"what to do with my hands" it's intended to be held either with the joystick prong or the d-pad prong. This was designed and made before joysticks on controllers were commonplace and Nintendo didn't know if people could handle the complexity of using both a d-pad and a joystick at the same time, so the idea is you could develop a game for either d-pad or joystick controls and people could use the same controller for both games just by switching which part they held with their left hand. Lots of the N64 design decisions make sense when you realize nobody knew what they were doing yet and everyone was figuring out this 3D thing. Lakitu was the camera man in SM64 because they worried people wouldn't understand a 3D camera without that expansion.
Small correction: N64 is much more capable with graphics than the PS1, but mainly struggles with having much less memory for games. You simply can't get a game like Ocarina of Time or Majora's mask on the 32bit hardware of the Saturn or PS1, no matter how much room for data you have
was seaeching for a comment like yours. the video is interesting but it seems like the guy who did it has no clue about what he is talking in some cases. i raised an eyebrow when he said you had to choose between the memory pack or the rumble pack, which isnt true at all but hey not that important what i cant let slide is he saying that the ps1 was miles ahead of the n64 in graphics bc of the disc format. thankfully you already said that wasnt the case AT ALL.
@@arkalberto Yeah, he definitely made a few mistakes when discussing the N64. With it being my first console, and my favourite, I know a bit about it, haha. I've also played PS1 and yeah, it's no contest when it comes to graphics vs the N64. The disc format mainly just allowed the PS1 games to be way bigger than N64 games.
What is said about 4:00 that one you had to choose between using the pak to save or rumble and you couldn't do both in the same game is wrong. Of course you could. While at the save menu, you was prompt to make the swap if you wanted to. The tremor pak did nothing different than that, while it was within a single piece of hardware its switch button made the controller consider it has either a memory card or rumble pak but it worked at the time the game was meant for it while checking the device inserted in the controller.
34:37 You forgot to mention Mario Artist Polygon Studio having a compilation of micro-games in the same style as WarioWare Inc. These micro-games served as a prototype of what's to come for the WarioWare games three years later.
@@mattalan6618 I remember it was supposed to unlock certain things in both games.. You would be able to move over your created wrestler to the GB version..
@@mattalan6618 there was a hidden story mode for you created character that you created on the game boy color version, there is a way to trick it with gameshark by allowing a created character to be in the slot of import data
Fun fact: Madcatz released an extremely obscure and rare 2nd version of the Force pak called the "force pak +". It lets you switch from low rumble, high rumble, and saving at will, which is pretty cool. I have one and it's still holding my saves, but the rumble never worked, battery slot is filled with rust. (And when I say obscure, there's like one expired Ebay listing for it and that's the only reference to it online)
And I'm so mad I didn't know it wasn't released for PAL N64s. I thought I was just Late To The Party as usual. When I got an N64 having played one in America at 15 (my first trip there, it was built into the TV), I knew what games I wanted. Pokemon Snap and Hey You Pikachu. Hey You Pikachu refused to be read, even with a cheat catridge thingy. It has sat in its box on a shelf for half my lifetime because I haven't been able to take it to an American N64. I WANT TO PLAY IT FOR MYSELF SO BADLY. I can't even emulate it!! Nintendo really lost out not selling it here. Along with region/language-locking so many other games... ~coughZOIDSWHITELIGERSAGASERIEScough~
If you only had one working hand, it was a way to play games that were impossible to play before. It wasn't meant for people with use of both hands, though I think they skipped that part of their marketing.
"Most of the time you'd just end up corrupting the hell out of your game" And that is exactly why I stopped using GameShark as a kid. I nearly rendered my copy of Goldeneye unplayable.
Granted, Yes the internet was NOT "as cooll" back in 1999.. Google was JUST a baby still barley learning to walk. Internet was slower & you had to PAY for PRON sites if you wanted to access such stuff. There was a battle between Apple desktop computing and PC desktop computing users at the time. (Now it's Apple ios & Android cell / mobile phones). Online gaming had Starcraft and you still had what was left of AOL. Chat things at the time were : A.I.M. & MSN Hotmail Messenger. Internet is FASTER and better now, depending on whom you ask.
