Mupen64Plus

Mupen64Plus, formerly named Mupen64-64bit and Mupen64-amd64, is computer software, a cross-platform Nintendo 64 emulator, written in the programming languages C and C++. It allows users to play Nintendo 64 games on a computer by reading ROM images, either dumped from the read-only memory of a Nintendo 64 cartridge or created directly on the computer as homebrew. It is free and open-source software.

History

Mupen64, the forerunner to Mupen64Plus, was released December 10, 2001 by Hacktarux. Mupen64 was designed to be cross-platform, the first release running on both Linux and Windows operating systems. As the emulator progressed, support was added for FreeBSD, AROS and OS X, but these ports were not maintained as much or as well as the Linux and Windows versions.

On August 26, 2005, Mupen64 version 0.5 was released. It was the last version of Mupen64 by Hacktarux, although several branches of the project were made, one of which was Mupen64Plus. In October 2007, Mupen64 was forked by Richard Goedeken (richard42). His work went through several releases before settling on the name Mupen64Plus.