The Nintendo 64 has always been a difficult machine to emulate correctly. But in 2025 - we should be well and truly past all of it right? Not exactly. Issues with Plugins, performance, graphical glitches, stutters. Unless you have a very powerful machine, these are common things many of us will run into when emulating the Nintendo 64. But why? And Is there any hope for fast, accurate N64 emulation in 2025 and beyond?

  • Zarxrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
    95·
    1 day ago

    Ah, an emulator within an emulator. Yes, I’m sure the results must be just like the original hardware!

    • TachyonTele@lemm.eeEnglish
      91·
      1 day ago

      The games work just fine. I played them when they were new, and get just as much enjoyment out of them now.

      I’m not sorry i don’t care about milliseconds or whatever technical details the programmers care about. I am thankful for their hard work though.

      • Mojave@lemmy.worldEnglish
        81·
        1 day ago

        How are you using dolphin to emulate N64?

        Dolphin has no native N64 emulation support. Are you using N64 ports from the Wii? Those are running using Nintendo’s Wii-based emulator (which also has known issues) on top of the Wii emulation. That introduced a whole second layer of technical issues.

        Not that the N64 roms aren’t playable, but the problem is more technical on why it’s so difficult to emulate the specific N64 hardware perfectly using just modern software

        • TachyonTele@lemm.eeEnglish
          55·
          1 day ago

          Thanks. Like i said i haven’t been able to check the video out yet.

          I am enjoying everyone jumping down my throat about being able to play n64 games with no issues though. It’s giving me a good laugh with my coffee.

          • BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
            31·
            1 day ago

            People are jumping down your throat because you’re talking about N64 emulation being just fine on a GameCube emulator which plays a total of 21 of the 388 N64 games.

            That’s fine that you only like those games, but it’s irrelevant to a discussion about N64 emulators and it’s only a tiny subset of games for the system.

            You can see this right? Surely you understand that?

            • TachyonTele@lemm.eeEnglish
              13·
              21 hours ago

              come back after you’ve watched the video. Thanks.

              You’re chiming in on a discussion that’s already ended. Surely you understand that right? Hurdur