"This is the only way to play Pokémon Stadium. There is no way I'm going back to crappy rental pokémon." Nintendo proceeds to reveal release date for Pokémon Stadium without any sign of Red, Blue, or Yellow.
Artigiani always says "it's 8bit! Videogame experts know what I'm talking about!" during the commercial the infomercial has been the same since the 90s, even though the console changed through the years, I remember it was a fully bootleg loaded nes ripoff at the beginning, then there was also one that had the psx format with COMPATIBLE SEGA GENESIS (Megadrive in Italy) 6 BUTTONS JOYPADS! It was called POLYSTATION 😂 nowadays you can still catch the ad on some regional TV channels
Connor, the coprocessors in some SNES carts were basically graphics cards. They allowed the SNES to run games that it otherwise couldn’t. They usually just expanded the amount of RAM used for graphics or sound (meaning that the cartridge could have more 2D images or music/sound effects stored on it than the earlier versions of the cartridge board), but some (like the Super FX chip) actually improved its graphical capability. Nintendo once joked that they didn’t really need to ever release another system, they could just keep releasing games with bigger and better chips on board. It wasn’t actually true, but it’s probably part of the reason that the SNES had such a long run, especially in Japan. They were still releasing new games for the Super Famicom in 1998. Let me repeat that: 1998! That’s almost halfway through the run of its successor. Anyway, if I were to venture a guess, the reason that an unlicensed clone couldn’t run games with those chips probably comes down to either cost or simply not knowing how to build a version of the board that can communicate with the chips. Computers can be limited in that way, they have to know where an accessory is plugged in and how to communicate with it (parenthetically, that’s part of the reason why USB was such a big deal when it first came out, it eliminated many of the frustrations with the former). There are no guarantees even with official hardware. My AV Famicom can’t interface with my Zapper, for example, because when I boot up a light gun game (even one on a North American cartridge), it doesn’t look for a gun plugged into the second controller port. It looks for one plugged into the Famicom accessory port. I really need to get or wire up a dongle to bridge that gap one of these days, or just import the Japanese version of the Zapper.
You left out that the transfer pack and the gameboy camera combined can allow you to take a picture of your face and use it as the perfect dark character
There are actually about 40 fighting games for Nintendo 64, which is almost twice as many as the total amount of games ever released for the Virtual Boy.
I always called GB accessory the Gameboy pack just because N64 having that naming style for a huge percentage of controller add ons and even the console eventually before it was done
Every comment i see says conner is like a nintendo version of cadicarus but i think hes more like jontron especially during the super joy segment hes fun, spontaneous, explains games fun and quickly and he has good humor and jokes
4:15 Wait. Can you plug a Tremor Pak set to rumble, into a Tremor Pak set to rumble? Or even plug a Transfer Pak into a Tremor Pak into a Tremor Pak? Just lug a big ol cube of destruction Can you plug in a train of Tremor Paks set to rumble into each other, and then plug the first one into the fishing controller or that glove thing?
I NEVER knew about the save/rumble pack/GB packs for the N64! That's SO COOL! I love it! Now I kinda want to find my Red/Blue/Crystal copies and try it with Pokemon Stadium (though I'd have to find a Transfer Pack first, lol)! Hey You, Pikachu has always seemed to me like a Pokemon Channel prototype, which is great 'cause I LOVE Pokemon Channel! I WISH they'd release a new, improved version of PC or smth like it for Switch! :D
Even tho a lot of people hate the controller, I still love the N64! It's my fav retro console. Something about the games just hits different from games now a days. You can also mod a rumble pack to work without batteries. You have to solder tho.
I always read the name of the Pokémon game as "Pikachui" (Pika-chooee) because of the font and the exclamation mark being upside down,making me think it was an 'i'.
"it was the 90s. we were easily entertained." whoa. i would have bet anything this dude was a teenager (im old lol). anyone know how old he is? he was gaming in the 90s??
The N64 is the Sakura of VG systems. People just hate on it because it's the thing to do. I LOVED my 64!! Yes I wish they would have went with CDs or at least have more memory for textures but besides that it was AMAZING
The use of the microphone...slightly confuses me, but I get it. Japan is one of the most rail enthusiastic countries on the planet so the concept of an _actual_ train simulator game for a console makes total sense, as well as why it never left Japan. Of course they'd go the full mile and have you try to pronounce the station names! All the other train simulator games in the world were a lot more casual and exclusive to PC. Still trying to wrap my head around the fact you can play Train Simulator on actual consoles now
Not sure what it was called. But I remember having a rumble Pak with a memory card built in. It wasn't any bigger than a normal rumble pak ether. Heck I think it even had a built in battery cause I don't remember every having to change it.
