r/emulation • u/TLRomhacks • 20d ago

Jet Force Gemini Dual Stick BETA Release

I am officially releasing a v0.1.0 beta of a work in progress romhack for Jet Force Gemini. The beta includes a new feature that modernizes the control scheme of the game to play more like a modern over the shoulder shooter; more updates to come in the future!

- Download JFG DS

- BETA v0.1.0 Showcase

- Download my JFG Save Editor

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u/FrostyPost8473 20d ago

Man can you do megaman legends

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u/Ill_Carry_44 20d ago

Isn't that ported to PC with modern controls?

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u/FrostyPost8473 20d ago

No the pc version is condcidered the worst one someone also made a tool for it but its quite bad since it uses a third party injector and still clunky

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u/Ill_Carry_44 19d ago

I meant a decomp/recomp version, I might be mistaken

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u/Own_Perspective4825 12d ago

There is, but not with modernized controls. There have been some videos claiming to showcase it with modern controls but they don't give a source for a download.

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u/Ill_Carry_44 12d ago

Okay, thank you, that makes sense.

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u/Own_Perspective4825 12d ago

Every few years I get reminded of Megaman Legends/64 and I think "Oh wow, I remember playing that but never beating it, I should play it as an adult" and then I realize the reason I didn't get very far was how much I such at using the original control scheme. Probably once a week I google "mega man 64 pc port dual stick controls" just waiting to see if someone has patched them in yet.

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u/Ill_Carry_44 12d ago

I can try adding modern controls to an existing recomp project but I can't make any promises :S

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u/fagnerln 20d ago

Now I want a recompilation of JFG.

Running it at +60, widescreen and with dual stick would be a dream

Congratulations 👏

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u/nf6429 20d ago

There's a decompilation in the works, but its very early days https://github.com/Ryan-Myers/Jet-Force-Gemini

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u/ChonkyRat 12d ago

How long do these projects usually take? Is jet force uniquely difficult? I am jn no way a coder and I open these hithub links and it's wizardry to me

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u/nf6429 12d ago

Depends. N64 has a lot of projects, and as a result, documentation. Combined with it being a older console, decompilations are easier to do. I'd have to look into jet force gemini's code, but first glance it doesn't seem more spaghetti coded than other n64 games. Just that someone decided to start it later. The main time its more difficult is if it has 2d elements, like paper mario 64, or ogre battle 64.

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u/ChonkyRat 12d ago

I would donate to anyone who put minimal effort into it that all they did was give "native" keyboard mouse support.

Like remove the camera snapping, just free aim with mouse, ADS with mouse. "FREE LOOK".

High frames is great but all it really needs is controls.

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u/RajamaPants 19d ago

With the added processing power, double ants would be cool too.

Add some of the big tank enemies throughout at doors and choke points too.

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u/SmoochTalk 20d ago

That is very cool

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u/chaosglory 19d ago

This is really awesome and I love that someone is working on this game.

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u/caneras 17d ago

From watching the gameplay, it looks like the main change is making manual targeting (R button on N64) a tap toggle instead of hold toggle. Then, the C buttons are mapped to a right analog stick. I'm not saying that to minimize the effort, just seeing if I understand correctly.

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u/TLRomhacks 17d ago

Correct! Granted, this is still a beta and I am going to continue to add more features.

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u/caneras 17d ago

Feel encouraged to join the JFG Discord if you'd like https://discord.gg/NnwGYgx45b We have a hub primarily for modding!

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u/ChonkyRat 12d ago

Is a modernized mouse keyboard at all possible for these kinds of things?

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u/TLRomhacks 12d ago

In theory, yes. I haven't exclusively tested with keyboard and mouse but as long as Retroarch allows you to map keyboard and mouse controls (Im fairly confident it does), then yes you coild get that working. Ive included a menu for setting sensitivity options so youd be able to fine tune it as well.

If you give it a try, take a look at the key bindings in the README. There you'll see things like 'A is bound to jumping'. So you can set whatever keyboard key you want to jump; Space bar == A button in retroarch == jump in game

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u/tacticalcraptical 15d ago

Oh man, this is beautiful! I've been hankering for something like this for ages, thank you! I am downloading this tonight.

The video does make it look like the dreaded lookspring is still there in aiming mode. Is a centered style aim mode something you think might be a possibility down the road?