Project64

Project64 is a free open-source Nintendo 64 emulator.

History
Zilmar began developing Project64 in March 1998 with a small team. In December 1999, Jabo, who had been developing an N64 emulator of his own, was invited to join the Project64 team. Jabo did not initially intend on being the RDP/Graphics developer, having a greater interest in assembly language and the central processing unit (CPU); however, he found himself often working on the graphics aspects of the emulator.

In July 2011, Jabo decided to stop working on Project64 and released a modified version of 1.6 with some improvements. He also stated that no more releases of the source code were going to happen; however, in April 2013, Zilmar released an official repository of Project64's source code on GitHub, making the software fully open-source and accessible to everyone.

Safety concerns
Up until version 2.2, there were numerous reports of Project64's official installer containing malware. Fortunately, in July 2016, this malware code was removed from both the source code and its installers. When Project64 2.3 was released, however, a harmless yet irritating nagware screen began to occur after the software had been used a number of times, which grew more persistent with successive launches as a forced waiting period is installed. The emulation community, however, has managed to find a way around this issue.