I remember I played BattleTanx: GA all the time when I was a kid. I thought I had it pretty thoroughly beat. I just recently got an Analogue 3d, so I figured I could try BattleTanx out. I specifically remembered a way to clip outside the map on the 3rd level (Truck Stop) that I accidentally discovered all those years ago. If you turbo the MotoTank from the very first ramp into the first building you see, you can bounce off it and slide onto the guardrail outside the boundary of the map.

So after about 15 minutes of attempts, I successfully did the bounce jump. I was rolling around the outside of the map, when I came across a car in the distance. I didn't think anything of it because there are other cars outside the boundary. So I destroy this one special car, and then suddenly there's yellow text on the screen from the developers giving some "Nuggets of Wisdom".

It was a little bit like opening up a time capsule. As a dev myself, it was funny to see lines like, "despite upper management, we will ship a quality product on time." There's a Star Wars quote too: "Oh I'm afraid the cheats will be quite operational when your friends arrive."

I don't know what to say other than this feels surreal. I doubt that the devs intended to make someone reflect on their life in such a way so many years after the game was released, but it really felt special. Anyways, go play some N64.

Found this today at my local value village. System came with the three controllers and bought the games separately. Tested everything when I got home and it’s all mint! Spent $260 for everything

Been playing a few first person shooters on my N64 lately and I have been finding myself wishing for an analog nub. Something like the 3DS' C-stick that would sit in between the 4 C-buttons and act like an analog version of the buttons. The other option would be placing it in the bottom right corner next to A and C-down.

Thoughts?

I played this game as a young kid when it first came out. It brings me so much nostalgia!

For me it's A Bug's Life. Got it Christmas 1999 and enjoyed playing it a lot as a kid. It was hard for me as we didn't have a controller pack at the time so when I finally beat the game I had to do it in one sitting which I did. 100% the game is actually decently challenging, the game has a good flow to it, decent controls, and for a movie tie in game it's a banger in my opinion.

What is your hidden gem game?

I’m now picking up this game for the first time in three years. (Terrible idea because it’s so easy to get lost in this huge game) and I left off in crystal caves. It looks like I was only one world away from reaching king k rool and I want to know how I locate the boss in crystal caves? (Army dillo 2) I only have access to teleportation pads 1 and 2 at the entrance. I just don’t know where else to go because this stage design is very cookie cutter. For anyone else who is well familiar with this game, please guide me the way there. I figured this would be faster than watching hours of YouTube gameplay footage.

Here's my most recent N64 console collection. I have controllers for each. I believe the only one I am missing is the blue JPN pikachu but I don't really see the point as i prefer the USA blue. I am considering getting the 2 tone funtastic JPN consoles, but most of the one's I have seen are very discolored on bottom half. My plan is to buy the Etsy stands that holds the controller above the console and put them in a display case. Any one else on the hunt!? Let me know if you think I am missing a must have!

12 year old me would be super pumped. I am sharing my homebrew ROM that runs on real hardware (barely) and super well on the Analgoue3D in overclocked mode.

I am also making the ROM available on itchio so I can offer fixes and updates to players, if needed.

When the N64 came out, polygons and 3D worlds were the hype and 2D sprites were old and uninteresting. I kinda regret thougu that we never got an in-between generation of Nintendo games with superior 2D sprites than what the SNES was capable of. The SNES has great looking 2D games, but it pales in comparison to the Neo Geo which was able to push out massive amounts of huge, pixel perfect and animated sprites at butter-smooth 60fps.

The N64 came out 7 years later than the Neo Geo and while much cheaper has more compute and ram. If demand and developer focus wouldn't have shifted towards polygonal rendering, could we have had 2D games on it of Neo Geo quality on the N64 hardware?

Looking at some 2D games like Killer Instinct or Mischief maker, they really do not compare in visual quality and I wonder whether that was just the devs not utilising the hardware properly or whether it wasn't actually capable of this. Was the 4KB texture memory per draw call the problem so the rendering would get draw-call limited if the sprites were split up? Did it have a worse fill rate than the Neo Geo? Or was it mainly lack of skill on the developers part?

I have had games that were japanese and i just moved the motherboard to an american casing so it fits in my american console. And it works. I play my japanese pokemon stadium 2 in my n64.

I was in japan a while ago and bought 2 custom robo games and then brought it home and did the same switcheroo. But they wont turn on at all? Is this likely the games were already broken, or maybe theres something i dont know that one of yall might? Anyone able to help me with this? Otherwise its just paperweight...

As for me; it most definitely was "Yoshi's Story"! What about the rest of you?

Hey everyone! I got my first N64 today and I got the original Mario party to go with it. I got everything at a store out of state while on a trip and while I got home tonight I booted it up. Everything was working great until after about 10 minutes the screen has a weird visual glitch and then freezes/crashes. I tried it again after the first time and same thing after about 10 minutes it did it again. The cartridge looked in pretty rough shape but I work at GameStop and have seen worse that work. I cleaned the outside and as much of the pins as I could with a clorox wipe. I haven’t tried 91% isopropyl alcohol yet. I’m hoping that’s the issue but it’s weird it runs perfectly fine and then after about 10 minutes it crashes. I can’t return/exchange anything since the store was about 6 hours away. Any suggestions?

1. Gueen 84:22 (5/7)
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4. Crachead 24:34 (7/7)

I will delete #3. I haven't played all the way through any Paper Mario game before. Gonna give it a shot...

