Still use PJ64K to play Smash 64 online all the time. That being said, it's not the "best" emulator, just the most common one that stuck around and has least issues for most people.
I don't think I've used that emulator. How does it compare to PJ64 as far as compatibility goes? PJ64's is bad and the emulator hasn't changed in at least a decade, but no one else has worked much on N64 emulation since as far as I know...
Again, would just the resolution really solve the whole problem? I know that's a part of it, but I'm kind of skeptical... though it is true that it's been years since I played games emulated very often, buying a large collection of real old consoles made me lose a lot of interest in emulating them.
On the positive side, the N64 version has much better-looking graphics, as that screenshot shows. Smooting out those horrible jaggies and getting rid of the popping polygons does wonders! Also it has rumble support.
SSF doesn't change the monitor resolution either. So with retroarch, its the same thing. You just chose the lowest resolution in the core options, but your monitor resolution stays the same. The emulator, however, displays the graphics as if they were on a low resolution display. Add a simple scanlines effect from the shader options and you have something pretty close to a real N64, at least an RGB modded one
I don't know how you end up with this conclusion. I have tested both emulators with many games and i can say for sure that PJ64 is better. Version 2.1 has some terrible default settings but if you fiddle with each game independently, you can have many more working games, with less glitches, than Mupen. Of course, its a given that you never use the default plugins. Always use Glide 64 final as a default, no matter the emulator. And keep a few sound plugins to be able to choose, as some games have sound crackles with some and not with others. PJ64 2.1 gives you the option to save different plugins for different games, so you don't have to change plugins all the time once you find the right ones for each game. And always restart the emulator before emulating a different game.
Except that both Mystical Ninja 64 and Yoshi's Story work fine on PJ64 1.6 and 2.1. The water GFX errors in Yoshi are plugin related.
So RGB modded N64s just lose video like that at complete random?
You'll do everything for Doom 64.
Yeah, awesome game, but i remember back then i was let down by the lack of reload animations for the shotguns. That was like the 50% of what made the original Doom/Doom2 so great to watch, at least when i saw them for the first time. I remember CVG magazine having the same feelings, giving the game a very bad review.Some great games there, DownWithTheShip!
I thought the controller pak was optional in Doom 64. IIRC you get a password that you can also just write down and the controller pak basically just saves the password for you. Still though, yeah you really should have one.
And yes, Doom 64 is excellent. I recently played Doom 1 again on the PC and I have to say that I really missed the atmosphere that Doom 64 has. It just seems so much more fitting.
*Shook my head in disbelief*
Yeah, that's where I'm at too. But I like supporting his work. Ah, well maybe I'll wait until the GBA Everdrive comes out and see how I feel then.
I imagine Retrogate ships to Canada, and best of all it goes into Krizz's pocket directly.
I also remember this game getting average reviews in general. Seems that in 1997 people were sick of Doom and "Doom clones" and wanted more of the "new generation" FPS games like Turok and Goldeneye. Its funny, however, that Doom 64 aged better than those games.
I highly doubt it. At least for CoD. What Doom has that hasn't really been bettered by the newer generation FPSes is the superb level design. The levels themselves were an even bigger enemy than the monsters. Trying to solve them was half of the game's point. Heck, only the fact that it's not a straight line is enough for gamers today to demand more Doom goodness.
... I've had my first YouTube nostalgia moment the other day. That blew my mind that this was now a thing that is possible, to be nostalgic for something that happened exclusively on YT almost a decade ago. Kinda freaked me out. Hence why I joked about CoD/AC nostalgia from the now-kids-then-young-adults.
I definitely agree that Doom 64 is better than people then gave it credit for, but I at least think that Turok is also a great game for sure... and Goldeneye's good too, even if Perfect Dark is a better version of the same thing.
Well of course they are great games. But the thing is that Doom has a style and design that hasn't been bettered much, FPS games just did different things and went on different directions/goals. These games continue to improve today but there are very few games that tried to be like Doom, Painkiller being the closest thing IMO. That's why Doom (any version) is still very playable today.
! I'm not really interested in the Zelda games, but I think they might be worth picking up just because they're so iconic.