As far as I remember you just put the memory card into controller two and the rumble pack in controller one and there was literally no need to switch around anything.
Use the Tremor Pak Plus and Memory Card Plus with the Arcade Shark. 2 Memory Card Pluses save ghost on every course on Mario Kart 64 and another 2 for Diddy Kong Racing.
Wait a second, this guy who sold bootleg Nintendo Consoles was forced to run ads that he did that? Isn't that supposed to be considered unusual punishment, which is against the American Constitution? So even back then, Nintendo didn't care. I can't believe I didn't see this before. It honestly explains a lot even now.
Thanks for this video. I had a massive collection many years ago and regret selling it all. I had pretty much everything in this video (even a Wideboy AGB) I had tons of hardware and software for lots of systems, and sold it all for ridiculously low prices. It was good to be reminded of it all, as I'll never own them again, unless I win the lottery
As someone who had the n64 as a young adult and have lived through it, it's funny to me how the younger generations all complain about the controller... (what do I do with my haaaaaands??) ;)
Why the hell would you show the tremor pak with the transfer pak and rumble pak plugged in rather than a memory card, as it's supposed to be used, then complain that it's too heavy?
Fun fact I'm really good with the fishing controller cause I broke my armband for about a year and a half I was using this controller to play all my games and now I can beat Mario 64 using it and a bunch of other games to lol
Why an ethernet port and not a dial up phone hookup? No one had broadband, or a reason to have broadband in the 90s. Hence why Sega had a dial up port standard. And Sega had good online games. Plus ANYONE could access it EXCEPT for the few broadband users, which was inconpatible.
Damage a Nintendo controller? You obviously have never heard of Nintendos rigorous quality control test when it comes to controllers. I think they are made by space dwarves.
The Gameboy Transfer pak was kind of wonky as well. It was EASY for it to get disconnected. Something funny about Goldeneye I remember reading is at one point the rumble pack was gonna be used to reload guns by pulling it out and putting it back in. Guess that idea died quickly haha
The standard N64 controller was certainly weird, but I wouldn’t call it a gimmick. It actually makes perfect sense if you know the reasoning behind it. It seemed strange at the time, and it seems even stranger with a quarter century of hindsight and two handles, two analog sticks being the standard for most of it, but they gave it that three-legged shape because they were trying to ease the transitions into 3D and analog sticks for both developers and consumers. The idea was that the controller could be held one of three ways: left hand on the center handle and right hand on the right handle for games that used the analog stick to move (which is the vast majority of N64 games), left hand on the left handle and right hand on the right handle for games that used the D-pad instead (not a lot of games used this grip, but they wanted to give developers the option if they preferred to continue developing 2D games or games with polygonal graphics but still only moved in two dimensions), or left hand on the left handle and right hand on the center handle so that the D-pad and analog stick could be used at the same time (not sure how many applications that weird arrangement could possibly have, which is probably why no game that I know of used it, but at least the option was there). It’s quite brilliant, actually. They had no way of knowing of what kind of games the developers were going to make for the system, so they future-proofed the controller. I wish that more people were making N64 homebrews and hacks, it’d be interesting to see what ways they could find to use the two grips that the developers never latched on to. Just about everything released in the system’s day was left hand center, right hand right (LCRR), but LLRR would be a natural choice for anyone wanting to port their 2D game to the system, and LLRC might be fun for some sort of puzzle game or a port of “Crazy Climber”. The latter is an old arcade game, the Famicom port of which required players to use the D-pads on both controllers. It never got an NES release, probably because (unlike the Famicom, which had its controllers hardwired to it) not everyone who owned an NES had a second controller.
2:46 - What on earth are you talking about? Reality couldn't be further from those words. Nintendo products have an amazing battery life, except one - Wii-U pad has battery life of a Sony product. Want a proof of this? Go ahead and grad GBA SP or NDS system that you haven't touched in 5-10-15 years, it will turn on and have the same level of charge as the day you turned it off. EDIT: You did an amazing job with the rest of the video!
