gopher64

Gopher64 is a cross-platform N64 emulator. Some notable features:

• Netplay
• Homebrew support
• Upscaling
• CRT shader
• Emulate CPU overclocking
• Cheats
• Savestates
• RetroAchievements

download

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Windows:

• Standalone executable: gopher64-windows-x86_64.exe

MacOS:

• App Bundle: gopher64-macos-aarch64.zip
• Homebrew: brew install --cask gopher64

Linux:

• Standalone executable: gopher64-linux-x86_64
• Flatpak: flatpak install flathub io.github.gopher64.gopher64

Android:

• APK: gopher64-android.apk
• Play Store

wiki

https://github.com/gopher64/gopher64/wiki

discord

Discord invite link

controls

Keys are mapped according to these defaults. Xbox-style controllers also have a default mapping applied.

netplay

Gopher64 supports P2P netplay (online play with others).

Please read the guide before trying out netplay.

portable mode

If you would like to keep all the game data in the same folder as the executable, you just need to create a file called "portable.txt" in the same directory as the executable.

flatpak

If you want to run the flatpak from the command line, you need to add the --filesystem=host:ro option, for example:

flatpak run --filesystem=host:ro io.github.gopher64.gopher64 /path/to/rom.z64

building and usage

1. Install dependencies
2. Install rust
3. git clone --recursive https://github.com/gopher64/gopher64.git
4. cd gopher64
5. git submodule update --init --recursive
6. cargo build --release
7. ./target/release/gopher64 /path/to/rom.z64

build dependencies

Ubuntu 25

1. Install the SDL3 dependencies

2.  sudo apt install clang llvm
   

contributing

PRs that are vibe coded and/or co-authored by AI agents (Plan/Agent mode) are not permitted. If you are going to submit a PR, it should be scoped to a single feature/improvement.

Please contact me via a GitHub issue or Discord (loganmc10) before doing substantial work on a PR.

license

Gopher64 is licensed under the GPLv3 license. Many portions of gopher64 have been adapted from mupen64plus and/or ares. The license for mupen64plus can be found here. The license for ares can be found here.

privacy and code signing policy

Free code signing for the Windows release is provided by SignPath.io, certificate by SignPath Foundation.

During online netplay sessions, the server logs your IP address and basic session information (game title and session name) for operational purposes. No additional personal data is collected or stored.

If you enable the RetroAchievements feature, some data is sent to their systems. Please see their terms here.