Picked up a couple N64 games and some other items at the flea market today. Star Fox 64 is super clean. Paper Mario will need some love. Both genuine. I'm not sure if I ever knew Zip 750 was a thing that existed. I told the vendor guy about Mr. Backup Z64 and how it used Zip 100 disks. One of these disks will hold more than the CD-R disc in my Doctor V64!

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DAMN! I wasted labels printing with an old date on there.

Pictured above are my settings for Halo-64 Multiplayer. This nets me 4 bots @ 320x240 and outdoor areas working. Ironically if I load a team deathmatch with no bots, I still crash. On a real N64 I can get around 15 FPS. On my M64 I can push these settings higher and get close to 25 FPS with overclocking.

Another thing. Normally I'm against throwing away the included SD card for the SummerCart as that's a waste. From my experience it's actually a good card...UNLESS, you're playing a ROM with streaming assets. Halo and Junk Runner to a lesser degree. If you plan to play this game, get a branded card. Even a ONN branded card is a better choice for this project.

I'm done rambling Let's compare notes. I believe an update is coming to address more RDP crashing issues but for now, we might as well figure out what's possible with what's available.

I went with my brother who is a coach for highschool waterpolo tournament in a different city and dropped by to a weekend garage sale and was able to pick all of these up for an amazing price I don’t think she knew what she had.

Anyways can’t wait to play these games :)

Hello all. Over the last while I have done a lot of work to this n64. I got it with no picture and after opening it up I noticed it had bulging caps and liquid damage. After replacing the rcp, power switch, cleaning the contacts and recapping the full board I have a working console.

After getting it working I realized that my upscaler only takes component and not composite so I tried to install an rgb mod from ali express. After finishing it up I can't get any component output from it. Although composite still works.

I can see 0.85 volts ac on the video pins and have ground and 5v power to the board. Unfortunately I don't have an ociliscope so I can't see if there is any actual signal. The board is a -03 with a VDC-NUS chip. I don't think I did anything wrong aside from some ugly solder joints going to the daughter board. Everything has continuity as well as no shorts. My board also has components for sync.

I feel like I'm losing my mind and have been beating my head against this for a while. Does anyone have any ideas?

Edit: memyfofum pointed out rgb and ypbpr are different signals. The mod is probably working fine and I just need to get a scart cable instead. My bad bois.

@ u/TheUnfunnyCow found a good pic bro 42:10 into it! https://www.reddit.com/r/n64/comments/d0p3vj/in_the_1999_film_office_space_a_nintendo_64/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

Im currently living in Tokyo for a few years and brought over my N64. Well the power cord frayed and broke off and I am in need of a new one. Would a japan n64 power cord work okay in a us system. I know outlets run different here in Japan. Or does anyone have any knowledge of where I can pick up a power cord locally? Thanks!

Hey guys, so if anyone here has played Diddy Kong Racing for the N64 we know there's a character a squirrel named Conker. After Diddy Kong Racing Conker would go to have his own game for the N64 however the game wasn't made for kiddies because it ended up being called Conker's Bad Fur Day a rated M game for the N64. I want to know how Conker became an iconic M for mature game for the N64 and why the game is so expensive?

Hope you like!!

I’ve wanted to get into the Legend of Zelda series for a long time. It’s a cultural phenomenon and I really want to understand it. I picked this game up and have been trying my best to give it a good go. But I can’t get around the feeling that it’s just…. So boring.

So much of the game feels like “walk very slowly across the map to reach your destination only to encounter an incredibly obtuse puzzle that you struggle with for 20 minutes only to realize you can’t even do it because you’re child link instead of adult link. The REAL puzzle is actually over here. And it’s solution is equally obtuse.”

I’m finding it hard to get into the world when I feel like I’m struggling to figure things out without a guide. But when I use one I feel like I’m missing out on the whole exploration element that’s supposed to suck you in and trigger your imagination and critical thinking skills.

I put the game down for a few months and then picked it back up this morning to try to dedicate myself to it… but I’ve been playing for close to an hour and even after accomplishing something I struggled with last time, I didn’t get a feeling of satisfaction. Because as soon as I solved how to get to Zora’s Domain, suddenly now I’ve got to find their princess. I went around lighting all the torches in the place, thinking myself clever for realizing it soon only to see that the torches don’t go anywhere and just burn out. I then realized that I wasn’t having fun and I’ve been bored as crap this whole time. Everything fun in the game seems trapped behind being adult link. I’ve been holding out until I can get to that point but now I’m just kinda sick of it.

The loop is running hither thither and yon only to discover I don’t have the item I need once I get there is wearing on me. There are a lot of elements from this game that I like, but I’ve not been enchanted by it at all. And after having a hard time getting into other Legend of Zelda games, I’m wondering if this franchise just isn’t for me.
Is there something wrong with the way I’m playing? Why am I so bored?

EDIT: Wow that was a lot of fast responses. And very detailed ones too. I really appreciate you guys being so understanding and considerate with me. I was worried I would be stepping on toes with this one. I think it's possible it could just not be my type of game, but I don't quite want to completely give up on it. I'm going to follow your all's advice and try to invest in one of the 2D Zeldas for a while. And I probably will end up using a guide. I really want the printed Prima's Official Guide but that thing is SOO expensive!! Anyway, thanks for all the responses. I really appreciate it.

Hi! I made a 3D printed stackable storage box for Nintendo 64 cartridges ☺️

Heya,

I'm considering buying a N64 controller case because the stick is so high up and I feel it's going to break if I don't put it into a case.

Should I buy a controller case so the stick doesn't die from too much drag?

Edit: Learned that a "Stick saver" exists. Should I buy that instead?

Thanks in advance