Here’s a little project I’ve been working on for a bit:

What your looking at is Zelda: Ocarina of Time running at 1080p and wide screen and this is how to do it.

First you’ll need the following

1. A Nintendo 64 and whatever game you wish to play. You won’t actually be using them but it makes everything you’re about to do perfectly legal. If you don’t have one I’m sure some e-baying should turn up something that isn’t too pricey.

2. The Project 64 Emulator and a computer to run it one. You can find Project 64 here.

3: ROM files for whatever game your looking to play. You’re on your own finding those.

Technically you’re now good to go, next few steps are if you wish get the whole thing running on a HDTV with a control pad

4: A Controler of some kind. I’m using a Playstation 3 pad connected via USB. Drivers and instructions to make this work can be found here. Project 64 supports any windows compatible control pad or even just the keyboard.

5: A HDTV and whatever type of cable you can run from your pc to it. I’m using a HDMI port but most HDTVs will have a VGA port which is far more common on PCs.

Instructions:

1: Connect every thing together and get the TV running as second monitor, all the settings are under Control Panel>Display Settings. Set the TV as the primary monitor by ticking “Set this as my Main Monitor” while it is selected. Apply all settings changes.

2: Boot Project 64. Now we want to adjust the settings so it’ll render in High Def. Go to Options>Configure Graphics Plug In…

Here you choose what resolution to run at. For a 1080p set choose 1920×1080 or for 720p go with 1280×720

NOTE: Some games such as Banjo Kazooie and Goldeneye are pretty much unplayable when rendered in widescreen. For these change settings here to a 4:3 (fullscreen)  resolution.

Finally you want to un tick the “Hide Advanced Settings” Box and re-open Options>Configure Graphics Plug. Under the Advanced tab tick “Adjust game aspect ratio to match yours.” This will actually render everything in widescreen as opposed to just stretching the standard fullscreen view.

3: Apply the changes and exit the menu. Open whatever ROM you wish to play, hit ESC to go fullscreen and you’re done.

For the most parts it looks far superior to the orginal. Textures will still remain low however fogging is basically gone and the image is close to 5 times crisper. Here’s some full sized screenshots, click for full resolution:

Titles

Opening

Young Link

Dungeon