Nintendo 64

[bitter fjord]

nah that's the PC-98 xD

[wanton sun]

i have no idea what that console is, but wikipedia says it's mostly known and used for "Eroge"...seems odd

[bitter fjord]

in all seriousness though Hyper Neogeo 64 seems like a better target from N64

since specifications are fairly similar

[bitter fjord]

it's the successor to the PC Engine/TGFX16

but it was a commercial failure so it never got outside Japan

[daring meteor]

Its also full of Anime games

[bitter fjord]

it doesn have some interesting exclusives, albeit in Japanese only

[daring meteor]

The only game anyone cares about in the console is Zeroigar

[bitter fjord]

Eroge aside that is

[orchid nimbus]

something weird with Rayman 2 - this is @silent marten's screen

and this is mine (ignore I'm an idiot)

[vagrant ivy]

yours is the Hangman variant

[paper orchid]

Cool atari 2600 overlay

[orchid nimbus]

same code

😄

[wanton sun]

the butterfly seems happy that the glitches are gone?

need to look at some point what is going on with these textures. It's not the only game with this strange texts

[manic basin]

Mine used to look like yours but looks like Fuzz's with the new core.

[orchid nimbus]

oh crap

loaded the old core

rofl

[daring meteor]

I hope its the same thing causing missing textures on some other games

[bitter fjord]

you need to read the FAQ 🤡

[wanton sun]

interesting, they use two pass rendering for the textures then. Could be they use the second texture fetch and therefore no text is there, as that is not implemented

[paper orchid]

@orchid nimbus not even using your own script

[orchid nimbus]

I am

but I'm blind

[paper orchid]

Just giving you a hard time rofl

[orchid nimbus]

I keep old cores in case I need to go back

[daring meteor]

Oh wait

[paper orchid]

Right, makes sense

[daring meteor]

Are the MK64 thwomps using 2 Pass rendering, with one texture CI8 and one RGBA16?

[wanton sun]

i don't know

[lean spruce]

th twomps still have black borders in new core

[daring meteor]

There was a github issue about it in some emulator which mentioned RGBA16 while TLUT is on

[shrewd ravine]

@wanton sun Just wanted to say thank you

[tropic sand]

Tigger has odd text... In case you needed an example

[orchid nimbus]

Dr Mario has the same thing as Qvest64 - but all in good time

[manic basin]

Look, I'm not one to disparage a game for naming....but... this is 100% a GTA fan mod title...

"Bbbbbut, Tigger... Pooh asked us to stay here."
"Hoohoohoo! That tubby bitch can get stuck in a hole. Tigger wants some hunnys. Let's bounce!"

[vagrant ivy]

where did you get a picture of the Chinese Leader ?

[tropic sand]

New build fixed the white lines...plays pretty good

[brisk drum]

Eventually it’ll be millions

Million and one

[visual forge]

I accidentally beat Fighters destiny

So it's beatable

Some slight audio errors otherwise it seems perfect

[vague sun]

Wow, Banjo Kazooie looks amazing

[burnt phoenix]

Anyone know why the NSO controller (wireless) would work perfectly out of the box except B is A and A is B?

(Can remap it obviously but just incase there’s a trick somewhere I’m missing)

[muted schooner]

That's Linux kernel stuff right? Maybe just a problem upstream

[zinc dew]

Gamecontroller database needs to be fixed

[raw oriole]

Wonder if SDF and gcd use the same source; they get Switch Pro a/b round the wrong way too

[little bane]

In the banjo Kazooie appears these strange glitches, only for Record, amazing new build. Incredible Work, you are amazing man @wanton sun

[worn delta]

Is this a transparency issue behind those feathers?

[inner bronze]

Seems like it

[little bane]

Yes

[versed cairn]

Heres a video of it. it seems to be transparencies interacting with other transparencies

[mortal apex]

I noticed that too, was about to post a video but Philippe's is clearer than mine.

[versed cairn]

not sure if this would also help @wanton sun but the polygon seam artifacts that are still around also show through some objects. ignoring the z-buffer? or a texture issue? interesting atleast

[weary palm]

What happened to the white stains on Link??

[compact depot]

He left drugs

After Robert fixed some stuff in the core today

[mortal apex]

I know Robert mentionned he was going to work on transparency blending a day or two ago, maybe that's what's missing here.

Having doubts now that I reread the post, but still might be related. #1096015979055697940 message

[zinc dew]

Yeah, real excited that this game is playable. Heads-up that the collectible energy is invisible. I’ve seen other games where sprite collectibles are also invisible so it must be a system level thing that hasn’t been implemented.

[cerulean elk]

and exporting for Tuesday. Keeping up is a full time job

[final knoll]

Could i get a recommendation from you guys and gals for a Bluetooth dongle that's awesome, going to use it with the 8bitDo n64 mod arriving soon.

or should i be getting the dongle from 8bitdo?..

[lament escarp]

Don't get the 8bitdo dongle!

It's not compatible in switch mode, which you need for rumble.

I have 2 dongles from the supermarket which both work fine.

[brisk drum]

What supermarket has fresh dongles just sitting around ?

[final knoll]

hey :).. are you saying that they have released a n64 controller mod that is not completly compatible with their own bluetooth reciever?.

[lament escarp]

Müller

[brisk drum]

Never hoid of it

[dusty tusk]

Their receiver is garbage. I don't even use it anymore

[lament escarp]

Yes. I even wrote them a mail telling them to fix it, as it's a bit picky about drivers. Now I have more faith in shig to fix it tbh.

[lament escarp]

It's a german thing.

[final knoll]

ok,, ill sit tight and use some old junk i have here until there is more clarity.. thanks @lament escarp

[brisk drum]

We got ALDIs

[cerulean elk]

Grocery stores are selling Bluetooth dongles? Lol

Whole Foods just sells me overpriced shit

[weary palm]

Zeruda no Densetsu - Toki no Okarina

[final knoll]

I personally was not breast fed at birth but if I close my eyes just a little and allow this fine fine Jersey milk past my lips I get a glimpse of what it must have been like.🤱

[brisk drum]

You ever in Wisconsin I’ll let you drink straight off the cow

[lament escarp]

Foodstuff wise they just have a bunch of snacks... they have office suplies, electrics, toys bit also hygiene and cleaning stuff. I'm probably forgetting some stuff they have.

[final knoll]

what an offer 🙂
my Sunday's just got lit!!

[lament escarp]

I have absolutely nothing to reply.

[cerulean elk]

Is that what you and @languid dune do in your spare time?

[brisk drum]

Got like 75 jersey cows for you to pick from … all grass fed

[cerulean elk]

Imma sign off now. K thx

[nimble needle]

Breastmilk just tastes like sweetened skimmed milk TBH 🤷‍♂️

[cerulean elk]

That’s no way to talk about your mom

[brisk drum]

Big reach bro ..

https://tenor.com/view/im-feeling-good-reaching-tries-very-hard-baby-yoda-the-mandalorian-gif-15744839

[desert crow]

straight from the tap

[final knoll]

Holy smokes.. 75x4 =300 freeking breasts to choose from ..

[lament escarp]

Unlike our inferior human women. 😡

[final knoll]

oof.. dark.. 😂
you weren't breast fed either right?.

Two flights to wisconsin then?.

[lone geyser]

*at least

[lament escarp]

I actually was.

[brisk drum]

https://tenor.com/view/cow-funny-animals-gif-12898133

[final knoll]

hahah.. Freekin brilliant.😂

[raw oriole]

Wow, looks like #general-banter in here

[mild ether]

This is important N64 stuff we are talking about here.

[final knoll]

got to keep hydrated right.

[lament escarp]

Somebody asked about bt adapters. This line of conversation was the only possible outcome.

[raw oriole]

Bovine teat adapter

Useful and nutritious

[cerulean elk]

15 minutes to N64 video. Maybe it can get us off this milk topic

[manic basin]

By milking N64?

[cerulean elk]

Coming off a little strong not gonna lie

[manic basin]

BAH!

McPoyle Rules!

[dusty tusk]

Oof, just realized I wasn't playing with the updated cores. Didn't realize the auto download script wasn't replacing them

[lament escarp]

The cores are releasing so fast, I missed some of them. :x

[cerulean elk]

I’ve got like seven cores on my MiSTer now. I just keep adding. Never deleting

[weary palm]

Cat

[final knoll]

Where is said video broadcasting please.

[cerulean elk]

Xhamster

[cerulean elk]

I’ll put the link here when it’s live

[lament escarp]

At first I thought ftp on mister was a fun but somwhat useless novelty, since how often are you gonna copy files to a retromachine? It's not like they're making new games for it. Then I met Robert.

[final knoll]

I just searched this on youtube..
not a great idea.🤣

[mild ether]

Use samba it's a lot more convenient.

