Yeahhh!!!! I finally got one of these babies in my last trip to the flea market. I don't know why I haven't picked one up you know since they are pretty much everywhere around here but I finally decided to get one. The only game I have for it is Pokemon Stadium which is OK but I want to get more games in the future. I paid 15 bucks for the N64 and it came with six controllers and also a NES controller with that super controller accessory and a NES zapper. The photo shows a mess but umm you can see pretty much the N64 lol. The reset button was also stuck but I smacked the console a couple of times and it went back into place lol. The console was very dirty too as well as the controllers but overall it works fantastic.
(http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff280/luiszena/DSC00316.jpg)
(http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff280/luiszena/DSC00315.jpg)
One last thing, what are some good games for the N64? I'm clueless about this console!
OMG SIX CONTROLLERS!
Also you're not alone. I too got my first N64 last year ;).
Be sure to get:
Super Mario 64
Goldeneye
Super Smash Bros.
Mariokart 64
Starfox 64
Sin And Punishment
Jet Force Gemini
Perfect Dark
The Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time
I'm forgetting a ton.
Good games:
- Super Smash Bros.
- Super Mario 64
- PAPER MARIO!!!
- Mario Tennis and Golf are both surprisingly good.
- Kirby and the Crystal Shards
- Goldeneye!!! I am NOT a James Bond fan, but that game was incredible.
- Duke Nukem 64
- Conker's Bad Fur Day, which to me is STILL an underrated gem.
- Donkey Kong 64
- The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and its highly underrated and better sequel, Majora's Mask.
- Starfox 64
- SuperMan 64...
... OK, maybe I'm kidding about the last one. ;D
What I can add to the experts ranting:
Mischief Makers
Doom 64
Pokémon Puzzle League (its merely Pokemon themed Panel De Pon........so you know its good)
Thanks a lot for the lists. I will keep my eyes open for them tomorrow when I go to the local thrift store.
Yoshi Story was nice, too. Easy, but nice.
My list includes:
Super Mario 64
Starfox 64
Super Smash Bros.
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
Mario Kart 64
Paper Mario
Kirby 64
Goldeneye
these should keep you busy, and if you want other multiplayer games, I recomend Mario Tennis as well
Thanks for the lists.....well I didn't found anything other than PSX games this time around but I'll keep my eyes opened.
1080º Snowboarding and the two Goemon games are nice too.
And don't forget Turok 2 and the Castlevania games ;)
The Castlevania games are beyond horrible.
I liked Castlevania 64... it wasn't that bad.
Make sure you get Cruis'n USA.
I did not care for Mischief Makers.
Get Wave Race.
Maybe Resident Evil 2.
Quote from: PatMan33 on January 21, 2009, 01:24:52 pm
Make sure you get Cruis'n USA.
Cruis'n World is good too.
Cruis'n USA seemed ...hickish...and I live in Southwestern Ioway :P
Paper Mario was also my favorite PM game, I'm not sure why, but it was the only good one IMO
I was 4 when I got my N64, it just came out, and everyone was all hype about "THE AMAZING 3D GRAPHICS, NOW I CAN SEE MARIO IN 3D!!!!"
Virtual Boy anyone? ::)
Quote from: nurd on January 21, 2009, 01:30:34 pm
Get Wave Race.
Definitely!!
One of the best racers ever!
interesting, an N64 was my first game console- I was about five.
anyway, my collection includes the following, all of which are excellent games:
Goldeneye 007
LoZ: Majora's Mask
LoZ: Ocarina of Time
Mario Kart 64
Star Wars: Rogue Squadron
Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire
Super Mario 64
Oh yes! I totally forgot about Shadows Of The Empire. That was my first N64 game, the first game I bought with my own money.
Two of my favorites are Beetle Adventure Racing and F-Zero.
Edit: Oh, and Diddy Kong Racing. See a theme here? :)
Ew Diddy Kong Racing.
Um. I think StarWars: Racer is fun. I'm pretty sure that's what it's called.
