#N64 software tools

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Touching is Good: A Retrospective

My trusty Nintendo 3DS, which has held out since I was gifted it for my 15th birthday, has turned one decade old with my 25th birthday this past November. Given new life with custom firmware and nds-bootstrap via TWiLightMenu, the 3DS is stellar for visiting any past handheld title or console title up to (and somewhat including) the N64. (Quick plug for the CFW/hacking community for the less popular PS Vita, too, which has accomplished some pretty crazy-cool stuff this last year.) I use my 3DS more often than I use my Nintendo Switch most weeks.

The Nintendo DS (minus the three) launched in late 2004. The second display and stylus support were novel tools for developers to experiment with, and the NDS is best remembered for its robust catalogue of RPGs and visual novels. Where it lacked in power, narrative-focused games flourished under its technical limitations.

That being said, while browsing the ROM archives on Vimm's Lair to pick up some titles, I was reminded of what an interesting era the mid-to-late 2000s were for games. While Sony and Microsoft were fighting over the "core gamer" demographic, who had outgrown Nintendo mascots, Nintendo led a series of wildly successful marketing campaigns for its hardware after the light failure of the Gamecube, where the Nintendo DS and then the Wii were targeted at...everyone else.

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If you look at ads for the DS and the Wii, you'll see that adults are featured much more prominently than children, especially women and seniors. (This did not go unnoticed, as I found this ancient relic of misogyny while looking for images for this post.) A Nintendo handheld was already an easy sell to parents with small children (though I think it's also notable that ads which do focus on children often prominently feature girls. Munchlax is pretty hot...), but Nintendo's angle for the DS and Wii was that their hardware wasn't just for children. The Wii was a way to get up off the couch and to play board games with grandma. The DS was a great gadget for a working woman to keep in her pocketbook.

This worked. The Wii and DS were two of the best-selling consoles of all time. In particular, the DS's marketing campaign only worked because it came out in the perfect window of time. PDA-phone hybrids had been around since the 90s, and the Blackberry had been kicking around for a few years, but the iPhone wouldn't be introduced until 2007, and the 4G LTE standard wouldn't be released until 2009. While the Blackberry was popular with businesspeople and the PDA was out of style, smartphones were luxury toys for several years; they wouldn't become near-ubiquious until the mid-2010s. I didn't get my own smartphone until probably around the same time I got my 3DS, a full handheld generation later.

Browsing the software library for the Nintendo DS and DSi with that in mind is really interesting. Many titles released for the platform serve the same purposes that would be fulfilled by simple smartphone apps less than a decade later: planners and diaries, fitness trackers, calculators, language learning and SAT prep software, even a guide to the then-most-recent version of the driver's test in the UK. These proliferated with the release of the DSi's virtual store, but they existed even with the base model. You could go to a brick-and-mortar store and buy them on physical cartridges. (You might be wondering, "Why would you bother carrying those around over just buying a Blackberry?" You can't underestimate how expensive the service bills for a smartphone were before companies realized they were the most powerful spyware tool in history.)

There was never a time where every single businesswoman in New York carried a DS Lite, but adults did buy and use them, and a not insignificant portion of the DS's software library is aimed at a casual adult audience. Another niche covered mostly by smartphone games these days—games designed to be picked up and played in short sessions on-the-go, in places like waiting rooms and subway commutes.

Nintendo made crazy bank in the seventh console generation. Publications of the time talked about a console war between Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo, but the real battle was between the PS3 and the Xbox 360 over the gamer demographic. Nintendo was producing hardware for a niche who would quietly disappear once smartphone sales began ballooning by hundreds of millions per year over the course of the early 2010s.

After the failure of the Wii U, Nintendo's marketing strategy pivoted again, though I doubt they'll ever completely abandon their family-friendly image. Currently beat out only by the PS2 and the DS, the Nintendo Switch may very well climb to a status as the best-selling console of all time before the end of its lifespan, but the "gamer" demographic is much bigger than it was two decades ago at the dawn of the DS. As more and more devices become consolidated into the Swiss army knife the smartphone has become, consoles can only carve out a role as dedicated gaming machines.

I'm not sure we'll ever see anything like the Nintendo DS or the Wii again. I think they're worth looking back on for their uniqueness in that way as much as they are for the more celebrated parts of their libraries.

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Mario’s Photo Studio

JP release: 2nd December 1998

NA release: N/A

PAL release: N/A

Developer: Nintendo, Datt, Fuji, Tokyo Electron

Publisher: Tokyo Electron

Original Name: Mario no Photopi

N64 Magazine Score: N/A

Mario’s Photo Studio (or Mario no Photopi) is a photo editing software for the N64 that was exclusive to Japan. It used a special cartridge that had slots to insert SecureMedia cards, which were presumably popular with digital camera in Japan at the time. In terms of emulation, there’s no way to load photos in to the game without the actual physical cartridge (even using an EverDrive on real hardware), however a modified version has been made that lets you test out the features without opening images.

The main part is editor. Here you can load images and manipulate them. You can add different layers, draw and add some renders of characters from Super Mario 64. Some of the menus also use sprites from Yoshi’s Story. Another feature lets you create a slideshow, and another saves your creations in a format to use in Fuji prating machines found in stores.

There’s a minigame that cuts up an image into squares and you have to put it back together by clicking two to swap them. However, it’s not as simple as it initially looks as swapping two will also flip them, so you have to get them in the right place and the right orientation. You can use the title screen image or (if you have the actual cartridge) load your own photo in to the game.

Mario’s Photo Studio is fairly basic software, built around the editing of photos to make fun postcards rather than an artist’s tool (the 64DD games are for that). If you wanted to do some basic things to photos and didn’t own a PC, this would have provided that service.

Adventurous artists can use the software to create ‘original postcards’, add text (Japanese and English), and then take it along to any FDI photostore (Fuji) to run off exclusive colour prints.

- Max Everingham, N64 Magazine #20

Remake or remaster?

This is just an interesting novelty.