Great video but God damn I'm sick of hearing that lazy bit about being confused how to hold the controller. It took about 30 seconds to figure out how the controller was meant to be held.
38:47 my uncle found one of those at his work near a car wash i assume it was near the trash bin because it was mostly broken and trashed maybe burned but i cant remeber completely but the n64 controller didnt work or i couldn't get the av cables in because of its condition but i have the gun and i think the genesis controller still i just need a genesis to use the gun with
Funny you didn't know you could use your own pokemon in stadium cus I knew and did that but I didn't know you could use stadium to play your pokemon games on your TV 😭🤯
I always plaid with my Pokémon team over the rentals that's why I won't buy the Switch version. But that was kind of the selling point how did you not know. Overall I only had the ruble and transfer packs I never got other stuff also I always got game sharks and game genies on any system they were on I was also able to play Perfect Dark so I must have had that too
I smell a caddicarus reference
Oh wait that's fish... I'm in the market.
When is Spons gonna show up?😂
@@Umbreon_Eevee At around 400000 Subs?
Spons will make a round tour around the globe. Luckily he's capable of flight.
YOU HAVEN'T EATEN YOUR FINGERS YET
Sorry I farted
Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards was originally going to be a 64 DD game, but due to poor sales it became a regular N64 game.
That explains why it was like the last international release on the N64, goddamn
Lots of N64 games started development for the 64DD, including Banjo-Kazooie, Animal Crossing, and the canceled Earthbound 64 just to name a few.
"what to do with my hands" it's intended to be held either with the joystick prong or the d-pad prong.
This was designed and made before joysticks on controllers were commonplace and Nintendo didn't know if people could handle the complexity of using both a d-pad and a joystick at the same time, so the idea is you could develop a game for either d-pad or joystick controls and people could use the same controller for both games just by switching which part they held with their left hand.
Lots of the N64 design decisions make sense when you realize nobody knew what they were doing yet and everyone was figuring out this 3D thing. Lakitu was the camera man in SM64 because they worried people wouldn't understand a 3D camera without that expansion.
Small correction: N64 is much more capable with graphics than the PS1, but mainly struggles with having much less memory for games.
You simply can't get a game like Ocarina of Time or Majora's mask on the 32bit hardware of the Saturn or PS1, no matter how much room for data you have
How did you typo ps1 twice?
@@PowerPuffBoysZ Thanks, fixed now lol. was typing on mobile, which I suck at
was seaeching for a comment like yours. the video is interesting but it seems like the guy who did it has no clue about what he is talking in some cases. i raised an eyebrow when he said you had to choose between the memory pack or the rumble pack, which isnt true at all but hey not that important
what i cant let slide is he saying that the ps1 was miles ahead of the n64 in graphics bc of the disc format. thankfully you already said that wasnt the case AT ALL.
@@arkalberto Yeah, he definitely made a few mistakes when discussing the N64. With it being my first console, and my favourite, I know a bit about it, haha.
I've also played PS1 and yeah, it's no contest when it comes to graphics vs the N64. The disc format mainly just allowed the PS1
games to be way bigger than N64 games.
This entire video gives off Nathaniel Bandy/Scott The Woz vibes. So, that’s good. Good job Mr. The Waffle!
and daddy caddy.
What is said about 4:00 that one you had to choose between using the pak to save or rumble and you couldn't do both in the same game is wrong. Of course you could. While at the save menu, you was prompt to make the swap if you wanted to. The tremor pak did nothing different than that, while it was within a single piece of hardware its switch button made the controller consider it has either a memory card or rumble pak but it worked at the time the game was meant for it while checking the device inserted in the controller.
34:37 You forgot to mention Mario Artist Polygon Studio having a compilation of micro-games in the same style as WarioWare Inc. These micro-games served as a prototype of what's to come for the WarioWare games three years later.
The Transfer Pak was supposed also work with WWF No Mercy but the game boy color version was canceled, but the data for it is still in the n64 version
wasnt that gonna allow you to transfer game data back and forth?
@@mattalan6618 I remember it was supposed to unlock certain things in both games.. You would be able to move over your created wrestler to the GB version..
