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Ok now we’re halfway there, all that’s left is setting up video & control settings, and getting online. Ok I’m assuming all has went well up to here and your plugins are the right ones. Now from the emulator main screen, in the main menu bar go to Options -> Video Settings. Now all you have to do is set everything to exactly how you see it here:
Now input is a little trickier. For shooting games like GoldenEye & Perfect Dark if you choose to use mouse and keyboard like I do, there is a easy way to set it up so that you move forward/backward and left and right with W, A, S, D, fire with the Left Mouse Button, Aim with the Right Mouse Button, reload/open doors with R/Space bar, and change weapons with scroll wheel up/middle mouse button. Just go to Options -> Input Settings, and if you selected DarkMan’s DInput 4.0b in Plugin settings, then you should see this. pic
Now what you want to do is select the Goldeneye 007 profile from the Profile drop-down menu. You will then see the following screen.
Everything is basically set up for you from the get go but what you might want to change is your look sensitivity on the right, select vertical look & targeting invert if you play like that, and add a key to “Next Weapon”. Just click where it says “none” and hit “R”. Then to change “Use”, click where it says “E” and press your middle mouse button, or the scroll wheel up. That’s pretty much it, if you want to have reload in space bar or somewhere else then just go to Profile Editor in the lower left corner and select GoldenEye 007 to edit the profile more in depth, here’s a pic of what to do and where to do it. pic here
If you choose to play with a gamepad/Xbox 360 Controller or just keyboard, read below.
Ok so here I will explain how to set up your controls (to some extent) if your playing with a gamepad or Xbox 360 Controller or whatever. I’m assuming you chose N-Rage’s Direct-Input8 v2 1.83 as a Input plugin in Plugins. So now go to Options -> Input Settings, and you will see this:
Ok so here I will explain how to set up your controls (to some extent) if your playing with a gamepad or Xbox 360 Controller or whatever. I’m assuming you chose N-Rage’s Direct-Input8 v2 1.83 as a Input plugin in Plugins. So now go to Options -> Input Settings, and you will see this:
First you want to select your gamepad, so go to the Devices tab and in the Device box, select your device from the drop-down menu. (pic) If you don’t see anything here it is either (A) because your PC hasn’t detected your gamepad or (
because the plugin won’t detect the gamepad. After you have selected it you may want to change the DeadZone to 5% or 10%, this will be the sensibility of the joysticks. After this all you have to do is go to the Controls tab, and map all the buttons, d-pad(digital pad) and analog stick. Leave the analog range at 66% and leave the “Real N64 Range” box checked.Last but not least, go to the Controller Pak tab and make SURE you uncheck the RawData box, as this is the major cause of desync(online problem). Select MemPak from the drop-down menu, then press Save and you’re done. You may want to try your controls out before heading online for play.
NOW the most important part, the online play. By now you should have set up your video settings, your input, and have the ROMS in your ROM list. Now let’s head into the battlefield. From the emulator main menu bar, go to Utilities-> SupraClient (NetPlay). This will bring up the online client where you connect to the server where you make your online game. If everything is ok then you should see this:
This is the main client window, here you enter your info like username, connection type(leave good unless playing Mario Kart where you should use LAN type). In the highlighted area, enter a username by which you will be recognized when you join the server. The rest of the stuff leave alone for now.
Next, click the “Servers” button to get to the server list, and right-click where it says, then hit refresh. pic here
After this you will get a list of the Kaillera servers available. The one where almost all the N64 emulation goes on and where you will almost always find GoldenEye players is in the server “Emularena Grounds – {Unit X}” server (IP: 69.90.34.14:27888). To login to this server, just copy that IP into the empty box above username, then click “Login”. Now the server will appear in your “Recent List” tab in the servers list next time you use it.
After you connect to the server, you should see something like this.
Heres is where all the fun takes place. The host of the game being played will create the game room here and other players will join him here. Notice the different emulators and games being played, you cannot play with them since you are not on that emulator and don’t worry, all the Project64k 0.13 players usually play is Super Smash Bros. which can be played in Mupen64++ 0.1.3.12 as well.
Now to create a room if you plan to host a game, click on “Create” and a list of your games sorted by letter will appear. Note that you must have the ROMS available in your ROM list before opening the client for them to appear here. Suppose you want to play GoldenEye, you would go to the “G” and select the ROM you want to play; in this case regular GoldenEye or GoldenEye (U) [!].
After you create the game, you will be taken to the game room, where the other players will join you to play. There is a chat section where you can chat with the players in the game room, or the chat on top which is the global server chat where all players in the server can chat. On the top right is a list of all the players in the server, and on the bottom right is a list of the players in the room.
When you have players and want to start a game, just click “Start” and the emulator will load up the game in all players’ computers. Then all of you will be in the game. If players desire to view the game in fullscreen after the game has started, just hit ALT+ENTER but make sure all players do it and all their computers are capable of playing well while in fullscreen. By this point, you are playing online hopefully with no desynch!
Now I’m going to run down a few problems that arise while playing online.
Lag is when the game freezes for a few seconds due to a player/players dropping “packets” (basically just not sending/receiving information) through their connection. The emulator attempts to catch all the players up but when they fail to land on the same spot in the game, desynch occurs and this is when you may see a player stop moving, playing strangely or slapping the air or walls in GoldenEye for example. This used to be a huge problem due to the emulators not being capable of syncing games right but now it is very easy to avoid. Just make sure all players are using the same video plugins or at least have a similar video setup, and are not going to experience a lot of lag due to their connections being used up.
Well I hope you have been able to get to this point without any problems, and hope to play with you soon!
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