Q's about turning N64 into PC play

Homestar · Post by **Homestar** » Wed 04 Apr, 2007 4:41 pm

A long time ago I bought an Nintendo 64 (as well as some of my friends), and with that many games. But now the systems are starting to show some age, and you really have to wiggle the cartridges in order for them to work, and many times the games 'reset/lose connection' in the middle of playing. (not to mention it is a hassle to take to a friends house.

I have seen quite a few online videos (on youtube, etc.) where people are using N64 emulators and have transfered/downloaded games onto their PC. I was wondering if anyone here knew anything about PC emulators, or had heard of N64 emulators before.

Common sense would say this is illegal due to copy write infringement, but I personally own the games, Nintendo no longer makes N64 cartridges, and it would cost a fortune to buy a new system with used games. Not to mention Nintendo wouldn't earn a thing. Would the TI calc emulator be considered illegal even though we all own TI calcs?

I have also heard I could transfer the games onto the computer myself with a little adapting magic. (haven't quite figured out how I'd do it though, but other people online say they have).

Any comments, ideas, personal experience, websites, or pointers?

My main purpose is to find a way to play some of my unplayable games again.

Post by **tr1p1ea** » Wed 04 Apr, 2007 5:18 pm

Project64 seems to be a good emulator that is still updated: http://www.pj64-emu.com/

Regardless of whether or not you own the games/etc ... please dont ask for roms/rom links on these boards.

Post by **Dwedit** » Wed 04 Apr, 2007 5:39 pm

There's also Mupen64, which does re-recording, so you can watch Tool Assisted Speedrun videos on it.

threefingeredguy · Post by **threefingeredguy** » Wed 04 Apr, 2007 8:14 pm

One of the things I like about project64 is the ability to play MarioKart online.

Homestar · Post by **Homestar** » Thu 05 Apr, 2007 12:42 am

One thing I just remembered is that the wii can play the oldies (don't know why it didn't hit me sooner), although I'll have to re-buy the games

. but for $5-10 ea that's reasonable.

Madskillz · Post by **Madskillz** » Thu 05 Apr, 2007 4:01 am

Do they have all the games available yet?

Post by **kv83** » Thu 05 Apr, 2007 10:21 am

You mean all the N64 games on the Wii? No, only 3 in EU (SM64, MK64 and Zelda: OoT) and 4 in US (same + Lylat Wars)

Homestar · Post by **Homestar** » Thu 05 Apr, 2007 11:47 am

Do you have any idea if Nintendo intends to come out with all the games eventually? Or will they only release a few.

randroid · Post by **randroid** » Thu 05 Apr, 2007 4:35 pm

Im pretty sure they only intend on making certain best sellers available to the Virtual Console. Otherwise it takes up server room for them, cause I mean seriously who wants to buy Yoshi Story for their Wii virtual console?

Homestar · Post by **Homestar** » Thu 05 Apr, 2007 11:10 pm

Well they could just sell the game in the store on a simple disc like all the others. Or mabye in a "value Pack", with all the James Bond, Zelda, or Mario Party games ect.

How much on board space does the Wii have anyway? Probably not enough to hold all the N64 games I intend to get.

Are you able to burn CDs or (cheaply) buy memory cards for the thing?

Post by **Dwedit** » Fri 06 Apr, 2007 12:02 am

N64 games are very tiny. You can theoretically fit 15 copies of Ocarina of Time on the internal storage.
Goldeneye ain't going to happen though, too many licencees tied up for that game. You'd need approval of Microsoft (who owns Rare) and Activision (who owns the current James Bond license)

Homestar · Post by **Homestar** » Mon 09 Apr, 2007 9:16 pm

Ok,

I've tried several emulators, but with the same result. for some reason they all are blank as-to my audio/video/keyboard, and say I need to choose the plugins. However they are all blank, and I am unable to choose any. None of the buttons do any actions (including the blue arrow).

Here's the General tab

Any suggestions?
It automatically picked up on everything on my brother's computer, but I can't get it to pick up on mine.

Post by **tr1p1ea** » Mon 09 Apr, 2007 11:51 pm

What kind of hardware do you have in your pc?

Homestar · Post by **Homestar** » Tue 10 Apr, 2007 1:11 am

I have a pretty modern computer, it was top of the line just a year ago when I bought it.

I fixed my original problem by re-downloading it (after lots of fiddling around to no avail. My current problem is that is says DirectX doesn't work when I try to load/play a ROM. And my brother is currently teasing my by playing Super Smash Bros. right next to me on his Laptop

I went into my system and All the Direct X tests with the spinning box work fine, but I had this same problem when I bought six Frisbees that came in a package labeled CallofDuty2. However this shouldn't be any strain on my system as thecheat's laptop has much lower stats than mine.

anyway here 'tis: (hope this is what you wanted)

hop · Post by **hop** » Tue 10 Apr, 2007 9:27 am

Set the directx plugin settings correctly or choose opengl or software rendering plugin.