Original ROM-format?

[BigFred]

For the sake of preservation of N64 games in their original form I'd like to know if someone might be able to hook me up with some information concerning the original format of N64 games - speak: In what byteorder are N64-games really stored on the romchips? Thanks in advance.

 

[radorn]

I believe it's little endian, wich is the format that's used by the Z64, and files in that format are commonly named with the .z64 extension.

EDIT: I hope you didn't take my statement as certain because now I think I made a fuss over endiannesses. It should be little or big, but I have read different information on different places and now I'm a bit lost. The only thing I can tell you for sure is that it is NOT v64/byteswapped.