mupen64plus — console front-end for the Mupen64Plus N64 emulator
Synopsis
[parameters] romfileDescription
is a plugin-based N64 emulator for Linux/Unix, OSX, and Windows which is capable of accurately playing many games. Included are four MIPS R4300 CPU emulators, with dynamic recompilers for 32-bit x86 and 64-bit amd64 systems, and necessary plugins for audio, graphical rendering (RDP), signal co-processor (RSP), and input. There are several OpenGL video plugins available:- Rice, included with the distribution
- Glide64Mk2, included with the distribution
- Lk https://github.com/mupen64plus/mupen64plus-video-arachnoid Arachnoid
- Lk https://github.com/mupen64plus/mupen64plus-video-glide64 Glide64 (old)
- Lk https://github.com/mupen64plus/mupen64plus-video-z64 Z64 (must be used with the rsp-z64 plugin)
The most current documentation can be found at the project's Lk https://code.google.com/p/mupen64plus/ homepage .
The options are as follows:
- -h , --help
- Print help message.
- --noosd
- Disable onscreen display.
- --osd
- Enable onscreen display.
- --fullscreen
- Run emulator in fullscreen display mode.
- --windowed
- Run emulator in windowed display mode.
- --resolution res
- Display resolution (640×480, 800×600, 1024×768, etc)
- --nospeedlimit
- Disable core speed limiter. This should be used with the dummy audio plugin.
- --cheats cheat-spec
- Enable or list cheat codes for the given rom file.
- --corelib filepath
- Specifies a filename (optionally with a preceding directory path) to load a specific 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
- Specifies a plugin-spec to select a graphics plugin for use during emulation.
- --audio plugin-spec
- Specifies a plugin-spec to select an audio plugin for use during emulation.
- --input plugin-spec
- Specifies a plugin-spec to select an input plugin for use during emulation.
- --rsp plugin-spec
- Specifies a plugin-spec to select an RSP plugin for use during emulation.
- --emumode mode
-
Specifies which mode the emulator core should run in.
mode
should be set to one of the following numbers:
- 0
- Pure Interpreter
- 1
- Cached Interpreter
- 2
- Dynamic Recompiler (DynaRec)
- --testshots list
- Take screenshots at frames given in the comma-separated list then quit.
- --core-compare-send
- Use the core comparison debugging feature, in data sending mode. If the core was not compiled with support for the Core Comparison feature, then the emulator will exit with an error.
- --core-compare-recv
- Use the core comparison debugging feature, in data receiving mode. If the core was not compiled with support for the Core Comparison feature, then the emulator will exit with an error.
- --set param-spec
-
Set the value of a
configuration parameter.
This option may be used multiple times.
The format of
param-spec
is
Section-Name[Param-Name]=Value
- --nosaveoptions
- Do not save the given command-line options into the configuration file to use as defaults in the future.
- --verbose
- Print lots of information. Useful for debugging but unnecessary for normal use.
Plugin-spec
- (plugin-name)
- Filename (without path) of plugin to use. Application will search through several directories to look for a matching plugin name.
- (plugin-path)
- Full directory path and filename of plugin.
- `dummy'
- Use the dummy plugin.
Cheat-spec
- `list'
- Show all of the available cheat codes.
- `all'
- Enable all of the available cheat codes.
- (codelist)
- A comma separated list of cheat code numbers to enable.
Key commands
The following shortcut keys can be used during emulation. These are the default key values; nearly all of them may be set to different keys by editing the configuration file.- 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.
- 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 key is pressed).
- g or G
- Press GameShark button (if cheats are enabled).
- / or ?
- Advance one frame if paused.
- [
- Decrease volume.
- ]
- Increase volume.
Files
The default location for the 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/Copyright
Mupen64plus is © 2008-2013 The Mupen64plus TeamLicense GPLv2+, Lk https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html GNU GPL version 2 or later
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is no warranty to the extent permitted by law.
Bugs
To report bugs or make feature requests, use the Lk https://code.google.com/p/mupen64plus/issues/list issue tracker