Official Ways to get the game

There is no official way to get Mario’s Photo Studio

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As a counterpoint to my other recent thoughts about video games, it's a really interesting time to enjoy games.

Yesterday I spent a few hours playing some emulators of old Zelda games. Specifically Twilight Princess from the GameCube, and Majora's Mask from the N64. Both games I was playing at 60fps for vastly different and incredibly cool reasons.

Let's hit Twilight Princess first. Because I structure essays not unlike food bloggers, that of course means a little introspective anecdote about the game and what it means to me; Twilight Princess came out while I was in High School. I'd been loaned a copy of Wind Waker by a friend in Junior High and it was the first Zelda game I'd ever beaten. I adore WW's soundtrack to this day. When I was moving out of the state, a good friend of mine who'd shared a love of the game, gave me his copy of Wind Waker and Twilight Princess (which had just recently come out), so my recollection of the game is beating it on an old 60s era CRT in my bedroom the summer before my Junior year of highschool started. The game has a lot of themes of balancing an old (often decaying) world against a new literally forcing its way into the old, which seemed hugely appropriate.

But for the sake of this discussion, since I played on a very old CRT (turn nobs rather than buttons mind, had to plug the GameCube into an adapter connected by screws to the antenna input old), late at night, the game has a twofold sort of soft focus filter over it. The normal CRT fuzz, the very tactile sensation of adjusting the adapter to resolve fuzz, and the classic nostalgia filter over it all. It's my opinion that the game is beautiful, hugely limited by the capabilities of the GameCube, but has absolutely fantastic art direction and artistic use of those limitations, so I've always been fascinated by emulating it to increase the resolution and poke at the edges of that artistry to better understand how it comes together (and what elements are dependent on analog artifacts like the use of CRTs).

So I love replaying and poking and prodding this game. But these days it's easier than it's ever been with the Dolphin Vulkan renderer, and then a few weeks ago I learned about a piece of software called Lossless Scaling: https://store.steampowered.com/app/993090/Lossless_Scaling/

This is an application that can replace any scaling within Windows with one of several upscaling techniques, including the AI trained ones from the GPU manufacturers, which is interesting in its own right, but it also allows arbitrary frame generation for any application using the Windows window API (anything not exclusive full screen). Which is hugely interesting. It's not perfect, but absolutely fascinating to be able to suddenly play Twilight Princess at 60 frames per second. It has the limitations of frame generation everywhere, it doesn't increase input response (in fact it slightly increases latency), it works best with already high framerates to give your eyes less time to see artifacts, and with only limited data points it shows more artifacts when items are moving quickly and/or entering and leaving the frame. That said, super interesting.

But arguably far more interesting is Majora's Mask 64. If you hadn't heard yet, an intrepid developer has created a tool to fully recompile N64 code into valid C code. This means native ports of N64 games can be generated just from ROM dumps. The tool requires additional Meta data and tweaks that are hard for the average user to implement, but a native PC port of Majora's Mask has already been created: https://github.com/Zelda64Recomp/Zelda64Recomp. This port enables high frame rates (the game was originally limited to 20 frames per second, and had severe performance issues on the N64), high resolutions, custom control binds, and they are all looking to add features like texture replacement and ray tracing soon (as well as support for OoT). All of this is without the overhead of having to emulate an N64, so it performs amazingly. I beat OoT on the GameCube collectors edition a couple of years after beating Twilight Princess, but never made it past beating the first temple in Majora's Mask, so this experience is fully new to me, and directly addresses the issue I had with the game. OoT was also 20 fps, but it was far more consistent about it so you could get used to it, but the performance issues with Majora's Mask made it painful to play after being introduced to Zelda via the 30fps GameCube era games. It's bringing what's widely considered an absolute classic to a completely new generation, and because it requires a valid ROM file to run, it's completely above board as far as current US copyright laws and therefore unlikely to get shutdown by Nintendo's lawyers.

In fact, if Nintendo follows their own habits, this tooling may very well mean that future releases of N64 games on modern platforms like the Switch have vastly improved feature sets, high resolution, wide-screen support, better framerates, purely because they can utilize the underlying code to enhance those ports and make them much more quickly and with less effort (though Nintendo would have to walk a legal tightrope of their own around the GPL 3 license the code is released under, as derivative works must themselves retain the GPL 3 license, but that's not stopped them in the past).

So, it's a really interesting time to be in the hobby, not because of what any corporation is doing, but because organize groups of fascinated people are doing incredibly cool work.

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Sneak Peek into the Evolution of Video Game Development.

Video Games have come a long way from their pixelated beginnings due to technological advancements. Central to this transformation is CGI (Computer-Generated Imagery), which has made it possible to create visually stunning images, animations, and special effects using the latest cutting-edge tools and technologies. With rapid advancements in technology, 3D artists and game developers have pushed the boundaries of visual storytelling and developed captivating visual masterpieces.

In this blog post, we’ll dive into the fascinating history and evolution of CGI in video games.

A Brief Overview of the History of Video Games

The history of video games can be traced back to the days of arcade games and home consoles that relied on Pixel Art. Arcade games like Pong, Boot Hill, and Gotcha featured simple and monochromatic pixel graphics. As technology evolved, games like Namco’s Galaxian, Pac-Man, Space Invaders, and Super Mario Bros. used more attractive visuals with vibrant colours and different shapes. However, they had limited colour palettes, low resolutions, simple and block graphics, and relied on sprites and tiles for creating characters and environments. 

Further came the era of 16-bit consoles like Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis. These consoles offered more colours, larger sprites, and visual effects. Games such as Final Fantasy VI, Sonic the Hedgehog, and Donkey Kong Country showcased this new generation of consoles with detailed sprites, vibrant colours, and immersive worlds.

A major shift in game development came with CGI. This technology enabled detailed and realistic graphics in video games to enhance the overall gaming experience and engage them. Developers began using 3D computer graphics software Maya to create stunning 3D animations, realistic environments, and characters.

