N64 Emulators

edited October 2010 in Chit chat
Is there any good N64 Emulators? I never really had the chance to play super mario 64...
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  • edited October 2010
    I always use Project64. Only really tried it on Mario Kart as thats the one N64 game i play quite a lot !
  • edited October 2010
    and it runs smoothly on pc?
  • Mario 64's also on DS
  • fogfog
    edited October 2010
    n64 games, 1 extreme to the other .. very nice or utter cack..

    rare did lots of nice things , but there is a lot of steaming crud on the machine also.. compared to the snes.. wish I had kept my US snes :(
  • edited October 2010
    I've just tried it and it works great! I'm playing Road Rash on it - I LOVE that game :)
  • edited October 2010
    Just out of interest, which games did Rare do on the N64?
  • edited October 2010
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Rare_games

    In my oppinion Conker's Bad Fur Day is the best Rare game on N64.
    Also I played a lot Diddy Kong Racing and Perfect Dark.
    In fact, all the games that Rare did for the N64 are great..
  • edited October 2010
    1.5 good ones and a pile of overhyped shite that supposedly pass as good games?
    Every night is curry night!
  • edited October 2010
    ive used "1964" emulator.
  • fogfog
    edited October 2010
    1.5 good ones and a pile of overhyped shite that supposedly pass as good games?

    I used to like blast corps on it :) so maybe 2 or 2.5 ;)

    speaking of rare / ultimate I have just listed jetpac on a certain auction site for sunday .. does "look r@re" count for their games? hehe
  • edited October 2010
    Doom 64 was brillant.
  • edited October 2010
    I use Project 64. I aquired the beta version which enabled all the special effects (reflection/3d lighting etc) to work properly in Perfect Dark.

    N64 Rare games I like are.

    Golden Eye.
    Perfect Dark.
    Conkers Bad Fur Day.
    Banjo-Kazooie.
    Banjo-Tooie.

    There are plenty of other great games not by Rare. Zelda games Majora's Mask and Ocarina of Time are pretty good.

    They all run really smooth for me with Project 64.
  • edited October 2010
    1.5 good ones and a pile of overhyped shite that supposedly pass as good games?

    People, see what happens when you post when drunk? :roll:




    The FACTS (in my biased view, admittedly) :

    Perfect Dark and Goldeneye alone are the two best FPSs ever.

    Conker's Bad Fur Day has a great (and very funny) single player mode, and some fantastic multiplayer games.

    Banjo Kazooie is the only 3D platform game I've played that I think is better than Mario 64 (bear in mind that I haven't played either Super Mario Galaxy game yet, nor have I played Banjo Tooie enough to judge).

    Jet Force Gemini is a very good third person shooter.

    Blast Corps is a great game, and really should be updated for the current generation of machines.

    I've neve played Mickey's Speedway Racer, and I can't comment on Diddy Kong's Racing or Killer Instinct Gold as I'm no fan of either genre.




    Also, if you're going to try the N64, you really should try:

    Rocket: Robot on Wheels, a fantastic 3D platformer that even does things (well) that Mario and Banjo never thought of.

    Body Harvest, an ugly but very good game by the people who went on to make GTA III, it's a sort of GTA III game but set on an Earth that's been almost destroyed by aliens. You have to go through four time zones and kill the aliens and save the few remaining humans, and you can (and have to) comandeer all sorts of period specific human made vehicles (land, sea, and air based) to help in your monumental task.

    Space Station: Silicon Valley, a brilliant 3D platform game, set on a space station that was designed to simulate evolution but using robots. It's all gone wrong (of course :roll:) and you control a CPU that can do nothing except (a) move slowly, and (b) take over any robot animal. You can only take over a robot animal when it's "dead", i.e. when you've destoryed it's own CPU, so you have to take control of an animal (you start off with only one dead animal) and use it to kill the animal you want to take over. Each animal has two abilities specific to the breed of animal, such as

    Sheep can jump, and they float in water (alright, so yes, in real life all animals can float, but these are robot animals, remember, so they're probably heavy, being metal and stuff, it's just a game, I mean... :evil:),
    Penguins can jump and can through snowballs,
    Dogs can jump and bite,
    Racing Dogs can fire homing missiles and run fast,

    and so on, and depending on their breed (type) all animals have different speeds, the ones that can jump jump different heights, some float, some can swim, etc. You have to use the animals abilities and any environmental features to kill the animals you need to allow you to complete the objectives the game give you.

