{"id":30597,"date":"2018-07-05T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/hackers_have_now_found_a_way_to_emulate_nintendo_64_games_on_switch"},"modified":"2018-07-05T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T16:30:00","slug":"hackers-have-now-found-a-way-to-emulate-nintendo-64-games-on-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/07\/05\/hackers-have-now-found-a-way-to-emulate-nintendo-64-games-on-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers Have Now Found A Way To Emulate Nintendo 64 Games On Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/hackers_have_now_found_a_way_to_emulate_nintendo_64_games_on_switch\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/hackers_have_now_found_a_way_to_emulate_nintendo_64_games_on_switch\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"n64switch.png\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/hackers_have_found_a_way_to_emulate_nintendo_64_games_on_switch\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/07\/hackers_have_found_a_way_to_emulate_nintendo_64_games_on_switch\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"n64switch.png\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Nintendo 64 games have now been successfully emulated on Switch, teasing those who would love to see the classic console&#8217;s stellar library come to the new system for real.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been hearing of multiple stories surrounding hacking on Switch over the last few months, with players <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/06\/switch_hackers_are_now_forcing_adult-themed_imagery_into_super_mario_odyssey\">forcing adult-themed imagery<\/a> into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_mario_odyssey\"><strong>Super Mario Odyssey<\/strong><\/a>, and Nintendo reportedly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/nintendo_bans_online_services_for_prominent_hackers_switch_console\">banning all online services<\/a> for certain hackers&#8217; consoles. Thanks to this, these N64 emulations hardly come as a surprise, but it&#8217;s still interesting <em>and equally concerning<\/em> to see them up and running regardless.<\/p>\n<p>Short videos of the emulations have been shared on\u00a0Twitter by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_Mizumi\">@_Mizumi<\/a>, showing how several fan-favourite titles could look if Nintendo decides to re-publish them in the future. First up we have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/super_mario_64\"><strong>Super Mario 64<\/strong><\/a> and a modded version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/mario_kart_64\"><strong>Mario Kart 64<\/strong><\/a> that features Dragon Ball characters.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">N64 games on the Switch <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/74TWMVepRT\">pic.twitter.com\/74TWMVepRT<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Billy\ud83d\udd1cCTcon (@_Mizumi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_Mizumi\/status\/1014564704843427843?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 4, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Followed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/pokemon_stadium_2\"><strong>Pok\u00e9mon\u00a0Stadium 2<\/strong><\/a> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/n64\/kirby_64_the_crystal_shards\">Kirby 64: The Crystal\u00a0Shards<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"de\" dir=\"ltr\">Pok\u00e9mon Stadium 2 runs pretty well. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7r0cDG3gCl\">pic.twitter.com\/7r0cDG3gCl<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Billy\ud83d\udd1cCTcon (@_Mizumi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_Mizumi\/status\/1014622459268616193?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 4, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kirby 64 is smooth too <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/n012kH8XsJ\">pic.twitter.com\/n012kH8XsJ<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Billy\ud83d\udd1cCTcon (@_Mizumi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_Mizumi\/status\/1014624002944487424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 4, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>With Nintendo&#8217;s upcoming online service seemingly replacing the Virtual Console setup as we know it, it does seem unlikely that we&#8217;ll see N64 games on Switch any time soon. We&#8217;re also yet to see any truly convincing hints that might suggest an N64 Classic Edition could be on the way, so you might just have to keep firing up the real deal for now.<\/p>\n<p><em>Would you like to see N64 games on\u00a0Switch? Let us know which games you&#8217;d love to see ported to Nintendo&#8217;s shiny new console in the comments below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo 64 games have now been successfully emulated on Switch, teasing those who would love to see the classic console&#8217;s stellar library come to the new system for real. We&#8217;ve been hearing of multiple stories surrounding hacking on Switch over the last few months, with players forcing adult-themed imagery into Super Mario Odyssey, and Nintendo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}