{
  "count": 1,
  "generated_at": "2026-10-20T02:57:31Z",
  "items": [
    {
      "id": "parallel_n64",
      "profile": {
        "core_classification": "community_fork",
        "core_version": "2.0-rc2",
        "cores": [
          "parallel_n64",
          "parallel_n64_debug"
        ],
        "display_name": "Nintendo - Nintendo 64 (ParaLLEl N64)",
        "emulator": "ParaLLEl N64",
        "files": [
          {
            "description": "64DD IPL ROM",
            "name": "64DD_IPL.bin",
            "note": "Only loaded when a 64DD disk image (.ndd) is present via subsystem API. Core fails to load disk games without it.",
            "path": "64DD_IPL.bin",
            "required": false,
            "source_ref": "libretro/libretro.c:848"
          }
        ],
        "notes": {
          "dd_note": "64DD IPL ROM loaded from system_dir/64DD_IPL.bin when disk_data is present. Loaded via fopen with no hash or size validation.\n",
          "divergence_note": "Fork of mupen64plus-core with significant divergence. Includes legacy GPU plugins (Glide64, glN64, Rice, angrylion) and ParaLLEl-RDP/RSP. Uses flat path 64DD_IPL.bin unlike mupen64plus-next which uses Mupen64plus/IPL.n64 subdirectory.\n",
          "hle_available": true,
          "hle_note": "PIF boot ROM is fully HLE'd (mupen64plus-core/src/device/pif/bootrom_hle.c:51). CIC challenge/response handled in software (n64_cic_nus_6105.c). No BIOS files needed for standard cartridge games.\n"
        },
        "profiled_date": "2026-03-24",
        "source": "https://github.com/libretro/parallel-n64",
        "source_commit": "0bd516ee793bb87b57e9eef19993b37ac0098d74",
        "systems": [
          "nintendo-64",
          "nintendo-64dd"
        ],
        "type": "libretro",
        "upstream": "https://github.com/mupen64plus/mupen64plus-core"
      }
    }
  ],
  "kind": "emulators",
  "schema_version": 1
}