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[Suptuou]

Which emulator/platform should I use to play older Zelda games? Which emulator or platform do you personally recommend?

 

[Spike's iconSpike]

This for Nintendo 64 games https://github.com/Rosalie241/RMG

You can also use retroarch for all of them. Most cores will work similarly.

 

[DEH]

M64Plus FZ Emulator it's not bad and is updated often.

 

[LastValsion]

If you want some QoL options and modding capability then the decomp of OoT Ship of Harkinian (PC Port) will do a pretty amazing job. You have to provide your own rom of OoT in order to play it though. Though if you want to play on an emulator then what Spike and deh mentioned work fine too.

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[fake-kun]

Ares if your computer can handle it.

 

[Clippy]

As far as Ocarina of Time goes you can play the unofficial PC port as well.

 

[thecrow2313]

An unofficial PC port of Star Fox 64 has arrived just in time for Christmas

www.techspot.com

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GitHub - HarbourMasters/Shipwright

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[Stookymalarkey]

Here's what I recommend for standalone emulators (if you don't want to use Retroarch):

The first two Zelda games are NES, and so either Nestopia or MESEN are your best options. For Link to the Past, you can use SNES9x, BSNES or Ares. For the GBC games (Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons), I use SameBoy. For the GBA games, I would recommend either mGBA or NanoBoyAdvance. The DS games like Phantom Hourglass can be played on MelonDS.

As for the Gamecube and Wii games (like Twilight Princess and Windwaker) your only option is Dolphin. The Retroarch core I find is usually slow to update with the latest changes.

 

[Kremiso]

for the Snes titles i like to use Bsnes over Snes9x for the bit better slowdown controls, can be useful in some difficult parts

hope you'll put in the list also Four Swords Adventures, that is imo fabulous (and not easy at all!)
then, also Dolphin :)

 

[aquova]

For the 2D systems (NES, SNES, Game Boy/Color/Advance) I second Ares. It's simple to use and it's nice to have a single program that can do all of them. Ares also supports N64, but it runs really hard on my computer, more so than the others. I'd recommend RMG then for N64. For GameCube/Wii, your best (only) option is Dolphin, which is really well made.

 

[thecrow2313]

Checkout this

https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/9000/

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Ocarina of Time: Demon's Quest​

 

[GuiPeli]

To play Ocarina of Time, I really recommend that you play 3DS version. For this, you can choose between Citra or Azahar. Citra is more popular and has more compatibility since it's older than Azahar.