The Evolution of CGI in Video Gaming

Computer-generated imagery (CGI) is the use of computer software to create realistic characters, objects, and environments. Visionaries like Ivan Sutherland and Ed Catmull set the stage for this breakthrough in 3D graphics technology. Further, pioneering artists like Manfred Mohr and Vera Molnar integrated algorithms that changed the boundaries of visual storytelling.

Besides video games, CGI made an indelible impact on film production, with Steven Spielberg’s “Jurassic Park” (1993) becoming an iconic movie with its introduction of lively and animated dinosaurs. CGI was utilized in James Cameron’s Titanic (1997), the Matrix (1999), and Avatar (2009) to produce stunning visuals that changed the way stories were visually narrated. Pixar’s Toy Story (1995) won the hearts of audiences due to its astounding use of CGI and became the first fully CGI movie.

The 8-bit 2D Era (1972-1984)

Video games utilized basic 2D sprite-based graphics

Resolution of Arcade games: 320*240 pixels

Resolution of NES games: 256*240 pixels

Sega Master System; 256*192 pixels

Backgrounds designed by repeating tile patterns

Sprites: 8*8 or 16*16 block

Limited colours. Only 2-16 colours for full screen

Bright solid colours

Sharp pixelation

The 16-bit Era (1985-1994)

Detailed sprite-based graphics and visual effects

16-bit consoles

Larger sprites, Higher resolution, Multiple colours

New features like Scaling, Rotation, Parallax effects, Dynamic lighting, Transparency effects, and liquid physics

Super NES: 256×224 to 512×448 pixels

Sega Genesis: 320×224 to 640×448 pixels

Animation-based Gameplay

The 3D Graphics Era (1993-1996)

Introduction of consoles like PlayStation and Nintendo 64 and 3D-capable GPU chips

3D-capable GPU chips for real-time polygon rendering

Development of gameplay mechanics like platforming, puzzle-solving, and exploration

Low polygon counts, low-resolution textures, No lighting or shading effects

Game: Starfox (SNES) utilised simple 3D models and environments at 3–15 FPS.

Virtua Fighter (Arcade) used basic texture-mapped 3D characters

Super Mario 64 (N64) became the first fully 3D Mario game with free camera control

The 6th Generation Era (1997-2005)

Introduction of home consoles like Dreamcast, PS2, and Xbox.

High polygon counts, advanced lighting and shading, and texture filtering through mipmapping.

Resolutions: 640*480 and beyond.

Development of detailed normal maps, early per-pixel lighting, and shadow techniques like heat haze and reflective water.

The Cinematic Pre Rendered Graphics Era (1997-2006)

Utilizing FMW (full motion video), pre rendered CGI backgrounds, Quick Time Events (QTEs), and 3D rendered backgrounds.

Live-action video clips popularized by Night Trap (1992)

Scripted in-game actions for visual spectacle

Games: Resident Evil, Final Fantasy VII, and Soul Calibur

HD Gaming (2005)

Introduction of Xbox 360, PF3, and modern PCs

HD 720p and 1080p gaming

High-definition resolutions, Advanced lighting engines, photorealistic textures, real-time shadow mapping, and HDR lighting

Complex engines like Unreal 3 for dynamic lighting

Higher memory budgets for photorealistic textures

Detailed normal and specular maps for high-complexity

Filters like cinematic tone mapping, depth of field, motion blur, and more

The Current State of CGI in Video Games

Photogrammetry for realistic environments

PBR – Physically based rendering for realistic materials and lighting

Ray tracing for reflections, shadows, and lighting effects

Introduction of 4K gaming with PlayStation 4 Pro, Xbox One X, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X

Advanced rendering techniques like ray tracing, and global illumination.

Character realism with motion capture and facial animation.

Integration of AR in Video Gaming with AR headsets like HoloLens

Games: The Last of Us Part II, Red Dead Redemption 2, Cyberpunk

Convergence of video games in films, animation, and VR

The Future of Video Gaming

With the evolution of CGI, video games will be more realistic, immersive, and engaging than ever.

More realistic lighting, shadows, and reflections with Ray tracing and 8K resolution.

AI tools will be more adopted to generate environments and characters.

Games will approach photorealism, creating completely lifelike experiences.

More immersive Virtual reality gaming with Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and PlayStation VR headsets

 Integrating AI, machine learning, and real-time rendering

Cloud gaming and cloud computing.

The Best CGI Animation Studio

In this digital era, it is important to hire a CGI animation studio for your multimedia needs like animated 3D series: TV or Web, shorts, films, commercials, live-action videos, or anything else. CGI is a groundbreaking technology that has the potential to change the game for you with more audience engagement, higher downloads, and licensing.

Prismart is one of the best CGI animation studios in New Delhi and has been catering to clients for over a decade.  The company has a dedicated team of 150+ professionals, all experts in their respective fields, who are driven to hard work and results. The company is known for its fastest turnarounds, affordable budget, transparency, and client satisfaction.

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Banjo-Kazooie N64 Decompiled: PC Ports and Shenanigans Ahoy!

THE CODE CAN NOW BE USED TO SPRUCE THINGS UP A BIT!

Hold onto your Jiggies, folks! Banjo-Kazooie for the Nintendo 64 has officially been decompiled, meaning PC ports of the beloved classic could soon be a reality. Thanks to the eagle-eyed efforts of X user @BringBackBanjoK (clearly a person of taste), we now know that the fan-driven decompilation project has hit the 100% mark. That’s right – all the code has been meticulously reverse-engineered, turning it from Nintendo’s ancient sorcery into lovely, legible C code. In layman's terms? We’re one step closer to firing up Banjo and Kazooie on our PCs.

What’s All This Decompilation Malarkey About?

Good question! Decompilation is the process of taking the original code from the N64 game and converting it into something modern developers can tinker with – in this case, C code. Once that's done, you can compile it back into a working game, except now it’s not bound to your dusty old console. It’s ready for all the modding mischief you can dream up on PC. And speaking of modding, the possibilities are endless. We’re talking fancy new features like smoother frame rates, ultra-wide screen support, 4K resolutions, and even ray tracing. Yes, you read that right – Banjo and Kazooie, in glorious 4K with shiny reflections. If that doesn’t make your feathers ruffle, I don’t know what will.