@@kenrickeason shame the transfer pack was only ever used with a small number of games
@@mattalan6618 there was a hidden story mode for you created character that you created on the game boy color version, there is a way to trick it with gameshark by allowing a created character to be in the slot of import data
@@MeatySpag might have to look into that sometime. seems like it would have been a fun mode to playthrough
Conned you ok? All you ever upload now are compilations of your older videos. We miss you. Please be safe and healthy.
Fun fact: Madcatz released an extremely obscure and rare 2nd version of the Force pak called the "force pak +".
It lets you switch from low rumble, high rumble, and saving at will, which is pretty cool. I have one and it's still holding my saves, but the rumble never worked, battery slot is filled with rust.
(And when I say obscure, there's like one expired Ebay listing for it and that's the only reference to it online)
Lmao bro i just found one on ebay for $25 and bought it
@@irondan357 You did?? Nice job. It honestly seems quite rare, so I'm surprised you found one :)
@@HerculesMays i foumd it by accident looking for the regular one
"Super Hero" looks like a high school volleyball teacher
Hey You, Pikachu! was designed for younger kids, which means if you have a deep voice, Pikachu will have a hard time understanding you (which sucks)
And I'm so mad I didn't know it wasn't released for PAL N64s. I thought I was just Late To The Party as usual.
When I got an N64 having played one in America at 15 (my first trip there, it was built into the TV), I knew what games I wanted. Pokemon Snap and Hey You Pikachu.
Hey You Pikachu refused to be read, even with a cheat catridge thingy. It has sat in its box on a shelf for half my lifetime because I haven't been able to take it to an American N64. I WANT TO PLAY IT FOR MYSELF SO BADLY.
I can't even emulate it!! Nintendo really lost out not selling it here. Along with region/language-locking so many other games... ~coughZOIDSWHITELIGERSAGASERIEScough~
I can confirm that the glove was incredibly painful. It kinda worked with racing games, but that only made it LESS painful.
If you only had one working hand, it was a way to play games that were impossible to play before. It wasn't meant for people with use of both hands, though I think they skipped that part of their marketing.
@@freebobafett Definitely, although they should have spent a little more time on the design. It wasn't very smooth to use.
Best N64 accessory was the Transfer Pack.
"Most of the time you'd just end up corrupting the hell out of your game"
And that is exactly why I stopped using GameShark as a kid. I nearly rendered my copy of Goldeneye unplayable.
Doshin brings me back that memory of seeing the trophy of him in Smash Melee and being so creeped out / confused by it.
Granted, Yes the internet was NOT "as cooll" back in 1999.. Google was JUST a baby still barley learning to walk. Internet was slower & you had to PAY for PRON sites if you wanted to access such stuff. There was a battle between Apple desktop computing and PC desktop computing users at the time. (Now it's Apple ios & Android cell / mobile phones). Online gaming had Starcraft and you still had what was left of AOL. Chat things at the time were : A.I.M. & MSN Hotmail Messenger. Internet is FASTER and better now, depending on whom you ask.
"This is the only way to play Pokémon Stadium. There is no way I'm going back to crappy rental pokémon."
Nintendo proceeds to reveal release date for Pokémon Stadium without any sign of Red, Blue, or Yellow.
Artigiani always says "it's 8bit! Videogame experts know what I'm talking about!" during the commercial
the infomercial has been the same since the 90s, even though the console changed through the years, I remember it was a fully bootleg loaded nes ripoff at the beginning, then there was also one that had the psx format with COMPATIBLE SEGA GENESIS (Megadrive in Italy) 6 BUTTONS JOYPADS! It was called POLYSTATION 😂 nowadays you can still catch the ad on some regional TV channels
I completely thought that
this was a April Fools based off the Caddicarus PS1 Accessory video!😅
The worst is when ya had Pokemon stadium and transfer pack but didn't have a Gameboy or main line Pokemon game til gen 3, never got to use it 😭
Connor, the coprocessors in some SNES carts were basically graphics cards. They allowed the SNES to run games that it otherwise couldn’t. They usually just expanded the amount of RAM used for graphics or sound (meaning that the cartridge could have more 2D images or music/sound effects stored on it than the earlier versions of the cartridge board), but some (like the Super FX chip) actually improved its graphical capability. Nintendo once joked that they didn’t really need to ever release another system, they could just keep releasing games with bigger and better chips on board. It wasn’t actually true, but it’s probably part of the reason that the SNES had such a long run, especially in Japan. They were still releasing new games for the Super Famicom in 1998. Let me repeat that: 1998! That’s almost halfway through the run of its successor.
