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Finally, someone has released a pixel-accurate plugin for N64 emus. By pixel accurate I mean that emulated games look exactly like N64 games did (yes, fog, antialias and all). This has been verified by the MESS team to be 100% accurate.
Some might say "why do you want to play games in a blurry mess?".
Well for starters, it lets you play games as they were originally intended, and secondly, now we can take screenshots and make videos of how the games actually looked, instead of using screens that do not represent at all the original graphics. This is important for accuracy purposes.
Anyway, the plugin is not really new, but the guy that did it chose to use some awful sub-high definition resolution to display the games (1024x768) which meant that they looked even worse than they really do. I had the chance to talk to HatCat, one of the guys that worked on that plugin, and he graciously agreed to modify it to display in the proper N64 resolution (320x237 or usually rounded to 320x240). There's a second option to make the res be 640x480 for those games that are high res (like Turok 2). It also apparently fixes some long-time issues with games like Smash Bros, Banjo-Tooie, and makes Pokémon Snap playable.
Be warned, once you try the plugin, you'll think that there must be some mistake and that is just TOO blurry. But after a few minutes, if you played N64 a lot, you'll remember that this is how N64 games really looked. I remember playing games like Ogre Battle 64 and Goldeneye and thinking that they looked really blurry, even back then. The N64 used bilinear filtering and anti-alias a lot, so that's why games looked like that. If you have been spoiled by playing N64 emus with high resolution graphics or texture packs or even SoftGraphics plugins (which offer no enhancements, but don't use filters either), then you'll probably find this pixel-accurate one very very strange.
Here's the plugin:
http://forum.pj64-emu.com/showthread.php?t=4422
It is advisable to additionally use his RSP plugin linked there to make sure the plugin works at its best.
*Edit*
Apparently you have to join the forums to be able to download attachments, so here's another link:
Pixel-accurate plugin:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/njv1na
RSP (recommended):
http://www.filesend.net/download.php...f35ce254a8d52e
Some might say "why do you want to play games in a blurry mess?".
Well for starters, it lets you play games as they were originally intended, and secondly, now we can take screenshots and make videos of how the games actually looked, instead of using screens that do not represent at all the original graphics. This is important for accuracy purposes.
Anyway, the plugin is not really new, but the guy that did it chose to use some awful sub-high definition resolution to display the games (1024x768) which meant that they looked even worse than they really do. I had the chance to talk to HatCat, one of the guys that worked on that plugin, and he graciously agreed to modify it to display in the proper N64 resolution (320x237 or usually rounded to 320x240). There's a second option to make the res be 640x480 for those games that are high res (like Turok 2). It also apparently fixes some long-time issues with games like Smash Bros, Banjo-Tooie, and makes Pokémon Snap playable.
Be warned, once you try the plugin, you'll think that there must be some mistake and that is just TOO blurry. But after a few minutes, if you played N64 a lot, you'll remember that this is how N64 games really looked. I remember playing games like Ogre Battle 64 and Goldeneye and thinking that they looked really blurry, even back then. The N64 used bilinear filtering and anti-alias a lot, so that's why games looked like that. If you have been spoiled by playing N64 emus with high resolution graphics or texture packs or even SoftGraphics plugins (which offer no enhancements, but don't use filters either), then you'll probably find this pixel-accurate one very very strange.
Here's the plugin:
http://forum.pj64-emu.com/showthread.php?t=4422
It is advisable to additionally use his RSP plugin linked there to make sure the plugin works at its best.
*Edit*
Apparently you have to join the forums to be able to download attachments, so here's another link:
Pixel-accurate plugin:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/njv1na
RSP (recommended):
http://www.filesend.net/download.php...f35ce254a8d52e
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