Wow so many titles to look forward to! Reminds me of the NES era.....sob
... did nobody mention Banjo Kazooie yet? That one's quite good, too.
This and Banjo Tooie if you like platformers. Not as good as Mario 64, but worth to play.
I always thought it was funny that Banjo Kazooie and Conker's Bad Fur Day used the same engines, and that CBFD was once a kid's game! :D
I'll keep an eye out on Conker man gotta start building up this collection from scratch!
That's right!! I did played that game a long time ago!
Re-volt! ;D
I enjoyed Castlevania 64 ;D
German reviewers also seemed to like Castlevania 64 when I remember right.
Man I was going to pick a copy of it up at the flea market last weekend oh well I'll keep my eyes open still...
Quote from: ericj on January 21, 2009, 05:11:03 pm
Two of my favorites are Beetle Adventure Racing and F-Zero.
Edit: Oh, and Diddy Kong Racing. See a theme here? :)
OOOOHH! I forgot about Beetle Adventure Racing! I LOVED the Cop car. :) I used to spend time in Wicked Woods just finding the secret areas of the game. :D
It's official
I FINALLY got an N64!!!!!!!
Jungle Green!!!!
YEAH!!!!!! :P
My N64 is so dusty. I play it, but it hasn't moved an inch since I moved into the house I've been living in for 7 years. :P
EDIT**
(http://i42.tinypic.com/f5n3l.jpg)
The front, left half is fine, but that reset button is looking very dusty :P
Get Super Smash Bros. I had an N64 when I was little. Not anymore.
SSB is seriously inflated in price around here - like 50 bucks. 50 bucks for a common, 10+ year old game! :o >:(
I have SSB, and about 15 other games. I was a toddler when N64 was out, so I got all the cool games in the store... in the box 8)
Quote from: 133MHz on May 04, 2009, 03:20:22 pm
SSB is seriously inflated in price around here - like 50 bucks. 50 bucks for a common, 10+ year old game! :o >:(
!!!
In that case, check eBay.
The package I got came with Super Mario 64 and the Expansion Pak....it was on Ebay
plus I picked up GoldenEye 007 at a yard sale for 50 cents...
I have been looking for SSB for a while....
Isn't it common?
Also, I never finished the game as a challenge. Someone do me a favor and unlock Ness for me to satisfy my inner child!
I beat SSB the day after I got it, because I loved it!
This also means I unlocked Ness. It took me forever to figure out how to unlock the only obtainable stage in the game, though.
Quote from: Blue Protoman on May 04, 2009, 03:33:33 pm
Isn't it common?
Also, I never finished the game as a challenge. Someone do me a favor and unlock Ness for me to satisfy my inner child!
Well, yeah it's common...but the prices are sick....
if you guys know anybody who's selling it cheap...that would be awesome
I had SSB as a child. I have fond memories of it. I loved that game so much, whenever I see videos or hear music from the game, I nearly cry from nostalgia. *sob*
Get off my lawn young whippersnappers ::) :P
I loved it so much I would let character profiles loop just to see the moves, then I would try them out on this giant stuffed Pooh bear I had.
It was so much fun. :D
I hope you didn't try any of Yoshi's moves. :o
Ha. I've actually never owned an N64... I just didn't think(shoot me now) there were enough great games for it.
Quote from: nintendodork on May 04, 2009, 03:53:39 pm
Quote from: Blue Protoman on May 04, 2009, 03:47:24 pm
as a child.
How old are you?
14. I'm a teenager, not a child. Also, 5 years old is a child.
@Rogles: PK WHOOPASS
You're a minor, and in my mind, that is a child.
Dork is right in my opinion.
Everybody that young is a child in my book.
I figure anyone younger than me is a child. Well, okay, maybe just anyone under age 18 is a child. Even the government considers child pornography to be anyone under 18.
Fine, when I was a LITTLE KID. Are you people happy?
No. D:< But yeah, children=minor.
Wow, you kids make me feel old. I was 12 when the N64 was hitting it's stride, and you all were in pampers.
