Installation manual for Nintendo 64 emulator Project 64 for beginner





Installation manual for Nintendo 64 emulator Project 64 for beginner



Nintendo 64 was one of the main competitors for Sony Playstation back in the mid-late nineties. The console was a major powerhouse at that moment and some of the killer cartridges like Zelda Ocarina of Time and Super Mario 64 were the best selling games at that time. The N64 took the 3 Dimension gaming to the new level. The graphic were superior to the PSX and Saturn. However, Nintendo decision only to use cartridges in order to battle piracy makes many third party developers could not developed the games for the N64. The more expensive licensing fees and difficulties to stock cartridges (not to mention the fees for producing them) made the games for N64 lacking in numbers

There are two robust emulators for Nintendo 64 are Project 64 and 1964 in Windows operating system and in this manual we would like install the Project64.  The latest N64 emulator is version 2.1 and we can download the emulator from www.pj64-emu.com

The step for installing project 64

  1. You can visit to the emulator main site and go to the download page.
  2. Look for PJ64 ver 2.1 and download the exe file
  3. Double click the Pj64.exe
  4. Click next
  5. Skip the two ads by clicking skip
 















After the exe finished, open the software, you can see the main menu of the emulator

Now you will see three tabs in the upper part of the emulators. Lets look at them

File tab


  1. Use it to choose the ROM image you wants to play
  2. If you happen to play a game in a windowed environment, this will end the game
  3. Choose the language for the emulator
  4. If you put the roms images in one folder, you can browse the computer and set the folder as the one for opening the game and all of the supported game will be displayed in the emulator windows as well as their compatibility status
  5. If you add or delete roms, choosing this option will update the rom list
  6. Self explanatory, closing the emulator

Option tab

  1. If you start the game in windows mode, clicking this will turn the game into a full screen
  2. Change the graphical properties of a ROM
  3. Change the audio properties
  4. Set the controller
  5. Change setting related to plugins, directories, keyboard shortcut, and ROM status.



Help tab

  1. User manual a.k.a how to use the software
  2. Frequent Asked Question. The list of problems that usually happened with the emulator, fully explained.
  3. Have trouble with the emu and linked to the net this will help you
  4. www.pj64-emu.com
  5. The version of the emulator as well as the programmers name


Advanced option tabs explanations

Configure Graphic Plugin


  1. The bigger the number, the bigger the windowed app
  2. The bigger the number, the better the overall graphic of the game (in full screen)
  3. Copy sync, will not render the frame buffer (some frame buffer effect in the game will missing), if your hardware is capable of showing the frame buffer effect without losing the performance, you can choose the triple buffer
  4. Increasing the texture filtering for the game. The bigger the number, the better of the quality of the game's texture
  5. Increasing the full scene anti aliasing. Ideal if you have decent video card
  6. Only applicable if you open a game. It increases the brightness of the game
  7. Only applicable if you open a game. Changing the aspect ratio of the game in full screen windows.  It has four choices. Automatic, stretch (will stretch the game aspect ratio to your full screen), force 4:3 (letterbox screen), and 16:9 (cinematic aspect ratio)
  8. Activate Super 2xsal texture, a software render to make the three Dimension graphic looks sharper
  9. Activate texture filter, which make rougher edge looks softer.

Configure Audio Plugin

  1. The slider to increase or decrease the sound
  2. Start in-game audio recording
  3. Stop in-game audio recording
  4. It will make the software sync the audio with the video so that they look consistent

Configure Controller plugin

  1. You can set the controller for four players. You can easily change which player controller that you want to configure
  2. You can choose this to set the keyboard button that you want as the controller
  3. It loads a saved controller configuration
  4. It changes the configuration back to the original keyboard layout
  5. It saves the change that you make to the keyboard layout.



How to play the N64 games

You can click in file --> Open rom --> find the ROM you want to play and click open



That's it for now. Thank you for reading 




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