ScummVM N64 port will not run at all

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Get some games for use with ScummVM 
(http://www.scummvm.org/downloads/#extras has some free games to test with).
2. Follow rom-building instructions at 
http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Nintendo_64.
3. Try to run the rom!

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
It is supposed to bring up the main ScummVM frontend.  Instead you just get a 
black screen.

What version of the product are you using? On which system and loader?
Cube64 Beta 1.1.  On my silver Gamecube and loaded with SD Media Launcher (or 
optionally SDLoad through SDML).

Please provide any additional information below.

The ScummVM team recently released an N64 version of their program on their 
website (www.scummvm.org), and I wanted to give this a whirl through emulation 
(to test games, audio etc out) seeing as I have no means of transferring roms 
to my N64 unit.  Now so far, it seems none of the currently well known 
emulators out there (PJ64, 1964, mupen64plus et al) can run this thing at all.  
I either get a crash, or the emulation just sticks on a black screen.  I get 
the black screen issue with the current version (1.99.3) of mupen64plus at 
least, as well as the current 1.1 Beta of Cube64 (don't have a Wii to test 
Wii64 on, but I'd imagine it'd have similar issues with this program).

I haven't tried to use any 'tricks' so far - all I did was simply load my rom 
with the default settings and options intact.  Giving out CRC32/MD5 checksums 
would be tricky seeing as it all depends on what files and folders you inject 
into the rom during the initial image-making process (as per the instructions 
at http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Nintendo_64), however, the package 
(scummvm-1.1.1-n64.zip for the latest version for instance) does include 
numerous binaries that are designed to be merged with diskimages, so if support 
for those at least could be added, then everything might work as planned. :-)

Thanks for reading.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by marzsynd...@gmail.com on 14 Jul 2010 at 8:12

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I'm pretty sure an emulator isn't capable of running on an emulator. If you 
expect to wait and see whether or not the Wii64 implements this feature, then, 
well, best of luck to ya.

Original comment by nintendonerd1889@gmail.com on 14 Jul 2010 at 9:17

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Maybe you should ask the PC-based emulator devs to work on this as we have 
other priorities for wii64. There's also a scummVM port for gc/wii that you can 
use.

Original comment by sepp...@gmail.com on 29 Jul 2010 at 4:43

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