Although it was a much higher powered machine than Sonys Playstation or Segas Saturn, the N64 always lagged behind in sales.

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Nintendo chose to sell the machine on the merits of its fast-loading cartridge system and the insignificant fact that it featured a 64-bit architecture - unfortunately for Nintendo, people were more impressed by high-capacity CD media, in-game movie sequences and pre-recorded soundtracks than fast loading and the size of the machines pipeline.

Developers often preferred the Playstation for their titles due to the N64s inability to provide media rich content which games such as the Final Fantasy series demanded.

Although the hardware facilitated classics such as Goldeneye and the late Perfect Dark, it wasnt enough to win over the masses.

A fairly modern system is needed to play emulate the machine, and a 3D accelerated graphics card is an absolute must (onboard graphics wont cut the mustard here).

Game ROMs are available from ripped cartridges, ranging in size (5MB-70MB).

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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.

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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.

Sixty force supports Nintendo DD (Disk Drive) emulation too but the bad thing about that is it doesnt support saving game state.

This is absolutely a must incase of game freeze but sadly its not available in the Free version.

Though, the Front end works lag-free and other emulator based on Mupen 64 Open Emu also works fine.

Incase if you face any difficulties or know of other good alternative feel free to comment.

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