Home Again and Looking Good
2/5/12
Site is back up from my host emuxhaven, looks like they were performing some maintenance or upgrades. I'm pretty much finished converting all the pages to look correctly in firefox with 2D acceleration, including the tutorials. Zooming in and/or changing the default font settings may still break some things. I mentioned this before. I use a program to generate my webpages because it is really easy to make changes and saves me time. I probably have the ability to make a much fancier website that doesn't have these issues, but I like how it looks right now. The idea is to keep a simple design with a monochromatic "retro" look, based on an era when games had a tendency to display white and colored text against a black background. Borders and buttons use shades of greys, white, and black to resemble the colors of classic systems: Atari 2600, NES, Genesis, SNES, I could go on.

I have also updated the N64 tutorial with some nice changes. The plugin installation section needed much better info on getting the plugins and their required files installed correctly. I also fixed a few text errors, added some better pictures, improved some of the info in setting up N-Rage's controller plugin, and added a simple Mario 64 riddle at the bottom. I am also reworking the "Secrets and Glitches" section. This is a page I wanted to set up for years because I find glitches entertaining, I just never got around to doing it. It will probably evolve slowly over time. Last thing on my mind is my N64 Configuration List, which is badly in need of updates and changes. It's been in my heart to work on it for years, just never quite reached my will. It's a big project to undertake, especially since some of the plugins have come a long way and almost all games need to be retested and researched. And the page itself needs a simpler and more readable format. Some day...
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N64 Plugins Pack Updated + Site Updates and N64 Config List News
4/9/12
With my N64 Multiple Game Configuration List almost ready for a new official version number, it was time to update the N64 Plugins Packs to meet my higher standards and in preperation of its release. The only thing worth grabbing in this pack from the last update, is an updated configuration file for the z64 plugin. I have added several "per game settings" that can be found in my N64 config list, and improved some of the dialog explaining the options. This update to the N64 Plugins Pack does not add any new plugins, but gets rid of a few that aren't really needed anymore. It also has another "Required File" I found missing on a friends computer (msvcp100.dll), so I tossed it into the pack. The two documents that I typed up for and included in the N64 Plugins Pack have also been updated with better information, and can now be found on my Tutorials page. I have also fixed the music that plays on some of the main pages of this site, they have been broken for awhile now.

Also the next huge revision in the N64 Configuration List is just about finished. Every game has been retested since my list back in 2006. There are still quite a number of games that I wish to retest, still some polishing left to do, but for the most part it's just about done. I want to wait a while longer to make this huge change official, because there's still some stuff I want to finish with it. For now take part in the N64 Online Configuration List, try out some settings, and E-Mail me any issues you find!
N64 Online Configuration Update!!
2/12/12
I don't usually update my news this often, but I've been bored for the past couple of days and decided to finally update the N64 configuration list a bit. Although the information on it is pretty dated, I have given it a nice overhaul. It is now easier to navigate though the games by pressing a letter at the top of the page, instead of having to scroll endlessly trying to find the game you wish to configure. This in my eyes was a much needed change, and hopefully it will spark up new interest in getting it completed and up to date. It will probably be some time before it is in a good enough shape for a "downloadable" offline release, but I'm assuming that shouldn't be a problem for now if you are viewing this page. Many of the N64 emulators and plugins have gone though some significant changes over the years, so there should be a lot of new possibilites for better configurations, and some of the "non-working" games might actually be playable.
More N64 Config List Updates
3/6/12
Over the past couple of weeks I have been steadily updating the online N64 configuration list with new settings for many of the games. The goal I had for my previous list was only to provide any "known working" configuration that I could find. This time around I am more rigorous with my testing, only offering the configurations that give the best possible experience, the closest experience to the real Nintendo 64, or have the least amount of glitches. With most games that I have retested, I have added helpful little "Notes" or "Info" to provide even more useful information aside from the configuration itself. Apparently back in 2004, I must not have thought any form of audio issues were even issues at all, because many of the games that I have re-tested had audio problems with my old settings which I had failed to mention. My old N64 list was uninformative, and a lot of my old settings were inaccurate. I am happy to say my most recent changes have brought my list to a new level, and I will continue to improve it and provide more settings over the following weeks. I definitely plan on finishing it this time around.