# cor64: C# Nintendo 64 emulator

> cor64 is a work-in-progress Nintendo 64 emulator written in C#. The README builds and runs it with nuke, and lists .NET Framework or Mono, .NET Core 3.x or newer, and GLFW development libraries on Linux. Global dotnet tools named in the README are Paket and nuke.globaltool.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/bdragoncore/cor64>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/bdragoncore/cor64/blob/75d5ebebb513bde48023b0b569b17690e436f42b/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/cor64/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/cor64/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/cor64/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** .NET Framework or Mono, .NET Core 3.x or higher, and the global dotnet tools Paket and nuke.globaltool. Linux builds need GLFW development libraries.
- **Prerequisites:** Build and run with nuke Run. Tests use nuke Test.
- **License:** GitHub reports the license as MIT.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/bdragoncore/cor64/blob/75d5ebebb513bde48023b0b569b17690e436f42b/README.md>

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