MUPEN64PLUS(6)

🌸 MUPEN64PLUS(6) 🌸

okay so hi bestie 💖 welcome to section 6 of the Games Manual, aka the mupen64plus page. buckle up, it's giving emulator energy and we're gonna get through all of it, no skips 🎀

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👑 NAME 👑

mupen64plus — it's the console front-end for the Mupen64Plus N64 emulator, periodt 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

mupen64plus [parameters] romfile

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so mupen64plus is a plugin-based N64 emulator for Linux/Unix, OSX, and Windows, and it can accurately play so many games, fr fr 🎮✨

packed inside are four MIPS R4300 CPU emulators, with dynamic recompilers for 32-bit x86 and 64-bit amd64 systems, plus all the necessary plugins for audio, graphical rendering (RDP), signal co-processor (RSP), and input. literally everything you need 🫶

and there are several OpenGL video plugins available, bestie:

• Rice, included with the distribution
• Glide64Mk2, included with the distribution
• Arachnoid: https://github.com/mupen64plus/mupen64plus-video-arachnoid
• Glide64: https://github.com/mupen64plus/mupen64plus-video-glide64 (old)
• Z64: https://github.com/mupen64plus/mupen64plus-video-z64 (must be used with the rsp-z64 plugin)

the most current documentation lives at the project's homepage: https://mupen64plus.org/ — go look, it's iconic 🌈

the options are as follows (yes, all of them, we're doing this 💪):

• -h, --help — prints the help message. that's it, that's the vibe 🙈
• --noosd — turns the onscreen display OFF.
• --osd — turns the onscreen display ON.
• --fullscreen — runs the emulator in fullscreen display mode. main character energy, full screen, no distractions 👑
• --windowed — runs the emulator in windowed display mode.
• --resolution res — the display resolution (like 640×480, 800×600, 1024×768, etc). pick your fave 💅
• --nospeedlimit — disables the core speed limiter. > ⚠️ bestie, this should be used with the dummy audio plugin. like, that's the whole note, don't skip it.
• --cheats cheat-spec — enable or list cheat codes for the given rom file. see the cheat-spec section below for the deets 🎀
• --corelib filepath — specifies a filename (optionally with a preceding directory path) to load a specific mupen64plus core library.
• --configdir directory — specifies a directory to look for the mupen64plus.cfg file. default is ~/.config/mupen64plus/.
• --datadir directory — specifies a directory to search for shared data files (fonts, cheat codes, .ini files). default is ${PREFIX}/share/mupen64plus/.
• --plugindir directory — specifies a directory to search for plugin files. default is ${PREFIX}/lib/mupen64plus/.
• --sshotdir directory — specifies a directory to save screenshots captured during gameplay. default is ~/.local/share/mupen64plus/screenshot/.
• --gfx plugin-spec — gives a plugin-spec to pick the graphics plugin used during emulation 🎨
• --audio plugin-spec — gives a plugin-spec to pick the audio plugin used during emulation 🔊
• --input plugin-spec — gives a plugin-spec to pick the input plugin used during emulation 🎮
• --rsp plugin-spec — gives a plugin-spec to pick the RSP plugin used during emulation.
• --emumode mode — specifies which mode the emulator core should run in. mode should be set to one of these numbers:
  1. 0 Pure Interpreter
  2. 1 Cached Interpreter
  3. 2 Dynamic Recompiler (DynaRec)
• --testshots list — takes screenshots at the frames given in the comma-separated list, then quits. 📸
• --core-compare-send — uses the core comparison debugging feature, in data sending mode. if the core wasn't compiled with support for the Core Comparison feature, the emulator exits with an error. 💀
• --core-compare-recv — uses the core comparison debugging feature, in data receiving mode. if the core wasn't compiled with support for the Core Comparison feature, the emulator exits with an error. 💀
• --set param-spec — sets the value of a mupen64plus configuration parameter. you can use this option multiple times, go off. the format of param-spec is:

Section-Name[Param-Name]=Value

• --nosaveoptions — does NOT save the given command-line options into the mupen64plus configuration file to use as defaults in the future. so it's a one-time thing, no committing 😌
• --verbose — prints lots of information. super useful for debugging but unnecessary for normal use. it's giving talkative 🗣️

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💅 plugin-spec 💅

• (plugin-name) — filename (without path) of the plugin to use. the application will search through several directories looking for a matching plugin name.
• (plugin-path) — full directory path and filename of the plugin.
• 'dummy' — use the dummy plugin. yes, the actual dummy. iconic.

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🎀 cheat-spec 🎀

• 'list' — shows all of the available cheat codes. window shopping ✨
• 'all' — enables all of the available cheat codes. no thoughts, just cheats.
• (codelist) — a comma separated list of cheat code numbers to enable.

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⌨️ KEY COMMANDS ⌨️

okay so these are the shortcut keys you can use during emulation. these are the default key values — nearly all of them can be set to different keys by editing the mupen64plus configuration file. so you're not stuck with these, but they're the defaults 🫶

• Escape — quit the emulator.
• 0–9 — select virtual 'slot' for save/load state.
• F5 — save emulator state to current slot. 💾
• F7 — load emulator state from current slot.
• F9 — reset emulator.
• F10 — slow down emulator speed by 5 percent.
• F11 — speed up emulator speed by 5 percent.
• F12 — take screenshot. 📸
• Alt-Enter — toggle fullscreen mode. > ⚠️ this is not supported on Windows, bestie, sorry 😭
• p or P — pause/continue emulation.
• m or M — mute/unmute sound. 🔇
• f or F — Fast Forward (playback at 250% normal speed as long as the key is pressed). zoom zoom 🔥
• g or G — press GameShark button (if cheats are enabled).
• / or ? — advance one frame if paused.
• [ — decrease volume.
• ] — increase volume.

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📁 FILES 📁

the default location for the mupen64plus configuration file is ~/.config/mupen64plus/.

the default location of the saved screenshots is ~/.local/share/mupen64plus/screenshot/.

the default location of the save states is ~/.local/share/mupen64plus/save/.

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🌟 AUTHORS 🌟

mupen64plus was originally started by Richard42 and nmn, and is based on Mupen64 (originally written by Hacktarux). legends only 💜

this man page was written by ebenblues, and updated by Richard42 and Anthony J. Bentley.

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⭐ COPYRIGHT ⭐

Mupen64plus is © 2008–2013 The Mupen64plus Team.

License GPLv2+, GNU GPL version 2 or later: https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html

this is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. there is no warranty, to the extent permitted by law. (say it with me: no warranty, no cap 🙈)

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🐛 BUGS 🐛

to report bugs or make feature requests, use the issue tracker: https://github.com/mupen64plus/mupen64plus-core/issues

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🫶 this little writeup came from Debian, dated September 20, 2013, and it lives in the manual as MUPEN64PLUS(6). slay, go play some N64 💖✨🎀