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:;[[m64p|simple64]]:A fork of Mupen64Plus with a custom-made Qt GUI. This is probably the easiest "just works out of the box" solution for Nintendo 64 emulation, as it comes bundled with ParaLLEl-RDP and ParaLLEl-RSP, ensuring both excellent compatibility and good speed without needing to mess with plugins or settings, provided your hardware supports Vulkan. However, unlike other emulators, it does not allow you to use other plugins. While it began as a shallow fork, it has increasingly become something closer to a hard fork, as its developer has opted to make various accuracy-focused changes to the emulation core that will require additional work to port back to upstream or to other forks. It also currently features only an interpreter core, as the dynarecs used by Mupen64Plus are incompatible with the core timing changes made by the developer. While this makes m64p simple64 more accurate than most other N64 emulators, it also results in slower performance. If more speed and enhancements are desired, there is an older build that is closer to upstream and uses GLideN64 as its graphics plugin - unfortunately lacking the texture enhancement suite required for use of texture packs and upscaling.

:Rosalie's Mupen GUI is a project aiming to close the gap between Project64 and Mupen64Plus in terms of user experience. Its interface is about on par with m64psimple64's in terms of cleanliness and ease of use, but unlike m64psimple64, it allows you to use other plugins. The latest version comes bundled with GLideN64 and ParaLLEl-RDP for video plugins, and mupen64plus-hle-rsp and ParaLLEl-RSP for RSP plugins, though it can still use the older plugins that come with regular Mupen64Plus in case your PC cannot handle the newer plugins. However, it currently does not allow you access to ParaLLEl-RDP's options within its GUI, so if you wish to make use of features such as upscaling or downsampling, you must do so by editing the mupen64plus.cfg file, whereas m64p simple64 does expose these options in its GUI. However, if you prefer GLideN64, this is a superior alternative, as it does have access to its settings GUI, and the last version of m64p simple64 that uses GLideN64 is becoming increasingly outdated.

Fortunately, tackling these problems has recently become a core focus of development in some N64 emulators, and attempts are underway to improve the situation. Ares currently has the most accurate timings overall, and already runs Earthworm Jim 3D's demos much better than other emulators. Meanwhile, m64p simple64 has recently pushed various timing-related commits aimed at improving accuracy, and as a result it may now be the only emulator that runs Donkey Kong 64 properly. As these efforts progress, it should be noted that a side-effect of improved timings may be greater in-game lag. This should not be seen as the emulator becoming slower, but rather the emulator behaving exactly like real hardware does, as many N64 games were notorious for framerate drops.

Recently, there has been an effort to emulate the 64DD, and now [[Project64]] and [[MAME]] can run several commercial 64DD games as part of its N64 emulator. This is being ported to [[CEN64]] with the help of [https://twitter.com/LuigiBlood LuigiBlood]. The latest newcomer is Mupen64Plus which is the base of other emulators such as [[m64p|simple64]] and [[RMG]].

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