r/MiyooMini

Hello fellow gamers!

I just released Mario Kart 64 for the Miyoo Mini! This one took me a while to get optimized enough for our beloved but not very powerful Miyoo Mini. Some things had to be sacrificed, like texture filtering on some structures and sprites, but I think it still looks beautiful on this screen.

• Native 640x480 60 FPS (Reddit reduces the video to 30 FPS), with dynamic resolution (but barely noticeable)
• No overclock
• Software renderer on both CPU cores
• Smooth controls: steering ramps up while held
• Full sound (music and effects)
• Records, options and ghosts are saved

Installation:

See the README at the Repository for installation and controls then get the files from the Releases page. Extract the zip to the root of your SD card, put your own legitimate copy of Mario Kart 64 (USA) ROM (.z64, .n64, .v64 or .zip) into Roms/PORTS/Games/MarioKart64/ and start the game. The first start builds the game data from the ROM (about five minutes, only once).

Known bugs:

• Occasionally, the second screen showing your competitors after the race finishes briefly flashes with random rendering artifacts.
• On the Award Ceremony screen, the floor disappears depending on the camera angle and position.
• 3 tracks are still missing filtering on their ground textures.

All known bugs should be fixed in the next release, so check the Repository for updates!

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Also, if you have downloaded any of my previous ports, please check for updates! All known bugs are fixed + several new features + performance updates:

• Fallout
• Fallout 2
• 3D Pinball Space Cadet
• Tomb Raider
• Hexen II
• SkiFree

Mario Kart 64 will soon be available on the Miyoo Mini Ports collection, along with these.

This is the first release of the game, so please report it if you find any bugs!

Bit of awkward timing: u/Kooky-Minimum-200 just released a great Mario Kart 64 port, and I’ve been working on these for the last few weeks. Not trying to step on anyone’s launch, sorry! Go check theirs out too.

These are native ports built from the N64 decompilation projects, not emulation, and they now run on the Miyoo Mini:

Diddy Kong Racing, Ocarina of Time, GoldenEye 007, F-Zero X, Star Fox 64, Paper Mario, Super Smash Bros., Super Mario 64 and Mario Kart 64.

• Works on Onion, stock, MinUI, Allium and spruce
• One zip per game, and it shows up in Onion’s Games tab too
• Each game runs at its original N64 frame rate
• Save states, plus resume after power off

You’ll need your own ROM (none included). Put it in the game’s folder as rom.z64, and the first start builds what it needs.

Downloads, plus which ROM each game needs: https://miyoo-n64.pages.dev

Star Fox, Paper Mario, Smash and Mario 64 are the newest, so let me know if you hit any bugs and I’ll jump on them.

Hope you enjoy :)

Playing Pokémon Unbound while on vacation. I'm around 6h in and having a blast. Can't remember the last time I enjoyed a Pokémon game!

I’ve been working on my overlay to make it look more like an actual Pocket.

It now features subtle light reflections, the 2-pixel bezel around the LCD display, white noise, and more realistic lettering (even though it's smaller than the original).

I’m not releasing it yet, but I wanted to share a preview. Any feedback or tips on how to improve it even further would be very appreciated.

Recently purchased a second hand V4 and decided to give it a proper go with Onion OS and Box Art.

After getting nearly everything setup and waiting a few hours for Screen Scraper to gather all of the Box Art/Images needed, it looks like ALL of the PNG File names are followed by a long assortment of letters and numbers. Because of this, they do not match the ROM file names, which is causing no box art to show on the device.

I've tested removing the assortment of numbers and letters, and this does correct the issue, but manually changing over 6000 file names is not something I plan to do.

Has anyone else dealt with this, or have any suggestions on how to correct? I've attached screenshots to better display what I'm dealing with.

Thanks!

• UPDATE * - SOLVED!

Took a few hours of tinkering, but I figured it out! I'll list the Skraper settings that I used below.

GAMES & FRONT-END

• Front- End is set to Recalbox
• Make sure that Games/Roms folder name matches SD card folder name. This IS case sensitive.

GAME LIST

• Game list fullpath - DELETE ALL TEXT HERE. MAKE SURE THIS IS NOT LINKED TO ANY FOLDER.

METADATA

• Default settings

MEDIA

• Output folder set to %ROMROOTFOLDER%\Imgs *First letter in "Imgs" is a capital "i"
• Resize width to 250, Resize height to 360, Keep image ratio
• NO LINK. STORE ONE MEDIA PER GAME/ICON This setting seemed to be most important

I know within the emulation community there is a habit of spending more time finding and downloading games than actually playing. And I’ve definitely been there but after getting all the games I could possibly want I am proud to say that I played and finished FF7, it took around 40 hours and it was one of my favorite gaming experiences I’ve had. Not only is this game absolutely fantastic in every way but it also helped me a lot with my attention span and saved me from doom scrolling. I just wanted to share this because one I’m proud of myself and also wanted to inspire anyone who can’t seem to stay interested in a game. If you play something and you’re not into it then that’s fine don’t play it haha, but if you find something that hooks you even just a little bit, just finish it! Don’t get anymore games, un favorite everything on your device and just have that one game to go back to. Next up for me is Chrono trigger! I’m hyped to finish this one:)

I wanted to go for the classic Teal gameboy color style, and I added a ring on the back for better handling. What do you guys think?