[cerulean elk]

lol sorry. Thought everyone knew

[lament escarp]

I don't know. What is it?

[cerulean elk]

Biology textbook website

human biology

[mild ether]

With detailed anatomy lessons

[lament escarp]

Sounds awesome, it's always fun to learn!

[final knoll]

hahah.. no cows tho.... so im out!

[zinc dew]

[lament escarp]

Oh shit, it's the fuzz! Erm it's about earthworm jim 3d. Those cows right?!

[cerulean elk]

its Robby. The peachfuzz maybe

https://youtu.be/4dsGzxZIb4U

here you go kids...not milk related but you can hang

[desert crow]

theme for today is white stuff

[pseudo agate]

This is using the Core from Yesterday?

[cerulean elk]

yes

Tues vid will be today

I am fast...but not THAT fast (insert jokes here)

[final knoll]

love VGE stuff 🙂

[pseudo agate]

You and Pixel Cherry are very fast, and with the number of cores released, its hard to keep track (not a complaint of course)

[cerulean elk]

meh he's a hack

[final knoll]

holy smoke balls you are VGE..

I'm star struck.

[cerulean elk]

lol I thought everyone knew?

[dusty tusk]

No worries. I think the last core option should add the build dates like the rest of the menu.

[cerulean elk]

but yes I am the fool behind VGE

sitting atop his throne of too much shit hes collected

[final knoll]

your videos got me back into retro gaming.. You sit on that throne !

[cerulean elk]

aww thanks! Just dont spend too much money. I fear I teach people bad buying habits

I am like your local friendly retro gaming meth dealer

I just dealt @languid dune a free taste of Hydlide last week

[final knoll]

go go go go go!!!

[vapid moat]

Wait, by dongle do you mean the USB Adapter 2?

I was exploring if to use that for the 8Bitdo's Wireless DIY Mod for N64-controller

[noble ember]

I wanna use my SuperPad 64 with the N64 core. What would be the best way to connect it to my MiSTer for 0 lag (I use a CRT)

[final knoll]

same here..
ima hold off until they possibly fix the problem or a person here fixes the problem..

[vapid moat]

So wait, it's not compatible with that?

[final knoll]

apparently it does not allow the rumble pack to be used.

[vapid moat]

Aww man

[cerulean elk]

bumble pack. Its filled with bees that buzz

[vapid moat]

Both DirectInput and Switch Mode?

[final knoll]

Switch mode..
hang on.. i only wanna use it for mister..
so does that mean its ok to use?.

little confused now.

[vapid moat]

I'm mainly inquiring about the DirectInput-mode (not bothering with Switch)

@lament escarp

[brisk drum]

Rakuga kids is close to working

[hearty oar]

MisterAddons reflex adaptor is probably your best bet now that it’s available

[vapid moat]

https://www.reddit.com/r/8bitdo/comments/14is2rk/comment/jpo3w0b/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

[brisk drum]

It feeeEs right before gameplay just like Ki

[vapid moat]

I guess it does work on PC (DirectInput I'm guessing works with Rumble)

[noble ember]

@hearty oar thanks! So with a controller I can also use a memory pak?

[dusty tusk]

Looks like Mickeys Speedway is working pretty well

[noble ember]

Looks like the reflex adapter is sold out

[compact depot]

You won’t need a memory pak as the core will soon support it virtually

[hearty oar]

For memory pak you’d need SNAC

if you wanted to use the physical one

[noble ember]

I can just wait until the core supports virtual memory paks. I am wanting to play through Road Rash 64

[mild ether]

Still like the Bliss box.

Can remove it from the MiSTer and use it on my PC or unplug the controller from the adapter and use on original hardware.

[compact depot]

Blissbox is pretty much obsolete with the options available nowadays

[mild ether]

Can't use SNAC on PC though.

[dusty tusk]

Gameboy pack support will be wild

[zinc dew]

Oh wow, Mortal Kombat 4 is just about perfect?

[compact depot]

O rly?

[zinc dew]

Yeah, I couldn’t see any obvious issues. I’m not super familiar with the game though.

[compact depot]

Will give it a try later thanks!

[brisk drum]

Im all about dat n64 life now

I have returned to the light side

[quaint rune]

No more Saturn shilling now eh?

[compact depot]

Saturn doesn’t work on my MiSTer 😔

[quaint rune]

Really ?

[mild ether]

I am enjoying learning little by little more about n64 and how it works.

[final knoll]

This is the first core I've really seen develop and its absolutely brilliant to be here!!
what a journey

[compact depot]

White screen on Sega Rally so yeah

[brisk drum]

WHUT u say maing ?

[brisk drum]

Not for me ,

[hearty oar]

I get the same, white screen

[brisk drum]

I get full 60fps with sound effects but no music

[compact depot]

My MiSTer is cursed

[mild ether]

Try Gals Panic SS and see what happens.

[quaint rune]

You got to do it acapella 😂

[hearty oar]

Sounds like srg320 is at least aware of the variance, so hopefully he can do something about it at some point

[brisk drum]

Try thunderforce V

[brisk drum]

https://tenor.com/view/eminem-8mile-rapping-rap-yo-mama-gif-21672764

[compact depot]

Will do

[brisk drum]

Latest build specifically addressed issues with that game

[mild ether]

What about Gals Panic?

[quaint rune]

Did 64 have another game horror game beside resident evil ?

[desert crow]

what was the final fantasy problem you had again?

[mild ether]

Quest Six Four

[chilly ember]

I still need give saturn core more of a look, i tried a random game to test the saving and got stuck listening to unskippable dialogue for half an hour

[brisk drum]

https://youtu.be/RZVtzGaFy_o?si=KwwqLQELaNXGqe62

[brisk drum]

https://youtu.be/3NSDwCvphnw?si=xWvwkJ3zoo7XCkDO

Im done with dragon force 1 , waiting on the next beta to test anymore games

[compact depot]

That was a bug in the snes core. srg320 fixed it couple of years ago haha

[weary beacon]

How can i restore the og zImage? I think it is creating some severe latency with my controllers.

[chilly ember]

I'll have try out dragon force if it works fine now

[noble ember]

@brisk drum I am waiting for CHD support in the Saturn core

[desert crow]

that somehow only affected you?

[compact depot]

That’s unlikely?

[compact depot]

Yeah! Just me it seems hahaha

And some people if they removed the fan

[desert crow]

cursed 😩

[chilly ember]

Speaking of bugs, when the n64 core is finished it would be interesting to get a cartridge tilt option so we can get things like this https://youtu.be/1nPiqvvg_Hs?si=nDE5wbTowA4_rpKs

Not a need at all, just for fun. I wouldn't be upset if it didn't get added

[compact depot]

Kick the console feature! Great idea!

[chilly ember]

Yea :p

[mild ether]

What is tilting?

[cerulean elk]

Pixel needs to up his use of pink

[brisk drum]

Im just bummed Xena warrior princess still doesn’t boot at all :.

[final knoll]

like when you pull the cartridge out mid game and quickly shove it back in..
still offers a high chance of pregnancy tho..

[mild ether]

So that's what the kids call it these days.

[chilly ember]

https://youtu.be/sHQbswTkEjQ?si=TP28tpZ3Gr8YH8H-

[mild ether]

I remember it as the pull and pray.

[brisk drum]

No wrassslin either

[zinc dew]

Shadowman I guess

Nightmare Creatures too?

[chilly ember]

Doom 64 leans into horror ish territory

Conker's bad fur has a section with zombies and dracula

[mild ether]

Shadowgate 64

[chilly ember]

https://youtu.be/1OZctrDT2mo?si=lk_AQF3iRUsACtUc

[quaint rune]

That was fun section. Using your poo to stun enemies

[noble ember]

Anyone else playing N64 on a CRT? Sony KX-2501A (Profeel) via RGB for me

[chilly ember]

Probably my favourite section next to the matrix scene

[quaint rune]

It was very well done

[noble ember]

@winged garden ohhhh BVM

Fancy

[mild ether]

You can shave with BVM pixels.

[quaint rune]

Isn’t the expression cream of the crop ?

[mild ether]

And scan lines.

[chilly ember]

Creme de la creme

[quaint rune]

Oh. Well it was funny at least 😂

[noble ember]

@winged garden damn u got any screenshots? My KV-2501A is my main CRT but sometimes I switch to my Sony PVM-1910 or RGB modded Sony KV-20EXR20

[cerulean elk]

you gotta love reddit 😆

[final knoll]

compliments come in varying packages.

[noble ember]

@winged garden very nice!!!

[cerulean elk]

I really never deliver. I barely even put content out

[mild ether]

How does the current core look on a CRT compared to original hardware?

Is it good?

