Features
When Corn was released in 1999, it was known for being one of the highest performance N64 emulators available. This exceptional performance is reputedly attributed to the use of fully static recompilation of the MIPS instruction code for N64 programs to the native x86 instructions. High performance was also achieved through the use of high-level emulation techniques. A limited overview of the technical features, and goals of Corn were discussed in an interview with ContraSF.
Corn's compatibility with N64 programs was highly limited, and Corn was initially only optimized for Mario 64. While other games would run with Corn, there were often emulation inaccuracies and other major problems. This lack of compatibility is due to:
- The limitations of HLE techniques; which can require significant new code to be written for each original game title to be supported.
- The challenge of statically recompiling a binary program from one computer architecture to another.
- An apparently limited development life after initial release.
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