Hey You, Pikachu!

Hello,

"Hey You, Pikachu!" is a funny game in 'virtual pet' genre. It can run with emulators, but you need to have original N64 hardware, which comes with that game: Voice Recognition Unit (VRU) and microphone. Also you need an adapter to attach that device to PC. You can't control your pet without that device. However, you can load the game with emulator without VRU attached. When you run the game with GLideN64 in HLE mode, you noticed various graphics glitches:

olivieryuyu has analyzed microcode for this game and found, that it is custom microcode named F3DAM. It is modification of standard F3DEX2 microcode. Besides voice-recognition specific code, it has modifications related to texture coordinates calculation and fog calculation. These differences causes the issues you can see on screen shots above. olivieryuyu decoded these modifications, I implemented them. All microcode-specific problems  gone:

If you don't have VRU device, but want to see how GLideN64 emulates this game: Daniel Eck made nice two hours translation of gameplay on twitch:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/159911960


If you want to support my work:

• PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/SergeyLipskiy
• Yandex money: banner atop. 

"Star Wars - Rogue Squadron" crowdfunding campaign.

Hello,

Today top news is start of "Star Wars - Rogue Squadron" crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo:

https://igg.me/at/swrs

Few months ago olivieryuyu and me started to work on decoding and HLE implementation of this game ucode. We spent many time and we got several good results. The task is really hard. I need your support and encouragement to complete it. This demo video shows current state of the project:

We want it to run fast and look as good as in LLE mode or better.

I have a request for GLideN64 users: I don't have accounts in social networks. Please help me to spread information about this campaign.


Update: The campaign reached the goal. Currently $625 USD raised by 25 backers. Thanks to all backers for the support! Alpha-build of the project is sent to all backers. Since the campaign is already successful, I'm continuing to work on the task. I hope, next alpha will show much more graphics.

Update 2: We just finished implementation of microcode command, which generates all terrain polygons in that game. Alpha build is sent to backers. Demo video: