]

yeah tbh i kind of tuned out of n64 emulation for about 20 years so i missed some things

[fair stump]

Are there any notable cases to keep an eye on that current software emulators fail at where this core may be more accurate and pass?

[hearty oar]

it's totally fair, for a long time it was stagnant with emulators that weren't super accurate, before the aforementioned angrylion RDP came along, which was the first (afaik) LLE RDP implementation

[vapid hawk]

so at this point can you reasonably emulate n64 on medium power devices like steamdeck? or RPI4 ?

[hearty oar]

and yeah like you said that was hamstrung by high CPU requirements, as well as being native resoltion only, until parallel RDP came along to do it on the GPU instead

I'm pretty confident steam deck can do it well now at least

if the pi has a decent vulkan driver now then maybe?

[vapid hawk]

nice

[fallen sparrow]

Guilty, I just sourced Kwest 63³ arcade board

[fallen sparrow]

Annual leave has been fun. Also my job is cool, I can edit vids at work.

[orchid nimbus]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIV8bZphum4

[vapid hawk]

huh, somethings a bit off with the powerslide/boost thing isnt it?

those letters should go yellow then orange

oh wait no you did get it one time at least

[orchid nimbus]

my videos don't have a lot of talk - they talk for themselves

[versed cairn]

The smoke only changes if you move the stick left and right. It works in the newest build

[vapid hawk]

yeah i think vampier might just be bad at it 😂

[versed cairn]

Skill issue

[hearty oar]

Definitely working as intended

[versed cairn]

Mario kart has come so far. Just needs the floor in some levels and the whole thing will be very playable

[orchid nimbus]

over the weekend 2 pass texture blending

stage of of SM64 should work

[versed cairn]

That’s so exciting. I’m gonna do so many 16 star runs till saves come

[thick terrace]

Need to get the alpha working to get rid of the black boxes.

crazy amazing how much has been done this week

[zenith orchid]

Just wait 'til you see how much gets done in a weekend

[wanton sun]

all nice, but why is there a black box? obviously some old core version 😛

[reef trench]

sweet baby jesus they have been released

[manic basin]

I'm currently capturing for Awbacon....should I hold off? I'm on limited bandwidth in a hotel, so if the build is soon I'd rather hold off since this looks massive.

[wanton sun]

need to test some more, but maybe in the next 2 hours or so

[manic basin]

@cerulean elk - ignore the last 3 games I sent...hehe.

[wanton sun]

should be worth waiting. It's not just transparency. It seems to fix the random flickering polygons some games had, e.g. earthworm jim or wipeout

[manic basin]

Oh yeah. That's huge.

[reef trench]

AMAZING work, I can't (but will, of course) wait!

[wanton sun]

i implemented the fog color, which without 2 pass rendering sometimes makes things worse, e.g. in starfox, but i guess we can live with that for some builds

[manic basin]

It's 10:16PM here right now, so I will probably have to jump on in the morning, but yeah, damn. That's amazing.

[wanton sun]

don't stay open just the build, haha

[manic basin]

That's actually super interesting and I'd love to capture that too. The process is what's fascinating.

[wanton sun]

e.g. :

so instead of black, these objects now just have the fog color

[versed cairn]

Omg I wonder if snowboard kids is playable now 🤩

[vapid hawk]

amazing progress again!

[wanton sun]

not really, instead of black you just get blue

still needs the base texture

[vapid hawk]

do you think you are ahead of your schedule or does it only seem like it because we're focusing on the games that use simpler rendering features?

[wanton sun]

well, games like mario kart mostly use like 30% of the RDP or so. Maybe 50% with levels like moo-moo. There is still a lot to be done that is only used by fewer and fewer games

[vapid hawk]

still it is great to see, seems like many games will be quite functional while you work on the remaining features

[wanton sun]

and it's not like the things that are implemented are perfect yet. There is a lot of flickering and edge cases still open, e.g. the polygon borders being visible on transparent objects

[teal citrus]

Robert is going hard!

[languid dune]

The heck!? Robert! You're a maniac! And I mean that in the best possible way.

[elfin relic]

I think someone spiked Yoshi's drink

[lilac scroll]

Mother of god

[languid dune]

So is the only thing that Mario Kart 64 missing now just the anti-aliasing and texture filtering?

The game looks so clean now.

[desert nest]

That wasn't a microdose

[chilly ember]

Tarzan looks pretty good now. A game I don't care too much to play but cool it doesn't look like it has many issues now

[languid dune]

The broken up look of the fighters in Mortal Kombat 4 is completely fixed now as well!

Nice! Star Soldier no longer looks like an acid trip!

