Mupen64Plus release candidate

[JKKDARK]

The author Richard42 said:

Emulator fans, come and test our release candidate of the upcoming Mupen64Plus version 1.3. The major features of this emulator are:

- runs on 32-bit or 64-bit Linux systems with optimized code
- includes 3 great OpenGL video plugins: glN64, RiceVideoLinux, and glide64
- massively cleaned-up interface code; GTK GUI build and "nogui" build are unified
- install/uninstall scripts to properly handle a multi-user environment
- bugfixes in the 64-bit dynamic recompiler, GTK GUI, and plugins

I would like to acknowledge Ebenblues, who put a lot of work into the enhancements and changes, and Günther, who made a backwards-compatible 64-bit port of Glide64 included here.

You can download the packages here.

Or you can get the latest SVN snapshot and build your own with this repository:
svn://fascination.homelinux.net:7684/mupen64plus/trunk/
There is read-only access for the username "mupen64" with password "Dyson5632-kart".

So please test it out and report bugs in this thread. We'll make an official release in a couple of weeks after addressing the issues reported here. We would also be interested to talk with distro packagers to get it included with upcoming Linux distributions.

[CoinCollector]

Oh, it only runs on Linux? Darn, I have Windows.

[JKKDARK]

Yes, this is what Richard42 said about Windows.

Regarding the Windows port, it seems increasingly likely that we'll officially drop it. We've been working on this thing and moving it forward for the last 6 months, with testing and development only being done under Linux. The Win32 port is very broken now - Rice Video won't work for Win32, the GUI has totally changed and needs to be re-written, etc. I want to continue to focus on making this the best possible N64 emulator for Linux because it's the only one.

Unless a Win32 developer volunteers to refactor the Win32 GUI for the new architecture, fix all of the porting issues, and maintain the Win32 port going forward, then most likely Mupen64Plus will be unix-only.