Legend of Elya: World's First LLM Running on Nintendo 64 Hardware
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Legend of Elya is a groundbreaking Nintendo 64 homebrew ROM that features the world's first large language model (LLM) running on the N64 hardware. The project implements a nano-GPT transformer with 819,200 parameters running live inference on the MIPS R4300i CPU at 93.75 MHz, featuring real matrix multiplication, softmax, and attention mechanisms. This technical achievement demonstrates running modern AI transformer architecture on 1996-era gaming hardware, with the ROM available for download and emulation.
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A Legend of Zelda-inspired N64 homebrew ROM featuring Sophia Elya — an AI NPC powered by a nano-GPT transformer running live inference on the MIPS R4300i CPU
No precomputed responses. No lookup tables. Real matrix multiply, real softmax, real attention — on a 93.75 MHz CPU from 1996
Parameters: 819,200 (819K), Layers: 4, Embedding dim: 128, Attention heads: 4 (32-dim each), Vocabulary: 256 (byte)
Moved to Scottcjn/legend-of-elya-n64 (consolidated) - sophiaeagent-beep/n64llm-legend-of-Elya