But Wait, There’s a Catch!

Now, before you start dusting off your keyboard in excitement, there’s a little caveat. Should a PC port pop up, you’ll need to supply your own *legally-sourced* N64 ROM of Banjo-Kazooie. The clever software will then pull all the assets (like character models, audio, and textures) from your ROM, mix it with the decompiled code, and voilà – Banjo on your PC. Easy peasy, right? Why the legal hoops? Well, reverse engineering projects like this are generally considered above board because the developers aren’t using any dodgy leaked content or copyrighted assets. It’s a bit of a legal tightrope walk, but so far, it’s been enough to keep the big N’s lawyers at bay. Fingers crossed!

It’s Not All Jiggies and Jinjos

In May, a nifty tool called *N64: Recompiled* made its debut, claiming to automatically convert N64 binaries into C code in record time – much faster than full-blown decompilation projects like Banjo’s. Sounds great, right? Well, there’s a catch. The tool’s creator, Nerrel, warns that while it’s quick, it’s far from perfect. The automated process tends to throw a spanner in the works when dealing with things like the lightning-fast speeds of modern hardware, meaning manual fixes are often needed. So, while it’s a handy shortcut, proper, fan-driven decompilation projects like this one for Banjo-Kazooie tend to be more accurate and reliable. After all, if you’re going to take on Gruntilda, you want everything running like clockwork!

Conclusion

In summary: Banjo-Kazooie has been decompiled, and PC ports are now a tantalising possibility. Expect better graphics, wider screens, and maybe even a touch of ray tracing. But remember, keep it legal, and brace yourself for all-new adventures with Banjo, Kazooie, and the gang. Now, who’s up for some Mumbo Jumbo on the PC?

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Preserving Gaming History: The Role of Delta ROMs in Retro Gaming

In a planet where technology swiftly evolves, protecting the abundant past of games has actually become more and more vital. Much of the traditional games that specified the very early days of video gaming are actually no more simply accessible on modern gadgets. This is where simulators like Delta enter play. Delta ROMs permit players to relive their beloved retro games on modern gadgets, making certain that the legacy of these games survives on. In this particular write-up, we'll explore exactly how Delta ROMs are actually important to maintaining video gaming past history, talk about the role of emulators, and look into the specifics of utilization ROMs for Delta.

Understanding Emulation and also Delta ROMs

Emulation is actually the method of creating a video game system's equipment and software on an unique platform than it was actually initially developed for. A simulator mimics the functions of classic consoles, making it possible for aged games to operate on brand new equipment. Delta is actually an archetype of a powerful emulator made for iOS tools. With Delta, gamers may participate in titles from different traditional systems including the NES, SNES, Sega Genesis, and much more. Delta ROMs are digital duplicates of the initial video game information from these traditional consoles. By utilizing ROMs for Delta, gamers can easily take pleasure in a large public library of retro games on their Apples iPhone or iPad tablets. This electronic preservation is necessary because it makes certain that even when the original components becomes out-of-date, the games themselves remain playable for potential eras.

Installing Delta For Retro Video Gaming

Setting up Delta to play your favorite retro video games is actually a direct method, however it demands a few steps. To begin with, you need to have to install the Delta app on your iOS device. As soon as put in, the following step is actually to establish the various "cores" for the gaming systems you intend to emulate. Each primary is in charge of Emulating a details console, including the SNES or even Nintendo 64.

After setting up the cores, the very most essential step is obtaining the ROM reports. For case, if you would like to participate in classic SNES video games, you require SNES ROMs. Similarly, to enjoy Nintendo 64 titles, you'll require n64 ROMs. It is vital to keep in mind that while emulation itself is legal, downloading ROMs for games you do certainly not very own is actually looked at piracy. To stay within legal limits, ensure you just use ROMs from games you actually have.

As soon as you have your ROMs, you may incorporate all of them to Delta, decide on the necessary primary, as well as begin playing. Delta additionally delivers customizable commands, scam code support, and also a variety of video filters to enhance your retro video gaming experience.

The Value Of ROMs In Preserving Video Gaming Background

ROMs participate in an essential role in maintaining video gaming record. Numerous traditional games were launched on cartridges or even disks that can diminish as time go on. Additionally, the gaming consoles called for to play these games are actually ending up being more difficult to find and keep. By developing and also using ROMs, we can easily make sure that the video game data is actually kept in an electronic style that may be quickly kept, discussed, and used modern gadgets.

Delta ROMs, especially, produce it feasible for a brand new production of players to experience the classics. Whether it is actually the pixel-perfect platforming of Super Mario World on SNES or the groundbreaking 3D planets of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time on Nintendo 64, these video games could be enjoyed as they were actually suggested to be, thanks to emulation and ROMs.

Emulation: Uniting Recent And The Current

Simulators like Delta link the space between past and also present, offering a means to experience gaming past history firsthand. The benefit of playing traditional games on a cell phone can certainly not be actually overemphasized. It permits for gaming on the move, making sure that the happiness of retro games is never ever unreachable. Delta's easy to use user interface, paired along with its comprehensive assistance for a variety of gaming consoles, makes it a best option for retro video gaming aficionados.

Furthermore, the conservation of these games by means of Delta ROMs and various other emulators offers beneficial academic resources. Chroniclers, scientists, as well as video game programmers can easily research the evolution of video game concept, auto mechanics, as well as narration through possessing access to these digital archives.

In verdict, Delta ROMs participate in an essential task in protecting gaming background. By making traditional games accessible on modern gadgets, they make sure that the legacy of these video games withstands. As innovation remains to advancement, emulators like Delta are going to remain vital in bridging the space between the past and today, enabling both new as well as seasoned players to experience the ageless classics of the gaming world.

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Did the Nintendo64 need to be 64-bit?

Back then, the number of bits a gaming console had was more of a marketing tool than a technical specification. The Video Game Consoles that edged out against their competitors were usually on the bleeding edge of technology.

