Project64

What works

Program installs, can browse for ROMs, configure settings, loading a game to the title screen.

Configured keyboard-based controller input successfully.

Games tested (to the title screen at least):

• Donkey Kong 64 [loaded the DK Rap successfully]
• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - Master Quest [loads, takes a very, very long time (2-5 minutes)]
• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time v1.0 [loads, takes a very, very long time (2-5 minutes)]

Games tested with some gameplay:

• Yoshi's Story [loads, takes a very, very long time (2-5 minutes)] - Could load "Rail Lift" level in Story Mode successfully.

What does not

By default, you will get a blank screen when loading ROMs, error message stating:

Error:

CN64System::EmulationStarting: Exception Caught

File: N64System\N64System.cpp

Line: 680

Going to "File->End Emulation" may result in a hang or nothing happening

Switching ROMs may result in a hang or nothing happening

Workarounds

Attempted to run the workarounds described in another test where one runs "winetricks d9vk d3drm d3dx9" but this did not make a difference.

What did work was the following plugins (The others will not work):

Video:
Jabo's Direct3D8 1.7.0.57-ver5

Audio:
Jabo's DirectSound 1.7.0.7

ROMs load but they take a long time. I assume this is because of the OpenGL emulation via Rosetta.

What was not tested

Actually playing the games past the title screen other than Yoshi's Story.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU: Other
• Driver: proprietary

Additional Comments

This was all tested on M1 Mac Mini. Wine version is actually 5.0 as this is the only version that runs 32-bit apps on macOS Big Sur.

Rating this as Silver due to how slowly the ROMs load honestly. If you are willing to wait, things seem to be fine.