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-Emulators are programs made to emulate certain consoles that would otherwise cost alot of money to play. They are cheaper alternatives towards playing a game on a console. In order to play most games from consoles, you would need an emulator.
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+'''Emulators''' are programs with the purpose of simulating certain consoles on a PC and exist for nearly every console on the market.
-These are the most common N64 Emulators: [[Project64]], [[Mupen64]] and [[Bizhawk]]
+The most common [[Nintendo 64]] emulators are Project64 and Mupen64Plus, with Mupen64Plus being used as a core in the popular Retroarch multi-system emulator.
-==What are the differences between the emulators?==
+==N64 Emulators==
-[[Project64]] is most commonly used to support [[ROM Hacks|Super Mario 64 ROM hacks]], as well as having the feature to use cheats on all ROMs.
+* Mupen64 was originally released on December 10th 2001. It was designed to support multiple operating systems like Linux and Windows, and ports have been created for FreeBSD and MacOS, among others. Though the main emulator does not have TASing capability, many forks of it exist, one of which is [[Mupen64#Mupen64-RR|Mupen64-RR]]. Mupen64-RR is the emulator of choice for creating TASes of [[Super Mario 64]]
-[[Mupen64]] is most commonly used for recording movies, making TAS'es and testing purposes.
+* Bizhawk is a multi-emulator program started in 2012 that can emulate most consoles, including the N64. Bizhawk is also used for making TASes, but it has inaccurate emulation. However, it is preferred over Mupen64 on [[TASVideos]] because it standardizes loading times. Mupen64 TAS movies can be converted into Bizhawk TASes. Bizhawk's N64 emulation is based on [[Mupen64#Mupen64plus|Mupen64plus]], a fork of Mupen64.
-[[Bizhawk]] is a multi-emulator program that supports all types of consoles, including N64, [[Bizhawk]] is also used for making TAS'es, but [[Mupen64]] is more commonly used.
+* Project64 is used to play most N64 games and [[ROM Hacks|Super Mario 64 ROM hacks]], but has no TASing capability. Project64 versions v1.6 and v1.6.1 are the only versions of the emulator allowed in Super Mario 64 [[RTA|speedrunning]] communities, while versions v2.x are usually banned.
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