During the years of development for 1.6, Gent and by proxy others, had suggested supporting the capability of loading external content to spice up the emulation. It’s no secret I’m always short on time and patience for features -- the story finished with 1.6 not having this feature. As it turns out this was probably good as it gave me more time to fully understand things. External content sort of fell into two categories -- the textures themselves, as well as the actual geometry the game was rendering.
In this first part we’ll start by exploring how the texture dumping functionality works. Below you’ll see a screenshot for the ‘Advanced’ tab in the 1.7 graphics configuration dialog – notice the option that is checked for dumping textures. When this is checked as textures are loaded during play they will dumped, as 32-bit PNG files, as illustrated below for Super Mario 64.
Directory of C:\PJ64\textures-save\Super Mario 64 (U)
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In the next part of this retrospective I’ll talk about what exactly makes a bunch of textures a ‘pack’, texture compression, and how this all translates to users being able to select which pack they want to use for a particular game. Maybe a game screenshot or two -- who knows!
AND FRUSTRATING 
), if the add-ons could also supersede the emulation of the PJ64 Core. Like accurate timings, or adjustable timings for general use on any computer spec's. I mean i have a lot of complex ideas for ya. I know in some N64 games, there is the problem of objects being drawn to closely to the screen, or the object being drawn within the viewing point, so that u are in the "object", so to speak, but I heard this is resolved in DirectX 10? I heard DX10 has a lot of improvements, and perhaps PJ64 could benefit. Jabo's DX8 1.6 graphic plugin is great, make no mistake, but i guess since it seems like we are aiming for perfection, u have to look beyond. (Like u guys are already doing 
) So i guess im still unclear bout texture dumping, maybe Part 2 will resolve. I Contact Jabo or Smiff, or Zilmar, i may have something useful.... 
im stuck on how 2 get more games how do i do it ??? 
ce darcu 
