Iris and Nintendo 64 Emulator News

[PSmonkey]

Time to answer a few questions

1. Do you think it's possible to ever get it running past 30 fps?
After alot of work and optimisation, Yep I do think it's posible (at least for mario64).

2. Will you ever be able to have a multiplayer mode (Who misses mariokart multiplayer )
Nope wont happen any time soon. Sadly this will probably bottleneck the emulation too much.

3.How long do you think it will take?
Depends how many late nights I stay up coding (like last night).
It will be easier to judge once I get M64 to the same point that nincest is at now.

4.How much would you like me to donate when you get M64 running commercial roms :P
Donate what you feel like. I'm not in this for the money. If you feel like donating to my projects to feed my gamming addiction thats all super duper and will keep me happy.

Thanks for taking the time to read!
Np, I like feedback (good or bad).

Hi PSmonkey, but with a dynarec/jit is possible a perfect speed?
Probably not. We might get decent playable speed but I dout we will ever hit perfect speed. This is just my opinion but I could be wrong.

[Madonion]

Amazing news! I too am more excited about the N64 emu only because if you get it working there will be alot more games to play . Goodluck on both! Iris is gona own with multiplayer!

[hockey2112]

As most people have already said, I can't wait for this. One game I am really looking forward to is Mario Tennis. That game is a blast! Keep up the good work, we all appreciate it!

[guthix]

Can......not.......wait......for.................. .Super..............Smash........Brothers......... ..Link shall walk yet again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Corona]

Screw the N64 emulator, Im more psyched about Iris.
Since their using models with bones for ragdoll, Im gonna start making a whole bunch of custom models for use in the game.
Mario with a Shotgun?
How about The Grinch?
That would rock my pants.
HARD.

[ScHlAuChi]

Erm. I never started a PS emu. I was working on NgPsp which was a Neo Geo Pocket Emulator for the Psp. I've not given up hope on it but atm put it in the closet since i've not gotten new feedback from the original author.

Oh sorry i mixed you up with the other guy

[PSPdemon]

Hi again,

I have a few more questions about iris...

1. Will iris support hl weapons?

2. Will you be able to modify the bullets? like say you want to have a plasma type gun?

3. Will you have a modifiable file where you can set the distance, speed, accuracy and damage of a weapon? if so, are you going to add a limiter to it ( so that if you do have multiplayer, you cant set the damage settings so high to the point that its unfair )?

4. Will there be the availibility of pick ups?( health packs, sheilds, extra damage, ect. )

5. Are you going to add vehicles in the game?

6. Will you have the availibity of having meele weapons?

7. Will the game chug if you have a big map with lots of high res. textures? if so, what would be the limit without the chug?

8. What would the controls be like? could you give an example?

9. Out of curiosity... what type of guns are you looking at putting in the game?

10. When do you think you will release Iris V .15?


Thanks for Everything,
PSPdemon

[vettacossx]

how can we see the n64 logo on waverace is there a hack cause ive tried the rom but it did not work also i noticed that its a Z64 rom not a V64 rom like mario 64 and wave race iffys recking ball are z64 is there a difference and will it be a problem id like to have even the logo to the title of mario 64 that would be gr8 well keep up the good work

[pkmaximum]

how can we see the n64 logo on waverace is there a hack cause ive tried the rom but it did not work also i noticed that its a Z64 rom not a V64 rom like mario 64 and wave race iffys recking ball are z64 is there a difference and will it be a problem id like to have even the logo to the title of mario 64 that would be gr8 well keep up the good work

Aright as far as this emulator goes it does not play comercial roms yet.... so roms like super mario, golden eye, and zelda ocarina of time, etc. Are not going to play as of now. Believe me i understand if you are impatient cause i have been waiting for an emulator like this for many months now. Pretty much a year! So i understand your eagerness and frusteration but give it some time.

[PSmonkey]

how can we see the n64 logo on waverace is there a hack cause ive tried the rom but it did not work also i noticed that its a Z64 rom not a V64 rom like mario 64 and wave race iffys recking ball are z64 is there a difference and will it be a problem id like to have even the logo to the title of mario 64 that would be gr8 well keep up the good work

Z64 & V64 have to deal with byteswapping ment for rom coping devices. Z64 roms are ment for a z64 copying device. V64 roms are ones ment for bungs doctor v64 line of rom copiers.

At the current time nincest assumes all roms are in doctor v64 format & uncompressed (not refering to zip compression here). I dont believe the version i first released will show the logo due to a bug somewhere. My builds I have now do but they wont be released since it's a waste of time. Hopefuly the first public build of monkey 64 will run more PD roms & show the waverace logo for all to see.

Ps, if your currious, there is a tool on dextrose.com called RTool that will let you convert roms from z64 to v64 format.