Sudo cp glide64_cache_extract /usr/local/bin Sudo mkdir /.local/share/mupen64plus/hires_texture On your raspberry pi, navigate to your home directory by typing: This is literally the hardest part of the whole process, and it's really not too bad. An amazing post by jax3rir on reddit gives a wonderful walkthrough of this process here, but I will type it below to make it convenient as well.
Our next step is to download the programs necessary to unpack these. You may have to use the mv command to get them there.
Go ahead and move these files to your home directory (~/) using Cyberduck. dat files (ZELDA MAJORA'S MASK_HIRESTEXTURE.dat and ZELDA MAJORA'S MASK_MEMORYCACHE.dat). Navigate to the website on your computer, download the. Majora's Mask and other Zelda games work better with the Rice video plugin. Some games work better with Rice, others with Glide. Glide) are different graphics rendering engines that can be chosen for the mupen64plus emulator. Make sure to download the one for "rice".
zip file that worked much better ( located here). I had some trouble extracting the 3rd zip from this site, so instead I found another site that had 1. For The Legend of Zelda Majora's Mask, I want to utilize is the Cellpack 2011 created by Djipi. The texture packs can be found here under the downloads section. These will need to be extracted to produce the final set of 1000's of. When the texture pack is downloaded, it is usually in the form of a. These are made by members of the community who have a lot of time and creativity to make some really amazing texture re-works. png images that replace the textures of the original game to give it a different look. Adding Hi-Res Texture Pack for Majora's Mask The title in all capital letters is the internal ROM name.Ĥ. Exit out of the video emulator on the keyboard by hitting escape, and near the top of the screen you should see the following:Ĭore: Goodname: Legend of Zelda, The - Majora's Mask (U) This will trigger a several lines of text to come across the screen, followed by the emulator booting over the top of this text. opt/retropie/emulators/mupen64plus/bin/mupen64plus.sh mupen64plus-video-rice The\ Legend\ of\ Zelda\ Majora\'s\ Mask.n64 This can be done by navigating to the directory where your n64 ROM is located The easiest way to find the name is to start the emulator and load the rom from the command line of the raspberry pi. Since I'm really interested in playing The Legend of Zelda Majora's Mask, I elected to use this as a test game, and so I dragged the rom file for this game which I renamed to "The Legend of Zelda Majora's Mask.n64" into this folder.
Once they are in this folder, Emulationstation search all the folders under ~/RetroPie/roms and will recognize that there is a game present and will update accordingly (Pretty nice!). Once you are connected to the Pi, you can simply drag and drop the ROMS into the n64 folder located at ~/RetroPie/roms/n64. Since they are small and the WiFi is set up now, it doesn't take to long to transfer this way.
In Cyberduck, click "Open Connection" type in the local IP address of the Raspberry Pi where RetroPie is installed (usually 192.168.1.x, where x is another number), username of the Pi (default for RetroPie Image = pi), password (default = raspberry), and port (use port 22) open up a SFTP to allow me to transfer some N64 ROMs to the Pi. To do this, open Cyberduck on another computer where your ROM is located. I use Cyberduck, as you can open up the raspberry pi folder directly and drag and drop the ROM files into the proper folder. This is accomplished using SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) which is just like using SSH to get into your pi (both use port:22) but it allows you to transfer files. Once you do have your ROMS, they are usually pretty small files, and so are conveniently transferred to the Pi using WiFi.