Most of the major must-own 64 titles have been mentioned, but I have to give a shout out to the first two Turok games and the two Mystical Ninja / Goemon games on the 64, they're all fantastic in their own way. Turok 2 looked MIND-BLOWING in 1998, and still holds up pretty well today. The Goemon games always are really funny and colorful, and have fantastic music and variety of play styles.
I'll have to try Goemon sometime. I hope they are not that hard to come by.
In Japan you can easily find the Goemon games, but they aren't too cheap, because they're pretty popular.
My 64 collection is my biggest collection.
I recommend:
Battle Tanx: Global Assault
ANY game in the Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū series, those baseball games rock! The American version for the Wii is called MLB Power Pros.
Quote from: speedmike on May 04, 2009, 11:54:42 pm
those baseball games rock!
Hahaha, man that tickles me for some reason. Not that the games are bad or anything, i haven't played them. Anything with baseball games for consoles just always tickles me for some reason.
Quote from: TanookiSuitSam on May 05, 2009, 01:20:14 am
Quote from: speedmike on May 04, 2009, 11:54:42 pm
those baseball games rock!
Hahaha, man that tickles me for some reason. Not that the games are bad or anything, i haven't played them. Anything with baseball games for consoles just always tickles me for some reason.
I don't know why I like this game series so much. I usually hate sports games.
The character animation is just great, with their big heads and small bodies. I don't know who the players are, so they don't seem old to me. It probably helps that I don't understand what the announcers are saying because I assume it would be really repetitive. My wife really like the music, and my friends and I love saying, "OUTO!" and "Bunto!" The game is fairly easy to play, but not knowing what most the text says hinders some aspects of the game.
There's even a RPG mode in the game, which I can't play because I don't know a lot of Japanese.
I have the first American version of it for the Wii, but it isn't as fun to me. It's already outdated, and the music isn't as awesome as my Japanese n64 games.
Here is some video play I found on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY1it_ZkcaM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY1it_ZkcaM)
--- on a side note does anyone know what the announcers are saying when they say something that sounds like, "lollipop?"
At what time in the video do they say it? Maybe I can help you then.
Quote from: Walky on January 23, 2009, 05:33:00 am
Re-volt! ;D
I enjoyed Castlevania 64 ;D
I'm still mad at my self for trading in Re-Volt! I traded in Re-volt, Duke Nukem, and Hexen to help pay for a Gameboy color and Pokemon blue.
Now I feel like a thread Hi-Jacker... ::)
It's at 13 seconds on that video.
Thanks Manuel!
@13 seconds he says "nageta! utta!", that means "he threw it! he hit it!".
LOL, I was 0 when the N64 came out XD and nintendodork... youre 14 right, you should be one. the console was released in 1996 -.-
The year that the N64 came out, I got a 32x from my uncle ;D
I remember because he managed to get an N64 for my cousin, which was quite a feat that Christmas (not unlike finding a Wii for Christmas a couple years ago).
Quote from: japanfreak on May 12, 2009, 07:53:19 am
nintendodork... youre 14 right, you should be one. the console was released in 1996 -.-
Yeah, but now that I think of it, I didn't get one until I was 3 or 4
That's about the same age I got my N64! Super Mario 64 was my very first video game. Nostalgia alert.
Hello all,
I had a quick question....
How can you tell if your expansion pak is official or third-party if it's already in the machine ?
All N64s that come out of the box are first party original "Jumper Paks" If you got it used, you can just open it up, and look. The Expansion Paks look different from the factory Jumper Paks. Official ones also look slightly different than third party ones. Official ones are always red on top and black everywhere else. Third party ones can vary.
\/ Thank you, Rob64 for telling me that :)
Random fact: Original paks are also reffered to as jumper paks
I heard that if I pop it out....I'd have to get a jumper pak just so it would turn back on...is this true ?
What?
If you mean pop out the expansion pak (granted official like mine is), you should just be able to pop that back in and it'll be fine.
