Nintendo 64 - Individual Game Setups V 1.0

[Stark]

I'm Starting this thread because A lot of people have trouble with N64 games.

For Comments or Suggestions on this guide post them at the Comments on Guides thread, also note what Guide you are commenting on.

Edit: Making a new thread so this one is merely for archive purposes.

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Index
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General FAQ Post No. 2
- General Pointers.

Posts 3 and 4 to be replaced. left open in case i need to extend the emulated list

How well Emulated List Post No. 5

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General FAQ
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Now beforehand there are a few things that should be obvious:

1. A lot of Emulators reqiure Direct X and updated drivers to operate and will be the reason a lot of the time why it freezes/Doesn't start.

2. You are able to play N64 roms in Pj64 In Zip format, but not rar, for anyone that's confused about that. From what I can see no other emulator supports roms in zip format.

3. The region's go as follow's
(E) Europe
(U) Usa
(J) Japan
(JU) Japan/Usa
(?) Will come up with more.

Frequently asked Questions.
Q: How do I "add" the expansion pak to the Emulator?
A: For Project64 you go onto options then unclick hide advanced options, then when you go back into options there will be a lot more options, go to the advanced tab and you can select the default rom memory to either 4mb or 8mb
For 1964 you have to do it individually, by selecting a rom on the menu screen(don't go into the game) go onto edit and Rom Properties. here besides a lot of other options, there is an option to fiddle around with the expansion pak.

Q: I can't get glide to work on the emulator:
A: Glide64 is a plug-in for and to make it work put the plug-in in the plug-ins folder, now if it still doesn't work(Can't locate it) Then you aren't using a voodoo card. For this problem you need to get a glide wrapper(newest 3x) and put the in the same folder as the emulator and NOT in the plug-ins folder.

Q: This Plug-in is giving me trouble on this computer but not another one, help!
A: The reason this probably is that one computer has a low end graphics card and another has a high and graphics card. Some plug-ins now have support for pixel shading and other effects, but some people might have graphics cards that don't support this. Direct64 is one that requires a good graphics card, as does Rice's 5.6.0 to get best results. will post minimum graphics card that supports pixel shading.

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General Pointers
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How well Emulated List
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Here is a list of games that are playable, unplayable and near unplayable that way any new configurations may help put them into the playable zone. I'll put a number next to them to show which post they were assessed to save long browsing for one game. This is subject to change a lot, I am also now putting up a fully emulated section for any games that can be fully emulated. I am now putting them in alphabetical order now

I'll be using a set that doesn't have duplicates in it but is all the roms for the N64, afterwards, there might be the possibility of working on them.

O = Original. these are the roms I've started off with
D = Duplicate. roms that are the same except for country or maybe version i.e V1.1 etc.
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Fully Emulated (100%):
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1080 Snowboarding (JU) [!].v64 Post No. 10 O
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Playable (99%-51%):
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64 Oozumou (J) [!].v64 Post No. 7 (65 %) O
64 Oozumou 2 (J) [!].v64 Post No. 8 (80 %) O
64 Trump Collection - Alice no Wakuwaku Trump World (J) [!].v64 Post No. 9 (95 %) O
A Bug's Life (U) [!].v64 Post No. 11 (95 %) O
AeroFighters Assault (U) [!].v64 Post No. 12 (80 %) O
AeroGauge (U) [!].v64 Post No. 13 (99 %) O
AI Shougi 3 (J) [!].v64 Post No. 14 (85 %) O
Aidyn Chronicles - The First Mage (U) [!].v64 Post No. 15 (80 %) O
Airboarder 64 (E) [!].z64 Post No. 16 (99 %) O
All Star Tennis '99 (U) [!].rom Post No. 17 (90 %) O
All-Star Baseball '99 (U) [!].v64 Post No. 18 (85 %) O
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Near unplayable (50%-30%):
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64 de Hakken!! Tamagotchi Minna de Tamagotchi World (J) [!].v64 Post No. 6 (40 %) O
All-Star Baseball 2000 (U) [!].rom Post No. 19 (40 %) O
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Unplayable (29%-0%):
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Untested:
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All-Star Baseball 2001 (U) [!].rom Post No. 20 O
Armorines - Project S.W.A.R.M. (U) [!].v64 Post No. 21 O
Army Men - Air Combat (U) [!].z64 Post No. 22 O
Army Men - Sarge's Heroes (U) [!].v64 Post No. 23 O
Army Men - Sarge's Heroes 2 (U) [!].z64 Post No. 24 O
Asteroids Hyper 64 (U) [!].v64 Post No. 25 O
Automobili Lamborghini (U) [!].v64 Post No. 26 O
Bakuretsu Muteki Bangai-O (J) [!].z64 Post No. 27 O
Bakushou Jinsei 64 - Mezase! Resort Ou (J) [!].v64 Post No. 28 O
Banjo-Kazooie (U) [!].z64 Post No. 29 O
Banjo-Tooie (U) [!].v64 Post No. 30 O
Bass Hunter 64 (E) [!].v64 Post No. 31 O
Bass Rush - ECOGEAR PowerWorm Championship (J).v64 Post No. 32 O
Bass Tsuri No. 1 - Shigesato Itoi's Bass Fishing (J) [!].v64 Post No. 33 O
Bassmasters 2000 (U) [!].rom Post No. 34 O
Batman Beyond - Return of the Joker (U) [!].v64 Post No. 35 O
BattleTanx (U) [!].v64 Post No. 36 O
BattleTanx - Global Assault (U) [!].v64 Post No. 37 O
Battlezone - Rise of the Black Dogs (U) [!].v64 Post No. 38 O

