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sc0ttman · Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 2173 Location: UK

Mupen64plus-1.99.4 - N64 emulator

Homepage - http://code.google.com/p/mupen64plus/

Needs SDL, and OpenGL installed and working.

I have compiled this on Puppy 4.2, I think it needs checking.
It is a first attempt, and should be considered for testing only.

This one does not support zipped rom files (not sure why).

There is no GUI. To use it, open a terminal and type:

Makoto · Posted: Mon 21 Mar 2011, 19:41 Post subject:

sc0ttman · Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 2173 Location: UK

Hey Makoto... Hope you're well... Thanks for testing...

Definitely worth a test, as I don't get ANY of those errors - although I've yet to get past the "SDL_SetVideoMode: could not create GL context" (even thuogh OpenGL is enabled)...

But thanks for checking... I guess I will spend a few hours today trying to track down the problems! Not sure why you get them..

If anyone else wants to test, and tell if what errors they get (if any), that would be great...

About zlib, I even compiled and installed that latest zlib when I made this (as I did with SDL as well)... So I will look at the 'configure' options again, see what I missed.

sc0ttman · Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 2173 Location: UK

Makoto, which version of SDL are you using?
Maybe this version of Mupen requires SDL 1.2.9, which can be found here: http://ppm.scottjarvis.com/libs/sdl/sdl-1.2.9.pet

Makoto · Posted: Tue 22 Mar 2011, 14:17 Post subject:

Yeah, I was wondering if it was still rather picky about the version of SDL installed, as you mentioned. I'd already removed all those SDL packages I had installed, and only have a single 1.2.13 package installed, now.

I'm not sure that would cause the weird behavior (on my system) with Mupen being unable to either find its libs, or know what to do with them, though. Very Happy

It could possibly have something to do with the SDL errors you're receiving (did you install your .pet and the errors stop?)

sc0ttman · Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 2173 Location: UK

sc0ttman · Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 2173 Location: UK

Woooooo, it works.... Very Happy

I have linked to the SDL package which works for me in the first post (it's the one above).
If you have problems, try the SDL download there or in the main post.

Makoto · Posted: Tue 22 Mar 2011, 16:20 Post subject:

...well, the bizarre thing is, it does seem to have been related to the SDL package I had installed. Shocked

After uninstalling that package, and installing the 1.2.14 package, I no longer get those errors. (I've no idea what in the world about SDL would be causing errors like that...)

Mupen now displays the header information for most of the game images I tried (about five or six, or so). However, they all stop at this point:

sc0ttman · Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 2173 Location: UK

Makoto: After more testing, I must say, I cannot seem to identify the problem you are having - as it works well for me now that I got the right SDL deps installed.. Hmm... Maybe someone else who tried this might know..

Makoto · Posted: Sun 03 Apr 2011, 18:38 Post subject:

Mupen just doesn't like my system, that's all. Very Happy

Is that the point where the actual emulation more or less begins? That's essentially where it would freeze on the previous version. So, maybe something similar is happening with this version when it tries to start the emulated machine.

I don't think it should be a problem with the system's hardware, but I'm not ruling that out, yet. I'll have to see if I can try other N64 emulators (such as MESS), and see if they have any similar problems.