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    N64 emulators not loading textures

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    • MrJordaaanyM
      MrJordaaany
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      Yeah I noticed issues with some N64 emulators that previously worked fine recently too. So it looks like updating, or applying the above fix, solves the issue for now?

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        psyke83 Global Moderator
        last edited by psyke83

        So far, the texture loading issue is fixed by upstream, but there's a crash on Pi due to the shader cache as well as severe freezing issues in certain games from a recent commit. There's a PR being reviewed that fixes these issues, but needs more time.

        I applied a workaround until the PR is merged upstream. If you update RetroPie-Setup and reinstall mupen64plus (I think that buzz has updated the packages, but you may need to build from source), it should work OK.

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          steeeb
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          I have an older .so if you like that doesn't seem to have the performance issues.

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            cpt bananas @steeeb
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            @steeeb

            Would love it if you can share. (Did you notice these performance issues too? Seriously, I could be imaging this.)

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              steeeb
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              Yeah, Goldeneye is completely unplayable.

              With this older .so it's at least playable(ish).

              I'll attach the whole folder as a zip to replace /opt/retropie/emulators/mupen64plus if you wanted older files, if not you can just get the .so and try that.

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                steeeb
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                https://www.dropbox.com/s/cizfiwaxhl87c0n/mupen64plus.zip?dl=0

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                  steeeb
                  last edited by

                  In other news - there seems to be an effort to improve performance a bit, there are come commits pending a pull request and also fixes for this issue.

                  Once they're up I'll update this thread so everyone knows and can test it.

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                    cpt bananas @steeeb
                    last edited by cpt bananas

                    @steeeb

                    Thanks a lot for posting. For some reason, overwriting my .so file with that older one or even the whole folder results in N64 games failing to launch at all. FFS. I had the same issue when overwriting my .so with the file I extracted from RetroPie image file.

                    You don't have any ideas on what's wrong, do you?

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                      steeeb
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                      It'll be because the version of mupen64 will be different I think the dependancies are different.

                      Use the latest binary for mupen64 in Retropie-Setup it seems someone applied a patch to it a whole 13 days ago that fixes the issue. It seems pretty quick now too.

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                        rrussell50
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                        I just applied this fix using the .so file above (@steeeb's file) however I none of the games load and they just go back to the main menu screen.

                        What is the next best emulator to use? I set it to the lr-mupenplus for now which seems to work

                        Thanks

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                          psyke83 Global Moderator
                          last edited by psyke83

                          Read the last replies - the problem is resolved. Ensure your RetroPie-Setup script is updated and reinstall mupen64plus (either binary or source should be OK, but the latter is probably working a bit better right now). Don't use the library posted, as it is not in sync with the latest mupen64plus core changes.

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                            shaaa
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                            Someone would mind to post the download link again? Its unavailable and i got same problem!

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