[AKUMA™]

Also don't forget to tell people that if they are not sure what N64 ROMs they have, to go and download the GOOD TOOLS Utilities from the internet, like from this link:

http://www.zophar.net/utilities/goodutil.html

You'll need GoodN64 v2.02a and the GoodGUI v0.9 to run GoodN64 with. This handy little utility will scan all your ROM directories and spit out a list of what you got

[Stark]

Also don't forget to tell people that if they are not sure what N64 ROMs they have, to go and download the GOOD TOOLS Utilities from the internet, like from this link:

http://www.zophar.net/utilities/goodutil.html

You'll need GoodN64 v2.02a and the GoodGUI v0.9 to run GoodN64 with. This handy little utility will scan all your ROM directories and spit out a list of what you got

Thank you for your input, greatly appriciated. I wonder if we could get this thread stickied seeing as quite a few problems involve n64 emulation and posts specifically noting all problems with n64 roms and how to rectify them would be a good reference. if none of the mods want to sticky this its ok.

[AKUMA™]

Oh Zorlon, Masj, are you reading all of this? We'd greatly appreciate if you guys would sticky this post, pretty please with, um, like, sugar and sprinkles on top or something............

[Stark]

Game:
64 de Hakken!! Tamagotchi Minna de Tamagotchi World (J) [!].v64

Tested in:
1964 0.9.9

Settings:
graphics plug-in: Glide64 V0.7 ME SP8
sound plug-in: schibo's Audio Plug-in 1.2 based on UltraHLE

Notes:
The Glide64 plug-in is the only one so far that i seen that doesn't produce horrific slowdown in 1964, the sound has the occasional scratch but is otherwise ok, the graphics however are rubbish, I've tried a few plug-ins in both 1964 and pj64 with little luck, so I'm putting this in the near unplayable section till i can find something better.

One to come back to.

Screenshots:





How Well Emulated:
40 %

Duplicates:
Unknown at this point.

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Game:
64 Oozumou (J) [!].v64

Tested in:
Project 64 v1.5

Settings:
graphics plug-in: Rice's Video 5.60
sound plug-in: Jabo's Direct Sound

Notes:
While some 2d shots suffer with these settings the frame rate is perfect, the sound is fairly top notch but the 2d graphics is were it suffers i.e. menu, although the options are seemingly still legable(if you can read japanese)

Screenshots:





How Well Emulated:
65 %

Duplicates:
unknown at this point

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Game:
64 Oozumou 2 (J) [!].v64

Tested in:
Project 64 1.5

Settings:
Graphics Plug-in: Rice's Video 5.6.0
Sound Plug-in: Jabo's DirectSound

Notes:
This game plays fairly well in both 2d and 3d sequences with no trouble only at the fight screen, there seems to be some flickering. The sound is great on this game as well, with little to no slow down.

Screenshots:





How Well Emulated:
80 %

Duplicates:
Unknown at this point

[AKUMA™]

Okay, one question for now, are you using the Clement's Unofficial update to SP1 v2.0g?

[Del_Boy]

Good idea which I will sticky... but Destruction Derby 64 has performance issues on all but high end machines (so maybe put a note in for that). And PD is by no means perfect with Jabos plugin - in fact it misses a great deal of effects motion blur for one.

I would say that with Jabos the game is totally playable though and the imperfections shouldn't stop the game being completed.

[AKUMA™]

Well, theotheimpaler, it looks like you got your wish. Don't forget to thank the kind man!

[Stark]

Well, theotheimpaler, it looks like you got your wish. Don't forget to thank the kind man!

I will, thank you mr miyagi, and no I'm keeping to original settings as far as I possibly can then testing with different settings.

Thank you for the corrections Mr Miyagi, I will change them. I should be a bit more thorough, its just destruction derby and perfect dark looked perfect.