Reporting in on current N64 emulation experience

[Bedwyr]

Just a short note for you guys for the record that my best experience so far has been the Parellel core for Retroarch. The Vulkan-based emulator is zippy enough that I've had few-to-no slowdowns and far better compatibility (so far). I have not tested it with major edge cases like SW Pod Race (may the developers' bacon burn) or Pilotwings 64, but a notable decline in visual artifacts and mis-displays. Nothing is going to fix the texture quality. It is and will remain a problem for texture heavy games like Dr. Mario 64. But at least it's not worse and sometimes better, especially if I don't use filtering like bilinear.

Mupen Plus is still a very good emulator, but I still find the Python frontend to be unreliable and the command-line of the core emulator cumbersome. The Retroarch core also displays more visual artifacts in games like Ogre Battle 64. Same with Project 64 2.x, but on a different mixture of games.

Keep in mind that I'm running on a Coffee Lake i7 and a fairly hefty GTX 1060, so YMMV, especially on performance limited systems like the Raspberry Pi.

[Lordmonkus]

Without debating the accuracy of the Parallel core compared to Mupen64 what is unreliable or cumbersome with M64p ? https://m64p.github.io/

There are no command line parameters required for that emulator at all in LB and the UI is "reliable" and easy to navigate.