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I had no issue emulating n64 games on my piece of shit machine almost 20 years ago. What even is this?
The first time I played ocarina of time, it was on a k6-2/450 with a voodo3-3000. It ran well enough that I considered it on par with a real N64. Edit: this would have been 2002/2003.
i just didn't want to say 25 years ago and have someone 'um akshuly' me about when emulation started getting viable.
To be fair, I was using ultrahle, which was a very high level emulator targeting mario64 and specifically needing a GLIDE-supporting card. It did well enough on ocarina as (my understanding is that) it used the same graphics engine as Mario64 and therefore the same function calls... but there were many other games that wouldn't run at all.