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New here: Anyway to play N64 games on current tech?

Posted on 12/20/20 at 9:55 am
Posted by 0x15E
Outer Space
Member since Sep 2020
14505 posts
Posted on 12/20/20 at 9:55 am
Looking to get back into N64 games but don’t have a console and don’t feel like buying one off eBay for $100+

Is there a way to maybe download games to a PC safely?
Posted by DownSouthCrawfish
Lift every voice and sing
Member since Oct 2011
39696 posts
Posted on 12/20/20 at 10:09 am to
Project 64
This post was edited on 12/20/20 at 10:45 am
Posted by Drewbie
tFlagship
Member since Jun 2012
62527 posts
Posted on 12/20/20 at 10:13 am to
After the crackdown you needed some kind of browser addon to be able to dl their roms on emuparadise I'm pretty sure. Used to just be point and click but idk if that's the case anymore unless they've changed back.
Posted by DownSouthCrawfish
Lift every voice and sing
Member since Oct 2011
39696 posts
Posted on 12/20/20 at 10:28 am to
oh really? haven't gotten a new rom in a while so i wasn't aware.
Posted by Drewbie
tFlagship
Member since Jun 2012
62527 posts
Posted on 12/20/20 at 10:40 am to
Yeah they got cracked down on. A lot of the roms are gone entirely and the bigger ones are hosted somewhere else.

Vimm is where I've been getting my roms lately.
Posted by DrSteveBrule
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2009
12211 posts
Posted on 12/20/20 at 12:33 pm to
I recently played through goldeneye and Ocarina of Time on project 64. I went online and just googled the roms and found them easily and had no hassle downloading.

This is very recently like within the last 3 months.
Posted by teke184
Zachary, LA
Member since Jan 2007
101861 posts
Posted on 12/21/20 at 11:45 am to
I don’t know about the PC emulator scene but there are numerous consoles and handhelds which will do N64 emulation to various degrees.

Best option, though, is probably getting original hardware and an N64 version of Everdrive so you can just have one cartridge with every game in the system library on it, give or take ones requiring special hardware to play (Hey You Pikachu being a big one).
Posted by ForeverEllisHugh
Baton Rouge
Member since Aug 2016
15630 posts
Posted on 12/22/20 at 11:34 am to
If you have a mid-level PC, Project64 is perfect. CPU is important here - I have the top 4th gen i5 which works great.

You can buy an adapter and use an original controller or get one of the USB ones.

But I’d recommend using a Gamcube controller for your thumbs and palms sakes.
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