Jabo Texture Pack Creation and Use

Guide for the Creation & Use of Jabo 1.7 Format Textures

Project64 1.7 beta files for use with Project64 3.x
 

The first thing you should know is that Project64 1.7 Beta Emulator is no longer active and has ceased to function.

So instead you can use the Project64 3.x Stable Release, available in PJ64.Emu Downloads or the Nightly Development Builds (4.x). However, we strongly recommend to use Project64 3.x Stable Release as the development versions might break support for games and at some point, they will drop support for Jabo 1.7.

So grab Project64 3.x Stable Release to use with our recommended 1.7 plugin combination.

You can download these versions for use with 3.x from us below, with kind permission from Jabo and Zilmar. Thank you for this rare and thoughtful privilidge!

1) Locate the Emulator installation folder

 

Open Project64.exe and Click on Options and then Configuration

 

 

On the General settings tab uncheck the "Hide advance settings" checkbox to do to allow Jabo 1.7 Video Plugin its full options to be displayed.

 

Once that is done, Make sure you change the Texture pack directory to texures-load when using 3.x with Jabo Texture Packs, as the defualt path is Tetures. Click Ok to save and close the dialog.

 

2) The next step is that you simply select all 1.7 plugins in the plugins select dialog onwards it is compatible) with texture dumping and loading (it is configured by default) The selection of plugins below is our recomendation for both dumping and playing, no matter if  3.x.

 

From here the tutorial really starts, it all boils down to simply running the game you want to dump or extract the textures from.

 

3) We go to Options ==> Configure Graphics plugin ==> Advance tab => Textures Dumping ==> All textures and then click Ok (it is recommended to do this when you reach the part where you want to extract the textures)

 

4) Play and Play because the emulator does not dump all the textures at once, only what you see will be saved, or rather the textures that the emulator shows as you play.

In Project64 3.x ===> Project64 3.x\textures-load

Or if you did not do it already, set a route for texture packs to textures-load

 

Rom Internal Name Folder (= Images or Sub Folders with images)
 XML File (pack.xml) and ReadMe (Information on pack)

Creating pack.xml file

2) The first thing we do is open the notepad or norepad++ and paste this in there to later replace it with the textured game data.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<pack>
<supported>
<rdb> Roms version code (1) </rdb>
<rdb> Roms version code (2 ) </rdb>
<rdb> Roms version code (3) </rdb>
<rdb> Roms version code (4) </rdb>
<rdb> Roms version code (5) </rdb>
</supported>
<author> Texture creator </author>
<version> Version number </version>
<description> Texture pack name </description>
</pack>

3) And then we save it with the name pack.xml (in lowercase) but of course, we leave it open to replace the data at once.

4) Then we go to the emulator folder and look for the Project64.rdb file. After that we open it, when doing so this does not appear and we select the notepad or notepad ++. To search in notepad or notepad++ you press Ctrl + F, to then search for the CRC1-CRC2-Country Code of the Game.

5) When we go searching for the game, we search for the Game name, but only need the CRC1-CRC2-Country Code.

Now press Save and make sure it is in the correct structure like the previous example:

AEROGAUGE - Folder containing images or Subfolder with images)
pack.xml - Game CRCs, Author Name & Texture Packs Title
Read Me .txt -  Information on Texture Pack & Instructions

7) Now that we have the textures folder and the pack.xml file ready, we proceed to compress it in " zip or rar " format. We do this by right-clicking on textures-load and select 7zip and then Add to "textures-load.zip or .rar"

Now we re-name it the zip, if the folder you made it in wasn't the correct name:
Example: AEROGAUGE - Jabo 1.7 Texture Pack (PNG) - v1.6 - Gent



8) Once the file is created, it is ready to be placed into the root directory of Project64 to be extracted and used.

Using Jabo Textures Downloaded from N64Textures

For this example, we can place them all in Textures within Sub Folders



Now for the most amazing thing that you will ever witness!

That concludes the how to use Jabo 1.7 Format Textures Packs from N64Textures.com.

Published on  March 10th, 2022