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N64 Homebrew Game development is improving and this documentation is a key part of that.

Introduction

All of the individual parts are described in detail below and on their linked pages, but first let's describe what we can expect.

This is a great console if you want to do a 3D game with some constraints to challenge yourself.

The main CPU runs at 93 MHz (not GHz)
The graphic processor (RSP) runs at 62 MHz
The system has 4-8 MB of RAM
The maximum commercial game cartridge is 64 MB

Hardware

Main CPU MIPS R4300

Is a MIPS R4300 64-bit Processor with a Floating Point Co-Processor

RSP - Reality Signal Processor

Is a MIPS R4000 32-bit Processor with an SIMD (Single Instruction Multiple Data) Co-Processor

RDP - Reality Display Processor

Is a dedicated hardware drawing process with a hard coded command set

Video Interface

Is the configuration of resolution and color depth and a few effects that are applied to the image before being displayed.

Audio Interface

This configures the Audio DAC (Digital Analog Converter)

Peripheral/Cartridge Interface

This is the memory area to read data/code from the cartridge

Serial Interface

This is how the console interacts with the 4 controller ports and EEPROM save type.

Boot Process

PIF

Software

SDKs

pseultra - an open-source alternative to the official N64 SDK. Still a work-in-progress but very feature-rich already; the only important feature that is missing (at this time of writing) is audio output.

Game Development Libraries

Compilers

Build Tools

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