Now Choose A Game To Play! Step 6 – Upscaling Resolution & Additional Options

To boot a game, select a game and press ‘Run’ to start the game. Scroll across to the right and you will see the N64 playlist that has been created along with your games. Now we’re ready to play! Step 5 – Choose A Game To PlayĬlose down the desktop menu and go back to the RetroArch frontend.

It is advisable here if you have a lot of games imported, then it can take some time to download all of the thumbnails, so you may decide to do this later. If you want to download thumbnails including the box art which is visible in RetroArch frontend you select games, then simply go to the Nintendo 64 playlist that has been created, right-click and select ‘Download all thumbnails’ then for ‘This Playlist’. Set The Default N64 Core To Mupen64Plus Step 4 – Download Box Art Thumbnails Downloading Box Art We now want to let RetroArch know which emulator core to use when playing N64 games by default, so right-click on the N64 playlist, go to ‘Associate Core’ then select Mupen64Plus. Advertisements RetroArch Desktop Manu Scanning For N64 ROMs Step 3 – Set Default N64 Emulator Go back to the Playlists tab and you will now see a Nintendo 64 playlist has been created along with your games. Next, locate your N64 games via the File Browser tab and then right-click and select ‘Scan Directory’. Open the Desktop Menu as it’s far easier to navigate On the main RetroArch menu, select ‘Show Desktop Menu’ this will display the desktop window where it is easier to access some more of the set-up options. We are now going to get RetroArch to scan your N64 games to make them easily accessible. Next, quit and restart RetroArch Step 2 – Scan for N64 Games & Create a Playlist Check to see if any updates are available for the N64 Core & databases (This is especially useful if you had already downloaded Mupen64Plus previously). Here we are going to select ‘Update Core Info Files’ and ‘Update Databases’ to ensure everything is as up-to-date as possible relating to the emulator core. Once you’ve downloaded the core goes back to the main menu and scroll down to ‘Online Updater’. There are currently two options in RetroArch for the N64, Parallel 64 and Mupen64Plus, we’re choosing Mupen64Plus as it has a reputation for having good all-round compatibility. So, go to ‘Load Core’, then ‘Download a core’. We then need to download an N64 emulator core.

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