Anyway, if I were to venture a guess, the reason that an unlicensed clone couldn’t run games with those chips probably comes down to either cost or simply not knowing how to build a version of the board that can communicate with the chips. Computers can be limited in that way, they have to know where an accessory is plugged in and how to communicate with it (parenthetically, that’s part of the reason why USB was such a big deal when it first came out, it eliminated many of the frustrations with the former). There are no guarantees even with official hardware. My AV Famicom can’t interface with my Zapper, for example, because when I boot up a light gun game (even one on a North American cartridge), it doesn’t look for a gun plugged into the second controller port. It looks for one plugged into the Famicom accessory port. I really need to get or wire up a dongle to bridge that gap one of these days, or just import the Japanese version of the Zapper.
As someone who loves trains, Densha De Go is awesome. I'd reccomend playing Densha De Go Professional on PS1. It's my personal favorite in the series.
Your style is so entertaining! I love your channel and you ❤
I just had an awesome, stupid idea.
The tilt pack, with the glove controller.
13:28 cool thing about this accessory, i was able to use a headset mic from my PC to play hey you, pikachu
Kind of surreal to see an Ultraman game with the capsule monsters, obviously that was the basis for Pokemon.
You left out that the transfer pack and the gameboy camera combined can allow you to take a picture of your face and use it as the perfect dark character
How can someone 'not know what to do with their hands' with the N64 controller? The single most comfortable, easy-to-use controller in history?
You could save without a memory pack and still use the rumble pack. Like Goldeneye. And Ocarina of Time.
There are actually about 40 fighting games for Nintendo 64, which is almost twice as many as the total amount of games ever released for the Virtual Boy.
I always called GB accessory the Gameboy pack just because N64 having that naming style for a huge percentage of controller add ons and even the console eventually before it was done
The N64 controller looks like something A. I made lol.
Always nice to see a brand new video
Loving the Tales of Symphonia music throughout the video!
Holy shit. I haven't watched you in 2 years. Glad to see you're still uploading videos
Every comment i see says conner is like a nintendo version of cadicarus but i think hes more like jontron especially during the super joy segment hes fun, spontaneous, explains games fun and quickly and he has good humor and jokes
The rubble pack to fish in Zelda was totally not needed but I wanted it
4:15 Wait. Can you plug a Tremor Pak set to rumble, into a Tremor Pak set to rumble? Or even plug a Transfer Pak into a Tremor Pak into a Tremor Pak? Just lug a big ol cube of destruction
Can you plug in a train of Tremor Paks set to rumble into each other, and then plug the first one into the fishing controller or that glove thing?
I NEVER knew about the save/rumble pack/GB packs for the N64! That's SO COOL! I love it! Now I kinda want to find my Red/Blue/Crystal copies and try it with Pokemon Stadium (though I'd have to find a Transfer Pack first, lol)! Hey You, Pikachu has always seemed to me like a Pokemon Channel prototype, which is great 'cause I LOVE Pokemon Channel! I WISH they'd release a new, improved version of PC or smth like it for Switch! :D
Crystal isn't compatible with it. You can use Red, Blue and Yellow with Stadium 1, and Red, Blue, Yellow, Gold and Silver with Stadium 2.
Man, I wish we got the 64DD in the west for it's faster loading times.
I always hated the long loading times of those pesky cartridges. 😂
N64 is and forever my favorite console! Grew up with this console
As a Brazilian, it's kinda insane to see someone being busted for selling bootleg consoles, Nintendo of America does not fuck around
Even tho a lot of people hate the controller, I still love the N64! It's my fav retro console. Something about the games just hits different from games now a days. You can also mod a rumble pack to work without batteries. You have to solder tho.
I always read the name of the Pokémon game as "Pikachui" (Pika-chooee) because of the font and the exclamation mark being upside down,making me think it was an 'i'.
also.with the stadium games if you beat them youd unlock a speed up feature for the tower allowing you to play the games at 2x speed
"The Heart Sensor was only compatable with 'Tetris 64'."
