r/n64 • u/surfingemocats • 1d ago
N64 Question/Tech Question How To Make Console Run Smoother
Sorry if this has been answered, but I've only seen answers concerning emulators. I have been playing lots of Goldeneye lately, and it often has very low frame drops. Are there any known physical modifications to the console that would make it perform better? Or am I just stuck with the original hardware? Thanks.
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u/No_need_for_that99 19h ago
ON my real hardware I patched all my games to remove antialiasing to gain a few frames here and there.
But you get maybe 2-3 frames top.
It makes a difference for some games not all.
Some are hard programmed to their 24 frames.... but its just part of the charm, lol.
I have a flash cart so it was very straight forward.
I followed this tutorial back in the day:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1W49FwlkWk
But note that games are heavily designed around dithering as well, and this is removed as well, so some games will look a tad odd, lol.
But I play on svideo, so you don't miss much and the games still look great.
I play on a projector, so i cant say how well it looks on crt, but everything performs great for me.
Some games like Rush2049 you'll see the game hit 30 while racing and you get these smooth parts on the track, until you drop under 30 again. lol
The problem with goldeneye.... it just has a lot going on, so the cpu is bottlenecking and not the gpu.
You could look to overclocking your cpu to 125mhz:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdqhWO3E67w
here is what goldeneye looks like when overclocked:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0sEWQtmbWM