[erise]

My 12-inch iBook is a really great machine that seems pretty fast but for some strange reason I seem to be getting slow speeds in the Nintendo 64 emulator, sixtyforce. Running Mario 64, I seem to average framerates in the low 20's and users with 350 MHz G3's and ATI Rage 8 MB graphics cards are getting that high! I have 640 megs of RAM so that can't be the problem and I've set system performance to highest.

Could any other iBook users test out sixtyforce with Mario 64 and post what they are getting in terms of FPS? Thanks.

[ccsccs7]

I have a 600MHz G3 (8MB ATI Rage). I get about 15-20 FPS with sound enabled and 17-25 FPS without sound. This is the unregistered version with the 320x240 window and the Gerrit "watermark."

[dracoleb]

N64 emulation requires a lot of power. I have it on my Athlon XP 2200+ w/ 128Mb Radieon 9500 Pro and a Gig of DDR and it will still hang on a few games. I have yet to try it on my new iBook, it'll post results when I have.

[erise]

It seems that the latest sixtyforce version is slower than the previous ones. I tried 0.7.0 with the sixtyforce graphics plug-in and was able to get 30 fps (although Mario was running faster than on a real N64). The latest version gets around 15 fps in level with the glN64 graphics plug-in and about 25 fps with the sixtyforce graphics plug-in.

[besson3c]

registering it will really help improve performance, since you can run it full screen where it is much happier.

[ApeInTheShell]

I'd say the best solution is to go out and buy the N64 system and games you want. They are fairly inexpensive and offer better load time than the emulators i've used.
I use RockNES for older Nintendo games and it seems to do the trick.
Some ROM's are corrupted too so check into that.

[erise]

I already have a real N64. I don't want to have to bring all my systems to college next year though.

[kayam1977]

*cough XBOX cough*

Xbox lets you run MAME, sega master system, nes, snes, n64, genesis, c64 old pc, whatever emulations and great with they controllers