But at the release of the N64, we're begining to see an affordable PC market emerge that is competing directly with consoles for the first time.

Prior to this, that "bit" war was how SEGA eeked out against the main competition; the Super Nintendo. And Nintendo sought bit-superiority. However; Home Computers wouldn't become 64-bit for at least a decade after. (Sooner if you were an enthusiast with some extra money to spare.)

And 32-bit PC games were often marketed as better than console, if you could afford it.

So what benefit was 64-bits for Nintendo? The first was the marketability, theoretical superiority. But with the PlayStation in direct competition, itself only a 32-bit console, it seems to have not been necessary.

The second should have been anti-piracy measures, but emulation seemed to be able to bypass that as N64 emulators were developed for 32-bit computing environments with rom-hacks and texture-packs.

Where the N64 *really* stood out, was its ability to render 3D polygons and do open world adventure. Unlike PC shooters which were often the same box-level with sprited characters, or the PlayStation which had prerendered environments, with only the characters being actively displayed; the N64 games, nearly every title, all had polygonal, actively rendered environments.

However, I'm not sure this was a technical feat of the N64's 64-bit processor. Spyro the Dragon, and Crash Bandicoot on PlayStation were able to deliver a similar quality as Mario and Zelda.

What N64 *did* offer was a design philosophy that encouraged its developers to all create real-time 3D rendered graphics. This is why nearly every N64 title seems to stand out against everyone of its competitors, by a fair margin.

That's an ongoing philosophy that Nintendo seems to encourage for all their developers as well. For the Nintendo DS.and 3DS, for example; they encouraged use of the bottom touch screen for controls. (Though the developers seemed to fall short on how exactly to utilize the features)

Nintendo always seems forward focused to get their developers to get the most out of the features their consoles provide.

Did the N64 *need* to be 64-bit? I don't think so. A lot of their first N64 games were developed for SNES hardware [citation needed] and extend from their origins with the SuperFX chip used in later SNES games like Star Fox.

What likely happened with their processor the "NEC" chip; my theory: like the PS3 after, was that the processor was an experimental chip that Nintendo got a deal on to provide performance data back to NEC with.

It's part of the other philosophy in game consoles of the day to undercharge for the console to make money on the software licensing. And what better way to reduce the costs, then by actually reducing the costs.

I can't prove that, but it's an interesting way to understand how business might operate between technological partners on that level.

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UK 1995

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An Introduction to Emulation

There are a lot of really cool old games, but actually playing them can seem quite difficult. Fortunately, there are tools available that make old games much more accessible. The most powerful, by far, is emulation. If you have ever wanted to learn how to play classic video games that aren't available on modern platforms, this post is for you.

TLDR: Emulation recreates old hardware (like game consoles) using software, allowing games to be played on modern systems. It's an incredibly cool technology that, while it has some minor downsides, is overall an important tool for preserving game history and enabling new game experiences.

What is the issue?

Game companies don't always make their older titles easily playable on modern hardware. There are so many important, influential, and fun video games released on older hardware that can't be bought on any modern platform. In fact, game companies sometimes go out of their way to remove their titles from modern storefronts. After Bandai Namco released Dark Souls Remastered in 2018, the original version of Dark Souls was removed from Steam, presumably to encourage people to buy the newer, shinier, more expensive release. Game history is important, and it's incredibly rewarding to engage with. Unfortunately, if you limit yourself to what is only available through official channels like Nintendo Switch Online, Steam, GoG, Xbox, Playstation 5, you will miss out on a lot of cool games.

Games are often designed to operate on very specific hardware. Games made for the N64 can't run on a Sony Playstation, and vice versa. Even on PC, a platform which is generally much more customizable, games can be made obsolete through software updates and new operating system releases. Software's dependency on hardware makes it harder to access as technology progresses. Because of this dependency on specific hardware, it takes a non-trivial amount of effort to keep games "up to date", and often companies decide it isn't worth the effort. I can still read books from the 1500s because fundamentally, they are just words and those are easy to bring to modern formats. Film too is relatively easy to keep functional. As long as you have a device that can run mp4 files, you have a lot of options with regards to how you watch a movie (even if those files have to come from an unofficial source). This isn't to imply that lost media and preservation challenges don't exist for books or movies, but the fact that I can easily access books that are several decades old, but many influential console games released even in the past few decades aren't playable on natively modern hardware says a lot. Fortunately, we have a solution. Emulation

What is emulation?

Emulation is software that performs the same function as hardware. Put simply, it lets games designed for one platform run on another. For instance, Dolphin is an emulator designed to play GameCube and Wii games. Dolphin runs on Windows 10 and 11, and allows you to play GameCube and Wii games on PCs. Emulators can be designed to recreate pretty much any piece of hardware. There are emulators recreating handheld devices like the Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, Java phones, and Playstation Portable. Other emulators are designed to run old PC games designed for Dos, the Amiga, or Commodore 64. There are even emulators designed for modern systems like the Switch. It should also be noted that emulators aren't exclusively used on PC. There are emulators designed to run games on Android phones or modern consoles. Every emulator is different, coming with its own set of features, requirements, and drawbacks.

It should be noted that most emulators also require ROMs or ISOs. ROMs and ISOs are the file type most commonly used to store game files. If emulators are a virtual recreation of hardware, ROMS and ISOs are virtual recreations of the software that would be inserted into the actual hardware.

What all can I do with emulation?

Emulation is a powerful tool that could be used for a variety of things. Most obviously, emulation is excellent for playing older games. While they certainly can do that, they can also do so much more. For instance:

Emulators make it much easier to play old games on the go: I can't carry a SNES with me everywhere I go. It's big, requires a bunch of cables, and I probably won't even have a TV to play it on. However, I can always bring my laptop with me. I have a SNES emulator installed on my laptop that lets me play SNES games anywhere. If I have a few moments in between classes I can boot up Front Mission, Tetris Attack, or any other SNES game I want. As if that wasn't enough, I also have NES, GBA, and DS emulators on my laptop, taking up very little hard drive space. Convenient!