Looks great now!

[foggy stirrup]

What a way to start the day. Thanks robert

[lilac scroll]

We’re so blessed

[hollow orbit]

touch fuzzy get d̸̞͘i̵͎͘z̴̾͗z̴͋͘y̸͒̈

[hearty oar]

Got a hang in the results screen in mk64, I remember that being discussed a little while back, not sure if it was meant to be fixed since then or not

Music continues, but it’s stuck on that frame

[foggy stirrup]

turn on error codes in OSD

[manic basin]

It's getting further.... our destruction is nigh.

[remote hatch]

excellent

[languid dune]

@brisk drum will be pleased!

[hearty oar]

My bad, pretty much my second time ever using the core, so didn’t think to

[languid dune]

You let us all down!

[hearty oar]

I shall hang my head in shame

[languid dune]

As you should.

[languid dune]

Just tested this out myself. And wow. We should all post our own unique Yoshi art!

[foggy stirrup]

Duke Nukem 64 runs like a dream 😛

[languid dune]

Can't say the same for Doom 64 sadly. Still the same.

[lament escarp]

Oot still just a yellow line?

[languid dune]

Yeah.

Gotta turn in the for the night. It's way too late on my end. Did test a fair number of games though, and the biggest upgrades this time around are Mario Kart 64, Mortal Kombat 4, and Star Soldier. Check them out for a good time!

[remote hatch]

My son will be very happy, he was waiting when the "black boxes" disappear 😆. He loves Mario Kart

[lament escarp]

We'll need saving soon too. As good as some games start to run I want to keep my progress. 😄

[bronze tree]

@wanton sun is look so great already! what's next on the check list?

[wanton sun]

are you sure you have the unstable mister main with the database? Please take a look in the system settings if the eeprom is set to 4kbyte (after you loaded the game). I think the game hangs when going to the victory sequence if the eeprom is not there

[bronze tree]

2 pass rendering?

[wanton sun]

maybe, yes 🙂

[lean spruce]

WTF Robert!! Mario Kart looks perfect already??

[wanton sun]

choco mountain would disagree

[lean spruce]

Haha

First stage is looking soo good

what is happening in Choco mountain that isnt in other courses?

[trim seal]

Toad's Turnpike is just brown flat shaded geometry too.

[hearty oar]

I am on latest unstable main at least, will check eeprom type when I can

[trim seal]

And seems to be straining to hit any useful fps

[hearty oar]

Also yeah I have the database file

[hearty oar]

Ah yep it is set to none, maybe my database file isn’t loading properly or my rom has a bad header or something. False alarm I guess, sorry about that

[mossy needle]

Pokemon Stadium 2 is playing quite well so far until I got into a battle

[lean spruce]

Super Mario 64 no face patched version doesnt load for me in this core version

[trim seal]

Loads just fine for me.

[chilly ember]

Same

[lean spruce]

its weird, I got a black screeen and when i selected yesterdays core in the menu the game loaded instantly. Without me going in and loading the rom. THen i selected todays core again and the game loads. Again without me selecting the rom.

[trim seal]

Papeperboy is loading now, and is quite playable.

Spiderman loads to the title screen but seems to give up there.

[mossy needle]

Shadows of the Empire loads and plays but the camera goes rogue

[trim seal]

How long does that take? I'm playing and it's just fine. Missing textures, and the stick is a bit sensitive, but no camera issues yet.

[mossy needle]

As soon as I start playing it changes camera angles on me

Maybe I'll try it again

[trim seal]

Sounds like your C buttons are being triggered, that changes the camera. If you're using a dual analog controller, the second stick maps to those buttons, might be drifting or being nudged?

Doing it manually, you hit the button, but it takes about 3 seconds to actually change the camera atm.

[mossy needle]

Maybe. I'm using a PS5 controller. All my other controllers are at the house I'm moving into

[trim seal]

Dang. Ah well. At any rate, I'm not getting that problem.

[mossy needle]

It makes the game a bit more exciting however much more difficult

[sharp ermine]

I see people posting pictures of their crts.. is this through direct video?

[trim seal]

New game +++

[sharp ermine]

I assumed the core wouldnt support analog out

[trim seal]

Direct-video adapter on the hdmi output, yeah?

[sharp ermine]

Yes

[mossy needle]

So for some reason the c buttons are being affected by the left stick but are bound to the right stick

[trim seal]

I had a problem a few days ago where my horizontal axis was mapped to stick one and vertical axis to stick two. No idea how it happened, just reconfigured the controller in the Mister set up and it seemed to work again.

[mossy needle]

I'll try that

[trim seal]

Not saying that'll help, mind you. YMMV.

