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I just wanted to say a big thanks to whoever's been working on the Not64 Emulator, "Extrems". and that everyone should go try it!
Actually can't believe what I'm seeing with how well some things perform.
Did a bunch of tests to document what is working. Night and day from before.
No it's not perfect and the experience can be cursed, but most games were able to refrain from early crashes and I was able to find a few tweaks to make some things not as bad. Plenty games now run well or borderline enjoyably playable.

Notes and Configuration:
Some games didnt load or load properly the first time but then ran okay on a second attempt.
The default button config is unintuitive. I suggest replacing R and Z with Hard press R and L, and C up and right with Y and X unless its camera settings. Then Save as Slot 1 and also Save Configuration ->SD. Then you can load the config from slot 1 whenever you reset. Also be sure to swap the Pak setting if you want rumble.

IMPORTANT: Audio bugs are prominent across most games but after testing all of these games, I found out about turning off the scale pitch audio setting. So this gets rid of all the cursed audio problems, however It gets replaced by a glitchy sound, but only when the lag is really bad. The good definitely outweighs the bad there at least in most situations.
For the games with flicker (mario partys mainly), you can prevent it by turning on the FB Textures setting, but most of the time it will slow things down too much to be playable, so I hope you don't have epilepsy.
At the end of the list there are the games that can be played through the collectors disk injector and my results with those games.

List of games and my experience with them.

• -F-Zero X : Runs near perfect!
  -Super Smash Bros : Playable!!
  On another attempt didn't start and got code dump.
  -Pokemon stadium : Booted fast. Some missingno like images and text boxes, but I was able to navigate to mini games and play a few.
  -Mario Party 3 : Noticable improvement from before. Playable with some buggy navigation textures, flickering and sound bugs.
  *Like I said turning on FB Textures removes the flickering. It helps with some of the mini games but on the board it gets too laggy to keep on unfortunately.
  -Mario Party 1 : Flicker problem and map visual bug.
  -Mario Party 2 : Flicker, visual bug
  -WWF No Mercy : Runs like mario party with flicker and audio distortion. Fix with Settings.
  -Animal forest : english translation seemed to run okay, though it would get stuck when asking you questions. Going back and forth between the main menu would help it proceed. Getting to the main town crash on me though.
  -Banjo Kazooie : Improvement. Smooth cutscenes and overall. Missingno menu background and occasional audio issues.
  -Banjo Tooie : Pretty good.
  -Diddy Kong Racing : Got stuck booting but worked on second attempt and runs mostly smooth.
  -Wave Racer : Runs great!
  -Duck dodgers starring daffy duck : Seems to run pretty smooth but frame rate drop in main world.
  -Doom 64 : Runs okay
  -1080 Avalanche : Runs okay
  -Gex Enter the Gecko : Runs perfect.
  -Mortal Kombat Trilogy : Runs well. Not sure how to leave a match.
  -Kirby the Crystal shards : Heavier audio distortion during cutscenese but seems to run fine.
  -Star Wars : Racer : Runs decent with some lacking fps and maybe visual.
  -Clay Fighter Sculptor Cut : Runs Well.
  -Tom & Jerry Fists of Furry : Runs Well with some slight missingno effect. But Ai bugs into the ceiling. I've seen this issue on other emulators.
  -Paper Mario : Flicker and audio troubles, can fix to run cleaner but can be slower.
  -South Park Rally : Runs but bad fps.
  -Goldeneye : loads but too laggy to play.
  -Shadows of the Empire : Didn't make it past the menu.
  -Rogue Squadron : Didn't Load.
  -Yoshi's Story : Doesn't get far.
  -Batman Beyond : Smooth menu, missingno opening then crash.
  -Baseball games : Didn't start.
  -Bomberman 64 : Black screens prevent play.
  -Conkers Bad Fur Day : Super stuttery intro.
  -Cruise N USA : Didn't start.
  -Dr Mario : Inputs locked out of start screen with no music. Loaded fine on second attempt but in game visuals make unplayable.
  -DK 64 : "Needs expansion pak" screen.
  -Rayman 2 : Runs okay, Lots of bugged audio harder to fix. FPS drops.
  -Mario Tennis : Failed to load.
  -Perfect Dark : Runs but not playable.
  -Spacestation Silicon Valley : Freezes after start animation.
  -Toy Story 2 : Black start
  -Mario Golf : Black landscape when standing still during stroke.
  
  Just Play on injector
  -Zelda : Seems to run okay but it's already pretty clean through the injector AND you can still save on it because of the sram saving format of OoT! At least it was speculated that's why in this Reddit post https://www.reddit.com/r/Gamecube/comme ... emulation/.
  For Majora's, collectors disc is your best option.
  Star Fox : Didn't get past start menu, but runs great in injector. Just no save.
  Super Mario : Didn't start, but runs in injector.
  Mario Kart : Doesn't work, just use injector. Runs great through that, though I've seen visual bugs with multiplayer.

The GameCube port is in rougher shape than the Wii one.

Quasar wrote: ↑

Mon May 12, 2025 10:45 pm

...Star Fox : Didn't get past start menu, but runs great in injector. Just no save...

I wish it just didn't save... It's impossible to finish Zoness. When you deal the first damage to the boss, the game will crash. Always. And it doesn't matter which injector or ROM version.

And I think it's hard for anyone to finish Aquas without a cheat. The level is almost completely dark. In fact, all games have some level of Fog-related problems (?). Like the clock level in Super Mario 64, for example.