We've encountered no problems apart from the occasional frame rate chug. For this particular guide, we are using our unrooted Nexus 7. Pocket Gamer also takes no responsibility if you follow this guide and manage to bugger up your phone in the process.įirst things first, you need to make sure you've got a reasonably high-end Android phone to hand to get the most out of this emulator. Note: Pocket Gamer does not condone piracy, and offers this information for entertainment purposes only. It's still on Google Play, it's based on the popular Mupen64 PC emulator, and - because it's in beta testing - it's regularly updated with tweaks and fixes. So, for this step-by-step guide to running N64 games on your Android blower, we've used Paul Lamb's completely free (unless you want to make a donation) Mupen64Plus AE emulator. Previously, we've pegged N64oid as the primo 'droid emulator for the Nintendo 64 console, yet its removal from Google Play means development on N64oid stopped last April. It may not have had the biggest library of titles and it may have been hampered by a thumb-breaking joypad that future societies might presume was some sort of '90s torture device, but one mention of GoldenEye's multiplayer or Hyrule Fields in Ocarina of Time is enough to silence any criticism heading the N64's way. If there's one console that gamers get misty-eyed about whenever you mention it (besides the Dreamcast, of course), it's Nintendo's trailblazing N64.

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