How UltraHLE changed Nintendo 64 emulation forever | MVG

In 1999 UltraHLE did the impossible - fast Nintendo 64 emulation on a Pentium II machine. This is the story of the emulator that made history.

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[MrJibaku]

Went over to my friends houses and he looked at me and asked me to sit down at his pc. He started this emulator and I started looking for where he hid the console. This was unheard of, it was amazing.

[joshuawalker]

"It's impossible to emulate an N64 in a PC. A PC is only 32 bit and the N64 is 64 bit!" - I heard this back in the day.

[elmalloc]

I remember when this came out, I was in college, and "its-a-me mario" loaded up on my PC. I skipped all my classes that day.

[edale]

I remember when UltraHLE came out.... that's when I found out it's nearly impossible to play a N64 game without a proper N64 controller....

[kuroi_]

N64 Roms in 1999: hours to download
N64 Roms in 2019: merely 5 seconds

[lazlack]

I use to think my dad was a wizard back when he set up a bunch of emulators for me, that ultrahle menu takes me way back!

[KennethDPedersen]

I love to see a MAME history recap like this...

[dreadskeleton]

I love how the name "NESticle" is ingrained in emulation history.

[Yoshimaniac]

why does a n64 emulator for Windows 98 run better than n64 on Windows 10 haha

[LonSeidman]

This brings back so many memories. UltraHLE was mind blowing and the early internet drama that came with it was fascinating to watch unfold. The late 90s were the golden age of emulation and this was definitely the most notable development at the time. I had just graduated college and built a monster Pentium II 450mhz PC with a Voodoo card - UltraHLE ran super smooth it was amazing.

[Noxedwin]

*Emulator devs:* *_*makes emulators that can run commercial games._**
*Random people:* *_*starts pirating and running commercial games._**
*Emulator devs:* :o

[InsaneFirebat]

So that's why it's called Snes9x! I appreciate the emulator history lessons.

[heldersilvak]

UltraHLE changed my life. I wrote a couple of Glide wrappers for it at the time (XGlide and OpenGlide), and that was the kickstart of my career in CG. Awesome times

[Xunkar]

This is 2019 and accurate N64 emulators are still a myth, fascinating.

[neilhuston]

"Nesticles". "Genecyst" lmao these 2000s programmers had jokes

[louskunt]

"My brother's name is Mario"


Nintendo: Call the lawyers.

[bepatientIhaveautism]

"Nesticle" is such a great name for an emulator

[TheRestartPoint]

I remember when UltraHLE came out and we couldn't believe it, it was very soon after the N64 was released here in the UK. My flatmate had just bought Zelda Ocarina and I was playing it on my PC before he brought it home haha. I was at Uni, which was a very useful place to download all this stuff and roms before broadband was a useful for playing DukeNukem and C&C network games!

[DxsPro]

i also remember when ultrahle came out.. the emulation community back then was sure a functional emulator wouldnt come out for years.. the other emulators could barely open a loading screen of a game.. then ultrahle came out of no where, the first version of it played games near perfect, , there was no early versions slowly making progress, it just came out and worked, so it blew peoples minds.. and then the devs basically vanished straight after, but people were craving for more games to be supported.. the emulation scene was wild back then, with stuff like bleem being a product sold on shelves.. websites that were solely news websites for emulators, providing news on updates of emulators, emulator chat rooms.. so kinda exciting times, it was all new and fresh - emulators now just seem achievable if people put the resources into them (like you can get them on your phone, and it just seems like a typical app), back then they were a new concept.

[Super_Death]

I remember when they said emulating the ps3 on pc was impossible