Nintendo 64 or N64 is one of the best ever gaming consoles created by Nintendo, and is perhaps the first game console with 3D rendering & 64-bit architecture. Games like Super Mario 64 and Legend of Zelda : Orcanine still are considered classics. Though, the console is discontinued you can still play N64 games on your Mac device (MacBook Air, Pro, Mac Mini, iMac etc) by using an emulator. So, here are the Best Nintendo 64 N64 emulators for Mac OS X.

Jun 22, 2017  Welcome to the Guide of how to emulate the games for Nintendo 64 on Mac. The Nintendo 64 was one of the best console of the 90s. After almost twenty years from the date of output becomes more and more difficult to recover the canons of this legendary Nintendo video games consoles.

Top 3 Free Nintendo N64 Emulators for Mac OS X –

Note – We are writing about the emulators which let you play N64 Games (n64 ROMs) on your Mac OS X. However, these do not come with any ROMs due to copyright issues, hence you will need to download your game roms (n64 roms) from sites like CoolRom, loverom in-order to play them inside the N64 Emulator.

N64 Emulator for Mac # 1 – OpenEmu

Open Emu is perhaps the best Nintendo 64 / N64 emulator for Mac OS X devices, due to some salient features it provides such as –

• All in One Emulator , Supporting many Retro Gaming consoles such as N64, SNES, GBC, and many more!
• Gamepad and Joystick Controller Support to play games.
• Ability to Save game states and load from there.
• Mupen 64 Core emulation for N64

N64 Emulator for Mac # 2 – SixtyForce

The second option will allow you to download your private key, which you should do, and store in a safe place-perhaps on a USB drive in a safe. Gpg mail. This will make it easier for people to send encrypted emails to you, as they should be able to pull your public key from the server instead of you sending it to them.Microsoft OutlookGpg4win comes with a GpgOL Outlook plugin, but unfortunately, as of this writing, it does not seem to work with Outlook 2016. Be sure to check the box for ASCII armor. The last option will upload your public key to an Open PGP compliant server.

Sixty force is yet another decent Nintendo 64 emulator for Mac OS X. Sixty force supports Nintendo DD (Disk Drive) emulation too but the bad thing about that is it doesn’t support saving game state!. This is absolutely a must incase of game freeze but sadly its not available in the Free version.

However, Sixtyforce supports external gamepad or controllers and the emulation is really fast and good even on Mac OS X Sierra.

N64 Emulator for Mac # 3 – wx Mupen 64 Plus

wx Mupen 64 Plus is one of the official Front end for Mupen 64 listen on their site. Though, the Front end works lag-free and other emulator based on Mupen 64 – Open Emu also works fine. we faced some issues with wx Mupen 64 – The Screen was too distorted , plus since the fronted doesn’t support keyboard input for games (We were unable to play N64 games on this emulator with Keyboard, games worked fine with USB Controllers / Joystick)

Incase, if the above two emulators do not work for you, then only you can give a try to wx Mupen 64 Plus

Thus, these are currently the Best 3 Free Nintendo 64 or N64 emulators for Mac OSX which will let you relive the old gaming classics . Incase if you face any difficulties or know of other good alternative feel free to comment!