Playing Retro Emulators on the Nintendo 64

Emulators… on a Nintendo 64?? What type of sorcery is that lmao

I still have a disc filled with hundreds of ROMs that work on my Dreamcast that I bought from a very shady man at my local flea market like 20 years ago.

Yuji Naka (Sonic's creator) wrote a Famicom/NES emulator for the Sega Genesis back in 1991, to solidify the effect of the "Sega Does What Nintendon't) motto of the day.

There was an NES emulator for PSX in the early 2000s written by Allan Blomquist and distributed on the Gamebase forum of which he was a member. I was a huge fan of it and eagerly awaited releases. It was called IMBNES (It might be NES) and had excellent compatibility, especially toward the end. If I remember right it's claim to fame was it was written from scratch in PSX assembly rather than porting a PC emulator which made it very efficient. Maybe It would a worthy topic for a future video, I believe it can be found on the internet archives.

Remember the GB Tower in Pokémon Stadium? It was artificially locked to only boot Pokémon ROMs, but it was an proper emulator running on the N64, back in 1999.

I think it's pretty cool that you are the person who helped make the SNES emulator I used to use on my modded original Xbox.

Still loving the OG XBMC. It paved the way for modern programs like Pluto or Tubi.

Back in 2004 I remember finding an NES emulator online for the N64 (Neon64). Back then it only supported NROM games (mapper 0) so I played Donkey Kong on it. Flash carts didn't exist back then so the method for launching the emulator was to use an N64 GameShark bundled with Mario 64 and connected to a PC via the parallel port on the back of the GameShark. You would load the emulator and rom into a certain memory space using GSCC2k2, set another value or use a GameShark code, and when you selected any of the Save Games in Mario 64 it would jump to the emulator instead of your save game. I thought it was really neat but considered it more of a novelty then. I'm really happy to see that while I wasn't looking things took off and got better!

There's something so incredible about seeing emulators being run on old consoles at a time when a lot of people didn't even know what emulators were. This made me wonder if there isn't some way to play NES or Atari 2600 games on the SNES or Sega Genesis.

The PSP was what cracked my head open for consoles emulating other consoles. I remember loading up my favorite GBA and SNES games on it, and stretching the image to be full wide screen like a psychopath, but my teenage brain didn't know any better yet. Lol I also remember seeing OG Xbox' run emulators in small local game shops growing up. There was a guy that had one at the main register that he played SNES and other retro systems on while the shop was empty. What a different time that was. It really feels like we're shifting away from consoles to emulate other systems and going for single board PCs which can emulate up to PS2/GCN/Wii decently with some Switch compatibility. Great video as always!

Neon64 predates flash carts. I suggested that HCS add support for loading Neon64 via GameShark Pro parallel port on the Dextrose forums… and he did, opening it up to people without dev/backup hardware. :) Back in the ‘90s there was an official N64 port on the SNES9x homepage. It was way too slow to be considered playable but I loaded it anyway and slogged through literal minutes to start the first level of Super Mario World just to say I had done it. :) There were a few Game Boy emulators but the first one I recall for N64 was a Presence of Mind coding competition demoscene entry from Snake and McBane (N64 scener aliases). It didn’t have audio but it DID do two Game Boys at once textured to different sides of a spinning cube. It also had the Simpson’s characters they take their aliases from textured onto other sides of the same cube.

When I asked Santa for a "good Nintendo 64 emulator," I didn't mean it like this

I loved seeing this video! I have been rocking an Everdrive 64 for about 3 years now, and there is so much happening in the romhack and homebrew scene! Developers are creating really cool and fun games that both N64 lovers and casual gamers can love alike. Please keep covering any developments you see here! You are a trusted source of what is happening in the world of retro gaming.

Love the thumbnail and the way the video is shot. And I always love crazy stuff like emulators on a nearly 30yr old console. Great video MVG. Have missed the Monday uploads but know you have lots more you’re juggling so always happy to see a video from you!

I remember emulating A Link to the Past on an ancient computer on a command line DOS emulator, it din't have sound but it looked gorgeous, pretty sure it didn't work enough to complete the game, and I remember the struggle of making that happen, going to a cyber coffee and downloading the roms and the emus and trying again and again... until ZSNES a decade later.

The "Bye for now" at the end is so iconic for your videos that I sometimes catch myself subconsciously expecting it in other peoples videos and being surprised when it's not there :D

The NES is so easy to emulate that even a 33 MHz 486 can run it fullspeed in Nesticle. ZSNES also apparently runs fullspeed on a Pentium 1.

its like a dream come true, loved the video!

I did some of these emulators a while ago on the bootleg ED64P, while most of them "worked" performance wasn't that great and was spotty depending on the game. Cool to see that it runs better on more legit hardware. Great video!

I just love your channel ❤. Thank you for all the great content you deliver!