Comments on: SVN migration finished and other news

By: bob

bob — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 15:43:18 +0000

l love how flawlessly super mari 64 runs. anyway, i have noticed a few bugs espeicially with donkey kong 64 and pokemon stadium.

By: Jarrod

Jarrod — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 10:54:06 +0000

Big fan of you guys for taking out of your personal lives making this.

By: Khiash

Khiash — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:24:48 +0000

Hi
Really, my only two complaints are compatibility, and (in rare cases) reliability. I was playing some Megaman 64, and I haven’t actually gone to the Wii64 lobby to save my save for about two hours. So I’m about to enter a new area, when all of a sudden my Wii tells me an exception has occured. The only way to back out? Power down my Wii and reboot. But I had just lost two hours of gameplay - a real letdown.
Simple workaround? Have the Wii64 auto-save the save files, every 60 seconds or so (or when back to the lobby) when autosave is on.

By: Fuuupowa

Fuuupowa — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:30:07 +0000

Hi emukidid :p You think when the Beta 1.1 will be ready? Every day I verify if the 1.1 is here x)

By: emukidid

emukidid — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 02:31:20 +0000

@ Nico

What you’re talking about is known as static recompilation. The actual recompilation time isn’t much of an issue for us, nor is loading the data from ROM. Static recompilation fails for emulation for a number of other reasons, mainly self-modifying code.

(P.S. Prediction people, next version is 1.1, not 2.0 :P)

By: Bizzyb

Bizzyb — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:12:22 +0000

Just wanted to post to show my support. I always like to check back here periodically to see how the progress is going. Looks like its going good. As always, once either Blast Corps Hybrid Heaven or Body harvest runs at playable levels I’m donating $20 to the team.

By: Nico

Nico — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 03:57:50 +0000

I had a quick question when I was reading your site about the dynamic recompiler. Would it be possible to put it in a standalone app that could pre-process a rom and save it in a translated state for the emulator to run? So I would run this app on my roms folder and it would create a translated copy of each rom without having to translate on the fly? Even if certain things aren’t translated fully, would this help the speed of emulation? Since hard drive space is at less of a premium than speed/memory (esp. with USB and maybe eventually SMB support), I wouldn’t mind having a copy of a ROM tailored specifically for Wii64…

By: MarioFan3

MarioFan3 — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 23:31:40 +0000

Or maybe it will be released with style. I agree that the Wii64Team will post a video a week beforehand for Beta 2, but I doubt it will be for Beta 1.1.
Wait a second, did you say that your release for N64 was on the 29th September???. In 96 and not 97?

WTF? That makes me so very angry!
June 23rd 1996 was the Japanese date, so you’re telling me it only took them 3 months to make it ready in English?
Then why the hell did we have to wait until March 1st in 1997 for it to come to the rest of the world huh? 6 months after you!
Sorry, but if you think I LIKE Nintendo’s marketing strategy after THAT, then think again, because the amount of times that I have had to wait 6 bloody months for something that is already out in America is extremely annoying. How many times has it happened again? Oh yeah I forgot, it has happened too many times that I’ve lost count. (Super Smash Bros. Brawl anyone?)

By: Lost My Mind

Lost My Mind — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 12:07:02 +0000

If we’re going on hypotheticals, then you have to realize this development team has style. They aren’t Nintendo with their releases. Look at the virtual console for the past three years. “Oh such-n-such game that’s been highly awaited is going to come out on the week of Christmas! Its our present from Nintendo!” Then that week comes and goes. So does the week after it. The game isn’t released. Everyone’s sad.

In America the official release date for N64 was 09/29/1996. Wii64 Beta 1 was released 09/29/2009. See what they did there? Yeah. Pure awesomeness! Considering it was like a week before that, they released a video of the emulator, and it said “coming soon”. The next week it got released….on a special day. That means they were done with it right around the time that they said “well, the Nintendo64’s birthday is coming up soon…….lets just sit on this for a bit. That’s style!

First the Youtube hype video, then release it on an important date in the very near future while hype is still running high and everyones excited.

I would say we’d be getting a software update soon, but I haven’t seen any youtube videos. So, spend Christmas with your family, don’t think about this site that day, because I doubt they are sitting on it right now.

Maybe we’ll see a video in a week to hype up a New Years day release? Maybe……maybe not…..we’ll see.

By: MarioFan3

MarioFan3 — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 09:10:09 +0000

Aaaaaah nuts, today is theoretical Beta 1.2 day, and no Beta 1.1
Unfortunately, theoretical stats are never right, but always give us a rough answer as to what the actual result quality is, and roughly what time it comes out due to quality stages.
I was hoping for it to come today… Bah! No matter, Beta 1 is my very early Christmas present this year I suppose?
Now here’s hoping for that next date; 28th January, 2010.
C’mon, it’s just something to hope for, so don’t rely on it.
(and it’s “theoretical” people, it isn’t supposed to be accurate, it’s supposed to be based of previous stats written on paper)