If you have a lot of questions about it, I believe Nintendo had an instruction manual that came with the first party expansion pak, I'll bet you could find it somewhere within the archives of the Nintendo website, or Google it. But, to answer your question, you need to have some kind of pak in there, so the N64 can operate. The Jumper/Expansion Pak contains the N64's RAM
Thanks for the info guys
I found this in the Nintendo archives:
Important Expansion Pak Notes:
Once the Expansion Pak is installed, it is normally not necessary to remove it from the control deck. If you do remove the Expansion Pak, you will need to re-insert the Jumper Pak for your system to operate.
Who reads the manual anymore, I removed my expansion pak to do the import mod, put it back when I was done and it worked.
Hey Nintendodork, you should check out my recent NES find, you'll be impressed.
Awesome find, I still haven't had a chance to play Battletoads yet.
Anyway, I was thinking about doing that import mod. I looked at a guide for it, but it seemed to make it overcomplicated. Couldn't I just do what I did to the SNES? Open the dust cover, and snip the tabs?
Well, there's two method I know of for the N64:
This method I DO NOT reccomend: You get a flat head screwdriver and a mallet. You gently chip out the tabs and somehow it'll work. However, I heard this can damage the system, and I assume you want to play it after you're done.
This method is safer (but more steps): You'll need a flat key, a 4.5 mm gamebit, a phillips head, and a buzz wheel thingy.
Take jumper pak/expansion pak out with key.
Flip system over and take out the 6 screws one the bottom with the gamebit.
Remove top half and leave it upside down so you don't mess with the flap.
If necessary and if you feel like it, clean the system while it's open.
Use phillips head to unscrew the screws that hold the gray case that would cover the cart slot.
Use some type of buzz wheel or saw or other cutting tool to get rid of tabs.
Put it all back together and voila.
If you have questions, go to youtube and watch"MN12BIRD" do it.
I was dumb High schooler when I got my first imported N64 game, Super Robot Spirits. I melted the back tabs of the import game down to play in my American system. It looks slightly ugly but it worked, and I could play in other people's systems. I have since bought a game bit and did a proper mod with a rotary tool to cut the tabs on my n64. I also replaced the back of my melted game with a far less cool imported N64 game that I got in an import lot.
My brother actually didn't do the mod right (it's his so he did it). He just removed that gray case entirely and taped the doors to the system so that they can still open.
Well, atleast I can play Mario Story! :D
Quote from: speedmike on May 14, 2009, 03:38:11 am
I was dumb High schooler when I got my first imported N64 game, Super Robot Spirits.
Me too! :D
Man smash brothers is so boring in one player mode....I gotta make some smash brothers gamer friends!
It's a blast when you have friends to play with, especially if you have enough to do round robin type tournaments.
/\ This is fun. We did this at my friend's house with SSBM and about 17 friends...
I won.
We did it with 8. My friend Ian won, he's the best on original smash bros.
Multiplayer gaming at it's best...stupid Internet ruined it.
Quote from: Blue Protoman on May 17, 2009, 05:55:51 pm
Multiplayer gaming at it's best...stupid Internet ruined it.
Yeah! That's all I did in middle / high school was play N64 with the split screen. Well, my friends and I would LAN too but not nearly as often as playing N64. The 64 is still played, multiplayer wise, more than any other gaming system in my house.
My friends and I play a lot of Star Fox, Beetle Adventure Racing, Battle Tanx, Conker's, that baseball game I was talking about earlier and Bomberman 64 (USA). We kind of over played Smash Bros. and Bond in H.S. to the point no one wants to play them anymore.
The only downside to split-screen multiplayer is that your effective gameplay area gets divided by 4... if you've got a small TV the screen for each player will be minuscule, and even in a decent-sized (21") TV it's not big enough to be comfortable.
I've only been able to enjoy split-screen multiplayer at its best when playing on my 100" projection screen with quality video hookups.
Or just play games where everyone's on screen. Can anyone say "Smash Bros."?
or 4 swords adventures on gcn
My Smash Bros cartridge save died.
I need a new one, I'm not even going to touch the other one. It's going back in the box.
Forever.