Nintendo 64 ROMs
Nintendo · 1996 · 868 games
Showing 1–30 of 868 · Most popular
This page lists 868 Nintendo 64 (N64) ROMs, sorted by how often each one is downloaded. The N64 was released by Nintendo in 1996. The games archived here originally came out between 1985 and 2002.
The most common genres in this library are Sports, Action, Platformer and Role-Playing. The most downloaded titles right now are Super Mario 64, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and Mario Kart 64.
To play these files you need a N64 emulator — simple64 and Mupen64Plus are the ones most people use. Each download below is a game file, not the emulator itself.
- Manufacturer
- Nintendo
- Released
- 1996
- ROMs archived
- 868
- Games from
- 1985–2002
- Regions
- USA, Europe and Japan
- Emulators
- simple64 and Mupen64Plus
Super Mario 64
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Mario Kart 64
Super Smash Bros.
007 - GoldenEye
Legend of Zelda, The - Majora's Mask
Mario Kart 64 (Europe)
Mario Party 3
Banjo-Kazooie
Pokemon Stadium 2
Donkey Kong 64 (Europe)
Star Fox 64
Donkey Kong 64
Doom 64
Mortal Kombat Trilogy
Diddy Kong Racing
Paper Mario (Europe)
Conker's Bad Fur Day (EU)
Yoshi's Story
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - Master Quest
Perfect Dark
Star Wars: Rogue Squadron
Cruis'n USA
Spider-Man
Mario Party 2
Bomberman 64
Mortal Kombat 4
Resident Evil 2 (Europe)
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3
Pokémon Stadium (EU)
About the Nintendo 64
The Nintendo 64 was the first console built around an analogue stick and a rumble motor, two ideas so obviously correct that every controller since has included both. It launched in 1996 with a small library and a cartridge format that cost developers dearly, and Sony's disc-based PlayStation took the generation.
What the N64 did have was a handful of games that redefined how 3D space works. Its influence far outweighs its sales.
Choosing an N64 emulator
N64 emulation was historically difficult because early emulators relied on per-game graphics hacks rather than accurate hardware reproduction. That has changed. simple64 and ares now offer high accuracy, and Mupen64Plus with the GLideN64 plugin remains a solid general choice.
Project64 is still widely used and works, though the newer accuracy-focused options handle edge cases better.
Byte order and file extensions
N64 ROMs appear as .z64, .n64 or .v64, and the difference is byte ordering rather than content. Z64 is big-endian, the format the hardware actually used, and is the safest choice.
Modern emulators detect and convert all three automatically, so this rarely matters in practice, but a ROM that refuses to load is occasionally a byte-order problem.
Expansion Pak games
Some titles required the 4MB Expansion Pak accessory — Donkey Kong 64 shipped with one, and Majora's Mask would not run without it. Emulators expose this as a memory setting, usually enabled by default.
If a game refuses to start or crashes at the title screen, confirming expanded memory is enabled is the first thing to check.
Frequently asked questions
- Why do N64 games look blurry?
- The console applied heavy texture filtering and an anti-aliasing pass that modern displays exaggerate. Most graphics plugins let you reduce or disable both.
- Do N64 games need a BIOS?
- No. The console had no separate boot ROM, so games run directly.
- Which emulator is most accurate?
- ares and simple64 lead on accuracy. Mupen64Plus and Project64 are faster and fine for most of the library.