New Blitz 2027 Download
Free · Bring your own cartridge

Download New Blitz

Get the app for your computer. It plays the game, and it's also the Builder: it checks your ROM, sets the game up, and sends it to your other devices.

Mac

Tested

A Mac with Apple Silicon (M1 or later), macOS 13 or later.

Mac

Windows

Preview

Windows 10 or 11, x64, with a graphics card that runs Vulkan 1.2 and current drivers.

Windows

Linux

Untested

Linux on x86_64 with Vulkan graphics drivers. Built for Linux but not yet tried on many machines: reports welcome.

Linux

Every download is on the latest release page on GitHub, with its SHA-256 checksum. Older versions: all releases.

You'll need

Your own copy of the game. New Blitz needs a dump of your own NFL Blitz 2000 (USA) v1.1 cartridge, as a .z64, .v64 or .n64 file, or a .zip holding one. No game assets come with New Blitz, and nobody here can send you a ROM. The app checks the file is exactly the right cartridge, and tells you what's wrong if it isn't.

You make a ROM from your cartridge with a cartridge reader: a small USB device that copies the cartridge to a file.

Opening it the first time

The downloads aren't signed with a paid developer certificate, so your computer asks before it opens them the first time. That's expected. You only do this once.

Mac

  1. Open the app once. macOS says it can't be opened: close the message.
  2. Open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down, and click Open Anyway next to the app's name.
  3. Confirm, and it opens. From then on it opens normally.

Windows

  1. Unzip the download anywhere, and run the app.
  2. If SmartScreen says "Windows protected your PC", click More info, then Run anyway.

Linux

  1. Make the app executable: chmod +x on the app file (or tick "Allow executing" in its properties).
  2. Run it.

Checking a download

Each release lists the SHA-256 checksum of every file. To check yours matches, run the command for your system on the downloaded file and compare the result with the release page:

SystemCommand
Macshasum -a 256 <file>
Windowscertutil -hashfile <file> SHA256
Linuxsha256sum <file>

Only download New Blitz from the release page linked here. It's always free: if someone's charging for it, it isn't from us.

Phones, handhelds, consoles

Other devices come from the Builder

Download the computer app first. Its Builder carries the device versions and sends each one with your ROM and your setup, so the device starts ready to play.

Build it yourself

New Blitz is open source under the GPL-3.0. The source and build steps are on GitHub. Building needs your own ROM too: the recompiler reads the game's code from it.

Source on GitHub