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Nintendo 64 Emulators
The N64 was released in mid-1996 as Nintendo's front-runner in the original next-gen console wars. Although it was a much higher powered machine than Sony's Playstation or Sega's Saturn, the N64 always lagged behind in sales. Nintendo chose to sell the machine on the merits of its fast-loading cartridge system and the insignificant fact that it featured* a 64-bit architecture - unfortunately for Nintendo, people were more impressed by high-capacity CD media, in-game movie sequences and pre-recorded soundtracks than fast loading and the size of the machine's pipeline. Developers often preferred the Playstation for their titles due to the N64's inability to provide media rich content which games such as the Final Fantasy series demanded. Although the hardware facilitated classics such as Goldeneye and the late Perfect Dark, it wasn't enough to win over the masses.
Fortunately the system is well-emulated, allowing us to play legendary games such as Zelda, Turok & Goldeneye. A fairly modern system is needed to play emulate the machine, and a 3D accelerated graphics card is an absolute must (onboard graphics won't cut the mustard here). Game ROMs are available from ripped cartridges, ranging in size (5MB-70MB).
*) Although this turned out to be a false claim, an advertising point based on rephrasing a technicality similar to calling two 32-bit processors a single 64-bit unit.
Specs:
- CPU: MIPS R4300i, 93.75MHz, 64-bit, 24KB L1, 125 MIPS, 250 MB/sec Bus
- Graphics: SGI RCP, 62.5MHz, 100 MFLOPS, 150K Polygons/Sec, 32-bit Color, 500 MB/sec Bus
- Sound: SGI RCP, 64 2D Voices, ADPCM, 500 MB/sec Bus
- Data: 4MB (500 MB/s), Cartridge (32MB), Expansion 4MB RAM
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Emulators
| Project64 |
Windows |
Freeware |
Rating:  9.0 (34668 Votes) |
| One of the best Nintendo 64 emulators available. |
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| UltraHLE |
Windows |
Freeware |
Rating:  8.1 (4189 Votes) |
| The legendary Nintendo 64 emulator. Unfortunately not updated anymore since it's release. |
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| 1964 |
Windows |
Freeware |
Rating: 8.1 (2106 Votes) |
| In the same league as Project64, or in other words, it's GOOD. |
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| Nemu64 |
Windows |
Freeware |
Rating:  7.9 (1994 Votes) |
| One of the older Nintendo 64 emulators. Requires a very fast PC. |
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| Mupen64 |
Windows |
Freeware |
Rating: 7.7 (469 Votes) |
| Nintendo 64 emulator designed to be portable to multiple systems. |
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| SupraHLE |
Windows |
Freeware |
Rating: 7.6 (324 Votes) |
| Hacked version of UltraHLE which supports more features and games. |
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| Corn |
Windows |
Freeware |
Rating: 7.5 (1100 Votes) |
| Very fast Nintendo 64 emulator, even on very slow systems. Unfortunately it runs very few games. |
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| Daedalus |
Windows |
Freeware |
Rating: 7.4 (248 Votes) |
| Good open source Nintendo 64 emulator. |
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| UltraHLE 2064 |
Windows |
Freeware |
Rating: 7.1 (251 Votes) |
| The succesor of a legend! |
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| Apollo |
Windows |
Freeware |
Rating: 6.7 (215 Votes) |
| Promising Nintendo 64 emulator. |
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| TR64 |
Windows |
Freeware |
Rating: 6.4 (178 Votes) |
| Nintendo 64 emulator by the creators of TRWin. |
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| TRWin |
Windows |
Freeware |
Rating: 6.3 (388 Votes) |
| This emulator lags behind the rest, but you never know what might happen. |
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