Homebrew Not64 Update

[Maeson]

Curious if you ever got the rom folders to merge?

Thanks

I don't know if you should expect an answer from cose to 10 years ago from that user, but there's a way to do it, I found how for WiiSX's several forks and can fortunately be replicated here.

Get a Hex Editor, open both versions of Wii64 (Glide and Rice) and do a text search for the word roms.

The second and third results should be directory paths:

usb:/wii64/roms
sd:/wii64/roms

Just change "wii" to "not" (so it becomes "usb:/not64/roms" for example), save and you're done, Wii64 Glide and Wii64 Rice, the current versions of Wii64, will look in the same folder as Not64.

Not64 seems to be compiled differently, and you cannot find the paths in this simple way, if they were easily edited you could use any folder you'd like to, but this already acomplishes what you wanted.

 

[SaulFabre]

Unrelated to Not64 but @emu_kidid is at it again with the development of Wii64

Will make a new build tomorrow and publish it elsewhere in GBAtemp.

 

[SaulFabre]

Latest Wii64 builds with latest commits can be now downloaded here:
http://github.com/saulfabregwiivc/Wii64/releases/tag/latest

 

[JuanMena]

Latest Wii64 builds with latest commits can be now downloaded here:
http://github.com/saulfabregwiivc/Wii64/releases/tag/latest

Do you know where I can read what's been upgraded/improved?

 

[SaulFabre]

Do you know where I can read what's been upgraded/improved?

http://github.com/emukidid/Wii64/commits/master

 

[JuanMena]

http://github.com/emukidid/Wii64/commits/master

Oh wow!
Nice! Can't wait for "official" Wii64 version.
It seems I'll ditch Not64 with this new update.

 

[Maeson]

Latest Wii64 builds with latest commits can be now downloaded here:
http://github.com/saulfabregwiivc/Wii64/releases/tag/latest

Maybe it's just me, but it doesn't work right. Games work way too fast, sound is sped up tremendously, if not garbled.

I guess the current state of Wii64 is "work in progress" for the next release. Unless again, I did something wrong.

 

[SaulFabre]

Maybe it's just me, but it doesn't work right. Games work way too fast, sound is sped up tremendously, if not garbled.

I guess the current state of Wii64 is "work in progress" for the next release. Unless again, I did something wrong.

try deleting your old settings.cfg file :v

 

[Maeson]

That did it, thank you.

I saw Pilotwings being worked on and decided to try it. It performs well on Glide and the shadow glitch is no longer there, and neither the rocket belt glitchy map which are awesome.

But there's something that I have never seen before, whenever you finish a mission and try to quit, a strange green grid with white and black dots appears, and you lose control, even when trying to go to Wii64 menu (reset button work fortunately).

I made a screenshot of it, I will attach it if it helps.

Spoiler: Grid thing

 

[pedro702]

That did it, thank you.

I saw Pilotwings being worked on and decided to try it. It performs well on Glide and the shadow glitch is no longer there, and neither the rocket belt glitchy map which are awesome.

But there's something that I have never seen before, whenever you finish a mission and try to quit, a strange green grid with white and black dots appears, and you lose control, even when trying to go to Wii64 menu (reset button work fortunately).

I made a screenshot of it, I will attach it if it helps.

Spoiler: Grid thing

View attachment 402528

pilotwings is broken yeah, emukid did an hack for it but the hack crashes any mission at the end so yeah ... your best bet to play pilotwings is rice pluggin, if you tilt your character just right the random polygon mess will go away i finished the entire game on rice.

 

[_47iscool]

http://github.com/emukidid/Wii64/commits/master

Have they added zip support yet?

@Maeson

Speaking of not being able to find the rom directory location on not64 with a hex editor, it is likely because the .dol is compressed.

 

[SaulFabre]

Have they added zip support yet?

1. No and
2. @emu_kidid already said that he won't bring again zip support because of RAM memory reasons, i guess because of the zip library taking so much RAM memory and leaving poor RAM memory for games and emulation.

But... i noticed that ZIP support was just disabled, cause the code for said support is... still there i guess?

 

[Maeson]

Oh, so the Pilotwings thing is not new? It's the first time I find it and I tend to test updates with that game just in case it got fixed. Besides that issue the game never ran better, both talking about glitches and performance (and if you were to try and play it, you can reset after every mission, it seems to save your score before you go to the Quit screen).

 

[_47iscool]

1. No and
2. @emu_kidid already said that he won't bring again zip support because of RAM memory reasons, i guess because of the zip library taking so much RAM memory and leaving poor RAM memory for games and emulation.

But... i noticed that ZIP support was just disabled, cause the code for said support is... still there i guess?

And yet, not64 functions just fine with it.

 

[pedro702]

Oh, so the Pilotwings thing is not new? It's the first time I find it and I tend to test updates with that game just in case it got fixed. Besides that issue the game never ran better, both talking about glitches and performance (and if you were to try and play it, you can reset after every mission, it seems to save your score before you go to the Quit screen).

is is new yeah officially but like an year ago emukid did a build where he reinstated gamehacks and that was there but its broken, so play it on rice unless you want a crash on each game

 

[Maeson]

Oh, I was looking around for the bug, which is a known thing in other emulators, and also found a conversation from 2022 about this particular thing in Wii64, so yeah, it has been there a while and I just found about it, lol.

Meh, I think I rather reset the game after missions and have good performance than play in Rice with how it runs... Regardless, I am thankful for emu_kidid's efforts always.

 

[pedro702]

New not64 has been released, not sure if there is any compatibility changes
https://github.com/extremscorner/not64/releases/tag/20231102

 

[GustavoReis]

great to see wii64 and not64 being updated

 

[rexus_pl]

- Always assume there's a first controller.
- Fixed copying name from ROM header.
- Adjusted for libogc-rice changes.
- Synchronized changes from Swiss.

Nothing related to emulator engine, so compatibility is same as previous version. I've tested some games and haven't noticed any diffrence.

 

[MikeBeast12]

I see they have fixed the third-party controller peripheral issues on the latest version of Wii64 and Not64, including the PDP Fight Pad for Wii. Glad to see you back updating the N64 emulator, guys! As a matter of fact, I might play N64 Super Smash Bros..