Hmm, I will have to give it a shot but I will have to move the BVM by my computer where the MiSTer currently resides. My RGB modded Trinitron is currently sick.

Definitely prefer the larger screen over the BVM.

[noble ember]

@mild ether

[mild ether]

Looks good!

[final knoll]

so much depth.

[quaint rune]

looks like the real deal

[mild ether]

If they just made a 27" BVM it would be perfect.

[noble ember]

@quaint rune not nearly as good as @winged garden BVM but gets the job done. Plus I like the classic 70s/80s woodgrain on the sides

[mild ether]

I got a 27" XGA monitor I have been meaning to try with MiSTer but not really sure how it would be not playing the games in native resolution.

[noble ember]

@mild ether oh a presentation monitor?

[chilly ember]

Jealous i'll never have a pvm or bvm. I've never even seen before pop up around here

[mild ether]

Like that but it was made for like a video wall. Metal square box with thin bezel space.

[noble ember]

@mild ether yea love those

[mild ether]

Do a RGB mod on a Trinitron and you will be most of the way there.

[native mesa]

What's the wizard game?

[noble ember]

@native mesa Solstice for NES

[chilly ember]

I have two jvc d series that have component and convinced myself that's close enough :p

[noble ember]

@chilly ember an RGB modded consumer TV is a great alternative to a PVM/BVM

[final knoll]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML6AXfD5Obc

[mild ether]

It's not that far off. Not worth the price they fetch today that is for sure.

[chilly ember]

True, luckily i got both mine for free in span of a month

[noble ember]

Or a Toshiba A-series. Curved screen + component is awesome. This is from a Toshiba 32A35

[undone oak]

Is evryone still getting the offset scanlines on n64 core still?

[native mesa]

My consumer Trinitron is enough for me though I do want to crack it open and fix some corner convergence

[chilly ember]

Yea i got mine for free like two years ago, hardly see crt's locally anymore

[noble ember]

@winged garden JVC PVMs are usually more expensive and harder to find once you go above 14-15 inch

[chilly ember]

I have a Panasonic gaoo that looks great but s video only.

[noble ember]

@chilly ember that's cuz especially during CV, all of a sudden folks started grabbing CRTs since it was trendy

[chilly ember]

Yea exactly

[native mesa]

I want to get that one widescreen PVM that can do 480p and 240p

[mild ether]

Facebook marketplace is the place to watch. Still find CRTs regularly. Just have to keep a regular eye on it to message first.

[native mesa]

Or BVM rather

[noble ember]

@mild ether yea CRTs over here are still plentiful.

[weary palm]

I've never seen a BVM.

[mild ether]

Usually watching for 25" so don't have a ton of people going for them.

Looking for donor tubes for arcade cabinets.

[noble ember]

@weary palm BVMs are the most expensive. They go from $1000 to $6000+ easily depending on condition and size (and any additions like add on cards)

@winged garden nice thicc scanlines.

[mild ether]

They are not worth paying anywhere near that.

[native mesa]

I think BVM and PVM border on too crisp honestly

Might as well retrotink with scanlines filter at that point

[noble ember]

@native mesa that's why I believe an RGB modded consumer TV is a good balance between low and high end CRTs

[mild ether]

I payed 350 for mine and that was borderline excessive in my opinion. It does PAL though and I wanted that.

[native mesa]

That is nice

[noble ember]

My RGB modded Sony KV-20EXR20 is a good example of a TV that can rival (some) PVMs

[native mesa]

Do you really gain any quality over YPbPr?

[mild ether]

Yep the RGB mod really makes them pop pretty good.

[noble ember]

@native mesa vs composite, RGB is a night and day difference. Like VHS vs DVD

[native mesa]

Well yeah vs composite

[noble ember]

@native mesa believe it or not some folks get a CRT only for composite

[chilly ember]

Genesis looks good over composite

[native mesa]

I have all my consoles modded for YPbPr and the HD Retrovision cables

[mild ether]

Not over RGB they are pretty much the same. When switch between RGB and YPbPr from MiSTer to BVM I can't see a difference.

[native mesa]

It would be a big lift to get that RGB

I wish more cores had composite blending options

[mild ether]

It's the only CRT I can test both on though so not sure on consumer sets.

[fiery grove]

Looks stunning, thanks a lot Robert!

[native mesa]

Try my modeline homie

To get rid of those wibbly wobbly scanlines

[noble ember]

@fiery grove what model?

[mild ether]

YPbPr is a good video format.

[fiery grove]

Where i can find it?

[mild ether]

Was used in professional video for a very long time.

[native mesa]

Try this
[N64]
vscale_mode=0
vga_scaler=1
video_mode=320,8,32,24,240,4,3,16,6048

You might need interpolation for some games that are weird res for now

[noble ember]

@fiery grove on the back. Sony CRT model numbers almost always start with KV-

[noble ember]

Not bad

[native mesa]

It works on my KV 27FS120

[fiery grove]

Thanks i'll try it

[fiery grove]

I found it on fb marketplace for something like 20 usd

[noble ember]

@fiery grove oh good. That's a great price and 27" is the perfect size. There are so many scalpers put there

[cerulean elk]

that reminds me I still have a 14" PVM I need to try and sell

[noble ember]

@cerulean elk what model and where are you located?

[undone oak]

@native mesa where do we put that modeline? Just copy into ini file?

[native mesa]

Yes

[fiery grove]

say that to my back when i lifted it alone 🥲

[noble ember]

@fiery grove LOL yea I know the feeling. Sony's are no joke unlike a JVC or Toshiba. I was able to singlehandedly lift a 32" Toshiba but a Sony is a 2-man lift for sure

[cerulean elk]

14M2U: Chicago

[noble ember]

@cerulean elk damn I wish I was there. I am in California. That's a good model

That's RGB/YPbPr on that correct?

[cerulean elk]

Yeah its a great tv. I just have two 14"s and a 30"

yep RGB and component

[fiery grove]

yeah, if you want keep your back safe that's for sure

[noble ember]

@cerulean elk depending on condition and geometry, that PVM is an easy sell. A lot of great CRTs in your area

[fiery grove]

thanks a lot for the modelines, now the menu looks good too on the crt

[cerulean elk]

Yes I just havent started trying. Ive been meaning to for a year

[noble ember]

@cerulean elk if you are gonna sell that PVM, make sure to fire up 240p test suite and provide photos of a grid pattern at least. Those who know of PVMs can be nitpicky

[neat sierra]

They really put the anal in analog

[cerulean elk]

this is why I havent sold it. Do I want the hassle? lol

I sure as shit dont want anyone in my house looking at it

creepy

[hearty oar]

you can simply use this one #unstable-nightlies message it's pretty much what you had before. But yeah like @compact depot said that is very unlikely, I can't see anything changed that could cause that

[noble ember]

@cerulean elk yea I get it. That's why when I sell things like a PVM, I make a testing demo video and show it to the buyer and I always show the date and time from my other phone or computer

[cerulean elk]

if someone on here wants to drive to Chicago and I like you Ill give you the friends deal. Also I dunno what the shit to price it at lol

on ebay its like 550-1200 hahaha

@languid dune @brisk drum want a PVM?

[weary beacon]

Ok thanks. I will check further was is messing my controllers.

[brisk drum]

Would love to broskie but not sure when I can make it to chi town 😦 if Mario wants it he gets first dibs

[cerulean elk]

Dude I am lazy. Its gonna be sitting here for the next year lol

I dont actually sell anything

[velvet nexus]

N64 sucks, why are we even bothering!

[marble cargo]

Always wanted a PVM, but just simply never had the budget or room to pick up a decent one.

I'm not upset, since my gaming monitor already does a good job with handling a lot of the odd cases that normally causes issues with digital signals.

[velvet nexus]

pretty sure its in the pins

[marble cargo]

Because we need the petty console wars to come back.

[neat sierra]

Give it away on your channel under the condition they pickup. They can put a comment saying “Killing Time is the best game ever” to be entered into a drawing

[marble cargo]

sega saturn is best by the way

[brisk drum]

If it’s still there around Xmas ill come get it!

[neat sierra]

Also under the condition they can’t come into your house or make eye contact with you

[velvet nexus]

I had a bad day and I want everyone to be butthurt along with me!

[cerulean elk]

itll still be around christmastime 2027 if I am in charge of getting it out of my office

ill even let you come in the house

[velvet nexus]

I'll raid your fridge

[chilly ember]

Use the bathroom

[neat sierra]

Try on your clothes

[final knoll]

its getting dark again.

[neat sierra]

Mmm smells like hyper neo geo 64 in here

[chilly ember]

What's a neo geo?