    Pilot Wings 64, the only flight simulator I like on any machine, it's simple to play, but feels good, and is very enjoyable indeed.

    Mario 64, you *have* to play this!

    Duke Nukem: Zero Hour, the best Duke Nukem game ever, if you ask me. Very good indeed.

    Battletanx: Global Assault, an ugly game that seems simplistic, but is by far the best (arcade-ish) tank game I've ever played.

    Glover, a nice platform-ish game where control a hand (well, a glove) and have to guide a ball through a 3D landscape.

    Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask - I've not actually played these, but everyone (and I mean everyone) says that they are superb, and Ocarina is the highest rated game ever according to the review aggregate site Gamerankings.com .

    And quite a few more, though there is some utter rubbish on there too, of course. Avoid Carmageddon 64 and Superman 64 like you'd avoid Simon Cowell...



    And I'd imagine that to emulate the N64 properly you'd need a joypad, as using keys to simulate an analogue control would be awful.
  • edited October 2010
    I was stone cold sober when I posted earlier :p
    Every night is curry night!
  • edited October 2010
    ewgf wrote: »
    ... Ocarina is the highest rated game ever according to the review aggregate site Gamerankings.com .

    And for good reason. It is still, 12 years on, my favourite game of all time, and to this day the only game I've ever played from dusk til dawn!

    Back on topic: Project 1964 has always stood me in good stead.
  • edited October 2010
    JACK98 wrote: »
    Doom 64 was brillant.

    Yes. Yes it was! I loved Doom 64. it has some very well thought out levels and some great atmosphere! My favorite level is the one with the big compactor that smashes a big hole in the ground! That's a great level that one :)

    i've never really tried N64 emulation before. I keep meaning to, but the one time I did try it, I couldn't get anything to work, so i stopped trying (but that was 5 years ago)
  • edited October 2010
    I was stone cold sober when I posted earlier :p

    You didn't sound sober when you rang me to brag about what you'd just posted, and then you broke down in tears and sobbed down the phone about how Beanz didn't love you any more, and how the trailer park was so empty without him. Then you started singing (well slurring) "I will survive", and I just had to hang up :-o
  • edited October 2010
    ewgf wrote: »
    Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask - I've not actually played these, but everyone (and I mean everyone) says that they are superb, and Ocarina is the highest rated game ever according to the review aggregate site Gamerankings.com .

    You've NEVER played these? What are you thinking? Get them at once..

    -

    There is a joypad which is simular to an N64 pad which I used on my desktop PC but I don't know of any USB version. It was called PC Powerpad Pro IIRC..
  • edited October 2010
    N64 emulation wouldn't feel right at all unless you could use an N64 pad(maybe there's a converter?? I never looked for one).
    My mate Dave had his N64 when he had an excess of cash and hence has a large games collection(and peripherals collection). Luckily he's also totally trusts me with it so I borrow it every now and again - usually for about 3 months at a time :)
    PilotWings64 is always what makes me ask him for it.........I never bore of PilotWings64!
    If I ever own a PC with enough grunt I'll certainly check the emus out anyway.
    "I should use simulator loosely 'cos I don't think it's quite like this on the beach with helicopters and fires and the jumping beach buggy" - paulisthebest3uk 2020.
  • ZupZup
    edited October 2010
    I played N64 emulators (1964 and Project 64) with a PS2 gamepad. My setup was:

    N64 <--> PS2
    Digital stick <--> Digital stick
    Analog stick <--> Left analog stick
    A button <--> Cross button
    B button <--> Square button
    C buttons <--> Right analog stick
    L / R buttons <--> L1 / R1 buttons
    Z (trigger) button <--> R2 button
    Start button <--> Start button

    It's not the same, but it's very similar and functional. I completed Legend of Zelda, Conker bad fur day and some others using that setup without problems. Other similar gamepads (i.e.: Xbox, or Thrustmaster Dual Trigger) will work with a similar setup.

    Also, remember that is very important the video plugin you use. Some games work fine with one and have graphical glitches with others (and I remember having to switch between plugins with Paper Mario... some places worked with one plugin and were unplayable with that same plugin).
    I was there, too
    An' you know what they said?
    Well, some of it was true!
  • edited October 2010
    ewgf wrote: »
    You didn't sound sober when you rang me to brag about what you'd just posted, and then you broke down in tears and sobbed down the phone about how Beanz didn't love you any more, and how the trailer park was so empty without him. Then you started singing (well slurring) "I will survive", and I just had to hang up :-o

    Must've happened while I was at work? You've been the victim of a prank call I'm afraid, I'd never ring somebody to brag about a post I'd made about Rare's games being a pile of overhyped shit.

