It’s basically an NEC VR4300. Produced by NEC based on a MIPS R4300i.

https://n64brew.dev/wiki/VR4300

For emulators which use recompilation techniques, I suppose it’s technically possible to make them execute malware. But writing your malware in legacy XBox/PlayStation code to embed it in roms would also make it some of the most sophisticated in history just to infect a handful of retrogamers so I think it’s very unlikely…

And a great soundtrack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rDlnR1RBNQ

Subnautica comes to mind. Light on dialogue, but there’s a guiding story which can be completed. Lots of exploration, things to discover, things to run away from. It’s a great game to play while hanging out.

Oh I just noticed we’re in retrogaming. Oops. Oh well. 5 years is kinda retro? ;)