Would it be possible to translate N64 (R4300i special) Assembly to PC (intel arch) Assembly as a start and use specific video cards and sound cards as the video/sound unit (RCP I think). Why I ask is because of a Assembler called MASM32. It seems to have HIGH/LOW Level programming capibilites. I know this is almost if not the same as C. I was thinking of building a porter (i think thats what it''s called) in Assembly (MASM32) that translates a .ROM (Mario64 for a start, WHICH I OWN!!!) to a .EXE PC Executable. I was going to start with a... -PENTIUM III Processor (800Mhz & 128 Megs) -Diamond Viper 770 Ultra (NVIDIA TNT2) -SoundBlasterLive! -please don''t respond as if I was crazy or a newbie that has plotted a course before he built his ship!!! I just want a "professional" opinion on this matter, not the opinion of a disgruntled know-it-all wannabe GURU!

I think the big problem you run into emulating hardware is not the asm, its the IO. You can put something together that will translate r4300i to x86 in a perfectly valid fashion, but it won''t run without providing the correct bios routines, IO points, interraupt emulation, etc...

Thats why most emulators work off a virtual machine design that emulates the console''ss microcode with x86 opcodes and loads a .bin file that has the console''s bios in it.

If you could pull off a translation (ala Bleem!) you can actually run the demanding titles. Old NES emulators require somthing like a P90 to run well, and the NES was an ~8Mhz? processor...

I''m not sure how fast the N64 is, but you probably can''t have a 10:1 ratio and be able to play the games (until 3500MHz machines are available...)

Where in the .bin is the BIOS?
Is it the beginning code up to 0x00000040 and that up to
0x00001000 is the boot code?

You can emulate a SNES on a 486 66mhz just fine and i believe the nes is running at < 3 mhz. Emulating a N64 on a pc has already been done.