retroking1981 wrote:

davyK wrote:

The speed difference with MK64 really is quite noticeable. It's a pity because later N64 games didn't feel quite so bad.

I was reading some old mags the other day and I have a theory on this. Nintendo shut down their UK headquarters late in the SNES days and Nintendo products were then distributed by Total Home Entertainment or THE.  It was under them things became very shoddy and it didn't improve until Nintendo setup a EU HQ in Germany, which is still the one we have today I believe.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if RARE schooled Nintendo in PAL optimisations. They have a history of that - their 8 way scrolling routines were used in SMB3 if I remember right.

I'm hoping for N64.

It would be missing a handful of must haves but these things are easily hackable.

N64 emulation has always been dodgy for me so having a mini with perfect emulation for my 20 game collection would be most welcomed.

I should imagine my collection would fetch a decent price as it's all in mint condition, so I'd be well in the black, save some space and have HDMI out.

Is this thing hackable for just SNES games or can it be turned into a low-oompf Raspberry Pi (can it handle blast processing, basically)?

JonB wrote:

The Rare output on N64 would be too big a loss IMO. It's not even that I was a big fan of all their games, it just wouldn't feel like a proper lineup without them.

Agreed but they're easily hackable.

AN N64 mini would be more attractive to me. Losing the RARE games would be no great deal to me apart from Diddy Kong Racing which really was very good indeed.

The N64 mini really would need 4 player support.

Casting licensing aside and assuming NTSC versions - there's quite a lot to choose from - these are all quality offerings. 1st party alone gives us a dozen worthwhile games.

1st party:
M64
MK64
F-Zero X
1080
Starwing/Lylat Wars
Pokemon Puzzle League
Mario Golf & Tennis
Zelda Oot and MM
Yoshi's Story (I'm a real apologist for this game - an unappreciated gem in my book )

The Mario Parties - no. 1 would be dropped because of the daft hand hurting mini game.


Pilotwings64
Sin & Punishment
Mischief Makers
Excitebike64
Mystical Ninja 2 (I'd be interested in the first one as I've heard it's rather good)
Wetrix
Mortal Kombat 4 or Killer Instinct Gold  - not sure if this is a RARE IP or not

@davy You can add Waverace to that lot as well.

It was a great 1st party machine.

The pad would be an issue to, it was great for its time but is a bit of an eyesore now despite still being comfortable enough.

I think they'd have to redesign it like that Hori one that came out.

Back onto games, a Turok game probably deserves a spot. There was some decent Star Wars games as well. DOOM64!

Has there been a complete romset released for this hack? Or is it still a very manual process to add each game at a time?

I remember being delighted when 150cc mode was unlocked. I was enjoying the game so much I didn't want to finish it.

SMK is the first game I experienced TT ghosts with. I can remember thinking how clever that was.

Thinking of it, Super Mario Kart may have been the first game to introduce the concept of 'ghosts'. Could be wrong tho.
The turbo boost is the only way too finish 150cc if I remember correctly. Rainbow road was hard as nails.

150cc was hardcore but I did it.

acemuzzy wrote:

What do you mean by "turbo boost"?  I'm pretty sure I did it all back in the day, without shenanigans!

The fast start, presumably.

Ah that, yup, sure.  Deffo harder work without!

mk64 wrote:

fast start is done between first and second lights but I think it's easier to go off the visual cue than the sound beeps which aren't in sync. There are also slight variations to the timing in GP which afaik have never been explained to me but does explain why even top players miss zoom-starts in the world championships.  Worth noting that the 1'13 in the video is using NBT (new boost technique) which is impossible for any of you to do without a modified pad. The top players didn't modify their pads to begin with, the nub on the dpad wore away so much after years of play allowing it to happen but new players do mod theirs.

Is that the cornering trick where you press left and right at the same time or something??

Damn, and people moaned about snaking in DS and fire hopping on 8.