Homebrew Theres a ps1 emulator running 40-50 fps, yet no n64 emulator?
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The PS1 had dedicated sound and video chips whereas the N64 was unified, I'm sure you have played a few games where the sound was cropped in various ways, particularly on split screen multiplayer..Nintendo 64 was also a 64 bit system, while Ps1 was 32 bit. Also, in what areas is the ps1 more powerful than the n64? Never heard of it, but i'd like to know
More importantly whilst the N64 could indeed display more textured polygons on screen than the PS1, this rarely happened as it only had 4Kb of texture memory, compared to the 1Mb dedicated video memory on the PS1, of which a variable portion could be used for textures... the result, combined with the low resolution anti-alaising on the N64, was what gave many 3D games such a 'muddy' (or more cartoony) look: textures had to be very low quality because of such a lack of memory for them... Many games resorted to shading on polygon sides when there wasn't any memory available, giving it a light source too, but again this wasn't as good as the PS1.
Otherwise though, you're right, the biggest drawback of the N64 was of course the cartridge format... had it been cd based then yeah, even with the problems above, games would've been consistently better, and the ability to stream music off cd would've nullified the sound chip advantage the PS1 has anyway.
But, to say the PS1 was 'a lot weaker' than the N64 remains untrue....
, and why has the 3DS version of Retroarch not got the 4DO (3DO emulator) core, judging by your statement? The 3DO was a 32bit console, and also 'a lot weaker' than a PS1 - we should be smashing 60fps on all 3DO games on our 3DSes by now....The PS1 is very simple architecture, which explains why emulation is so advanced compared to similar consoles, and that's almost as important as how powerful the machine is.
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Yeah, now that you mention it, I noticed the sound crop especially in mario kart 64 multiplayer, where the music would cut out at certain moments.The PS1 had dedicated sound and video chips whereas the N64 was unified, I'm sure you have played a few games where the sound was cropped in various ways, particularly on split screen multiplayer..
More importantly whilst the N64 could indeed display more textured polygons on screen than the PS1, this rarely happened as it only had 4Kb of texture memory, compared to the 1Mb dedicated video memory on the PS1, of which a variable portion could be used for textures... the result, combined with the low resolution anti-alaising on the N64, was what gave many 3D games such a 'muddy' (or more cartoony) look: textures had to be very low quality because of such a lack of memory for them... Many games resorted to shading on polygon sides when there wasn't any memory available, giving it a light source too, but again this wasn't as good as the PS1.
Otherwise though, you're right, the biggest drawback of the N64 was of course the cartridge format... had it been cd based then yeah, even with the problems above, games would've been consistently better, and the ability to stream music off cd would've nullified the sound chip advantage the PS1 has anyway.
But, to say the PS1 was 'a lot weaker' than the N64 remains untrue....
The PS1 is very simple architecture, which explains why emulation is so advanced compared to similar consoles, and that's almost as important as how powerful the machine is.
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It was created because PanchamBros likes to create numerous pointless threads on here.
Because somebody who doesn't know anything about what goes into emulation wonders why there's no N64 emulator for the 3DS when there's the much more powerful Ps1 being emulated on the same handheld.
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The N64 is just a bitch to emulate to begin with. Why? I don't know, but I do know a lot of games had some pretty serious AP's on them. I remember it was only like 3 years ago that we were able to crack Banjo Tooie's AP.
Also please learn to google
https://www.google.com/webhp?source...&ie=UTF-8#q=n64+emulator+3ds+site:gbatemp.net
Also please learn to google
https://www.google.com/webhp?source...&ie=UTF-8#q=n64+emulator+3ds+site:gbatemp.net
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