Posted: 4/13/2014 9:47 PM
Post subject: Is Virtural Console considered an official emulator?
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Fortranm
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It seems that Dolphin runs Paper Mario better than most (if not all) of current N64 emulators do. Is Virtual Console essentially an official emulator? If so, is it accurate? Or those VC games are just adapted WiiWares?
Posted: 4/14/2014 2:05 AM
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VC is an emulator made by nintendo. It's really inaccurate, but still better than pretty much any other n64 emulator, somehow.
Posted: 4/14/2014 2:28 AM
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RachelB wrote:
VC is an emulator made by nintendo. It's really inaccurate, but still better than pretty much any other n64 emulator, somehow.
I think they made specific hacks per N64 game (I do not have a source for this).
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Posted: 4/14/2014 9:28 AM
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There are certainly some patches, although it is possible to inject other roms in some of the emulators... What's really weird to me is that for OoT they didn't compile the newest version of the OoT source code, but took the already outdated 1.2 ROM (GC is newer) and patched some things on the fly, like symbols and blocks and the mirror shield. I'm asking myself if they maybe lost the OoT source code at some point. That would ofcourse be pretty bad, but it would fit. Even for OoT 3D it's not really sure if it isn't just a full OoT 1.2 or GC ROM running in a very specialised emulator. Most of it is certainly emulated, might actually be all of it... Would also explain why they were so crap at fixing things. Only so much you can do, when you can just patch things on the fly and can't rewrite the source.
Posted: 4/14/2014 9:48 AM
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EEssentia
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They did say they were implementing some bugs as if they were "spec" because it helped preserve the feeling of the original. http://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/#/3ds/zelda-ocarina-of-time/3/1
Posted: 4/24/2014 1:05 AM
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Slowking
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Yeah, they lied.
Posted: 4/24/2014 8:20 AM
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EEssentia
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Proof, please.
Posted: 4/24/2014 11:44 AM
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EEssentia wrote:
They did say they were implementing some bugs as if they were "spec" because it helped preserve the feeling of the original. http://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/#/3ds/zelda-ocarina-of-time/3/1
That's for the 3DS release, not the VC one.
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This seems to be competing for the "Worst looking TAS of 2011" Award.
Posted: 4/24/2014 11:45 AM
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EEssentia
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Oh, yes, that's true. I mixed those two up, didn't I? My bad.