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Old 13th August 2014, 05:59 PM
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Arrow GLideN64 crowdfunding

Hope this is the appropriate section to post this.

For those who are interested in the emulation of the N64, please note that Gonetz, co-creator of Glide64, the most used HLE graphics plugin, launched a crowdfunding related to his new project, and is currently targetting Windows, Linux and Android. It will bring more accurate frame buffer and depth buffer emulation and many other features currently not supported by existing graphics plugins. He hopes to be able to work fulltime on the project with the help of an Indiegogo campaign.

His goal is to make the best HLE graphics plugin, highly accurate, fixing many of the issues that plagued other plugins, including his Glide64, and he wants this information spread as much as possible, as he now has a crowdfunding set up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zfc25748uzQ

Many games like Majora's Mask (Lens of Truth), Perfect Dark (CamSpy), to name a few, but the biggest glitches that have plagued N64 emulation will at long last be fixed, if the funding goal is met.

You can get beta access starting from $15 USD. He also has stretch goals for completing the Android port, porting to OS X, widescreen hack support, advanced AA, rendering in native res, and other stuff.


At current stage, with the limited time at his disposal, it shall take ages to bring this new project to the right level.
That is why Gonetz request help to take few months full time to develop his new plugin through a crowdfunding.

Please consider supporting this superb work!


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Old 27th August 2014, 07:02 AM
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For those who haven't seen it:

Gonetz is going to implement shaders!
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/g...lugin#activity

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Hello,

During the campaign I often received questions about features which were not mentioned in the main project plan. The usual answer is: the main plan is solid and contains only the essential tasks for release. Any features not mentioned in it could be implemented if the main tasks go smooth and if time remains for additional stuff. However, if a particular feature can be implemented easily, it will most likely get implemented.

For example, today I was asked if it was possible to add CRT filters to simulate an old CRT display. After quick investigation I said: yes, it’s easily doable. These filters are a mere post processing of the resulting image. The plugin already supplies the necessary data for this and there are plenty of open source CRT filters. I quickly tested two of them to check how it will work:

https://images.indiegogo.com/file_at...jpg?1409037233

https://images.indiegogo.com/file_at...jpg?1409037431

I know: they look incorrect. Scanlines must be horizontal, not vertical. This is how the shaders work as is, without any modification. I need time to understand how they work to fix it. This should be just a technical problem.

There are other nice post processing filters like blur, bloom and many more, check Filthy Pants blog for other examples. These filters can be added too since the mechanism is the same. I think it is also possible to dynamically load them from an user-defined folder instead of hardcoding them into the plugin.
The campaign, as of now, has been 79% funded with only 10 days remaining. Please donate some spare change you might have, and share with people you know that might be interested.


Come on! We're very close to the goal. Only $1224 USD to go. We can't let go this opportunity!

We don't know when we might have another chance like this, or even if we'll have another one...
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Old 28th August 2014, 06:33 AM
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so what is this exactly?

like a plugin that'll basically run N64 games flawlessly?
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Old 28th August 2014, 02:55 PM
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so what is this exactly?

like a plugin that'll basically run N64 games flawlessly?
That might be a over-simplification, but yeah, pretty much.
Here is a more 'noob-friendly' article about the campaign: http://www.avclub.com/article/get-in...s-look--207950
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