It’s been a busy month (If you missed it, TOTK has been released) and I haven’t found much time to focus on any of my side projects. I even failed my goal of posting at least one blog post every 2 weeks.

The little bit of time I did have I used to fix some wrongly implemented trophies on 1080 Snowboarding and updated my KEmulation project which now shares the entire UI code between Android, desktop and iOS too.

I’ve been thinking about just releasing the current state of the N64 trophy system and let people try it out and give feedback.

Hey, N64 fans! I have a small update regarding the N64 Trophy app. The app is almost ready for release, and I’m just finishing up a few last tasks before I can share it with you.

One of the exciting updates is that the app can now locate ROMs that are saved in subdirectories. This means that all your games will be detected even the ones burried deep in a subdirectory.

In addition, I’ve given the app’s user interface a fresh new look.

While we’re getting close to release, there are still a few trophies left to implement for Mario 64, Super Smash Bros, and Zelda OOT.

Stay tuned for the release date announcement, and get ready to start unlocking those trophies!

I’m happy to say that I’ve got the minimum viable product (MVP) for the trophy app all set. But, I still need to finish up a few things before it’s completely good to go. This includes being able to detect N64 games even if they’re not in the root folder, figuring out all the trophies for the current set of games, and tweaking the user interface.

Don’t worry, the trophy app MVP will still be pretty sweet. It’ll automatically find your games and give you three types of trophies: Bronze, Silver, and Gold (with plans for Platinum later on). Plus, when it launches, it’ll already support some classic games like 1080 Snowboarding (US), Mario Kart 64 (US), Super Mario 64 (US), Super Smash Bros (US), and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (US).

I have to confess, the screenshots in my previous post where made by reading embedded save data in the rom instead of the Everdrive SD card. But this has now been fixed, the program now detects installed games automatically by scanning the SD card for supported games (root dir only for now).

Here is a screenshot of the detection in action. Can you spot the newly supported game hint?

If you’ve been wondering why I was researching N64 save file formats. It’s not because I want to cheat my way to the end of the game (where is the fun in that?). But because I’ve always been a fan of Achievements and Trophies as seen on the Xbox and Playstation. They add some insentive to finish a game for me and shows a nice overview of which games I completed and liked enough to spend my time on.

Whenever I play on a retro console (or even the Nintendo Switch) I feel like there is something missing. I still finish most of the Nintendo games (they make great quality games that deserve to be completed), but it would be nice to see these stats in an overview.

I’ve recently bought an Everdrive 64 X7 and started developing an N64 rom to do just that. Add a Trophy system to N64 games!

Of-course there are some limitations, I am not able to read the state of the game when it’s running let alone inject any graphics, so I’ve taken a different approach. The Everdrive stores save games on the SD card which can then be read by custom roms. By checking the state of the save game I am able to verify if the player performed a given task or reached a milestone in the game.

Take a little sneak peek at the current development screenshots:

The overview screen that displays all supported games and their status

The game details screen that displays the trophies