/N64FlashcartMenu

Universal N64 flashcart menu for wide variety of devices

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N64 Flashcart Menu

An open source menu for N64 flashcarts.

Supported Flashcarts

Fully supported

  • SummerCart64
  • 64Drive

Work in Progress

  • ED64
  • ED64P

Current (notable) menu features

  • Fully Open Source.
  • Loads all known N64 games (including iQue and Aleck64 ROMs (even if they are byteswapped)).
  • Fully emulates the 64DD and loads 64DD disks (SummerCart64 only).
  • Emulator support (NES, SNES, GB, GBC) ROMs.
  • N64 ROM box image support.
  • Background image (PNG) support.
  • Comprehensive ROM save database (including HomeBrew headers).
  • Comprehensive ROM information display.
  • Real Time Clock support.
  • Music playback (MP3).

Documentation

Video showcase (as of Oct 12 2023)

N64FlashcartMenu Showcase

Aims

  • Support as many N64 FlashCarts as possible.
  • Be open source, using permissive licensed third party licensed libraries.
  • Be testable, using unit and smoke tests in ares emulated environment.
  • Encourage active development from community members and N64 FlashCart owners.
  • Support as many common mods and features as possible.

Experimental features

These features are subject to change:

ROM Boxart

To use boxart, you need to place png files of size 158x112 in the folder /menu/boxart on the SD card. Each file must be named according to the 2 letter ROM ID, or 3 letter ROM ID including media type. i.e. for GoldenEye 2 letters, this would be GE.png. i.e. for GoldenEye 3 letters, this would be NGE.png. A known set of PNG files using 2 letter ID's can be downloaded here.

Menu Settings

The Menu creates a config.ini file in sd:/menu/ which contains various settings that are used by the menu. If required, you can manually adjust the file on the SD card using your computer.

Flashcart specific

SC64

  • Ensure the cart has the latest firmware installed.
  • Download the latest sc64menu.n64 file from the releases page, then put it in the root directory of your SD card.

64drive

  • Ensure the cart has the latest firmware installed.
  • Download the latest menu.bin file from the releases page, then put it in the root directory of your SD card.

ED64 & ED64P

Currently not supported, but work is in progress (See PR's).

The aim is to replace Altra64 and ED64-UnofficialOS.

Open source software and licenses used