I'm using a dualshock 4.

[mossy needle]

Mine are in storage so I'll have to try that later

[hearty oar]

Cool yeah no hang on the victory screen in mk64 if you have the right eeprom!

[wanton sun]

thanks for retesting!

[bronze tree]

This should have been auto detected..

Did you disable auto detect?

[hearty oar]

Not sure how I ended up there but I just grabbed the latest main from unstable and the database text file again and the latest test build of the core for sanity’s sake and here we are, same rom as before

I hadn’t touched any core settings besides controls

Not knowingly at least…

[trim seal]

Aidyn Chronicles loads and correctly detects the expansion pak. Goes in game, but it's untextured geometry.

[mossy needle]

Worms Armageddon is playable minus some trippy colors

[solemn maple]

Wipeout 64 must be the most playable game right now?

runs amazing

[mossy needle]

That seems to be the case

Buck Bumble hangs at Rural England

[lament escarp]

Does turok have graphics now?

[mossy needle]

Not really

It's doing what Banjo does where there are shapes moving around in dense colored fog

Virtual Chess 64 works pretty well

[visual wadi]

I've tried a couple different Mario Kart 64 roms and all of them just go to a black screen

both .z64 and n64 ones

[mossy needle]

Triple play 2000 plays but it's choppy

@visual wadi Have any other roms worked?

[visual wadi]

let me try some others

[mossy needle]

Rampage is one that works well

[hearty oar]

are you on latest unstable MiSTer main, and do you have N64-database.txt in your games/N64 folder?

[visual wadi]

lastest mister and need to check that database

i don't have that database file

[trim seal]

Black screen more often than not tends to be the boot rom being a problem.

Ahh

[hearty oar]

https://vampier.net/N64/ for the file

[visual wadi]

thanks!

[trim seal]

Megaman 64 loads, goes in game, all untextured geometry.

[mossy needle]

Duke Nukem 64 loads great

Though it's doing the c stick control stick switch thing again for me

[hearty oar]

I keep forgetting they ported Mega Man Legends to 64, I should try it one day...

[trim seal]

Mischief Makers loads and gets past the splash screens, then seems to hang after that.

[mossy needle]

Looks like those Wiimote rage videos lol

[trim seal]

Nuclear Strike loads and goes in game, playable. Doesn't detect the expansion though.

[wanton sun]

while it's recommended, it's not required to boot mario kart. Works fine with just boot.rom and game

[viral swift]

Nice CRT, i love them 😁

[wanton sun]

so black screen will not be solved with unstable main + database

[visual wadi]

yeah the missing boot rom is what I am trying to sort out

[hearty oar]

Ah yeah the one thing I forgot to mention above 😅

Also yeah I should know the DB is not important for getting in game seeing as I clearly had something wrong with that above and still was fine until getting to that hang…

[visual wadi]

Yay!

[hearty oar]

Oh is that the new Unico screen?

[oblique remnant]

@wanton sun in MK64 is the AI (+7 players ) stressing the core out more in the singleplayer that its capped at 20fps? In Time Trails it runs with 30fps

[spare meadow]

MK4 seens to be working flawless 😃

[hearty oar]

hah cool, shame about the whole resolution mis-advertisment debacle, but still looks very clean and crisp regardless

[visual wadi]

i'm really hoping they follow through and update the driver board

[wanton sun]

it seems the AI is stressing the CPU and with the data cache still missing it's too slow then

[solemn maple]

I wanna try perfect dark 4p split screen with bots and no data cache

[bronze tree]

All Star Tennis 99 seems to play perfectly (except I keep losing)

[remote hatch]

Thank you for this core @wanton sun , there is no nicer thing than happiness of people. And what you do brings joy to many 🙂

you can see it here haha

[wanton sun]

much more fun also for me if i can share it 🙂

[bronze tree]

@wanton sun is Diddy Kong Racing all 2nd pass rendering? Since there are no textures at all now.

[wanton sun]

very likely, it's a rare game 🙂

[worldly quartz]

So weird question for my downscaler, was n64 correctly 4:3 for all games?

Like can i use basic 4:3 settings for it? Iremember ps1 core had off scale on some games on tge scaler

[zenith orchid]

Huzzah! What an update!

The exterior of the castle in SM64 must look flawless now

[weary palm]

There are a few widescreen games.

[zenith orchid]

I think a few fighting games had it

[weary palm]

...and there are widescreen patches for some. https://romhacking.com/hack/super-mario-64-widescreen-console-friendly

[zenith orchid]

Doesn't the N64 cull objects that are outside the 4:3 view?

or do these patches address that?