Emulators let you customize your control schemes: Most emulators give you a lot of choice in how your controls are set up. For my laptop emulators, I simply use my keyboard because I don't want to carry a controller around with me. But, if I wanted to, I could plug in my Switch Pro Controller, or any other controller to play these games. This feature alone has some non-obvious advantages, such as...

Greater accessibility in control schemes: For people with physical disabilities, who might be unable to comfortably use a SNES controller, emulators allow them to relatively easily substitute the original controller for one they find more comfortable to use. This makes the emulated versions of classic games far more accessible than they would be on original hardware. As with all disability infrastructure, adding considerations for disabled people helps everyone, and a great example of that is...

Customizable controls are great for challenge runs: All sorts of interesting challenge runs become possible with emulated controllers. Have you ever wanted to play Link's Awakening with a Dance Dance Revolution pad? Well, set up an emulator and map its controls to the dance pad and you are good to go! You can't do that on an original Game Boy!

Save States let you bypass unfair nonsense: Old games sometimes have a reputation for having a lot of cheap deaths, and some definitely live up to that expectation. Some emulators come with save state features that essentially take a snapshot of the current game state that can be returned to at any point. If an upcoming platforming section has a lot of precarious jumps with impossible to dodge enemies, you can make a save state to go back to that challenge instantly, instead of having to replay the whole level again. Very nifty! Also, some emulators have rewinds, which serve a similar purpose.

Fast forwarding saves time: Some emulators let you increase the game speed, allowing you to bypass slow sections of a game. My friend Harry who runs the Video Games Are Bad YouTube channel recently released a video talking about how the speedup feature on his Seam Deck GBA emulator that made the experience of playing classic GBA Yu Gi Oh games much more enjoyable because he could skip the opponent's long turns. For JRPGs, games with cutscenes, or many other games, this is a great convenience feature

Emulators bypass region locking: Many classic console games were only playable in consoles from the right region. Japanese Playstation games could only be played on Japanese Playstations. While it's certainly possible to bypass this restriction on original hardware, it requires you to modify the console's internals in a very technical and easy to mess up process. Emulators bypass this entirely, making it easy to play games from other regions and see all of the differences between versions of the game.

Romhacking and Translation patches: Beyond playing games in their original form, emulators make it possible to play romhacks, mods, and other alterations. Translation patches allow players who don't speak a certain language to play games that didn't receive official translations. Famously, Mother 3 was never localized for a North American release, and to this day hasn't seen an official English translation. Fortunately, the game's very passionate fans translated the entire game to English, allowing tons of Mother fans to finally play the third, and best, entry in the series. Romhacks are similar, but instead of being used for translation purposes, entire game mechanics are altered. With romhacking, designers can create fan campaigns, edit game balance, create jokes, and many other things. Romhacking is a world of possibility that lets games be experienced in new ways that would be difficult to experience on original hardware.

Speedrunning: While the rules surrounding emulators obviously vary from game to game, some speedrunning scenes (especially those for handheld games) use emulators for their runs. Without emulators, some games would be much harder to speedrun, and would have smaller scenes as a result.

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What are some Downsides of Emulation?

Clearly, emulators have a ton of advantages, even if you have the original hardware. However, for as great as they are, and they are pretty great, there are some downsides worth considering when using emulators.

System requirements: Emulators function by recreating hardware through software. Doing this takes a certain amount of the host machine's CPU power. For older systems this usually isn't a problem, but the more recent and complex an emulated machine is, the better your machine needs to be to smoothly run the emulator. Naturally, it's a lot easier to emulate a Playstation 5 than a Playstation 1. If your computer isn't powerful enough, there might be some emulators it can't run. I personally haven't run into this myself, but its something to keep in mind.

Finding ROMS and ISOs can be tricky: While emulators themselves can usually be downloaded easily, ROMs and ISOs are a different story. When searching for ROMs, some people come across sketchy looking websites that are filled with ads and give the impression they could give you a virus, and some of these sites very well might. This isn't to say that there aren't ways of safely obtaining ROMs and ISOs. In the past, there was EmuParadise, a quite extensive ROM library that was safe, however following a legal threat from Nintendo the site had to remove the ability to download ROMs. MyAbandonware is a pretty safe site and is my go to for PC emulation, but doesn't have much in the way of console gaming. The Internet Archive also is pretty safe, but might not have everything. In the future I want to make a post detailing ways of safely obtaining ROMs and ISOs as that is a nuanced issue, but for now know that there are safe downloads online. ROMs and ISOs NEVER come in the form of EXEs, so never run an EXE downloaded from online. Beyond that, it never hurts to do a quick google search about the site in question to find other people's experiences with the site in terms of safety.

Emulators aren't always 100% accurate: Because emulators are recreating hardware with software, it isn't always perfect. Some games don't run exactly as they would on original hardware. Textures might not appear properly, in game mechanics might be a bit wonky, and there might be some visual issues. For older systems, these kinds of problems have been largely ironed out and these emulation issues are extremely rare, but they pop up from time to time when emulating more modern systems. In my years of emulator experience, I have only encountered serious emulation errors once. Fortunately, most emulators are in continuous, open source development so visual issues often eventually get fixed. Even if the game does have some problems, a flawed, visually imperfect game is better than nothing at all.

Isn't emulation illegal?

Some people might be hesitant to get into emulation because they feel it is illegal, or that it's essentially piracy. This technically isn't the case. In 2000, Sony sued Connectix, who had recently released the Virtual Game Station, a commercial emulator for the Macintosh. The Virtual Game Station was designed to only play legal games. Players had to insert the Playstation game they wanted to play into their computer in order for the emulator to work, meaning the emulator didn't inherently enable piracy. Regardless, Sony sued Connectix, arguing the emulator infringed on their copyright and stole Sony's Playstation code. However, the court ultimately sided with Connectix. While their software did recreate the function of the Playstation, it did so with its own code which had been reverse engineered from Sony's hardware, meaning that Connectix didn't violate Sony's copyright. Sony v. Connectix established the legal precedent that emulation was entirely legal, and this has born fruit for modern game companies. Many PC games released on Steam and GoG run off DosBox, an emulator that runs Dos games. These releases come from the current rights holders and are entirely legal, even though the games use emulators. For more evidence of legal emulation, look no further than the Wii Virtual Console or Nintendo Switch Online service, both of which are commercial emulators.

