I am looking for an N64 emulator for the PC to play some hacked roms that never existed in cartridge form... I know I could spend a thousand freaking dollars on real hardware that plays roms off an SD but I'm not even sure that would even run a hacked rom correctly...

And before you say it's my roms that are bad I did try a handful of the non-hacked versions of these roms and they ran like garbage too...

I tried PJ64 Mupen64Plus and BizHawk... All of them suck dirt and have many many bugs...

Is there any working emulator for N64???

The emulators you listed work fine to my knowledge < (doesn't play N64 emulated)

Describe "ran like garbage..." and bugs? such as?

PJ64 struggles to open pause menus in several games often crashes when doing so...

Bizhawk looks like crap in terms of graphics then randomly crashes for no reason... oh and it's controller support is kinda weird...

Mupen64Plus... I can't even figure out how to even use it at all.... I know you need to download a GUI separate from the program it's self but that's too much of a pain in the ass and it should really just come with one....

You can try Project64.

Bizhawk doesn't suck dirt, so the problem probably isn't with the emulator itself.

PJ64 and project64 are one in the same I just shortened the name...

Bizhawk has messed up graphics and sometimes crashes randomly even with normal known good roms...

¤shrug¤

how old is your PC?

It's a ryzen 7 build... maybe it's too new? too many cores? idk...

Then yeah, hard to say. I run PJ64 and Bizmark and never had a crash before, or seen the problems described.

I'd imagine it's probably related to graphics card configuration, but that's just a first guess.

I wound't exactly use the word rare but I do have a GPU that's not only a few gens old but also almost nobody but me bought it.... an R9 285... I suspect maybe my errors are from having entirely red team hardware when 90% of all software is written for blue+green

nobody bought the r9 285?

I run an FX 8350 and a GTX960 and n64 emulations works on my machine :^)

Not all ROMs run well in general on emulators, so you might just be SOL

Honestly might be worth checking out http://forum.pj64-emu.com/ and seeing if you can get some help with the software specifically having issues with your comp. Hacked ROMs are sure are sort of finicking, but if it works for others, it really shouldn't be too much of a problem. But if the issue happens even on normal games, they might be able to assist more.