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I haven't yet discovered where the last Linux/Windows binary (pre-compiled) is located before the rewrite. I hope MM can comment on this.

Well, I have just bought a 64drive! Now the hard part is to wait for it to be delivered here... Did you get the hw2 version, or is it not for sale yet? (I'm kind of surprised there is one coming!). It's not an issue for me, as I already own Banjo-Tooie. Nevertheless, it looks like there's a new har...

Congratulations on the job! But that means the CEN64's development will be put on hold, sorta of....I guess it's time to get a 64drive, for the time being. Definitely get a 64drive, it's worth the investment! The only thing I can't run is Banjo-Tooie PAL, because of the protection built-in. The NTS...

Still here, checking in every now and then to see if there's anything new.
If no new updates are being made within the next month or so, I'm planning a compatibility status update (hopefully done with newer hardware)

Nintendo Maniac 64 wrote:Hey um, can Cen64 properly run PAL games yet? As an example, if I run PAL Hydro Thunder in Cen64 I get this...

I can now verify this PAL title runs fine on CEN64 (as do others).

simer wrote:Some games check the region and therefore requires the correct PIF boot ROM. Using the PAL PIF boot ROM seems to work here.

Has this been dumped yet by anyone? I would love to do it myself as I have a PAL system available, using a genuine dumping guide.

I believe it's still best to compile from master, or download the official binaries and use the AVX build for best performance.

What steps are you taking to load your ROM?
Maybe that way we can pinpoint the problem.

A reminder that CEN64 is primarily a command line only application, have you tried CEN64-Qt?

Build 2016-02-17 can now boot Conker's Bad Fur Day!
However, after choosing a new game or multiplayer game, the screen goes black (hangs) with the background music still playing.

It has... begun!

Nice going!
I know the website will be updated eventually, or at least updated to something more appealing. I made a concept some time ago but never really went through with it so without any promises, I'll see what I can do and come up with a better placeholder.

Whoa it can actually boot World Driver Championship! ...though after the second screen you get a black screen of death. Also, Hydro Thunder seems to be fully playable other than Cen64's lack of memory card saving...and playing with a keyboard is kind of difficult (I was too lazy to go retrieve my c...

I have moved the comments on the latest builds to this thread.

Get the latest official CEN64 compiled builds over at http://www.cen64.com/

Uh, wow. I must be honest, how do you manage to have time to achieve all of that without going mental in the process? Alright. I constantly think of what I want to achieve, take frequent breaks and spread the work it takes over one week ;) Also, I frequently compared results to real hardware with t...

Like Snowstorm64 pointed out in his Compatibility tests, CEN64 seems to have problems with either the controller pak or the controller.

I have re-tested all known commercial games (296) within the US N64 library. Both the Kiosk demos and N64DD were also tested. Info: - ' Playable ' means the game exhibits no defective behavior and shows little to no graphical errors. Of course, due to the CEN64's current state of maturity, it's hard...

After reading up on the source material you provided, I would say that supporting both .z64 and .N64 is the way to go with the ROM data stored in the N64's native big endian byte-order. What I don't yet understand is, how you can differentiate between .n64 and .N64? Eventually supporting both .z64 a...

More interesting probably: I've set this up with Travis CI to create builds of each git commit. You can download the latest build from the links in the Github README. Will make it much easier to test new features. I will be trying out the newer automated builds for sure. Do you also take bug report...

New release of this very nice frontend! (20150915-alpha)

Get it here: https://github.com/dh4/cen64-qt/releases

I don't have my 64drive ATM, and won't in the forseeable future. Until I hear from someone how it behaves on an actual console, there's no reason to look into it. :-p I've tried the ROM on my 64drive (on a PAL unit), and it doesn't work. The screen stays black, both with default settings and adjust...

It seems this title has always been broken.
Both the current version (build 2015.08.19) and the legacy versions can't boot the game, probably due to incomplete emulation or unsupported instructions.

It might be an idea to debug this one.

MarathonMan wrote:Bump.

MooglyGuy and some of the other MESS guys have been multi-threading and vectorizing the RDP. So I'll probably pull from them and replace angrylion's SVN with that in the future.

Does that RDP also include angrylion's recent changes? See: https://code.google.com/p/angrylions-stuff/source/list

Merrep wrote:Thanks for the hard work though - sorry it's not to my taste!

You're welcome

I understand it isn't everyone's cup of tea. I'll try and take a look what changes are needed to the default styles so it won't feel so generic.