[quaint rune]

Baby don’t hurt me 🎶

[cerulean elk]

you couldnt fill them out in the crotch region

[neat sierra]

Not true that’s how I carry potatoes home from the grocery

[cerulean elk]

So that’s why they always stop me saying I stole a kielbasa

[languid dune]

Ye...I mean no! 👀

[languid dune]

I got my first taste, and now I need more! I'll just out and by the NES version of Hydlide.

[quaint rune]

BING BING WAHOOO

[cerulean elk]

Looks good

[cerulean elk]

You better own a copy of Killing Time over there

Or else I’ll come repo that Hydlide

Time really does fly

Robert has become a meme at this point

[final knoll]

Ill have a chat with our fair King. Robert should be knighted

[cerulean elk]

The one true king and the only king I recognize as legitimate

And the one true Bob-omb….Bobby

[noble ember]

Looks good

@winged garden nice scanlines

[dreamy ridge]

i always hear the music the moment i see a solstace screenshot 🤣 LIT ost

[brisk drum]

Solstice broh…

[orchid nimbus]

old core - get with the program 😄

good 🙂

[brisk drum]

Wow broh.. shadows of the empire musta just been amazing to see back in the day

[orchid nimbus]

yup - I remember playing it on my voooodoooo 2

or 1

ok time to move on from n64 and add new ROMs to the MSX collection

[quasi storm]

And the frame rates on N64 were amazing... amazingly low, that is.

[mortal panther]

At the time, I didn't care about stuff like that.

[brisk drum]

To the average person I’m sure shit loooked sick

[mortal panther]

It was fun. That was all I knew and cared about.

[brisk drum]

Yeah I agree

[mild ether]

It's a great speed for a slideshow though.

[mortal panther]

Of course, now, looking back... I can't help but think to myself "How could you have not noticed that shit?!" 😄

[brisk drum]

Wow .. what is it hater hour rn ?

https://tenor.com/view/hate-hate-hate-yeah-gif-9990438

[quasi storm]

Hey, I'm no stranger to single digit frame rates; I've played Perfect Dark multiplayer with 8 simulants...

[quaint rune]

What game is this ?

[mild ether]

No hate just truth.

[quasi storm]

I think someone said Solstice?

[mild ether]

I am spoiled by modern frame rates.

[mortal panther]

Solstice on NES.

[quaint rune]

Oooooh. Looks neat. I don’t think ive ever seen a isometric styled game like that on nes

[mild ether]

Where 30 fps is miserable.

[quasi storm]

Right? 3d was still so new back then. It was cool to see it happening at all, nevermind smoothly.

[mortal panther]

30 FPS is still a 'modern frame rate', sadly.

[mild ether]

Only for the console peasantry.

[noble ember]

@quaint rune Solstice for NES

[quasi storm]

Unless you're a dev who is forced to implement a 30 fps cap on PC for... Reasons

[mortal panther]

...or you're PC peasantry who can't afford the hardware to run the latest titles at 60 FPS, so you're forced to settle.

[mild ether]

Blasphemy!

[mortal panther]

"My PS5 cost half the price of your GTX 4090 Ti... that you don't have." 😉

[mild ether]

I know, I am joking mostly. I was using a GTX 1080 for the longest time until I got a RTX 3090 late last year.

[hearty oar]

I have worked on games where we shipped 30hz sim, including only polling for inputs at that frequency, but uncapped render with interpolation and nobody ever noticed or complained

[elfin relic]

people just wanna see fps counter go up

[mortal panther]

Yeah, I figured. 🙂
Hell, I'm still rocking dual 1070 Ti cards.

Only because I rarely do any PC gaming these days anymore.

[mild ether]

It's pricey to upgrade these days. I will be rocking this card for a damn long time

Probably until Elder scrolls 6

[chilly ember]

I've been waiting for the gpu market to figure itself the last couple generations so i've stuck to a 2060 super for the past 3 years, only do ultrawide 1080 p gaming anyways

[mortal panther]

Starting to see NVIDIA prices coming down slowly but surely... most likely in response to AMD's upcoming GPUs right around the corner.

[chilly ember]

Fire deals

Did they fix the 16 pin cables yet?

[hearty oar]

Intel have battlemage coming soon too right? I really hope that it's good

I'd love to live in a world where I would want to buy an Intel GPU

[chilly ember]

I hope it's good so there's more competition and prices can steady out

[hearty oar]

that's the problem, everyone wants "more competition" so that they can still just buy an Nvidia card at a lower price...someone actually needs to want to buy the others for that to actually happen lol

[mild ether]

Intel will definitely have to go big or go home if they want any real chance.

Make something really good and sell it at a loss to get people to take them seriously.

[mortal panther]

The console strategy! 😄

[hearty oar]

you also have to remember that Nvidia are now making the lions share of their revenue from AI - I don't think they will actually care that much if they lose share in the consumer gaming GPU space

so they aren't reallty incentivized to do anything differently

[mild ether]

Pretty much. I buy Nvidia because my last Nvidia worked well. I assume others do the same thing. Took a long time to consider going back to AMD processors for example and its only because it was undeniable it was a good buy.

[cerulean elk]

I got stuck during the pandemic with an editing rig that was dying and finding parts was a pain in the ass and I couldn’t find any AMD CPUs that werent scalped. So I got an i9 12900K. Runs hot but it gets the job done

[hearty oar]

GPU my friend, not CPU

[cerulean elk]

Even with a triple fan rad it still likes to get hot though. Under TDP / throttling but it gets close

Oooooooo lol. Who would buy an Intel GPU 🤣 an etch a sketch would be better

[hearty oar]

haha, yeah my stance on buying a CPU is "which one plays game and compiles code good" for the least money, at the time I want to buy

[cerulean elk]

I wanted a 32 core thread ripper but it was an impossible part to find

Having your PC shit the bed in the middle of the pandemic was bad times. I couldn’t even get it to boot unless I pulled the CMOS battery for ten minutes so that it would fully reset the bios

But if it stayed on for more than 8 hours it would get terrible instabilities / blue screen itself

[native mesa]

I usually go super high end and then let it last for 8 years

Graphics card every 4

[cerulean elk]

This i9 and 3090 combo should last a good long while

64GB of RAM and I can go to 128 if renders get out of hand

[hearty oar]

yeah, there's not too much in the way of a meaningful upgrade out there for a machine like that just yet

[cerulean elk]

No. 4xxx series GPU swap wouldn’t fundamentally change my render times. I barely even play games on the machine if it’s not MAME for something YT related

[hearty oar]

even if you cared the $$$ -> performance uplift wouldn't make sense, maybe in couple years when the next series of cards releases

[mild ether]

Did you go for a big nvme too?

[languid dune]

Finally tested the latest build. Some good stuff!

[zinc dew]

yah, going through banjo now

[languid dune]

Sadly, I can't get Banjo to load anymore.

[zinc dew]

Forgot how low the framerate is, need to compare to real hardware

[languid dune]

There are actually a lot of games that no longer load for me ever since I changed my SD card.

Such is the life of testing a work in progress core.

[chilly ember]

Real hardware isn't much different, banjo just kinda low frame. It can be a little difficult to look at after seeing how well the Xbox re release runs

[chilly ember]

Do you have unstable main? Sounds like database.txt isn't working

Needs it to choose the right cic chip to even get games to boot

You can select the cic manually tho http://micro-64.com/database/gamecic.shtml

Only so many games need something different from 6102

The heavy hitter titles

Rare and Nintendo mostly

[languid dune]

I should check. Pretty sure I made sure I was still on unstable main.

[chilly ember]

If trying banjo kazooie, will need 6103 if you wanted to check if it boots, pretty much would confirm your database isn't loading/detected

[zinc dew]

Yeah that’s what I played last, haha

[chilly ember]

Yea that explains it :p

[languid dune]

Oh wow yeah that really was it. I could have sworn that I copied over the same unstable main I was using before on my previous card.

[chilly ember]

Yay glad it's working, now you can play banjo kazooie

I've had good luck with it with data cache on. 100% first three levels and it didn't crash

Mario 64 on the other hand will crash suddenly here and there.

[languid dune]

Nice to see that Yoshi's Story is still a fever dream.

[chilly ember]

Second level in lava land or whatever is actually displays right but most of the levels are like that it seems

[languid dune]

We should totally hold an art contest to see who can create the best piece of "art" in Yoshi's Story.

And yeah, some games are definitley more stable as far as crashing goes.

Got to the final race in the first circuit in Wave Race before it crashed.

Finished a GP in Mario Kart and it crashes right at the final results screen.

[chilly ember]

Wave race can be so random. had crashes on first race, crash on 4th.

