After several months of intensive development, the Mupen64Plus team has recently released the latest update (v1.4) to their great N64 emulator - the current release is for linux users only though!
A lot of work has gone into this version, not only has compatibility been increased but neat features such as Gameshask support have been added. Here is the complete list of changes taken from the changelog:
- New feature: graphical debugger for R4300 core
- New feature: On Screen Display
- New feature: KDE4 GUI (experimental)
- New feature: cheat system with Gameshark codes
- New feature: search/filter box in GTK GUI
- New feature: single frame advance
- New feature: adjust emulator playback speed up or down in 5% increments
- New feature: Rumble Pak support with force feedback
- New feature: Map emulator functions (fullscreen, stop emulation, etc) to joystick buttons or axis movements.
- New feature: Volume up/down
- Blight Input: Individually configure each direction of X and Y axis, which allows inverting the axis
- JTTL_Audio: libsamplerate support for high quality audio resampling
- GTK GUI: Removed second status bar which was not used
- GTK GUI: Implemented accelerator keys
- GTK GUI: Replaced custom directory browser with GTK file chooser
- GTK GUI: numerous small changes and fixes
- Added Mupen64Plus 'man' (manual) page
- Removed mupen64_audio plugin, as it was unnecessary and mostly broken
- Added NoMemoryExpansion parameter to emulate 4MB console; fixes some games
- Overhaul of rom handling functions; numerous small fixes
Such a great emulator of course deserves it's own section, so you can now find additional information over at our Mupen64Plus section. Now for the downloads:
» Download Mupen64 v1.4 32-bit for linux or ...
» Download Mupen64 v1.4 64-bit for linux or ...
» Developers might want to get the Mupen64 v1.4 source code.
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