While emulation is legal, the sharing of ROMs and files without permission from the copyright holders is illegal. As such, downloading ROMs from the internet is technically illegal. However, there is certainly a case to be made that, while it isn't always legal, it can be ethical to emulate classic games. If I wanted to legally play a GameCube game, I would have to go online and buy a used copy online. Depending on the popularity and rarity of the game in question, used game discs can cost anywhere from dozens to hundreds of dollars. Buying used games and the hardware to run them can be extraordinarily expensive and would put many games out of the financial reach of many individuals. It's also important to note that none of the money spent going to buy these used games is actually going to the developers who made the game.

In general, I'm actually not a huge fan of piracy, especially for indie games. My rule of thumb is that if a game can be purchased on modern hardware, I won't use emulation to play the game. I only use emulation to play games that are out of print and impossible to buy legally in a way that supports the developers. Unfortunately, there are tons of games that I can only realistically experience through emulation, and in that case I feel no guilt for doing so. I can't deny the developers a sale if they aren't selling the game. Further discussion of the ethics and legality are interesting, but might be best approached in a post of their own.

Conclusion

Emulation is an incredibly cool technology and one of the most powerful tools in the fight to preserve gaming and its history. Emulators can be complex, and in the future I hope to write further blog posts detailing the intricacies of emulation in more detail, laying out emulators I recommend and discussing other emulation and game preservation topics.

If you have any questions about emulation, game preservation, or any related subject, feel free to ask.

Have a good day.

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you can use fbi to install .cia files to your home menu!! .cia files are generally used for games, so you can pirate official games with this method! for these game files i would use hshop.erista.me ^-^

branching off from this, you can also use homebrew to install emulated games! i would not recommend installing actual emulators to your 3ds most of the time since they don't run very well (i.e gba emulators do not work on old 3ds models), but on hshop you can find injects of virtual console games!! consoles available w/ this include nintendo home consoles (nes/snes), the sega genesis and game gear, every game boy and more!! if you have a newer model (new 3ds/new 3ds xl/new 2ds xl) you can also install n64 and ps1 games! these use the same method as the .cia one ^^

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Complete tutorial to make videos like me, the entire process (design, script, audio, visuals, video editing, publishing, feedback)

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Draw your life (YMCA, JBM, Maisonneuve, Spirituality, Work, Social Welfare, Pandemic, DesRiverains, Internship...)

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Why go online?

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Software tools and Emulators used.

I covered everything about my laptop and its history. I went from Windows 10 to Manjaro XFCE 19 and installed needed software to get great performance and needed emulators to suit my laptop's hardware. I find AUR builds easy again because I can find plugins and needed standalone emulators for good testing. AUR builds work almost perfect for me, aside from some build time, but as long as it can installed a program or an extension, I'm good.

For my laptop, I installed TPC, or TurionPowerControl to overclock my laptop's CPU. The bios doesn't have an option for permanent overclock, since it's a laptop. However, the CPU has used much voltage by default for big room for overclocking with little higher power draw. At stock, it run at base 1.5Ghz at 1.1625V and 2.4Ghz boost at 1.415V. It can easily be undervolted to cool the laptop a bit. The temp limit is at 85C, so it can throttle the CPU if it reaches around that point. Undervolt would go down to 1.5Ghz at 1.0625V and 2.4Ghz boost at 1.200V, which brings down about seven percent deop on temperature, and little more battery life. Overclock would hit up to 2.3Ghz at 1.175V and 2.8Ghz at 1.400V, only little voltage change on each, and still runs stable. Note that each CPUs can differ silicon quality that can reach lower or higher voltage for overclocking or undervolting. Averagely, my laptop's CPU performance would be 33% increase. The Llano APUs are one of the exceptions that you can overclock your laptop without much worry.

I installed Gamemode for Linux, and I explained in the last page. It's useful for setting power mode for both CPU and GPU to performance mode, so it will use highest clock speed as much as it can. Radeon-Profile is an app on Linux that can force power mode on GPU if you run a program if you can't use gamemode for whatever reason. On Windows, you can force performance mode on Catalyst driver, and have Windows set to performance mode on power setup. Drivers used on Linux as of this writing is Mesa r600g Driver 19.3.

Now let's get to the list of emulators I will be using for each system. Some are using Retroarch.

NES: I'm using Nestopia and Mesen on Retroarch. Both are quite accurate, with the latter being the most accurate. Nestopia is the fastest option, but Mesen can run pretty smoothly too with default settings. Nestopia has much more headroom for Runahead and NES CPU overclocking. I use FireBrandX's digital palettes.

SNES: I use Snes9x Mainline for Retroarch and new standalone Bsnes v110 for test. Snes9x runs very well and can use both features listed above. Bsnes is used for testing mostly. I'll explain about Bsnes, but what I can say is it can run a lot of games at fullspeed. No need for Libretro's old many Bsnes cores in my opinion and Snes9x Mainline is suitable generally. Bsnes AUR builds are available.

N64: On Windows, it was Project64 with Jabo's D3D8 1.6.1 Plugin, but after switching to Linux, Mupen64Plus with GlideN64 while using Mesa drivers offers a better option. Since February 2020, M64p is free once again so you don't have to do DIY build for each plugin to use with Mupen64plus, and get good GUI. Just go to this website: https://github.com/loganmc10/m64p/releases . If it doesn't go free in the future, you would have to use AUR files to build plugins and find the gui. There is Mupen64Plus Next for Retroarch, but a standalone build is the fastest and more reliable option.

Gamecube/Wii: I use beta builds of Dolphin to measure it. We'll explain about that later on.

