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[joshuagor44]

Is it possible?

[kyus]

If you walked into a room and saif that out loud to any of us, you'd be lucky to make it out with a single shred of dignity

In short, no, n64 isn't, and won't ever be possible on ds.

*stifles snigger*

[arnoldmau]

because of buttons issue + analog stick???

[Thundrestrike]

no, because to emulate a system, you must have a device that is more than double more powerful than the system being emulated

Even snes is troublesome to emulate on the DS, but luckily, we have very talented coders such as bubble2k, and gladius for that

N64: IMPOSSIBLE

[Biggie578]

what are the specs of the DS?

N64 is:
CPU: 64-bit R4300i RISC (93.75MHz) / 64-bit data paths, registers with 5-stage pipelining
Co-processor: 64-bit RISC (62.5MHz)
RAM: 4MB (36Mb) upgradeable
Graphics: Pixel Drawing Processor (RDP) built into co-processor
Colors: 16.7 million (32,000 on screen)
Polygons: 150,000 per second
Resolution: 640x480 pixels
Sound: 16 to 24-channel 16-bit stereo (up to 100 PCM channels possible)

and i know that PSP has a 333mhz processor, so that explains why it can emulate N64.

[FifthE1ement]

Well, the PSP does a pretty good job of emulating the N64 with the Daedalus emulator.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/daedalus-n64/

The DS cannot as it’s basically a watered-down N64 and will never be able to run N64 games. Mario 64 DS had to be completely redone for the DS and it took almost as long to port it as most new games take to make.

DS Specs:
CPU: ARM9 67Mhz and ARM7 33Mhz processors
Memory:  4MB
Video RAM: 656KB
Polygons: 120,000
Screens: Upper Screen: 3in diagonal, semitransparent reflective TFT color back lit LCD, 256 x 192 pixels, .24 DPI capable of displaying 260,000 simultaneous colors,  Lower Screen: The same as top but with transparent analog touch screen
Wireless Communication: 802.11 & Nintendo's proprietary format
Audio: Virtual surround sound, built-in stereo headphone / microphone jack
Game cartridge slots: 1 DS slot, 1 Game Boy Advance / SP slot
Size: (closed) 5.85 x 3.33 x 1.13 in.
Weight: (with DS cartridge installed) 9 oz.
Power: Rechargeable lithium-ion battery, 6-10 hours continuous play depending on use per 4 hours recharging time