Alpha Release of Full Speed Nintendo 64 Emulator on the Raspberry Pi

Posted on October 20, 2013 by SSilver2k2

Hey All,

Mupen64plus has been updated and now plays some N64 games at almost full speed!

Welshy from the Raspberry Pi forums has written up a great guide on how to compile it and run it, as well as how the settings work. You can download the compiled binaries here:

http://sheasilverman.com/rpi/raspbian/mupen64plus-rpi.zip

To install and run:

unzip the files by typing unzip mupen64plus-rpi-zip
cd mupen64plus-rpi
cd test
./mupen64plus < /path/to/rom/files >

This is a total alpha build, and is very rough around the edges, but the progress is awesome, and I am going to put this into PiMAME as a test.

Enjoy everyone!

-Shea

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Conno123009 on October 21, 2013 at 1:11 am said:

Thanks Shea, you are a legend 🙂

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- Martin on November 11, 2013 at 2:54 pm said:
  
  Can somebody please help me I keep getting .. ./mupen64plus: Premission denied
  
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  - SSilver2k2 on November 13, 2013 at 9:07 pm said:
    
    in the mupen directory, type chmod +x mupen64plus.
    
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Kevin on November 13, 2013 at 4:31 am said:

Hi Shea,

which OS I need on my raspi for that emulator?

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- SSilver2k2 on November 13, 2013 at 9:07 pm said:
  
  Either Raspbian, or PiMAME which is built on top of PiMAME
  
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Michael on December 22, 2013 at 8:35 am said:

I´m getting messages about audio buffer underruns all the time. The sound is very glitchy and the games do not respond. Any suggestions?

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- SSilver2k2 on December 25, 2013 at 2:27 pm said:
  
  Try overclocking. It did help a little.
  
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Colm on February 27, 2014 at 6:51 am said:

is there anyway to swap the N64 emulator that comes with RetroPie for this emulator?

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franky on March 28, 2014 at 6:20 pm said:

Controller dosent work!
My keyboard and my controller dont work. I have tried to fix, but they still dont work.
I found this solution http://code.google.com/p/mupen64plus/wiki/ControllerSetup, but no succes.
mupen64plus.cfg:
[Input-SDL-Control1]

# Mupen64Plus SDL Input Plugin config parameter version number. Please don’t change this version number.
version = 2
# Controller configuration mode: 0=Fully Manual, 1=Auto with named SDL Device, 2=Fully automatic
mode = 1
# Specifies which joystick is bound to this controller: -1=No joystick, 0 or more= SDL Joystick number
device = 1
# SDL joystick name (or Keyboard)
name = “Keyboard”
# Specifies whether this controller is ‘plugged in’ to the simulated N64
plugged = True
# Specifies which type of expansion pak is in the controller: 1=None, 2=Mem pak, 5=Rumble pak
plugin = 1
# If True, then mouse buttons may be used with this controller
mouse = False
# Scaling factor for mouse movements. For X, Y axes.
MouseSensitivity = “2.00,2.00”
# The minimum absolute value of the SDL analog joystick axis to move the N64 controller axis value from 0. For X, Y axes.
AnalogDeadzone = “4096,4096”
# An absolute value of the SDL joystick axis >= AnalogPeak will saturate the N64 controller axis value (at 80). For X, Y axes. For each axis, this must be greater than the corresponding AnalogDeadzone value
AnalogPeak = “32768,32768”
# Digital button configuration mappings
DPad R = “key(d)”
DPad L = “key(a)”
DPad D = “key(s)”
DPad U = “key(w)”
Start = “key(q)”
Z Trig = “key(j)”
B Button = “key(k)”
A Button = “key(l)”
C Button R = “key(108)”
C Button L = “key(106)”
C Button D = “key(107)”
C Button U = “key(105)”
R Trig = “key(99)”
L Trig = “key(120)”
Mempak switch = “key(44)”
Rumblepak switch = “key(46)”
# Analog axis configuration mappings
X Axis = “key(276,275)”
Y Axis = “key(273,274)”