Sega SMS/Genesis/GameGear/32x: I use Genesis GX Plus on Retroarch, and it runs pretty great. For 32x, I can use Kega Fusion for Windows, or Picodrive core, but I don't have 32x game to test.

Sega Saturn: I use Yaba Sanshiro, and it's the fastest emulator you can get for the laptop. Yaba Sanshiro has some great options.

Sega Dreamcast: I installed Redream. It is the fastest dreamcast emulator available and more accurate than NullDC. I do have a fork of Reicast called Flycast that is used for testing too. https://flyinghead.github.io/flycast-builds/ (ubuntu build is just linux build). I do recommend using Flycast standalone builds instead of Libretro core one since standalone Hardware-based rendering emulators often run faster than on Retroarch.

Playstation 1: I use both PCSX-R PGXP and PCSX-Rearmed core. PCSX-R has great option for perspective correction and much less jittering polygons while being faster than Libretro's Beetle PSX core and standalone Mednafen. The explanation on those four emulators and the windows PCSX-R on Pete's OpenGL2 Tweak will also be mentioned.

Playstation 2: I use PCSX2.

GB/GBC: Sameboy. It is more accurate than Gambatte and VBA.

GBA: mGBA, and it is the fastest and most accurate GBA emulator I used.

NDS: Despite development drama, I use standalone Desmume mainline. It's pretty good for this laptop since you have an option to use frameskip. MelonDS with JIT will be included.

3DS: Citra Canary is the best option.

PSP: PPSSPP.

Dos: Dosbox ECE or Dosbox-X at best. ECE install for Dosbox is difficult, and you would need to build one, but I wanted a 32bit build since the dynamic core is pretty robust in 32bit. However on Linux, some forks or main are kinda hard to find 32bit version to have full speed for dynamic recompiler since 64bit is slower or has bugs. At the end, I use Dosbox-X, and it performs the same as standard Dosbox on normal mode. On Dynamic mode, you would need 32bit version to get the exact on either Windows or Linux.

Win9x: PCEM. Using v15 and use 486 CPUs.

Wine: Linux specific to run Windows programs. You can use Stable builds or Staging builds. Lutris and Proton can be used. Although, since my laptop's APU lacks Vulkan support, running DX11 games are much harder and barely run. The APU isn't really that strong for many DX11 games anyway. DX9 works with default OpenGL wrapper, but since we're using AMD GPU with a Mesa Gallium Driver, we can run Native DX9 API on Wine with Gallium Nine Standalone. You just install needed dependencies for Mesa D3D9 files to have Gallium Nine config enable Native DX9. DX10 is the same story as DX11. DX8 and lower works pretty good for the most part. Note that Wine is not an Emulator, but a compatibility layer.

Those are the softwares that will be used for performance testing on the next page.

Next Page on CPU emulation tests.

Previous Page on the laptop overview.

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Lakka On Switch

How To Install Lakka On Switch

Lakka Switch Exfat

Lakka Black Screen Switch

Lakka Switch Pro Controller

How To Install Lakka On Switch

Just as the title says it couldn’t be easier to run Lakka on the Nintendo Switch. This is all thanks to the recent update henkate just got that supports all current CFW bootloaders, Linux chainloading, and payload tools.

Lakka Switch Exfat

If you’re not familiar with Lakka it’s the lightweight Linux distro of RetroArch the famous all in one emulator. So is there any benefit to running Lakka on the Switch compared to the emulators that are available, yes there is. It can play N64, PSP, Gamecube games, and so many more but there is one big drawback to using Lakka on the Switch. It will not have any sound unless you connect it to Bluetooth speaker or Bluetooth headset.

Once hekate is running on your Switch, you can boot Lakka by going to Launch More configs Lakka. This software is based on Lakka-switch Help our development Yaba Sanshiro is a open source software but it costs to maintain the development environment and to purchase new devices and so on. The Switch also received Game Card Installer by TotalJustice letting you install game cards directly on your Switch. The post News: RetroArch 1.8.4 released with Lakka update imminent, the Switch gets a Torrent client with nxTransmission 0.2.3 & 3 new homebrew games land for the PSVita! Appeared first on Wololo.net. Hi, today im going to show you how you can install Android Lineage os and Atmosphere also Lakka on the same SDcard on the Nintendo Switch. My discord https:/.

Excel table column in formula. Installing Lakka is very simple you just drag and drop files to the root of your SD card. Then using henkate 4.0 go to launch, more configs and pick Lakka. Then you’ll see your screen flash and boot into Lakka.

I have installed Lakka today and followed the install guide which mentioned to connect your controller during installation and boot. The switch pro control pad is not functioning at all. Ipad mini ios 10 force. I currently have it wired to my emulator pc and not Bluetooth as I thought that'd be easier.

Download: Lakka Switch

Lakka Black Screen Switch

Hekate chainloading: Hekate is now the recommended way of booting Lakka. See the Installation guide to know how to boot Lakka from hekate.

Current users should drop their copy of the boot scripts and use hekate instead

I will not provide any support regarding any other method of booting

This allows you to boot Lakka from your dongle or modchip

New core : Dolphin (Nintendo GameCube / Wii)

While some games are playable, don’t expect it to run as a decent speed

New core: Ishiiruka (Nintendo GameCube / Wii)

This is a dolphin fork which can be faster on certain cases – Ishiiruka works better when the GPU and CPU are overclocked

New core: mesen (Nintendo Entertainment System)

New core: dosbox-svn

This core is up-to-date with the standalone dosbox, allowing it to run way faster than the original core. It depends heavily on the CPU so you may want to overclock it.

CPU Overclock: the default CPU speed is now the same as Horizon’s (around 1GHz). You can now overclock the CPU up to 1.9GHz by using the menu in the first tab.

Cold boot Wi-Fi: using Wi-Fi no longer needs a reboot!

MAC Address fix: Lakka now uses a random MAC Address. Read the FAQ to see how to change it to match the Horizon MAC address.

Lakka Switch Pro Controller

How to update:https://lakka-switch.github.io/documentation/update.html

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