Excuse me, what?
"it was the 90s. we were easily entertained."
whoa. i would have bet anything this dude was a teenager (im old lol). anyone know how old he is? he was gaming in the 90s??
The N64 is the Sakura of VG systems. People just hate on it because it's the thing to do. I LOVED my 64!! Yes I wish they would have went with CDs or at least have more memory for textures but besides that it was AMAZING
The use of the microphone...slightly confuses me, but I get it. Japan is one of the most rail enthusiastic countries on the planet so the concept of an _actual_ train simulator game for a console makes total sense, as well as why it never left Japan. Of course they'd go the full mile and have you try to pronounce the station names! All the other train simulator games in the world were a lot more casual and exclusive to PC.
Still trying to wrap my head around the fact you can play Train Simulator on actual consoles now
Not sure what it was called. But I remember having a rumble Pak with a memory card built in. It wasn't any bigger than a normal rumble pak ether. Heck I think it even had a built in battery cause I don't remember every having to change it.
Did I notice 'Persona' music in the train bit?
Honestly, I feel like that helped portray the emotions correctly
The only person I can think of who would play the train game is Sheldon from Big Bang Therory
WWF No Mercy shipped with Transfer pack functionality, but gameboy version never made it to release.
As far as I remember you just put the memory card into controller two and the rumble pack in controller one and there was literally no need to switch around anything.
The rumble pak changed everything. Think SixAxis with the PS3. How did that work out?
Nintendo and Star Fox is the line where gaming was reimagined.
Stop watching for a couple months and now conners gone full caddick
18:26 That actually was pretty Good Japanese Tbh
One of the rumble packs (i think it was the one with the red light) didn’t require AA batteries. So that was a bonus.
You confused youtube into thinking every single game you played was mario artist polygon studio
I had the mega joy 2 looks like the N64 but the accessory slot is where you put 4 double a batteries and can plug in lol
Guess I’m the only one that thinks Hey you Pikachu was a fun game. Vastly preferred it over Pokémon snap
As someone who is currently in Japan and takes the train to Fukuoka to party, I see that train simulator game as an absolute win
I mean, the transfer pak looks like it was useful.
Use the Tremor Pak Plus and Memory Card Plus with the Arcade Shark. 2 Memory Card Pluses save ghost on every course on Mario Kart 64 and another 2 for Diddy Kong Racing.
Wait a second, this guy who sold bootleg Nintendo Consoles was forced to run ads that he did that? Isn't that supposed to be considered unusual punishment, which is against the American Constitution?
So even back then, Nintendo didn't care. I can't believe I didn't see this before. It honestly explains a lot even now.
All you had to do was put the memory card in another controller. Then you had both rumble and save.
14:16 it'd be so funny if you said that and he said "what am your bitch, get your woman to do that for you! Pika!" hahaha
Thanks for this video.
I had a massive collection many years ago and regret selling it all. I had pretty much everything in this video (even a Wideboy AGB)
I had tons of hardware and software for lots of systems, and sold it all for ridiculously low prices.
It was good to be reminded of it all, as I'll never own them again, unless I win the lottery
Love your videos man
As someone who had the n64 as a young adult and have lived through it, it's funny to me how the younger generations all complain about the controller... (what do I do with my haaaaaands??) ;)
Dude this was the 90s, we adapted to all this. Sorry about your mild taco bell grande childhood.
Why the hell would you show the tremor pak with the transfer pak and rumble pak plugged in rather than a memory card, as it's supposed to be used, then complain that it's too heavy?
I don't really diss MadCatz unless they really blundered. Most of them are good to pretty good, but certainly aren't OEM quality.
Fun fact I'm really good with the fishing controller cause I broke my armband for about a year and a half I was using this controller to play all my games and now I can beat Mario 64 using it and a bunch of other games to lol
You forgot the n64 heart rate monitor for Tetris 64
ngl this gave me daddy caddy vibes.
The microphone works better IF you are a small kid, with a high pitch voice the software recognice the commands
Why an ethernet port and not a dial up phone hookup? No one had broadband, or a reason to have broadband in the 90s. Hence why Sega had a dial up port standard.
And Sega had good online games.
Plus ANYONE could access it EXCEPT for the few broadband users, which was inconpatible.
