N64 emulator question
Can someone help me with a question? I am running retro pie on PI 4 and I’m trying to get N64 to run smooth (super smash bros is unplayable) but when I’m looking up configs I see people say “mupen64plus-gles2n64” my question is, in that config is the first one the emulator and then the second one the ROM? So is it emulator-Rom.
Sorry I’m new to all this.
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I can’t get it to open the Retroarxh menu for the game. I have tried select and just about every button there is
I'm not too familiar with RetroPi (as there's better systems out there) but I believe you need to go to retropie setup and reset the cores/emulators from there.
By default the N64 core is the Non-libretro based one. It's also inferior in performance than the defaulted emulator.
This is also the incorrect way to save overrides in RetroArch. Quick Menu > Save Core Overrides
My bad on the non libretro cores but I think you'll find you can save game overrides this way too ;)
OP doesn't need a per CORE override but a per ROM one.
How do you edit the n64 Glide emulator that’s non liberto? Hot key plus start doesent work to bring up the menu.
mupen64plus-gles2n64 is an emulator selectable via the runcommand. specifically, mupen64plus is the emulator, and gles2n64 is the video plugin. the latter is abandoned and has low compatibility, but for pi3 it was a good performer in some games.
btw it doesn't work properly on a pi4 so the advice you're getting is bad.
Update:
If I open and run the app through the retroarch menus it runs flawless, but when I try to run it through emulation station it does not
Ok so all N64 games work perfect if I open them through the retroarch menu instead of the emulation station. I have no idea why but it works for me as long as I can play the game! Anyone have any ideas why it would do that?
I’m also new to this, I recently bought a raspberry pi 4. When connecting the Pi to my 4k tv I had to configure the os in /boot/config.txt to lower the resolution to 1080p in order for N64 games to run smooth.
There are probably better solutions, but lowering the resolution made everything (including emulationstation menus) faster for me.
I have an option in my menus to “force 1080p” should I do that?
I’m going out on a limb and saying neither of those is the rom. I know mupen64 is an n64 emulator but the name wouldn’t include the rom file. The rom file would just be a separate file in the retropie/roms /n64 folder called something like “smash bros.n64” or something like that
Yeah thats weird, that should be play just fine with a stock Pi4