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VIDEO: Why is Nintendo 64 emulation still a broken mess in 2025? (www.youtube.com)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by lIlIllIlIIIllIlIlII@lemmy.zip to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world

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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?

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[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee -3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I boot up Dolphin, and then choose the game I want to play.

[–] Tronn4@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

😅

[–] lime@feddit.nu 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

no but, how do you make it handle n64 games? i'm interested in setting this up. like i have this old rom of airboarder 64, which to my knowledge was not on the gamecube, and it emulates terribly. how do i set it up to run with dolphin?

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee -1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I just use the wiiware games. It covers pretty much all the N64 games I care about.

It's funny, I can picture the Airboarder cover in my head. Kinda crazy how those things can get burned into your memory.