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Recommended N64 plugins

601 bytes added, 04:50, 27 June 2022
Complete overhaul of the Recommended Setups for Mupen64Plus. This was long overdue.
===Mupen64Plus===
[[The official releases of Mupen64Plus]] has its own set only come bundled with a handful of video and RSP plugins, namely Glide64mk2, Rice, and the HLE RSP. The developers also maintain forks of the CXD4 RSP and the z64 video and RSP plugins which , but they are incompatible with emulators based on not included in the official release bundles for some reason. Should you wish to use those plugins or third party ones such as GLideN64 or the zilmar spec ParaLLEl plugins, you must build them yourself or get them from outside sources, or just use a fork that already includes them, such as Project64. Here is an overview of recommended setups[[m64p]] and [[RMG]].
*'''General Use'''
**Video: GLideN64 or ParaLLEl-RDP
**RSP: RSP-HLE (for GLideN64) or ParaLLEl-RSP (for ParaLLEl-RDP)
**Either one of these combinations will enable you to play the vast majority of N64 games while having reasonable system requirements. GLideN64 is faster and has more enhancement options, but ParaLLEl-RDP is much more accurate to the real console. You can also use the CXD4 RSP with GLideN64 if you want, but be sure to set it to pass display lists to the graphics plugin in mupen64plus.cfg, else GLideN64 will switch to its LLE mode, which is not generally recommended to use.
*'''Best Performance'''
**Video: Glide64mk2
**RSP: cxd4-ssse3 or Parallel RSP**Glide64mk2 is just Glide64 with additional tweaks and enhancements for use with Mupen64Plus. cxd4 is one of HatCat's many names. The cxd4 plugin is a port of his RSP for zilmar-spec emulators. This appears to be the best combination for use with most games, though toasters may have performance issues.*'''Best Performance'''**Video: Rice**RSP: rsp-hleHLE**These are Mupen64Plus's default plugins. Rice's Video Glide64mk2 is a plugin used based on other N64 emulatorsGlide64 Final, most known for its support for hi-res [[Texture_Packs|texture packs]]and is named so as to differentiate it from the original, now enhanced for Mupen64plusobsolete fork of Glide64 that Mupen64Plus used at its inception. It is not quite up to Glide64GLideN64's level, but it does well enough for many games and is quite fast. The default RSP plugin appears to be just an enhanced port of vanilla Mupen64's RSP. Use this combination if you have a lower end PC and that can't handle the Commonly Used General Use setup. If your device STILL can't handle this setup, try the Rice video plugin, but expect many missing effects, glitches and incompatibilities.*'''Accuracy/Rogue Squadron'''**Video: z64 Angrylion Plus or angrylion's PerParaLLEl-Pixel RDP with OpenGL**RSP: cxd4CXD4-ssse3 or Parallel ParaLLEl-RSP**z64 is a port Any combination of z64gl, a low-level emulation video plugin for N64 emulatorsthese should result in very high accuracy. It comes with its own accompanying z64 RSPTechnically, but cxd4 (a port of HatCat's RSP Interpreter plugin) appears to be more the most accurate and very well optimized. This setup is capable of playing difficult games like Rogue Squadron Angrylion combined with very few graphical glitches CXD4, but the difference between these and faster than on Project64 the ParaLLEl plugins is almost negligible, while being a lot slower. Be sure to set the CPU core to bootPure Interpreter for even greater accuracy, along with plummeting framerates.
Note: In some cases the cfg file may not appear, in which case you may do this:
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