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The N64 Thread
Krathoon
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I have been messing around with N64 emulators. I found one in Retroarch that seems to work the best.
So, I dumped the roms of some of my N64 carts and started playing. My dumped saves from OoT and Super Smash Bros are not working for some reason. Maybe the batteries wore out.
My Mario 64 one does.
I started up playing Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness. Made a good amount of progress in it.
So, lets talk about N64 games.
https://youtu.be/N1YhQWiq_lA
https://youtu.be/G1LgGNBtFG8
You can map an N64 to a PlayStation controller. You just map the C buttons to the right analog stick.
So, I dumped the roms of some of my N64 carts and started playing. My dumped saves from OoT and Super Smash Bros are not working for some reason. Maybe the batteries wore out.
My Mario 64 one does.
I started up playing Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness. Made a good amount of progress in it.
So, lets talk about N64 games.
https://youtu.be/N1YhQWiq_lAhttps://youtu.be/G1LgGNBtFG8You can map an N64 to a PlayStation controller. You just map the C buttons to the right analog stick.
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Do those internal batteries in the carts wear out after 20 years?
I have had batteries still work. I was able to dump my Mario 64 and Donkey Kong 64 saves today. For some reason, my dump of OoT had a different file type than the Mario 64 save. It was not an eep file.
I tried converting it into the save format of the emulator and it did make the file, but it did not work. My saves for OoT showed up empty.
So, I don't know if the battery failed and there were no saves or the file conversion did not work.
I have no idea where I am at in Donkey Kong 64. I might as well start over on that one.
The emulator does support external saves. Some games had you save to a memory card. Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness does that.
That Castlevania game is pretty good. I am not certain if it predates Symphony of the Night or not.
They released Castlevania 64 and then released an expanded version with Legacy of Darkness.
At the housewarming, I showed the room to our guests, and sure enough at some point in the evening someone wandered in to play Ocarina. They came running downstairs and were like,
-Holy Crap, you’ve got a save file showing you beat the game with only 3 hearts? That’s incredible!
I had totally forgotten my quest to do that, and also never assumed anyone would congratulate me haha.
Lots of those 4 player games still hold up for our group. Anyway. 64=feels.
N64 games held a lot of crowns. Waverace had the best water and wave effects in the industry for years, Banjo-Kazooie proved dynamic music worked well on consoles (Monkey Island 2 also had that but that was on PC), and Superman 64 was the most disappointing game ever made.
Still, the Conker on the N64 cart has that part where Conker cuts the N64 logo in half with a chainsaw. That is missing from the Rare Replay version.
Thanks for reminding me. I need to dump that one too. There is that and that WWE wrestling game.
I am using the Mupen64Plus-Next core in Retroarch. Project 64 does this annoying thing where it asks you for a donation.
N64 games are starting to get ridiculous in price.
The Saturn had a port of Duke Nukem 3D and the Playstation had Medal of Honor but come on. A dozen M-rated FPS exclusives somehow didn't change Nintendo's family-friendly image in the late 90s.
A TV commercial said, "Ass" at 21:45.
I really liked the South Park FPS... it was stupid fun.
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The idea of buying a handheld for $60 is absolutely bonkers to me. That's awesome, and I miss that kind of thing. I wonder how much it would cost if there was a simple, one-use handheld like that now. What would a slightly beefed up GBA cost today?
I don't know if I had Perfect Dark. I think I did.
I didn't own an n64, but my best friend did. Gauntlet was the game I played the most on the system, probably more than goldeneye.
god this is such a trip down X-treme 90s memory lane
I wish the GDPR had mandated all electronics must be available in Atomic Purple instead of all the boring privacy stuff.
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RLMNDNTCHT
CMGTSMMGGTS
BLLTSRRFRND
THSCKSTFTHSHSCK
It wasn't what anyone was looking for.
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NOT HOG THE DOG DOC ROT DOT OR OK
REAL MIND NOT CHAT
CHICKEN MCNUGGETS
BULL TOES ARE ROOF ROUND
THESE COOKIES TOO FOO TOO HOO SHOO SCOO KOO
REAL MEN DONT CHEAT
COME GET SOME MAGGOTS
BULLETS ARE OUR FRIEND
but no idea on first and last
I went through this little phase where I was a bit obsessed with N64 emulation, specifically Ocarina of Time. Having it run at HD equivalent resolutions, with fan-made high-res texture packs was pretty amazing considering the best you could get officially was 480p with the standard blurred textures.
I was using a PS3 controller at the time. I mapped CL, CD, and CR to Triangle, Circle, and R1 to mimic the Gamecube item controls, but also mapped all 4 C buttons to the d-pad for playing the Ocarina. I used an application that let you map mouse of keyboard functions to your controller to give me full control of the emulator without having to get out of my chair (had the laptop hooked to the TV).
I was experimenting with cheats, not as a means to make the game easier, but to see how much of the unskippable cutscenes I could avoid while keeping most of the gameplay intact. It kinda became a weird meta-game in and of itself for me.