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

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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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[–] Sabin10@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Then you are playing virtual console roms/injections, which typically have more issues than current proper n64 emulators.

If it's good enough for you, that's fine but it's far from perfect.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

What issues do you notice while playing the games?

Edit: Also, what you said has nothing to do with the video. So...

[–] Sabin10@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

If you are only playing officially released virtual console games then they only have minior issues, Nintendo did a really good job with n64 on the Wii. With injected roms you will run in to a lot more issues. Like I said, if it's good enough for you then that's fine but a proper n64 emulator will be more responsive and give you more options.