Can complete all the races if you don't run into a crash tho haha

[cerulean elk]

I think I totally forgot to add that in for Tuesday’s video. Sounds like a Thursday vid snippet is in order

[orchid nimbus]

I managed to get 6 stars at Mario

had to set cache delay to 10

crashed pretty spectacular a few times

[cerulean elk]

Funny I had more luck at 0 than 10

[chilly ember]

I used the level select and data cache doesn't like bowser

sounds about right, robert has issues with king bob omb crashing

Tried another bowser run with data cache just now and crash in under a minute and a half

right after the second bomb throw

[languid dune]

Was surprised to see Kirby 64 get past the title screen now. Still crashes just as the game starts, but it's progress!

[chilly ember]

Sometimes even a minigame will start

crashes once it starts tho

[languid dune]

And yeah, Banjo-Kazooie looks so much better now with the white lines on the characters mostly gone.

[chilly ember]

Banjo Kazooie is probably the best game to play now, doesn't seem to crash with data cache and someone already finished it without data cache

[languid dune]

The save update didn't include controller packs right? Just the games with in-cart saving.

[chilly ember]

I finished sm64 without data cache before, was fine but data cache i can't get through the final bowser level so

yea just eeprom

no controller pak

but also some n64 games used sram and flash and neither of those are supported

yet

http://micro-64.com/database/gamesave.shtml

so 4 bit eeprom and 16 kbit eeprom is supported now but nothing else

[languid dune]

Give me muh 64bit eeprom.

[chilly ember]

So as it stands it looks like if SRAM is implented it would appear those games that use it it will boot

Yxkalle removed the SRAM requirement for ocarina of time on pal gc Zelda ocarina of time debug with a patch and you can get in game, it's very short game before it crashes but in game nonetheless

Games that use flash don't seem to matter in the booting process, they crash if you try to load or save tho

But case by case basis, Pokemon stadium doesn't boot past the N64 logo and uses flash. Guess it just depends on if it chooses to load the save on boot or not

But I'm not a programmer so this is just my theory so take it with a grain of salt

[chilly ember]

Megaman 64 save crash but uses flash save type that isn't implemented

Resident evil 2 crashes when trying to start a new game or trying to load a save. SRAM tho so it could be trying to write something as a new game is started

[noble ember]

Paper Mario crashes after entering your name

[chilly ember]

but that uses TLB and that is one of the last things planned to be implemented so that's understandable

[nova grotto]

What does TLB stand for ?

[chilly ember]

translation look-aside buffer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translation_lookaside_buffer

[nova grotto]

Do you know which things to implement are still left ?

like a list ?

of that things

[chilly ember]

Not a programmer or know but rest of the saves and TLB would be on the list

[nova grotto]

what do you mean by 'rest of the saves' I mean didn't we have already the save support of games ? Or what do you mean ?

[chilly ember]

We have eeprom but not sram, flash or controller paks

[nova grotto]

oh btw I saw in the core the save state feature but that it's not implemented yet right ?

[chilly ember]

Nope not implemented

[marble cargo]

Save states are a debugging tool at the moment; whether or not it will be in the final build is still unknown.

[chilly ember]

Robert can create save states with his pc based emulator that we can load but we can't save with fpga build

[zenith orchid]

Hopefully he'll be able to implement savestates into the core, if it can be done without compromising the core's stability

[orchid nimbus]

ok geniusses - what did I forget?

[chilly ember]

The link isn't green like link in ocarina of time

[orchid nimbus]

glares at @chilly ember

[fair stump]

You have sound, but what about video

[orchid nimbus]

ok I quit

under 'not (yet) supported' I also added cheats

[nova grotto]

I didn't own the N64 so for me this core it's an excellent way to discover and play with it's game library , from what I was understanding in all games you have to choose between rumble pak or controller pak and this last thingy it's for saving game data right ? At first I though every N64 game was able to save it's game data in it's own cartridge but some games are able to do that and some don't I am right understing how things work ?

[chilly ember]

Yea most game companies cheaped out on the SRAM (battery save) and flash and relied on controller Pak memory cards

Like Sony

[orchid nimbus]

oh yeah EEPROM save

thanks

[hearty oar]

no SNAC in the mainline build just yet right?

[nova grotto]

So Look Aside Buffer is the last thing not yet implemented ? Having that will translate into having all games booting correctly ?

[chilly ember]

Sony had an excuse tho, cd based games can't have anything written to them so no saves

[native mesa]

Anti-aliasing , dithering, dedither filter

[hearty oar]

rumble isn't supported just yet either

[orchid nimbus]

ping

[chilly ember]

Tlb is the last chaotic things to be implented, not a end be all thing. It's a thing that was only really implented in first party Nintendo titles and Rare titles

It's a programmers nightmare yada yada from what I read so I understand why it would be last to be implemented

[orchid nimbus]

the link on the FAQ tells more 😄

[nova grotto]

ok so that clears up my question

[orchid nimbus]

TLB mapping is pretty evil in the eyes of ASM hackers. This is the reason you don't see 1337 ASM codes for Goldeneye and very few for Perfect Dark. It's like some kind of address aliasing. When you set a breakpoint on Goldeneye, for example, the PC address returned will be something other than the real PC address; in Goldeneye's case you'll get an address beginning with something like '7F' instead of '80'. There's no known way to get around it on the console, but you can with Nemu 0.8. If you set a Breakpoint on a TLB mapped game in Nemu, you'll see all the opcodes in the TLB addresses. The trick is finding the real ones. Rightclick the break address and choose the --> Memory Debugger. This will bring up the memory editor, but notice the addresses shown are the same address you saw in the debugger (TLB mapped). Look at the 32-Bit value of the first (break) address there. Bring up the Search window and do a 32-Bit search for that value. If you got more than 1 result, you'll have to figure out which one it is by comparing the opcodes before/after the one you searched for. There you have it, you got around one of the most evil programming tricks in the book. :)

[stuck summit]

it's gonna be insane to see Conker's Bad Fur Day running on MiSTer. Hopefully it boots once TLB is in

[native mesa]

Then things like the transfer pak which probably won't get support

But who knows

[orchid nimbus]

@nova grotto well if you hold your meth infeuled horses for a bit - I'm not that fast on a laptop with touchpad

[nova grotto]

Thanks for the clarification @orchid nimbus

[orchid nimbus]

np 🙂

my goal is to keep the FAQs I created as accurate as possible

[native mesa]

Oh and real time clock for the 2 games that use it

[chilly ember]

What's the second one?

Animal forest is obviously the first

Is it that weird giant game?

Noooo that was on n64dd so not possible

[nova grotto]

Btw do you know that Donald Duck N64 Music is actually corrupted ? https://youtu.be/Up6ocnxhQC8?t=1881

[zenith orchid]

Good morning Robert!

[wanton sun]

also Video out is currently a hack and needs to be replaced with the full thing doing AA, dedither, gamma, scaling, ....

and some RDP features

rumble, transfer pak

probably forgot some more things

[nova grotto]

How do you wake up so early ? (Guess it's 6:33 AM in Germany right?) I always have problems with that 😅

[wanton sun]

kids get up at 5:30 to get the bus

[chilly ember]

Oooh transfer Pak

Love it

[zenith orchid]

Heh, I knew it had something to do with kids

Kids are probably the prime reason people get up that early

[orchid nimbus]

gamepak and transfer pak are different things?

[zenith orchid]

transfer pak is for pokemon stadium?

[wanton sun]

transfer pak is basically to play pokemon stadium. no idea if it can do more, i don't care 😅

[chilly ember]

Transfer pake allows you to transfer Pokemon from red, blue on stadium 1 gold and silver for two

[nova grotto]

That's insane why so early to go to school ? When I was a student I got to school by 7:00 Am but wake up at 6:30 Am more or less 👀

[chilly ember]

transfer Pak is a physical cartridge device for gameboy versions of the time

[chilly ember]

Plugs into back of N64 controller

[orchid nimbus]

I remember constantly adjusting the list for the PSX core - until everything was supported except that PS handheld thing 😄

[wanton sun]

school starts at 8, bus starts here at 6:45-7:15, need to leave at 6:30 to get the bus in time for sure....

[native mesa]

The rumble pak aka the stone of agony

[nova grotto]

What are RDP functions ?

[hearty oar]

SNAC!

[zenith orchid]

school used to start at 7:30am for me, and I lived the furthest away, so I got on the bus at 6:10. I'd wake up at 5:30 to get ready and have breakfast

[orchid nimbus]

RDP=Reality Display Processor

fancy marketing term for video chip

[marble cargo]

Transfer pak is also used for Mario Golf and Mario Tennis to unlock content, though I believe that can be tricked with a simple hack.

[orchid nimbus]

SNAC is supported?

