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Testing N64 plugins/settings for screen capturing

With the 3rd party plugin Rice Video, one can temporarily swap the textures in a ROM image from an external source (BMP, PNG or JPEG) at higher resolutions (than was originally intended) to dramatically improve the game's graphical quality. The feature, which debuted in early 2005, has renewed interest in, and has helped the N64 emulation community as a whole. This is a feature to be added in Project64's future video plugin, which will be bundled with the 1.7 release. Project64 recommends using the Adaptoid to connect an original N64 controller to a USB port. Adaptoids, however were only produced for a short time by WishTech, which is no longer in business. This has led to the Adaptoid becoming a rare product. ZTNET has announced that they will be reproducing the Adaptoid.
Rice Video is an open source DirectX and OpenGL graphics plug-in for Nintendo 64 emulators that support the Zilmar-Schibo video plug-in specifications. The project became open source at version 6.1.1 beta 10 on March 30, 2006 when Rice posted the source code at the EmuTalk forums. Since version v6.1.1 beta 1, the plug-in has been able to load custom user-made textures that replace the original game art, which is currently what sets it apart from other publicly available plug-ins. Custom textures can be used to potentially improve the aesthetical quality of games by using textures that use higher resolutions than those that ship with the games, as well as allowing end users to implement their own graphical designs, thus being able to create a different graphical look for the game. It supports scaling filters such as 2xSaI, Scale2X or the HQXX (HQ2x/HQ3x/HQ4x) filters, and has many options available, making it a very customisable plug-in. It can also can be used to dump games' original textures in PNG, JPG and BMP formats, for the methods discussed above.