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Originally Posted by Spyke4995
The 3DS might be playing a few ports or remakes of N64 games, but they are optimized to run on a 3DS. Emulation is always going to be harder, as the games will not be optimized for 3DS, but rather the Nintendo 64.
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This is the first person in here who actually has any idea how emulation works.
OOT and StarFox are running on 3DS because they were REMADE for 3DS. The entire way that the game is structured, how it uses the systems memory and resources, is based on a completely different infrastructure than what was available in the N64. The N64 was a relatively complicated machine, it was tough to develop for, and creating an emulator that can "translate" 3DS hardware into something N64 games can recognize, and utilize efficiently, would be very difficult, if it's even possible.
I mean, we saw Mario 64 on DS, is there a good n64 emulator for DS out there ? No, because it wasn't Mario 64 just slapped on a DS cart, the ENTIRE game was rewritten and redesigned to use the DS hardware.