The Nintendo 64 was a 64 bit video game console system released in March 1, 1997, it had its own 3d accelerator chip SG RDP. It was technically a math co-processor which handled 3d calculations. The CPU was the NEC R4200 32 bit processor, but the bus was 64 bits. It is kind of misleading for Nintendo to claim their Nintendo 64 was a 64 bit console, because the processor was actually only 32 bits. The N64 came with only 4 mbs of ram which wasn’t a lot at the time; however, it was still capable of displaying great graphics and smooth performance.

Unlike most of its rivals at the time, Nintendo still uses rom cartridges, and these cartridges could hold about 64 mbs of data. Compared to CD-ROMs chip based roms were still very expensive. The advantage of using a cartridge was that the games loaded quickly, and for the company it couldn’t be easily pirated. I remember back in late 1990s, people were pirating Playstation games. They modified the Sony Playstation, so they could play games they copied games. The PS-1 used CD-ROMs, so if you had the right software you could copy Playstation games. With the N64 this was not possible.

The N64 had a pretty large library of games, and it was a very popular game console with over 32 million units being sold worldwide. The games on it, like 007 Goldeneye, Super Mario 64, Castlevania N64, and others were great games. They were comparable to 3dfx games on the PC. Fortunately, someone made emulator based on the N64, and it was called Project 64 released in May 26, 2001. Back then, computers were powerful enough to use this N64 emulator. I tried to use it on my Pentium 4 1.8 ghzs computer with a Voodoo 4 4500, and it was too slow. Today, you can use it without any problems, the Project 64 emulator should work on computers with I5 and I7 processors with large graphics cards.

a. James Bond 007: Goldeneye Project N64 1.6 Mouse and Keyboard
b. Project N64 1.6 Mouse and Keyboard for Turok
c. Project N64 1 6 Super Mario 64 Key Configuration
d. Project N64 Star Wars Shadows of the Empire Flight Control Configuration with Mouse and Keyboard

Project N64 Emulator Enabling the Mouse

Project N64 Shadows of the Empire Flickering Problem Fix

James Bond 007: Goldeneye Project N64 1.6 Mouse and Keyboard

Project N64 1.6 Mouse and Keyboard for Turok

Project N64 1 6 Super Mario 64 Key Configuration

Project N64 Star Wars Shadows of the Empire Flight Control Configuration with Mouse and Keyboard

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