New N64 emulator a part of RetroPie - Please test

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/21093/lr-mupen64plus-next-experimental-scriptmodule-for-testing

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A new N64 emulator has been added officially to the retropie setup script under experimental packages. This emulator offers the advantages of the current GlideN64 video plugin and retroarch. Game compatibility should be roughly the same as the standalone mupen64plus-gliden64 but has the advantage of being able to turn certain settings on and off on a per game basis via the retroarch menu. This may help compatibility with some games as turning settings on/off with the standalone mupen64plus is cumbersome and not easily done on a per game basis. Keep in mind that this emulator is still a work in progress and is not going to miraculously make all N64 games run perfectly on our cheap little raspberry pi's. However I have been testing this emulator and I have found it to run admirably well all things considered. Below are a few games that I have tested that actually run better using this core than the standalone.

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Yoshi's Story - Much better performance than gliden64 standalone

Iggy's Reckn Balls - Disable less accurate blending and the textures on the game tracks will display properly.

Zelda Ocarina of Time - This game is on the gliden64 blacklist but will run using this emulator. Disable less accurate blending and disable framebuffer emulation and the game runs pretty well (still some minor performance issues, overclock does help here)

Star Wars Rogue Squadron - Framebuffer emulation needs to be off for the game to boot for some reason (I suspect a bug). The game does need framebuffer emulation to display certain graphical effects properly (so purists can skip this one) but performance is actually not too bad (at least on my overclocked pi 3b+)

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This is what I have tested so far. Feel free to post settings you have found to work well for certain games. Happy gaming!