N64 emulators not loading textures

zerojay

Having the same issues. Perhaps updating from binary instead of source will fix it? Either way, something's broken.

cpt bananas

@zerojay I tried both last night, didn't work for me. Had deleted all config files to start fresh.

zerojay

This might explain a little bit of what may have happened here: https://github.com/libretro/mupen64plus-libretro/commit/05dbab76afa2f42635396cdb71a007034e762450

Metalwario64

@zerojay Hmm. I'm confused because that mentions both the libretro version and the core version.

dankcushions

i can confirm this issue. my guess is it’s a new change with GLideN64 (i assume other plugins work ok?). if anyone is able to bisect this issue and find out what commit causes this that will be really useful!

cpt bananas

@dankcushions said in N64 emulators not loading textures:

(i assume other plugins work ok?).

Yes.

Any devs in here? I would love to help but am an incompetent end user.

Would it help to report this as a bug on the github issue tracker?

dankcushions

@cpt-bananas yes you should log it with a screenshot, please. without bisecting i'm not sure how solvable it will be, but i will try and do that soon if no-one beats me to it.

cpt bananas

Dude you're miles a head of me. I just opened this issue on the RetroPie issue tracker but I think it's actually gonetz/gliden64's problem, not Retropie; then, after I already opened it, I see you opened the issue on Gliden64's page

Thanks man

alrdtakn1

Pi 3
5v 2.5a
Retropie 4.3.6
Mupen64plus
Zelda ocarina of time black screen but audio
007 most textures are not visible but some are completely unplayable

Hi I am now having a similar issue as you guys, after a fresh install I can get gles, rice, lr-mupen, and parallel to work. When I try glide it gives me a black screen with audio, updated from binary (retropie 4.3.6) same issue. ~~Attempted updating from source and it appears to freeze at ld libmupen64plus.So.2.0.0~~, edit: I was able to update from source but still the same issue. the glide log shows these two lines constantly repeating: Async color buffer copies are not supported on GLES2
LOD emulation not possible on this device

I tried disabling LOD emulation in the .Cfg file but it keeps going back to default. Even after I have disabled hotkeys in autoconf.

I also had an HD texture pack that worked great in rice, but glide would start the "loading" screen of textures and freeze when it got to 438.88mb after maybe 7minutes of loading up to that point. I deleted the texture pack since it wasn't working with glide anyway.

steeeb

Has this been solved? If not what is the easiest way to roll back glide?

dankcushions

@steeeb no. i plan to start bisecting it soon, but until someone does we won't have the 'last known good' version to build binaries for. in any case, once someone starts bisecting, we should be close to fixing the issue.

steeeb

@dankcushions

https://github.com/m64p/mupen64plus-GLideN64

Do you know how to build it? Just build.sh? If so I can help at least find some working commits. If it doesn't take long to build I can do a full disect

dankcushions

@steeeb no that's not the right repo. it's complex to rebuild the whole mupen64plus emulator manually but it's only the changes to the gliden64 plugin that we're interested in: https://github.com/gonetz/GLideN64. you build that and then replace mupen64plus-video-GLideN64.so on your system with the rebuilt file.

MacLock89

I can confirm this also. Gliden64 worked great as my default emu. Two days ago i updated retropie and all packages before scraping only to find that the roms i had set with gliden64 were missing texture packs and recieved the messege "init noise textures. Please wait." A rollback or a fix would be greatly apreciated as it is the only emu that alligns mario party 2 properly. Thank you in advance.

steeeb

@maclock89

https://github.com/gonetz/GLideN64/issues/1665

They've found the offending commit

Anyone know the location of the .so file? I have glide from 2 weeks ago that works I could upload the .so file so people can use it until upstream fix the issue.

wrnhokie

@steeeb
It should be in /opt/retropie/emulators/mupen64plus/lib/mupen64plus/ . Please do upload the working .so if you can so we can have a working build until a fixed commit happens.

steeeb

Built the version from before the problem commit just testing and I'll upload.

steeeb

Here it is: https://www.dropbox.com/s/5m4j41g4otvzaxj/mupen64plus-video-GLideN64.so?dl=0

Still says the init loading textures at the start, but the textures work fine.

MacLock89

@steeeb
This might seem like a dumb question but how do i exchange the file. If i insert the sd card in my comp runing ubuntu it percieves these files as read only and will not allow alteration. Is there a way around this

MacLock89

@steeeb
From a little digging i found that i will need to gain root access through editing retropie script and accessing the files via a program such as putty. Would putty for ubuntu be the best choice or is there another means which would be more effective.