N64 Emulator Keyboard Controls

Release 2.6.5 - Golden Eye - Better controls for N64. Franco Catrin March 26, 2017 Development. One of our targets has been make things as simple as possible, this included making the gamepad configurations less painful providing a centralized mechanism: Set up your controller once and for all.

Mupen64Plus is a cross-platform N64 emulator that works with many ROMs that are publically available. It is maintained by richard42 and was originally based off of mupen64, created by Hacktarux.

Mupen64Plus runs in the command line by default. Install a frontend like mupen64plus-qt or M64Py to use mupen64plus with a GUI.

Installation

or to install Mupen64Plus-Qt:

or to install M64Py:

Here's how you set up the keys to replicate the N64's button layout, if you somehow don't have a proper USB joypad: Control stick: Numpad/Arrow Keys/JKLI/whatever on the right side of the keyboard Z: Left Shift/Left CTRL R: Space A, B, C-buttons: Anywhere in the WASD region, I prefer 2QWE for the corresponding C-buttons and DS for AB.
N64: Dpads PC: Arrow keys 2. N64: Analong stick PC: Arrow keys 3. N64: Start button PC: Enter 4. N64: B PC: C on keyboard 5. N64: A PC: X on keyboard.
James Bond 007: Goldeneye Project N64 1.6 Mouse and Keyboard b. Project N64 1.6 Mouse and Keyboard for Turok c. Project N64 1 6 Super Mario 64 Key Configuration d. Project N64 Star Wars Shadows of the Empire Flight Control Configuration with Mouse and Keyboard Link: Link: Link: Link.

Usage

Just run the command with a path to the ROM:

Any options you pass once will be saved in the configuration and won't need to be repeated:

Key Commands

Escape	Quit the emulator
0-9	Select virtual 'slot' for save/load state (F5 and F7) commands
F5	Save emulator state
F7	Load emulator state
F9	Reset emulator
F10	slow down emulator by 5%
F11	speed up emulator by 5%
F12	take screenshot
Alt-Enter	Toggle between windowed and fullscreen
p or P	Pause on/off
m or M	Mute/unmute sound
g or G	Press 'Game Shark' button (only if cheats are enabled)
/ or ?	single frame advance while paused
F	Fast Forward (playback at 250% normal speed while F key is pressed)
[	Decrease volume
]	Increase volume

Set Custom Controls

Open the ~/.config/mupen64plus/mupen64plus.cfg file with a text editor and navigate to the '[Input-SDL-ControlX]' section (X being the N64 controller port to configure, starting at 1).

First, change mode = 2 to mode = 0 to override the autoconfiguration.

If you're using a joystick:

Install jstest-gtk(or joystick for jstest in command-line). This is required to view button presses in real-time with an interface.

Change the device value to the joystick index (/dev/input/jsX). Now, run jstest-gtk (or jstest /dev/input/jsX) and press buttons on the controller. Edit the fields in the file that correspond with the buttons you activate (for instance, Start = 'button(9)', 9 is the number on jstest-gtk that lights up when pressing the middle button). Buttons can be set to an axis ID and direction as well (usually for C-buttons).

If you're using a keyboard:

Download this fileto get the corresponding key IDs from their names. Edit each button field in the section, providing a name = 'key(X)', where X is the key ID found in the downloaded file.

If you ever need to reset the controls back to their autoconfigured state, change mode = 0 back to mode = 2 and restart the emulator.