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[A Black Falcon]

I find a lower stable frame rate less distracting than one that jumps myself, mainly because the jumping is what calls attention to it.

Yeah, I definitely agree, as I said. Some people seem to absolutely hate both, though. If either of those seriously bother you, though, the N64 is probably not the right console for you... :)

On N64 games with poor framerates is is much more frequently a low but stable framerate than one that jumps around, but some of the latter can be seen too... I remember the framerate drops bothering me in Banjo-Tooie and Conker, for instance, for some reason, while PD's framerate, which definitely goes lower than it is in those games and for much longer, never bothered me as much... perhaps because it was generally more stable, even if it were low. I'm not sure. Maybe it was just because of how good the game was? I mean, you can get used to a pretty low framerate eventually... look at those Super FX games on SNES, for example. Nothing on N64 is consistently that low. :)