N64Wasm vs RustyN64
N64Wasm
github.comRustyN64
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| Figure | N64Wasm | RustyN64 |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 0 | 1 |
| Spec score · Nintendo 64 Emulators | 7.2 (#18) | 8.1 (#6) |
| Intended audience | The maker says the project began as an effort to create a well-playing open-source N64 emulator designed for the web and to learn OpenGL. | The project invites contributions in code, testing, documentation, and design, and describes itself as preserving video game history. |
| License | The GitHub repository identifies the project as MIT licensed. | RustyN64 is dual-licensed under MIT or Apache License 2.0. |
| Product | N64Wasm is an N64 emulator that runs in the browser. | RustyN64 is a cycle-accurate Nintendo 64 emulator written in pure Rust. |
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In their own words
RustyN64
RustyN64 is a free Nintendo 64 emulator written in pure Rust, built for cycle-accurate emulation. Its core schedules the CPU and coprocessors against a shared 187.5 MHz master-clock timeline. Version 0.7.0 is described as its first playable release, showing video, sound and controller input with homebrew ROMs. The project says its low-level graphics path matches Angrylion across 164 conformance vectors, while its accuracy battery remains stubbed at 0%. Identical seeds, ROMs and input sequences are stated to produce identical framebuffer and audio output. The desktop frontend offers save states, rewind and run-ahead, disabled by default. A WebAssembly browser entry point runs a homebrew ROM and displays video on a 2D canvas; a fuller browser shell remains roadmap work. Commercial support is limited: one title can boot and execute game code but has not yet reached a rendered frame. Desktop builds are listed for Linux x64, macOS ARM64 and Windows x64. Desktop use requires a wgpu-supported GPU backend, and commercial ROMs are not included.