No ideas from anyone? Disappointing... But I guess we can't expect to figure out a fix for everything. (especially if my friend is right) EDIT: YEAH, my friend was right. Screen was dying. No longer functioning at all. Sorry to have wasted the time of anyone who read this - fix a dying screen with configuration changes is....kind of impossible.

got it fix DYNAMIC RECOMPILE was off

@Kentinator there are several threads concerning N64 Emulation with the Pi, but to say it with a few words: your experience nails it. Mario64, MarioKart64 and a few others work well, a lot of other games do not.

@tackskull Move out to the root menu, then to 'Input'. From there, you should see the player one input map menu selection.

@jonnykesh I went into the settings, but vsync was already on. The issue persists