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Project64 began in March 1998 with a small team consisting of Zilmar and others. In September 1999, Zilmar was introduced to Jabo, who was developing an N64 Emulator of his own. In December 1999, Jabo was invited to join Zilmar on a collaborative effort for Project64. Jabo initially
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networking client. Players are able to join servers where multiple games may be hosted with other features remaining consistent with
Project64 1.4. In July 2011, Jabo decided to stop developing Project64 and released a modified version of 1.6 with some improvements. He also stated that no more
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and accessible to everyone. It was mentioned that a major part of the code was rewritten in this version. Then about a month later, Project64 2.1 was released. In April 2015, Project64 2.2 was released along with its source code in a
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releases of the source code were going to happen. However, in April 2013, Zilmar released both
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disk roms. On August 1, 2016, Project64 version 2.3 was released, eventually being updated to version 2.3.2 in
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Project64 through its official installer after numerous reports on social media websites of the installers containing
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system allowing third-party groups to use their own plug-ins to implement specific components. Project64 can play
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Project64 was considered one of the top performing emulators and the most popular
Nintendo 64 emulator in 2013. The program is licensed under the
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