N64 emulator crashes when playing games

[CaptainMalware]

Hi. I'm new to retropie, so I basically don't know anything about it.

Most of favourite my games are on the 64. I've been trying to play both legend of zelda OOT and majora's mask, but after about 10-15 mins or 10 seconds after I save, the emulator crashes. I know it's not the ROMs because it runs perfectly on an older computer that is there. When the emulator crashes, it shows the gray box that shows when it starts up, but then it quickly goes away. Can somebody help? The Pi I'm usung is the B or B+ (not sure) Revision 1.2. I wanted to make an emulator that was portable thru the house.

[KN4THX]

@CaptainMalware Is it just after you try to save everytime?

[CaptainMalware]

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[CaptainMalware]

@KN4THX Its not after everytime I save, it also crashes when I die, and about 10-15 min. Of gameplay.

[Dwarfboysim]

Is your Pi overclocked? Are you using heat sinks and a fan?

[shavecat]

also happen's to me....

[KN4THX]

@CaptainMalware What version of Retropie are you using? I thought I read something a while back about a similar issue and updating from source seemed to fix it but don't know if that was a coincidence or not.

[CaptainMalware]

@Dwarfboysim No. My pi is not overclocked, and the only heat sink is a nickel taped to the CPU.

[CaptainMalware]

@KN4THX I'm not sure, but I downloaded retropie about two days ago. So I'm thinking it's the newest version.

[Daistaar]

@CaptainMalware Can't lie, this really cracked me up lol.

[shavecat]

Try that maybe it will help
go in the game to your retrorach (for me its the ps+triangle)
Options
Max texture cache size - change it to 8000.
think it helps maybe ?
let me know.

[CaptainMalware]

@shavecat Are you talking about the playstation controller? The controller I'm using is a WII U Pro Controller.

[shavecat]

@CaptainMalware
so sure go to your retrorcah in your game.. and to that.

[CaptainMalware]

So I found out that changing the VRAM size from 300MB to 16MB delayed the crash by 30 min. But it moved the crash to the snes and Gameboy.

[shavecat]

@CaptainMalware
Crap :\

[dankcushions]

update retropie setup script, and then i would update mupen64-plus from source (takes about 30 mins)

[shavecat]

@dankcushions
Does it resolve the 20min stuck ???

[dankcushions]

@shavecat as far as i know. why not try? :)