Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports

• Zelda64Recomp

  4 4,350 9.6 C++

  Static recompilation of Majora's Mask (and soon Ocarina of Time) for PC (Windows/Linux)

  

Other emulators want to solve the problem generically, and this solution doesn't quite.

Static recompilation from one machine language to one other language is not generally possible [1]. To make recompiling something like this properly, you need some help from the binaries that make recompilation easier [2] and on top of that you need to patch certain things to make this work [3].

Dynamic recompilation doesn't have this problem. It allows you to create software you can dump the original binaries+assets ("ROMs") in and it will generally emulate it.

There's a lot of confusion about how generic this solution it. It's extremely impressive in how much work it saves making recompilations/"ports" much easier, and it will be very valuable. But it is not able to replace the need for traditional emulators.

[1]: https://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/155511/why-is-static-...

[2]: N64 game binaries may happen to avoid a bunch of things that make general static recompilation hard.

[3]: The Majora's Mask recompilation repository contains a lot of handcrafted patches to make it work: https://github.com/Mr-Wiseguy/Zelda64Recomp

• N64Recomp

  4 5,687 5.7 C++

  Tool to statically recompile N64 games into native executables

  

I’m pretty sure Linux is natively supported via N64Recomp: https://github.com/Mr-Wiseguy/N64Recomp

An example of this can be found here: https://github.com/Mr-Wiseguy/Zelda64Recomp?tab=readme-ov-fi...

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• decomp.me

  6 336 9.3 TypeScript

  Collaborative decompilation and reverse engineering website

  

This is really cool. Many of the foundational tools created for N64 decomp are finding their way into other system decomp packages. I recently came across https://decomp.me/ which allows collaborative decompilarion for a bunch of systems with presets for their relevant SDKs and hardware. I’d imagine this happening several more systems in the coming years.

• 1964GEPD

  23 213 2.9 C

  1964 0.8.5 for GoldenEye 007/Perfect Dark

There is emulator hack for Goldeneye that add WASD + mouse support and I heard that it works great.

https://github.com/Graslu/1964GEPD/releases/tag/latest

• rt64

  1 851 7.6 C++

  RT64 is an N64 graphics renderer for playing with enhancements in emulators and native ports.

  

The N64 has a GPU, which is not the same as modern GPUs, and you need that GPU to render graphics.

Skimming the Github repo, looks like this uses rt64 under the hood for the raytracing support ( https://github.com/rt64/rt64 ), and that uses the ubershader technique to emulate the GPU. This excellent article talks about the what, why, and insanity that are ubershaders: https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2017/07/30/ubershaders/

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