Well, I spent the night at my friends house last night, and while I was there, He showed me that he could play N64 games such as "Banjo Kazooie" and "Bomberman 64" on his computer! I was shocked, and in a state of a complete and total awe. He showed me the site(emuparadise.com) and I scanned it when I got home; it's free of viruses and spyware. I downloaded the file for "Banjo Kazooie", and it was a .RAR file. It said I had to download one of two programs; WinRAR, or WinZIP. I downloaded both, for good measure, and attempted opening the .RAR file with WinRAR.

 

 

 

I opened it, and the only real options were "view" or "extract". When I chose view, it pulled up jibberish. When I clicked extract, I guess it extracted the file to "my documents". I went there, and didn't know what to do with it, so I double-clicked. My computer had no idea what to do with it. I tried opening it with WinZIP, but again, just confused me.

 

 

 

Is there anybody who can clear this up for me, possibly try to download a game from http://www.emuparadise.com, and try to extract and then install it? Or just tell me possible ways to do it?

Well extracting it was correct, but you have to have a program to play the extracted files on...your pc might not have known what to do b/c you don't have a program capable of running the extension of the file you downloaded.

What you downloaded was the rom of the game. Assuming you own the original game, it's legal so we can talk about this here.

 

 

 

You need a program to play the rom file called an emulator. Google is your friend, there are many of them out there.

So what should I google, "rom emulator"? Or just "emulator"? I'll do both.

So what should I google, "rom emulator"? Or just "emulator"? I'll do both.

 

If it is Gameboy & Gameboy advance games, try VisualBoy Advance.

Okay, I have tried downloading three rom emulators with unkown results. The games are for the N64 console, and the emulators I've tried are as follows:

 

http://strmnnrmn.blogspot.com/2007/06/d ... eased.html

 

 

 

http://www.emulator-zone.com/doc.php/n64/nemu64.html

 

and

 

http://www.emulator-zone.com/doc.php/n64/project64.html

 

 

 

They have been unzipped and placed in the "unzipped" file under C:/. Now, I know this is a LOT to ask, but if anybody has a remarkably nice soul and knows how to help me, can you walk me through, step-by-step, in making the .Rar file "Banjo Kazooie" for the N64 console run on an emulator?

PROBLEM SOLVED!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I downloaded the final one, Project 64, 1.6, And it downloads as a program instead of a .ZIP file. So now, my Banjo Kazooie works perfectly! =].

PROBLEM SOLVED!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I downloaded the final one, Project 64, 1.6, And it downloads as a program instead of a .ZIP file. So now, my Banjo Kazooie works perfectly! =].

 

 

 

The first link you posted is for a n64 emulator for the psp. So if you have a psp you can play n64 games on that too. Works good, I have used it before.

 

 

 

Although if you couldn't figure out how to run a program that was in a .zip file I doubt you will know how on a psp.

Just remember that ROMS are illegal if you don't already own the game

I own the games, I just lost 'em. Really, I only downloaded two, and both I still have(somewhere).

Also, for future reference, RAR and Zip files are compressed archives. You put something in a RAR or Zip file so that it's smaller and easier to send to people. All files from a RAR or Zip should be extracted. Then you can delete the archive and use the extracted files.

I own the games, I just lost 'em. Really, I only downloaded two, and both I still have(somewhere).

Careful with your wording here on the forums as discussion of copyright infringement is a bannable offence on these forums. If you lost the game you technically cant own a rom of it.