[wanton sun]

RDP functions still missing are mainly LOD, RGBA correction, dithering and a special complicated blend mode i have not understood at all yet

[hearty oar]

it's not, afaik

so that would go in the unsupported list

[wanton sun]

yes

[chilly ember]

Probably, Pokemon stadium gameboy emulator locks itself to only Pokemon games but there are hacks that allow other games to be played

[wanton sun]

also CIC decrypting

[native mesa]

Are you going to do the hardware 'blur' too? Separate from the dedither filter

[nova grotto]

There's some people in my city that lives so far that in order to arrive to the public University they wake up so early and take the bus like 3 hours before it's schedule I mean they do all of that and the sun didn't even risen (it's still night)

3/4 hours

[wanton sun]

i'm not aware of any blur other then dedither and AA

[marble cargo]

Wikipedia lists what games used the Transfer Pak

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_Pak

[chilly ember]

Pokemon games

[native mesa]

I'll get more info. I think it's mostly built into the analog output as HDMI mods can bypass it

[orchid nimbus]

someone sent me a picture of a snack adapter for N64

told me it was working

[marble cargo]

Note that some games are only compatible with the Transfer Pak in specific regions. In those cases, the content can be unlocked without the Transfer Pak or are dummied out.

[zenith orchid]

So now what's next? 🙂

[mortal apex]

blue1 posted a build a few days ago for us to try snac, it's in the pins

[lament escarp]

Didn't have @zinc dew one of those?

[native mesa]

@wanton sun it's called horizontal blur At this time, there is no known way to disable the Nintendo 64 horizontal image interpolation through software or hardware mods. Products like Retroactive's UltraHDMI, Pixel FX's N64Digital, and Tim Worthington's N64RGB have "deblur" features that adjust their horizontal sampling to compensate for the interpolation. The OSSC can be configured with optimal timings to generate similar results. https://consolemods.org/wiki/N64:N64blur

[orchid nimbus]

so it's not officially supported yet

[wanton sun]

blue1 testbuild for snac is mostly for hardware testing. It's currently reading the controls itself outside of pif, but not yet supporting real core<->pad/rumble/pak interface

[orchid nimbus]

SNAC WIP by a 3rd party

there - covers all bases

[charred coyote]

i can't seem to get a xbox 360 controller to work as a anglog input.

[wanton sun]

some more RDP bugfixes for now

if i find time this afternoon/evening

[orchid nimbus]

Dr Mario transparancy issues I hope 🙂

wireframe

those are the ones that come to mind

[mortal apex]

there was also a post earlier about transparency issues in Banjo Kazooie

[orchid nimbus]

I saw that

was interesting to see

[zenith orchid]

Nice! I guess you have a lot to choose from

[mortal apex]

Other than that BK runs very nicely, it's been a blast to play.

[wanton sun]

haha, yes, it's not difficult currently to find games with rendering issues. Basically all still have some of them

[native mesa]

Honestly I doubt anyone would miss the horizontal interpolation but if the goal is to be as accurate as possible then I guess it's worth understanding

[zenith orchid]

I guess SM64 is the focus now that MK64 is practically flawless

[native mesa]

People go through lots of hardware modding trouble just to get rid of it

[marble cargo]

oh boy can't wait to try to boot up mischief makers again and get disappointed by the game not working

[orchid nimbus]

play slurperman64

[wanton sun]

rainbow road is not. choco mountain has no fog

[lament escarp]

Those blue lines in the tunnel of luigi track

[zenith orchid]

Ohhh ok got it

[orchid nimbus]

I jumped throught the princesses picture in mario64 and the road was dark - could be that it's always dark, I hardly know the game

[native mesa]

There's some texture flicker too in the text

[wanton sun]

hmm, i thought they are gone?

cannot remember to still see them

[lament escarp]

I'll check them again but a few days ago they were there

[orchid nimbus]

@native mesa at race start - looks like the shape of balloons

I'm not going to start giving bug reports on RDP stuff yet

it's too early

[zenith orchid]

I think it would be cool to keep track of bugs in the games that are the focus. SM64 and MK64

[native mesa]

What are you waiting for

[zenith orchid]

I'm sure Robert keeps a checklist somewhere

[zenith orchid]

I'm waiting for you to do it 😂

[lament escarp]

Yeah they're gone, you work too fast for me. 😛

[chilly ember]

sm64 and mk64 bug report spreadsheet incoming. I think not necessary

[native mesa]

Once all the main features are implemented then I'm sure specific bug reports will be useful

[marble cargo]

plays on the blatantly unfinished core

"Erm guys I think something is wrong I want to report this. ☝️ 🤓 "

[native mesa]

Road work ahead. Heyyy this road isn't complete!

[nova grotto]

You misspelled mischief makers ☹

[native mesa]

Cool Spot

[chilly ember]

"Why doesn't conker's bad fur day run?? The YouTube guy said it was almost full speed"

[lament escarp]

I'm really curious where the core will be by the end of the year.

[orchid nimbus]

85%+ will look perfect

If Robert doesn’t work himself into a burn out

[languid dune]

They were definitely gone when I tested today's build.

[lament escarp]

Honestly I hope he gets lost for a month in banjo or oot when that runs and doesn't work on the core. 😄 little R&R.

Problem is he never listenes. Whold discord is like: take the weekend off, enjoy the nice weather and spend time with your family. Robert: check out my new z-buffer!

[chilly ember]

It's hard to break the roll when you're on a roll

[manic basin]

The night is dark and full of terrors. And mushrooms.

[chilly ember]

That's where Yoshi's story fits in canonically

@orchid nimbus eprom?

[zenith orchid]

ms pacman maze madness is playable! a lot of fun too

[languid dune]

Seriously, I wouldn't be even the slightest bit sad or upset if Robert took some time off! Obviously don't want to speak for him though, he knows what's best for himself. Working on the core may be his own way of relaxing.

[zenith orchid]

those of you who haven't played ms pacman maze madness, it's such a great game to unwind to

[quasi storm]

Tetrisphere is my "Unwind" game. Until the later levels, anyway...

[zenith orchid]

I'll have to try it

[chilly ember]

My last wave race run with data cache for the night, ends with crash on third level second lap

[remote hatch]

For me works without crash with delay 11

[chilly ember]

I'll have to try that

[manic basin]

This gets really far now, but the hangs are terrifying.

Cache delay 10 gets me much further.

[hearty oar]

it just occurs to me that Doubutsu no Mori will need RTC to actually be fully playable

[manic basin]

Yeah, KK complains at the beginning.

[chilly ember]

That seemed to work for me too

[chilly ember]

The laugh emotion is the most unsettling

[bronze tree]

are there any other games using the RTC?

[hearty oar]

no idea, that's the only one that I know just offhand

[remote hatch]

great game

[quaint rune]

Nope. just animal crossing

[manic basin]

It's so odd how Animal Crossing has been around for over 22 years and it still feels so much like it did back then.

[quaint rune]

Very true

[hearty oar]

I fire it up on GameCube every now and again, there's something about how it looks and sounds that yeah, is a bit timeless

[manic basin]

I loved going to the island on the GBA.

It really is timeless.

[chilly ember]

I have so much animal crossing from the era under my belt, it's ridiculous. I still have my gba cable.

Sea shanties before sea shanties were a thing

[quaint rune]

Wtf I didn’t know there was gba connectivity with animal crossing. I’m reading about this now. I feel so jelly. I’ll have to dig into this later though. Thanks for the heads up though

[manic basin]

Absolutely! It's a special kind of rewarding on GC, too. I can't explain it and maybe it's just nostalgia and 'where I played it first' vibes, but going back to it recently, it really just still feels great.

[chilly ember]

I was there when it was relevant running Gamecube over coaxial on a wood grain crt

[hearty oar]

I was just thinking huh, the transfer pak must also be a niche thing, that only supports pokemon stadium 1+2 right? Nope, there are 19 games apparently:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_Pak

[hollow rune]

Wow, I never got this far, but to be fair I never spammed beyond the title. I will try it with Cache delay 10

[hollow rune]

Good to know

[remote hatch]

for Robert it works with the setting on 10 , but for me it is stable on 11

[weary palm]

Cache delay only makes things worse for me.

[remote hatch]

of course, it won't be better with delay

but that way you can play longer 😉

[fallen sparrow]

Gotta stop looking at discord and sleeeep 💤💤💤💤😴😴😴

[remote hatch]

default is 0

[weary palm]

Hm, maybe I'm doing something wrong, but games typically freeze faster if I touch that setting.

[manic basin]

Yeah, night shifts suck ...get some rest!

[remote hatch]

I'm not sure , but I guess everyone can have different results

[weary palm]

@manic basin Your avatar reminds me of a cross between Big Bunny and Shrek.

[verbal cedar]

Shout out my dude Robert. I don’t know who you are but as a new asic engineer you’re my biggest inspiration rn. Literally a gift to earth

[weary palm]

Wow, I would love to be an ASIC engineer.

