Native preview builds for both Nintendo 64 and Linux are now available for the open source "cryptographic multitool" I proposed last year. Users on Windows, MacOS, etc. can potentially test the N64 version using an emulator. Note: I've only tested it on an emulator myself so far, haven't tried it on a real Nintendo 64 yet.

Downloads and source code

github.com/bowler-bear/retro-crypto/releases

Monero bounty page

bounties.monero.social/posts/168/

This is currently being made by developer bowler-bear. Long term future plans include air-gapped wallet functionality and text encryption someday. For now, you can only generate vanity npubs and wallet addresses, or use button-mashing or actual dice rolls to generate more random ones. Note that this isn't secure yet, it's just for testing.

Built using the libdragon SDK, which is newish and doesn't work in a lot of the oldest / most-used emulators like mupen64. I'll test it on real hardware soon. If anyone else does before me, let me know how it goes. Attached screenshots from Ares emulator: ares-emu.net

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Don't think I'll fully understand this ever..but it looks cool.

Does this mean people can use an n64 to sign up to nostr?

You can indeed generate nostr keys on a Nintendo 64 with this.

A distant future version will even allow it to work as an air-gapped nostr signer.

First it needs issues fixed for usability. This first preview build requires an expansion pak to run and godlike eyes to read the text, dev is trying to fix those issues in the next update