[Input-SDL-Control2]

# Mupen64Plus SDL Input Plugin config parameter version number. Please don’t change this version number.
version = 2
# Controller configuration mode: 0=Fully Manual, 1=Auto with named SDL Device, 2=Fully automatic
mode = 1
# Specifies which joystick is bound to this controller: -1=No joystick, 0 or more= SDL Joystick number
device = 2
# SDL joystick name (or Keyboard)
name = “logitech wingman”
# Specifies whether this controller is ‘plugged in’ to the simulated N64
plugged = False
# Specifies which type of expansion pak is in the controller: 1=None, 2=Mem pak, 5=Rumble pak
plugin = 1
# If True, then mouse buttons may be used with this controller
mouse = False
# Scaling factor for mouse movements. For X, Y axes.
MouseSensitivity = “2.00,2.00”
# The minimum absolute value of the SDL analog joystick axis to move the N64 controller axis value from 0. For X, Y axes.
AnalogDeadzone = “4096,4096”
# An absolute value of the SDL joystick axis >= AnalogPeak will saturate the N64 controller axis value (at 80). For X, Y axes. For each axis, this must be greater than the corresponding AnalogDeadzone value
AnalogPeak = “32768,32768”
# Digital button configuration mappings
DPad R = hat(0 Right)
DPad L = hat(0 Left)
DPad D = hat(0 Down)
DPad U = hat(0 Up)
Start = button(x)
Z Trig = button(a)
B Button = button(b)
A Button = button(c)
C Button R = axis(3+)
C Button L = axis(3-)
C Button D = axis(2+)
C Button U = axis(2-)
R Trig = button(y)
L Trig = button(c)
Mempak switch =
Rumblepak switch =
X Axis = axis(0-,0+)
Y Axis = axis(1-,1+)
InputAutoCfg.ini:
[Input-SDL-Control1]
plugged = True
pluggin = 2
mouse = false
DPad R = “key(d)”
DPad L = “key(a)”
DPad D = “key(s)”
DPad U = “key(w)”
Start = “key(q)”
Z Trig = “key(j)”
B Button = “key(k)”
A Button = “key(l)”
C Button R = “key(108)”
C Button L = “key(106)”
C Button D = “key(107)”
C Button U = “key(105)”
R Trig = “key(99)”
L Trig = “key(120)”
Mempak switch = “key(44)”
Rumblepak switch = “key(46)”
# Analog axis configuration mappings
X Axis = “key(276,275)”
Y Axis = “key(273,274)”

[Input-SDL-Control2]
plugged = True
plugin = 2
mouse = False
AnalogDeadzone = 4096,4096
AnalogPeak = 32768,32768
DPad R = hat(0 Right)
DPad L = hat(0 Left)
DPad D = hat(0 Down)
DPad U = hat(0 Up)
Start = button(9)
Z Trig = button(7)
B Button = button(0)
A Button = button(2)
C Button R = axis(3+)
C Button L = axis(3-)
C Button D = axis(2+)
C Button U = axis(2-)
R Trig = button(6)
L Trig = button(4)
Mempak switch =
Rumblepak switch =
X Axis = axis(0-,0+)
Y Axis = axis(1-,1+)

Can you help me???

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Dan on April 3, 2014 at 7:44 pm said:

Any ideas for this? I tried moving the library file to /usr/local/lib, but still showing the same error about missing a core library…

UI-Console Error: dlopen(‘./libmupen64plus.so.2’) failed: libGLU.so.1: cannot op en shared object file: No such file or directory
UI-Console Error: AttachCoreLib() Error: failed to find Mupen64Plus Core library

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- aunali1 on April 19, 2014 at 6:03 pm said:
  
  Type this into the terminal:
  
  sudo apt-get install libglu1-mesa
  
  That should fix the missing library error.
  
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