[verbal cedar]

You can do it dude just gotta stick through school

[weary palm]

But I'm old and my brain is crystalized xD

[hearty oar]

not a Trek fan I take it?

[manic basin]

Hah! I was playing an Andorian from Star Trek in a sketch show. Sadly the footage was bad (long story, but don't trust other people with your camera work, I guess). Also, I'm friends with the animator on BBB. He's a really cool guy. He recently moved to Japan though, so I only get to see him every 6 months for a while.

[verbal cedar]

You’re never too old, there’s a lot of older students in college courses. It takes some extra effort but you’d make it. If youre passionate about it, you should do it!

Robert has kids and he’s learning the entire n64 architecture. He’s a living case and point

[weary palm]

Haven't watched it passionately. Stargate is my jam. 😉

[manic basin]

Also excellent

[weary palm]

Very cool! I hope he got himself a good job he's passionate about. That's quite the talent. Is BBB a one-man job?

[manic basin]

No, there was a small team.

Nate did rigging and animation, but the models were built by others. Most were from Amsterdam. That's how he met my friend Ian, and in turn how I met him. They worked on a show called Project London (visually great, but not really worth watching). I was a little starstruck since I've been using BBB for video testing for ages.

I'm tangentially connected to a ton of cool people. This entire discord included. I really love it here.

[zenith orchid]

having so much fun playing time attack through all the MK64 courses. never owned this game before, so it's really exciting for me

I guess the only thing I'm missing out on is that rainbow road has some issues and choco mountain is missing fog

damn penguins 😂

[quasi storm]

It's hard, isn't it?

[weary palm]

I don't remember the game being this generous with lightning bolts in second place.

[vapid moat]

21" PAL Sony Trinitron here~

[remote hatch]

looks great!

[vapid moat]

Oh yeah, and 14" Trini as well~

On that end, hoping I get to play Smash 64 Remix in this core when it finishes developing~

[weary palm]

I like the trinitrons because the blacks are a bit darker than the usual CRT.

[vapid moat]

Aperture Grille, right?

[bronze tree]

once you see it you cannot unsee it 😉

(I mean the horizontal wires holding it up)

[vapid moat]

You mean the black-ish line on the center of the tube?

[bronze tree]

yeah

[final walrus]

I got this bad boi (and didn’t want to be on the picture)

[bronze tree]

well, mine had 2 lines, I don't know if there are variants

[final walrus]

Yeah it’s supposed to be two

[vapid moat]

Sometimes I notice it, but I hardly remember it being there now

[weary palm]

Mine had two.

29-incher, I believe.

[vapid moat]

Doesn't distract me anymore- besides my 14" Trini has it's own glaring imperfection I had to start learning to ignore.

https://www.reddit.com/r/crtgaming/comments/il6aqf/got_hold_of_a_sony_kv14t1d_except_it_happens_to/

[bronze tree]

that looks super distracting

[weary palm]

Use tipp-ex

[vapid moat]

Oh it is - got to live with it as I hardly come across 14" Trinis around my parts, or PVM/BVMs

[bronze tree]

yes, otherwise it looks great

[weary palm]

Why is 14 inches preferable?

[timid torrent]

what's the current state of banjo tooie? I think I remember reading that it has some pretty unusual copy protection ?

[vapid moat]

I like to play 16-Bit-generations of games with it near my bed (hence my setup)

Just looks nice seeing the action up-close

[weary palm]

That copy protection was cracked 12 years ago...

[timid torrent]

I know that haha, I was more thinking that maybe it uses some unusal features of a cart or the N64 hardware

that might not be working yet

apparently the copy protection is that it has CIC challenge-responses peppered throughout the game code, and the response is used to decrypt the game files

if the CIC doesn't respond correctly, it can't decrypt and then crashes

[weary palm]

I don't know, I don't think It boots yet, correct?

[zenith orchid]

mama miaaaaaa.. hate the beach level on mk64

lolz

[weary palm]

It's a beach

[timid torrent]

the spreadsheet says no boot, yet

yes*

probably should have checked that first...

my bad

[weary palm]

Someone make a bot please. "Does x run?"

[timid torrent]

"you better go and catch it" ?

sounds like an easy bot to make

[weary palm]

Just some fuzzy search

😉

[snow mulch]

For some reason.
When i map the controls there is no map for the stick.
Everything else has a button.
No wonder i thought my controller had issue's.
IDK the switch controller detects the stick but that's automatic i guess.
Please put in remap joystick in the OSD remap buttons.
Thought i had issue with mario kart. The kart wouldn't move. in game. was wondering why i could pick the character with the d pad. The stick doesn't work.
Using blister. adapter, n64 controller

[bronze tree]

@snow mulch I don't know why it's not possible to map the stick, but I mapped it in the main menu (not loading any cores) and it works in the core

[trim seal]

The stick doesn't need to be mapped in the core, as long as it's properly mapped in the MiSTer main.

[snow mulch]

Ok that worked.
Still not in the n64 remap menu thou.
Weird.

[trim seal]

Robert deliberately made it map to whatever stick one is on a controller that is mapped in the main, it didn't need to be mapped in the core as a result.

[snow mulch]

what0ever.
What if someone wants to make to another stick for whatever reason.

[weary palm]

That being said, it would be nice to override the default. But I wouldn't prioritize that feature.

[trim seal]

I guess wait for a more fully featured release. It's not likely high on the priority list.

[weary palm]

@trim seal jinx

[trim seal]

Indeed

[remote hatch]

patience is the key

[snow mulch]

Also the stick didn't detect.
If it's in the OSD of the n64 core i wouldn't have to remap on the OSD of the main mister.
I made a new image a couple of weeks ago. So my settings are all by defualt.
Trying to remember what was changed.
Needs to be done because different stuff from years ago. even different extenchon.

[hearty python]

Is blister not a snac thing? N64 hasn’t built in yet.

Or I am wrong?

[fallen sparrow]

Haha, on a serious note, the hardest part is sleeping during the day. I'm up after 3 hours. I tried sleeping more, but I couldn't.

[compact depot]

Blisster is not SNAC

[hearty python]

Ok, than is that the LLAPI thing. Don’t know if a usb fallback is in there for the faster ports.

[brisk drum]

Somebody pin this!

[brisk drum]

I couldn’t sleep , so im just messing with all the debug settings trying to see if I can get games that do not boot at all to boot ..

It’s like it’s own mini game within the core

[fallen sparrow]

Nice

[hollow rune]

Let me know if you find any cool strategies for how we all can do this

[brisk drum]

I will report anything of importance here .

[hollow rune]

On PSX how did testing work for indicvidual games. We will eventually get the the point where we can run through full games. Do people just take different games on and play through multiple times? Do we just report things as we find them?

[neat sierra]

Everyone played Castlevania 250 times each and then stamped their “inspected by” marks on the core

[hollow rune]

so replace Castlevania with Brian 64 and that will be it, right?

I know we can take on Mystical Ninja.

we also have the cart for Goemon's Great Adventure

[neat sierra]

Roll that out the way so we can see your Atomiswave

[neat sierra]

Noice

[final walrus]

Yeah. I do have some nice PCBs too

Including some that are with Jotego right now 😎

I‘m thinking about upgrading to a rolling cart with one more layer. You got a D20 too?

[zinc dew]

I don’t believe any core that supports analog stick controls lets you map it. That’s all handled by the main menu mapping.

[final walrus]

Yeah it’s really nice. Used to own a D24 and still have 2 20F1E in the basement to last me the rest of my lifetime

[cerulean elk]

I’ve got both 64 Castlevania’s when the cores done

VGE’s stamp of “it’s perfect. I think. I dunno. Dracula had no head. That’s normal right? 🤷🏻‍♂️”

[zinc dew]

I didn’t like Castlevania N64 much at the time of release because of Symphony of the Night was just so perfect. But it’s grown on me over the years.

Never really played Legacy of Darkness either.

[mortal panther]

Yeah, same. Castlevania 64 was a pretty hard sell almost 2 years after SotN came out... but I did learn to enjoy it eventually and judge it on its own merits.

[cerulean elk]

they arent perfect but they are fun

the first game opens with a whimper and forces the platforming on the player so early it turns a lot of people off

[zinc dew]

That was definitely me

I did love the skeletons on 1940s motorbikes though

[cerulean elk]

but once you figure out what the game is asking of you (slow down, time your jumps, dont rush) and you get near to the castle...really fun game

[native mesa]

Happy day off Americans

[cerulean elk]

it just does not help that CV64 opens on that forest area. One of the worst levels in the game

[zinc dew]

thank you!

[cerulean elk]

haha thanks. Beach day later

[zinc dew]

Legacy of Darkness is basically an improved version of Castlevania, right?