    I'd simply let my original post carry my opinions, which it did, so there :p

    As for the trailer park well it burned down, shame I feel for those rednecks, but I don't care too much as I don't live there.

    As for Beanz not loving me, I don't think he ever did, me and him are heterosexual males therefore we share no man love.

    I'm going to have a Pepsi or an Irn-Bru, not a diet Pepsi or diet Irn-Bru ;)

    Mmmmmm tasty!
    Every night is curry night!
  • edited October 2010
    Ridge racer 64 was another fave of mine,was really impressed with the quality of graphics fitted into a cart,castlevania was another fave too.
  • edited October 2010
    You've NEVER played these? What are you thinking? Get them at once..

    Quite. I'm sure the Rare N64 games were great (cue a reply telling me to play Goldeneye and PD! (I never have to my utter shame)), but OOT and MM are the equivalent of Sistine Chapel games.
  • fogfog
    edited October 2010
    because nintendo did japanese games also.. well there were some stinkers of jap developers who did utter cack.. much like they did on the snes.. and then on n64

    the majority most you never saw, unless you bought import games as well..

    people I know are surprised I never bought any more consoles after the xbox 1.. I just didnt' see / find anything a draw enough.. although a family member has a wii , I was tempted to get one , but not enough,
  • edited October 2010
    alanspec wrote: »
    N64 emulation wouldn't feel right at all unless you could use an N64 pad(maybe there's a converter?? I never looked for one).
    My mate Dave had his N64 when he had an excess of cash and hence has a large games collection(and peripherals collection). Luckily he's also totally trusts me with it so I borrow it every now and again - usually for about 3 months at a time :)
    PilotWings64 is always what makes me ask him for it.........I never bore of PilotWings64!
    If I ever own a PC with enough grunt I'll certainly check the emus out anyway.

    Pilot Wings 64 is fantastic, they got everything right*, the controls are easy enough for a beginner yet can be used complexly enough to really feel in control of a complex flight model (who'd have thought that a hang-glider was so involved? [Me - Winston]), the atmosphere is really relaxing, the islands are detailed enough to make exploration really enjoyable, and the game just makes you come back again and again, no matter how often you play it. There was an article on the making of the game in this month's Retro Gamer, but it was disappointing, as they didn't say much about the actual game or it's development. I wanted to know what craft they considered putting in, and what they left out, and how far they got with the rumoured sequel (no sequel ever came out on any machine, though apparently a Pilot Wings game is coming out on the forthcoming 3DS).

    * I can't remember why I put an asterisk after "they got everything right" in the above paragraph (I've just spent twenty minutes on the phone, and it's gone right out of my head), so let's just pretend that I made a really good point, OK? Thanks.


    You can buy an N64 and the games very cheaply now, but if you buy an N64 for Pilot Wings then you might want to consider the NTSC N64 (and games), as the PAL version of Pilot Wings 64 is one of the few N64 games that was a bad NTSC to PAL conversion; it's 17.5% slower and has borders at the top and bottom of the screen instead of being full screen, this was quite common with earlier N64 (and SNES, I've heard) games, the other games I know of (on the n64) are Mario 64, Mario Kart 64, and Wave Race 64.




    Must've happened while I was at work? You've been the victim of a prank call I'm afraid, I'd never ring somebody to brag about a post I'd made about Rare's games being a pile of overhyped shit.

    I'd simply let my original post carry my opinions, which it did, so there :razz:

    As for the trailer park well it burned down, shame I feel for those rednecks, but I don't care too much as I don't live there.

    As for Beanz not loving me, I don't think he ever did, me and him are heterosexual males therefore we share no man love.

    I'm going to have a Pepsi or an Irn-Bru, not a diet Pepsi or diet Irn-Bru :wink:

    Mmmmmm tasty!

    Hey! That's just cruel, I might be a diabetic, but at least [strike]I have all my own hair[/strike] well OK, I might be balding, but at least [strike]I have a well paid job[/strike] unlike yo-, er, OK, no I haven't, but at least [strike]I have the respect of the WOS members[/strike]. Blimey, I've got nothing! I'm you :eek: :sad: :cry:



    You've NEVER played these? What are you thinking? Get them at once..

