Best Nintendo 64 emulator?

[No Name]

Hi folks

I'm putting my beloved N64 in the attic to make space for my growing collection of DVDs, so I'm wondering which is the current best N64 emulator out there. Is it still UltraHLE, Nemu64, or Corn, or what?

And yes, I've trawled the web already, but I trust the opinion of people on here more.

I've got a 1700 PC with a 64Mb graphics card, running Windows XP.

[Michael_]

Hi folks

I'm putting my beloved N64 in the attic to make space for my growing collection of DVDs, so I'm wondering which is the current best N64 emulator out there. Is it still UltraHLE, Nemu64, or Corn, or what?

And yes, I've trawled the web already, but I trust the opinion of people on here more.

I've got a 1700 PC with a 64Mb graphics card, running Windows XP.

CCS64 has always been the best choice for me. Emulates everything perfectly except Frankie goes to Hollywood AFAIK.

Also has the best and easiest user interface of them all IMO.

--Michael

[No Name]

CCS64 has always been the best choice for me. Emulates everything perfectly except Frankie goes to Hollywood AFAIK.

Agreed -- but I'm after an N64 emulator.

CCS64 is a lovely piece of work, though -- but not something those Speccy fans around here would appreciate, however.

[rockwaldo]

heh heh....fancy having a N64 AND a C64 emu request, so close to each other....

me? i recommend Catalyst

[mamemeister]

Not really been keeping that up to date with N64 emulation, always found too many games dint work, probably different now right enough.

Here's a decent looking site that should help.

http://www.emulation64.com/

Heck, I'm away download an update now

[No Name]

Ta for that. It all seems to be pointing me in the direction of Project64 (I have a GeForce card, which it seems particularly friendly towards).

[moobaa]

I've been using Project64 for Zelda and Mario64. Works like a charm, and even encouraged me to pick up the carts - y'know, to be all "official" and such.

[Michael_]

CCS64 has always been the best choice for me. Emulates everything perfectly except Frankie goes to Hollywood AFAIK.

Agreed -- but I'm after an N64 emulator.

CCS64 is a lovely piece of work, though -- but not something those Speccy fans around here would appreciate, however.

I actually woke up last night, wondering why you of all people would ask for directions to a C64 emulator AND quote your PC specs for one such.

Upon realizing my mistake I couldn´t find the friggin´ thread. Until now, that is.

N64 emulation is best avoided if you ask me. There´s always one little thing that doesn´t seem to work right.

--Michael

[Lester M Fong]

I have a similar spec PC to gordon, and Project 64 (with Jabo's plugins) works well for most of the games I've tried

I get the feeling that I didn't really miss out on much by not having an N64... Diddy Kong Racing is good though

[Michael_]

I have a similar spec PC to gordon, and Project 64 (with Jabo's plugins) works well for most of the games I've tried

I get the feeling that I didn't really miss out on much by not having an N64... Diddy Kong Racing is good though

Perfect Dark, 007 Goldeneye, Conker´s Bad Fur Day, Legend of Zelda - Ocarina of time, Super Mario 64, Waverace 64, Body Harvest, Starfox 64 to name a few.

I actually believe your argument proves my point in some bizarre way.
It´s the *FEEL* of the N64 games you loose in the process of emulation.

--Michael

[No Name]

I actually woke up last night, wondering why you of all people would ask for directions to a C64 emulator AND quote your PC specs for one such.

Yeah, I thought I was going crazy for a minute, there, and was almost convinced I'd asked about C64 emus myself.

I have a similar spec PC to gordon, and Project 64 (with Jabo's plugins) works well for most of the games I've tried

Same here. It's running everything really nicely, apart from a couple of games, which don't work in PJ64 and are better served by 1964 (Pokemon Puzzle League, for example).

I get the feeling that I didn't really miss out on much by not having an N64... Diddy Kong Racing is good though

It's funny going back to an old machine like that -- even I feel less enamoured of it now. The same goes for the Saturn: apart from a couple of amazing games (Panzer Dragoon, Radiant Silvergun and Nights), I feel the same way. It's nice, but not as nice as I remembered.

But in the N64's favour, it does have the best Zelda game ever, which still stands up today (if you're a Zelda fanboy like me, that is ), as well as the above-mentioned PPL, Donkey Kong 64, Super Mario Kart, DKR and the utterly fab Banjo Kazooie and Banjo Tooie.

Also, even though the emulators are great, the games are somehow better on a TV and played on the original machine.

[Michael_]

The same goes for the Saturn: apart from a couple of amazing games (Panzer Dragoon, Radiant Silvergun and Nights), I feel the same way. It's nice, but not as nice as I remembered.

You wouldn´t by any chance be thinking of parting with your copy of Radiant Silvergun??

Checquebook´s open

--Michael

[Lester M Fong]

Link's Awakening on the GB is one of my all-time favourite games, and A Link to the Past is excellent, but having emulated Ocarina of Time, I think if I'd spent 70 quid on it back in the day I would have been a bit pissed off, and I certainly wouldn't have bothered finishing it

also, the more I play Mario games the more I realise I don't really like jumpy-on-heady type platformers very much (actually Warioland 1 on the GB is my favourite out of all of them because of the cool hat gimmick )

Goldeneye may be a good console FPS, but when I think back to the PC FPSs that I spent tens of hours playing in 1997/98 (Jedi Knight, Half Life etc.) it's clear to me that Goldeneye isn't really my cup of tea at all

Mariokart 64 just seems to be a wasted opportunity, especially compared to Diddy Kong

however, if Rare's other N64 stuff (Banjo, Conker's, etc.) are as good as Diddy Kong then I'll rush down to my local tracksuit-infested Gamestation and pick up an N64 as soon as possible

[Michael_]

Link's Awakening on the GB is one of my all-time favourite games, and A Link to the Past is excellent, but having emulated Ocarina of Time, I think if I'd spent 70 quid on it back in the day I would have been a bit pissed off, and I certainly wouldn't have bothered finishing it

however, if Rare's other N64 stuff (Banjo, Conker's, etc.) are as good as Diddy Kong then I'll rush down to my local tracksuit-infested Gamestation and pick up an N64 as soon as possible

Conker´s BFD is hilarious, ultra violent and filled with feaces and vomit
Great game, and very un-Nintendo like at the same time.

Ocarina of Time, in my book, is the best console game ever.

--Michael

[No Name]

Goldeneye wasn't my cup of tea, either, and I bought a copy of Perfect Dark recently which just... did nothing for me. I gave up after the second mission.

however, if Rare's other N64 stuff (Banjo, Conker's, etc.) are as good as Diddy Kong then I'll rush down to my local tracksuit-infested Gamestation and pick up an N64 as soon as possible

Banjo Kazooie and Tooie are both great games -- the first probably better than its sequel, because it's a much tighter and simpler game. (Rare later on in their N64 careers tended to add too much value to their games, forcing you to collect a shed load of bananas in DK64 and jinjos and other crap in Banjo Tooie.)