We hope you like the new look for the CEN64 forums

The logo has also been updated to match the older Nintendo Ultra 64 style logo.

Any comments are welcome, and remember to reselect your custom avatar if you had one.

Enjoy your stay!

For starters, it meant a new build

Hey, is anybody excited for GLideN64's release very, very soon? I know this is a forum for accurate Nintendo 64 Emulation, but Djipi's coming out with the most beautiful Texture Packs for Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask, he's releasing it when GLideN64 is publicly released. Sure, I'm kind of foll...

The forum is also in dire need of refreshment, I'll try and resume that work somewhere in the coming weeks.
I'm not sure how the website itself is progressing as beannaich is/was working on that one

Have you tried the following command: cen64.exe pifdata.bin "rom.z64"
Mind you, the cen64 executable can be named differently on your end.

First off, what is the file name of the PIF IPL ROM?
Try a simple name without special characters, and match it with the command line for CEN64.

And second, what kind of error message are you getting?

Paper Mario (U) used to at least boot into menu, before the rewrite.
Now it simply shows a black screen, sometimes with some corrupted graphics.

Make sure the ROMs are Big Endian-format, and not byteswapped.
Basically, use genuine z64 formatted ROMs.

Paper Mario (U) indeed doesn't boot. Could be a bug or a result of the incomplete emulation of the hardware. I do however get a black screen with garbled graphics on the top if you wait a few seconds on the 2015.01.29 build. Does Star Fox 64 (U) boot on your end? Also, what build are you using or ar...

Snowstorm64 wrote:I have already reported this in the past, it's probably due to an unimplemented instruction (CTC2).

I wasn't able to find it, though, so I reported it just in case.

Are you sure it's this type? Though the 4790 was only available as a desktop cpu. To my knowledge, it is only available in desktops. Also, as far as I can see, there is no mobile CPU stock clocked at 3.6GHz. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Core_i7_microprocessors#Mobile_processors

See following (needs an account):
http://bugtracker.cen64.com/view.php?id=13

Using build 2015.01.29 (all versions).

Using 4 cores here

Bug is fixed

Both GoldenEye and Wave Race now show correct graphics on the SSE2 build.

So now that CEN64 is advancing quite well, I was tempted to work on improving the existing CEN64 logo and theme: http://vdnoort.home.xs4all.nl/emulation/cen64/logo_v4.png As for CEN64-Qt (mockup!): http://vdnoort.home.xs4all.nl/emulation/cen64/front-end_v2.png Avatar: http://vdnoort.home.xs4all.nl/e...

Nacho wrote:Well, from my testing:

SSE2 -> Affected
SSE3 -> Affected
SSE4.1 -> Not affected
SSSE3 -> Not affected

Confirmed. For me, only the SSE2 build (2015.01.27) is affected, using Windows 7 here.

Confirmed. Crashes on both ROMs when using any of the Windows-specific versions, build 2013.01.13.
Also, what's the difference between the dev and non-dev versions?

Snowstorm64 wrote:It's only a convention. You can just change the extension of all the files to .n64 and it still works.

Does that mean an emulator will check the internals of the ROM whether it's byteswapped or not, and not the extension? (this would make sense to me).

Simply amazing.

Thanks for sharing this advancement!

I'm also anxious to test out the new CEN64 (Windows) with its new cores. Will there be a pre-build binary or does the Windows version need compiling?

Happy holidays, people!

Great news indeed! I think I'll wait until the RSP is emulated enough so it can boot quite a lot of commercial games and start testing it. Of course, portions of the RDP would be a bonus if added. MarathonMan, is it correct that you've been mostly working on the RCP and optimizations? If so, that le...

Of course, I can always prepare a new set of graphics/icons if needed

This level of commitment towards accurate N64 emulation is amazing.
I wonder when we can start a full compatibility test to see how far along CEN64 actually is.

Great!
Though 52kB does seem a bit small. I also can't get it to work.

MarathonMan wrote:Tweaked RAC timings for DK64, got this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxHFFEWVO18

Looking good.

That so badly needs a beat

Looking good indeed, apart from some flickering at the end, but I'm sure you're not done yet!

I'm not too sure what to think of this. On one hand, this could be very interesting for the development of graphics emulation. On the other, the plug-in is still targeted to work with only existing older emulators and all their possible limitations. Most aren't even actively developed anymore if I'm...

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