Direct64

Direct64 is a video plugin for N64 emulators developed by Orkin, based on his earlier glN64 plugin.

Before Orkin stopped working on it, Direct64 was showing promise, with some features other plugins lacked and plans to bring it in line with Rice Video and Glide64.

Compared with more developed plugins, Direct64 was a clean and fast alternative, and it emulated the games it supported quite accurately.

Orkin has not been active since 2005, so the plugin is dead. Unlike glN64, its source code was never released.

Direct64 is now largely redundant, as it lacks the features and compatibility of more developed plugins. It can occasionally handle an edge case correctly, and because it is well optimised it runs better on low-end systems than plugins such as Glide64.