    You must be jealous of me for my being yet to experience them. I put Deus Ex on a mate's machine last week, amongst other games, and I was jealous that he'd get to play it through for the first time. If it ever becomes possible to easily delete selected memories then we'd be able to enjoy games/books/films/TV programs etc again for the first time as often as we liked.

    And yes, those two games are on my "to play" list, along with Zelda: Wind Waker, Zelda: Twilight Princess (I bought the Gamecube version), Beyond Good and Evil, Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath, Knights of the Old Republic, Mass Effect 2, Shadow of the Colossus, Mercenaries, Scarface, The God Father, Killer 7, Oblivion, Morrowind, and others.





    fog wrote: »
    people I know are surprised I never bought any more consoles after the xbox 1.. I just didnt' see / find anything a draw enough.. although a family member has a wii , I was tempted to get one , but not enough,

    The XBox 1 is brilliant, and has more great games than the 360 - of the two I'd choose the XBox 1 without hesitation. I'd still recommend other consoles too, of course, like the the N64, PS2, and the Gamecube (not many good games, but some of excellent ones, and Metroid Prime alone is surely worth the cost of a used console nowadays).


    Vampyre wrote: »
    ... (cue a reply telling me to play Goldeneye and PD! (I never have to my utter shame)...

    Put it this way:

    People who love GE and PD - everyone with taste, class and discernment.

    People who don't love GE and PD - Hitler, Abu Hamza, Heather Mills, DM_Boozefreak, and a few sad, lonely, smelly people with no judgement or girlfriends.

    I should work in advertising.
  • edited October 2010
    Mischief Makers is another good one to try...and the first couple of Turok - Dinosaur Hunter games too...

    I liked the N64, but the games are ageing badly, mainly due to the blurriness of the graphics...which is less of a problem via emulation I suppose! Goldeneye is one of the games that has aged loads, which is why I'm looking forward to a remake, even if it is completely stupid and stars Daniel Craig...
  • edited October 2010
    deadpan666 wrote: »
    Mischief Makers is another good one to try...and the first couple of Turok - Dinosaur Hunter games too...

    I liked the N64, but the games are ageing badly, mainly due to the blurriness of the graphics...which is less of a problem via emulation I suppose!

    True, even back in the day the graphics were blurred to one degree or another, as the N64 had built in anti-aliasing which was very heavy handed. The Playstation didn't have this, so you either had blurred graphics or jagged graphics, depending on which console you owned :sad:

    It's was often compared to smearing vaseline on the screen, and of course it's not the case with N64 emulators, and I've heard a few people have fallen in love with the N64 via emulation, gone out and bought a real N64, and been appalled at the picture they get from it on their TV.

    It's not that bad, and I don't see it at all as I'm used to it, but if you're used to the pin sharp display of a decent PC monitor then it is a definite step down. If you play on the N64 for a while then you'll get used to it, but it must be a culture shock to people used to modern consoles and PCs.

    Goldeneye is one of the games that has aged loads, which is why I'm looking forward to a remake, even if it is completely stupid and stars Daniel Craig...

    It hasn't aged a day! Well, aside from the graphics (it is hard to believe that they were once state of the art, but then so was Ant Attack and Hard Drivin'). Oh, and the frame rate is bad if you're used to better. And alright, so there's no speech in the game, and no online multiplayer either.

    But the game itself is timeless. That's not nostalgia talking, as I still play it regularly, and so do a fair few other people (it still has a small but hardcore legion of players, look at the forums on the 'net, and the constant competition for ever better times in speed runs on the game). If I had to go on the proverbial desert island then GE is definitely one of the games I'd take with me. It just has almost infinite replayability, both single and multiplayer modes.
  • edited October 2010
    FrankT wrote: »
    ...and Ocarina of Time are pretty good.

    Thats like saying Insane Bolt runs quite quickly or the universe is quite big...
  • edited October 2010
    Paper Mario is probably the best RPG on the system although there are only about 3 or 4 rpgs on the N64. Its an RPG for all ages with quite a lot of humour and is easy to pick up and play even if youve never played an rpg before. I'm in the camp that doesnt count zelda as an RPG.
  • edited October 2010
    I bought mine for Rogue Squadron.
    and sold my Playstation because It was gathering dust, couldn't stop playing Goldeneye.
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