Is it possible to disable anti-aliasing in N64 games via GameShark cheats?

Coury and I from My Life in Gaming are looking to soon produce our short little episode on this topic. I would really like for there to be good organized resources to direct people to before the episode is done. Is anyone working on it? I know there's that Poregon site for the patches, but I'd also like a good list of GameShark codes to be available as well. If needed, it would be worth delaying the episode a little bit so that the resources would be available when it releases.

Just now seeing this about the widescreen codes too. Is it worth looking into more? I LOVE GoldenEye's built-in widescreen mode. But I'm skeptical about other games, because I would imagine there's a lot of pop-in pop-out at the edges (forcing GameCube to widescreen tends to do this).

Any experts here who would be good consultants for fact-checking our script? We've already got it mostly written.

 

The extensions can be misleading, typically a z64 file is big endian while an n64 file is little endian (and v64 is byteswapped), but there are lots of roms floating around that don't follow these "rules". I think people liked renaming their z64/v64 files to n64 as it seemed like a more appropriate extension for N64 roms. Anyway unless your patcher is endian aware, patches have to be applied to a rom in the same format as the one the patch was created from.

 

I have been very busy lately. I am hoping to have time to spare this weekend.

I have been upgrading the site and will have a repository of all the Gameshark codes online soon.

 

[oops double post]

 

btw. it seems like you can get rid of the dither, if you clock out every second "random" pixel with a replacement RGB-DAC.
sharper rgb anyone?

the thread is in german
but even if you can't read it, you can look at the cmp pictures. ^^

N64 - Antialiasing & Co. können nun via GameShark ausgeschaltet werden

 

That is impressive. I'd love to see this in action.

 

This is a hardware mod? Does it work alongside the "old style" simple RGB mod and/or the Tim Worthington mod? I can't quite get a sense for what it's doing from the pictures.

 

I'm not sure if this has been posted here already, but you can apparently upgrade the firmware on N64 Gameshark's:

http://micro-64.com/features/gsrepair1.shtml

 

I've used this many times to fix gamesharks for friends.

 

I might be wrong, but from what I understand a ''reprogramming'' of the XC9536XL CPLD from Tim's RGB board could do this.

I sent an email to Tim.

 

Or just ask ikari_01 for the firmware update and reflash your RGB Board with a cheap icsp programmer. ^^
I'm not quite sure how this is handling hi-res games, but if it's allright it would be superior over the oldschool NTSC RGB-Mod or NUS-001(FRA) Mod.

 

Pretty cool. I wonder if any revisions or regions have compatibility issues, I'd hate to brick say a less common Japanese edition if I had one.

 

I have a few more GameShark codes, which haven't been posted yet:

Buck Bumble (PAL):
8002EC4D 0000
8002EC7D 0000
8002EC4E 0032
8002EC7E 0032

Battletanx Global Assault (PAL):
push GS button to activate code during a mission
881228BE 0032
881228EE 0032

Micro Machines (US):
picture flickers when using a GameShark, but it's fine when using a Xplorer64.
800990CC 0000
800990CE 3216
800990FC 0000
800990FE 3216

Daikatana (PAL):
does only work when Code Generator is active
F118FB80 2400 (M)
801ADF5D 0000
801ADF8D 0000
801ADF5E 0032
801ADF8E 0032

IPL4ROM (for Blue Debug 64DD):
802949AD 0000
802949DD 0000
802949AE 0032
802949DE 0032

IPLROM (Retail 64DD):
802955BD 0000
802955ED 0000
802955BE 0032
802955EE 0032

If anyone knows how to run IPLROM on an Everdrive64, please let me know. I couldn't run it with Alt64.

 

anybody have a conkers bad fur day gs code? usa if available or can anyone show me where to find the code? thank you!

 

Sorry it took so long, but I finally got around to creating a shared document for everyone to add their confirmed GS codes to. It's viewable to everyone and I'll grant edit access to anyone who wants to add codes:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GDR4BVrXAXnn7C0xCWITB5o4RaL4jjFIJmJKrmzpEoo/edit?usp=sharing

Also, I created a page dedicated to N64 de-blur. I'll try and always keep it current with all developments, but it's currently a work-in-progress, so I'd love any feedback about what should be added: http://retrorgb.com/n64blur.html

 

You have one of my favorite website. its a wonderful resource. Really looking forward to more updates on this.

 

patcher reupload
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changelog:
0.3.1:
fix help screen -o for output instead -i (pretty obvious that is was just a typo ^^)
0.3.2:
divot was set by --divot-off/on instead of -di-off/on like it's written on the help screen

u64aap032_linux.zip
http://b.1339.cf/dcywrxr.zip

u64aap032_win32.zip
http://b.1339.cf/sqhaeln.zip

 

Okay, I've updated the spreadsheet with every code posted in this thread (credit given). I also added saturnu's patcher to the page.

How's it looking so far?: http://retrorgb.com/n64blur.html

 

Bookmarked !

 

Hey everyone! Just wanted to share that we released our video on this subject this afternoon. Thanks so much for everyone here and the help you provided in making this episode possible! You all are doing cool things here!