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Nintendo 64 – Yes, That N64 – Now Has an Open World Game as Big as Skyrim

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The Nintendo 64 may be nearly 30 years old, but that hasn’t stopped dedicated fans and tinkerers from still finding new ways to push the hardware’s limits. James Lambert’s Open-World N64 Experiment Gamers who are old enough to have lived through the N64 era remember how groundbreaking and exciting things felt when Nintendo made the leap from the Super Nintendo to the Nintendo 64. The launch lineup, the colorful controllers, and a stable of titl…

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The Nintendo 64: Mario, Zelda, its iconic controller... and its famous fog. If some games of the console were impressive for the time, many suffered from this mist that hid the decor at a certain distance. Yet, the console had much to do with turning worlds with a much larger viewing distance.

James Lambert, the developer behind Portal 64, has just revealed Junkrunner 64: an open world game that runs on a real Nintendo 64. The card is comparable to Skyrim's, without a load screen. Hard to believe, and yet it's turning. The creator of Portal 64 recidivism James Lambert is not at his test on Nintendo's console. After carrying Portal on the N64 (a project that had made a lot of noise), he tackled an even more ambitious challenge: creatin…

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Hackaday broke the news in on Monday, March 30, 2026.
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