Rice Video

Rice Video is an open-source DirectX and OpenGL video plugin for N64 emulators that follow Zilmar’s and Schibo’s plugin specifications.

It was the first N64 video plugin to let users load custom textures in place of a game’s originals, allowing texture artists to raise the resolution of textures or change a game’s whole art direction.

Rice Video also supports scaling filters such as 2xSaI, Scale2x and hqNx (hq2x, hq3x and hq4x).

It has long been a popular choice for high-resolution textures, but it has lost ground to plugins such as GlideHQ that offer better compatibility along with texture dumping and loading.

It remains a good option for anyone who wants a fast, relatively simple plugin with many of the extras GlideHQ offers. It has more features than Jabo’s video plugin and better compatibility than plugins such as Direct64.

Mupen64Plus still ships a port of Rice Video as one of its standard video plugins.