Carpal tunnel? What a gen Z.
Might be why I was a Sony fan until the 3DS era.
Conndicarus. Caddy the Waffle? I dunno.
The rumble packs batteries lasting almost an hour? Have you even played more than an hour?
Connorcarussssss. This isn't a dig. This is what I wanted. Slightly less spastic Merica Caddy Daddy. Now he's Conno-Mama.
It was his choice.
Wait a minute… this is not a Caddicarus video.
Damage a Nintendo controller? You obviously have never heard of Nintendos rigorous quality control test when it comes to controllers. I think they are made by space dwarves.
The Gameboy Transfer pak was kind of wonky as well. It was EASY for it to get disconnected.
Something funny about Goldeneye I remember reading is at one point the rumble pack was gonna be used to reload guns by pulling it out and putting it back in. Guess that idea died quickly haha
The standard N64 controller was certainly weird, but I wouldn’t call it a gimmick. It actually makes perfect sense if you know the reasoning behind it.
It seemed strange at the time, and it seems even stranger with a quarter century of hindsight and two handles, two analog sticks being the standard for most of it, but they gave it that three-legged shape because they were trying to ease the transitions into 3D and analog sticks for both developers and consumers. The idea was that the controller could be held one of three ways: left hand on the center handle and right hand on the right handle for games that used the analog stick to move (which is the vast majority of N64 games), left hand on the left handle and right hand on the right handle for games that used the D-pad instead (not a lot of games used this grip, but they wanted to give developers the option if they preferred to continue developing 2D games or games with polygonal graphics but still only moved in two dimensions), or left hand on the left handle and right hand on the center handle so that the D-pad and analog stick could be used at the same time (not sure how many applications that weird arrangement could possibly have, which is probably why no game that I know of used it, but at least the option was there). It’s quite brilliant, actually. They had no way of knowing of what kind of games the developers were going to make for the system, so they future-proofed the controller. I wish that more people were making N64 homebrews and hacks, it’d be interesting to see what ways they could find to use the two grips that the developers never latched on to. Just about everything released in the system’s day was left hand center, right hand right (LCRR), but LLRR would be a natural choice for anyone wanting to port their 2D game to the system, and LLRC might be fun for some sort of puzzle game or a port of “Crazy Climber”. The latter is an old arcade game, the Famicom port of which required players to use the D-pads on both controllers. It never got an NES release, probably because (unlike the Famicom, which had its controllers hardwired to it) not everyone who owned an NES had a second controller.
the n64 microphone only picks up on high pitches which means any male after 15 can't use it
2:46 - What on earth are you talking about? Reality couldn't be further from those words. Nintendo products have an amazing battery life, except one - Wii-U pad has battery life of a Sony product. Want a proof of this? Go ahead and grad GBA SP or NDS system that you haven't touched in 5-10-15 years, it will turn on and have the same level of charge as the day you turned it off.
EDIT: You did an amazing job with the rest of the video!
I'ma disagree on fishing being boring, other than that, great video
Mickey speedway USA is the best racing game on the N64. Fact.
The Japanese he speaks is getting better
Great video but God damn I'm sick of hearing that lazy bit about being confused how to hold the controller. It took about 30 seconds to figure out how the controller was meant to be held.
I’d love to try the polygon game!
38:47 my uncle found one of those at his work near a car wash i assume it was near the trash bin because it was mostly broken and trashed maybe burned but i cant remeber completely but the n64 controller didnt work or i couldn't get the av cables in because of its condition but i have the gun and i think the genesis controller still i just need a genesis to use the gun with
Hold up. 4:07. I remmeber a game or so allowing you to take out memory unit and inserting a rumble pak. And switching to save.
Some one find this out
Funny you didn't know you could use your own pokemon in stadium cus I knew and did that but I didn't know you could use stadium to play your pokemon games on your TV 😭🤯
The rumble pack was good to go for several days of gaming, I don't know how you're saying it last for an hour, you need better batteries.
I always plaid with my Pokémon team over the rentals that's why I won't buy the Switch version. But that was kind of the selling point how did you not know. Overall I only had the ruble and transfer packs I never got other stuff
also I always got game sharks and game genies on any system they were on
I was also able to play Perfect Dark so I must have had that too