Homebrew

Creating homebrew programs for the Nintendo 64, is both easy and hard. It's easy to make a "Hello World" program, but to truly use the hardware available will take some real initiative.

I had a bad experience getting a working N64 toolchain. I hope the following information can prove helpful and save other some frustration. I consider this current as of Sept 2018.

Linux toolchain Options:

• GCC cross compiler provided by Distro
• Glankk script
  • https://github.com/glankk/n64

Windows toolchain Options

• n64Chain

MacOS toolchain Options

Development Libraries:

• Official SDK: legally questionable, but complete coverage of all available features.
• libdragon: fully legal, supports most features, missing 3D
  • https://github.com/DragonMinded/libdragon
• 64Chain: Minimal implementation at this point, includes multi-threading and text to screen.
  • https://github.com/tj90241/n64chain
• pseultra: Actively developed includes a callback system instead of multi-threading, soon to include 3D triangles.
  • https://github.com/pseudophpt/pseultra