[cerulean elk]

gonna be 91 and sunny here

[cerulean elk]

basically like a "finished" version. All the stuff that got cut from the first game

DLC as a new game

[zinc dew]

Does it render the original irrelevant?

[cerulean elk]

for the most part yes but not 100%

if you only play ONE make it Legacy

[mortal panther]

Now we're told... 😉

[zinc dew]

Will do, thanks!

[drowsy lantern]

The real question is… will it support the Game Boy Camera? 😂

[zinc dew]

I was actually bummed they cut that from Perfect Dark. I think it’s still in the code, right?

[mortal panther]

YouTube/Twitch integration.

[native mesa]

That looks like the true stone of agony to me

[cerulean elk]

things are expensive now too

Ive got boxed for both and they arent giving them away

[native mesa]

Did you have to design all those top labels?

[zinc dew]

Nah people have designed them and sell the labels online

[weary palm]

Castlevania (64) > Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness

[remote hatch]

very cool solution

[drowsy lantern]

No the code was yanked entirely. Only some text strings remain.

[cerulean elk]

all my loose carts are in Ikea boxes. Out of sight

Its weird I am so "out of sight" with my collection

[weary palm]

Isn't that more hoarding? 😉

[cerulean elk]

lol its called keeping the peace

[old iris]

The problem is this, I installed the kernel, everything is according to the instructions, but it does not load the rums, it loads more precisely but with a black screen, what could it be?

[cerulean elk]

but I never wanted a visual collection

[weary palm]

ah

[native mesa]

What does 'holo' mean on majorahs mask

[cerulean elk]

we need a bigger place. Our condo is feeling small

[weary palm]

I have quite the invisible collection here on my harddrive, hehe.

[cerulean elk]

but they dont exactly GIVE AWAY real estate in Chicago

[weary palm]

only my own cart dumps, of course

[cerulean elk]

naturally

I laugh inside every time I say on YT "game dumps from your games you legally own"

[blissful plaza]

Nintendo ninjas should back off

[cerulean elk]

weirdly Sony is the only one to ever go after me

[native mesa]

Wow you had cartridges with source code

[cerulean elk]

on my PSP Deck tutorial...but I won

[weary palm]

@native mesa of course. collectors edition.

[native mesa]

I thought your dad worked at Nintendo

[weary palm]

no, that's mom

[cerulean elk]

I work at Nintendo. I am all your fathers

I got around back in the day

[zinc dew]

Awwwww

[zinc dew]

I’ve got a giant wall of games in my game room

[cerulean elk]

We dont have the space for a game room. Well we do...but its my office studio

[zinc dew]

Yeah my game room is now my wfh office lol

[cerulean elk]

its got a game corner for my PVM lol

[zinc dew]

Knowing what I know now. I probably wouldn’t have collected any games and just have a MiSTer lol

[cerulean elk]

I want a game room, but I still want everything on shelves that close. So its just a "room" until I want it not to be

[native mesa]

It's never too late, but also you will probably profit in the ens

[cerulean elk]

lol this is how I feel when I think "just sell your Neo Geo AES shit. Theres your down payment on a bigger place"

[old iris]

what can cause a black screen when starting roms?

[native mesa]

CIC not detected

Do any work?

[cerulean elk]

I havent even plugged a cart into my AES since MiSTer

[zinc dew]

Yeah i’ll probably sell at some point. I do really get enjoyment from seeing my collection but I bought the games to play so that’s effectively it’s main purpose. With the MiSTer they just sit there so not much of a reason to keep them imo.

[cerulean elk]

this is why in the last like three years Ive gone HEAVY on arcade boards

[zinc dew]

they look real cool

[cerulean elk]

stuff you cant play anywhere else. Board or nothing

[native mesa]

Someday

With enough Jotegos

[cerulean elk]

its the 3D stuff I love

that will never come to FPGA because nobody cares about them

[weary palm]

maybe someone will reimplement PerfectHead™ giggles now that PD has been fully reverse engineered.

[cerulean elk]

nobody is gonna write a core for Operation Tiger lol

or Thrill Drive

[mild ether]

Or Tattoo Assassins. 😢

[cerulean elk]

stop looking at my video schedule

[deft tree]

Tattass rules

[old iris]

what does CIC not detected mean, what do I need for this?

[cerulean elk]

Sept 18th

[mild ether]

The database

[weary palm]

What game are you trying out?

[mild ether]

I will mark the calendar. love that game as broken as it is.

[native mesa]

You need mister unstable main also

[deft tree]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L2sYmsUrB8

[old iris]

Super Mario Kart 64 (U)

[cerulean elk]

CIC is a checksum database in a txt file that matches checksums against games to get them all to boot around the 64s rudimentary copy protection system

[mild ether]

It's a cool cabinet. I would snap it up right away if I ever saw it for sale.

[deft tree]

its just a regular Midway MK cab with different art

https://xlarcade.com/products/tattoo-assassins-complete-art-kit?_pos=2&_sid=91331d60b&_ss=r

[cerulean elk]

Tattoo Assassins isn't even a bad game. Just a failed one

[old iris]

I did everything according to this instruction.

[cerulean elk]

none of my Janktoberfest games are straight up bad...they are just garbage

[weary palm]

@old iris That game's supported, so it's probably that you need unstable build of the MiSTer binary.

[old iris]

https://vampier.net/N64/

[remote hatch]

pif (boot.rom) should be 1984 bytes (1 KiB)

[mild ether]

It's a really funny game and I would have pumped lots of quarters into it if it was released.

[cerulean elk]

its got charm and ambition. Just not execution

[weary palm]

yeah, 1984 bytes, not 124 KB(??)

[native mesa]

Yeah that boot ROM is wrong

[mild ether]

Get the Aleck 64 PIF it's super easy to find.

[zinc dew]

fighting game man! What is your opinion on Mace - The Dark Age?

[deft tree]

i played it way too much as a kid. It's real bad tho

I had Pojo unlocked and everything

[zinc dew]

Damn, well thanks for the insight. I also played it as a kid and liked it but didn't know if it was any good lol.

[deft tree]

i booted it up not that long ago

[remote hatch]

your boot.rom is wrong

[cerulean elk]

Its a game. It exists. You can play it. Review complete

[mortal panther]

@old iris https://vampier.net/N64/

[native mesa]

Isn't it a mame cab?

[old iris]

I did everything according to this instruction

[mild ether]

Just grab the Aleck 64 PIF and use that. It's very easy to find.

[native mesa]

You can know if you have the right file by comparing the SHA1 number on vampiers site

[mild ether]

It's the largest file in the archive and just rename it boot.rom

[old iris]

Thank you very much, everything worked!

[mild ether]

You're welcome.

[old iris]

And at the moment there are fully working and playable games? because mario kart kinda slows down...

[bronze tree]

I just checked the file form you screenshot from the ares git and it's also 1984 bytes, so something must have gone wrong with your download

maybe you did a right click and saved some html? 🙂

[daring meteor]

Enable Data Cache

[old iris]

Yes, I right clicked and hit save as...

[daring meteor]

It fixes the slowdown

[zinc dew]

MiSTer Fast Facts

SHA1, the popular way of identifying rom types was originally used as a means to generate winning lotto numbers. Hackers discovered this trick when they converted the html of the lotto website. it would get the winning number combination. Gamers noticed this and started using this as a means to identify if their roms were the correct type and would proclaim "SUPER HAPPY ACCURACY NUMBER ONE!" which eventually got shorted into SHA1.

[bronze tree]

yes, that doesn't work with github, you need to have the "raw" data (just for future reference, I know you fixed your issue already)

[desert crow]

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1H4KYg0gsOWGayioXKSETtlM7d7g3Tk4w0QXqtXvugG8/edit?usp=drivesdk

you can get an idea of what's bootable and playable here

[old iris]

wow thanks, is mario kart fully playable now?

[daring meteor]

Yes, only problem is Dithering and Thwomp Textures

[bronze tree]

and missing fog?

[remote hatch]

yeah

[zinc dew]

it's also missing good gameplay

[remote hatch]

ban!

[zinc dew]

DESERVED

[this user has been banned for bad hot takes]

[remote hatch]

you must give yourself a ban

but who will then keep order here ? 😛

better stay Robby hehe

[weary palm]

...Mario kart 64 is a kinda weak entry to the series.

[inner bronze]

Heresy

[remote hatch]

next ban please

[weary palm]

xD

The tracks are to long/wide and ... slow. Sorry.

[zinc dew]

I played the game yesterday with my son and it's really fun

but 50CC is harder than I remember?

[mild ether]

Definitely isn't better than the SNES game imo.

[remote hatch]

yes, my son love it

[weary palm]

Definitely not.

[inner bronze]

Definitely better than Super Mario Kart

[daring meteor]

The best entry in the series is Mario Kart Tour