10 Cool Things You Had No Idea Your Old Nintendo 64 Could Do
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Back in the day, there was nothing better than popping in your favorite cartridge and spending hours on the Nintendo 64. No matter how long you actually played the console, there were likely some hidden features you had no clue the console could do. Learn about these various tricks and consider dusting off the old thing to try them out for yourself!
If you love the Nintendo 64 controllers or emulating classic games on the computer, then you can actually use the original controller designs. A USB adapter allows two controllers to be plugged into the same USB port and can be used for a variety of games. The Nintendo 64 and Game Boy Color had little interaction until a Pokemon game gave players a way to play Game Boy on a full-sized TV. The original NES power glove was a big bust, but that didn’t stop developers from creating a rare glove design for the N64. The clunky accessory wasn’t used for any exclusive game, but did provide some fun. The N64 expansion pak was essential for some games, but it also added a lot enhancements to other titles. Online gaming was not used on the standard N64, but players who got their hands on the N64DD could actually go online with various games. The N64 only plays N64 cartridges, but a third-party accessory allowed players to play both older NES and Super Nintendo games they still have laying around. Special versions of the N64 controller were actually used as television remotes. If you didn’t like the controller, the N64 also released a special mouse and keyboard package for the 64DD. A lot of countries got exclusive N64 games and you could get your hands on them thanks to a special region-free add-on. Online access and email could be obtained through a special N64 add-on known as Sharkwire. Watch to see all of these hidden things your Nintendo 64 could do!
Script by: Alan Donahue
Voice Over by: Cody Flesher
Edited by: Kyle West
Featuring:
USB Controller Adapters | 0:34
Emulating Game Boy Games | 1:35
The N64 Power Glove | 2:33
N64 Expansion Pak Uses | 3:32
Online Gaming | 4:35
Backwards Compatibility | 5:42
Television Remote Controllers | 6:42
The N64 Mouse And Keyboard | 7:41
Playing Games From Any Country | 8:46
Gameshark Online | 9:46
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When I was a kid my parents couldn't afford to get me a Nintendo 64 for Christmas, and miraculously my mother won one from Taco Bell. They had a promotion running called "score 64 and win". My mom was really depressed at how me and my brother only asked for the one shared gift, and we couldn't afford it, she had a dream that night in which she saw my dead grandfather on the beach and he told her everything was gonna be okay. The next day she stopped at taco bell drive through for a soda after work (something she'd never done before), and peeled off the label on the cup and found out that we won. On Christmas day after me and my brother opened all our gifts, we tried to not let the disappointment on our faces show because we knew the situation, and while we hadn't gotten what we hoped for, we didn't want it to show. My parents then had us open this one last gift. Me and my bro unwrapped a plastic taco bell cup, (the 64 hadn't arrived in the mail yet) and were confused until they said "read it", we did, and we lost our minds with happiness. You always see those contests, and you think nobody ever wins, but they do. Till this day, I still can't believe it happened, and made it the most memorable Christmas of my life. God is good.
didnt you have to submit the cup to get the system? fake news.
@@breezyrides6829 you had to submit the peel off sticker on the side of the cup.
I won one at Taco bell too with GoldenEye. No one at school believed me until I took it in my backpack then all the kids wanted to come over and be my friend lol The old days were the best.
@@breezyrides6829 idiot
@@breezyrides6829 no, you submit the sticker you peel off
I feel like a better title would be "Top 10 N64 accessories you didn't know existed"
Truthboy. So true. 😉
Memer_Rick boy if you never heard of this console you're a disgrace to humanity
CyberNinja was thinking that too
Memer_Rick lots of people heard of it, I even own a n64
Edgar zamora exactly
Let me save your time and summarise the video:
10 Cool Things You Had No Idea Your Old Nintendo 64 Could Do:
1. A company made a third party device that lets you connect N64 controllers to your PC.
2. The game Pokémon Stadium comes with a device that lets you play Pokémon Red, Blue and Yellow though an N64.
3. A company made a third party controller in a glove style.
4. Nintendo released an Expansion Pak for the N64. It is required for some games, and improves performance on some others.
5. Nintendo released an N64 add on in Japan that would allow it to connect to the internet.
6. A company made a third party device that lets you play NES and SNES games on an N64.
7. Nintendo had a deal to put N64s in some hotels.
8. That add on in number 5 came with a mouse and keyboard.
9. A company made a third party device to let you play foreign region locked games on an N64.
10. A company made a third party device that could download cheat codes from the internet for your N64.
So, that's 0/10 that my N64 can do without buying other products...
Truer than my cringe and idiocy
Literally number 5 is the only one that’s interesting. And, even then it’s not interesting enough to hold up an entire list of 9 others practically useless facts.
Except for 4 it didn't increase performance.
This is why I use adblock. They don't get to make any money off viewers like me. This video was a waste of almost 3min. of my life I will never get back.
Showsni, you have saved 11 minutes of my life.
You truly are the King of Kings.
Since we got blueballed on shit the N64 can *actually* do, here's one:
If you disassemble your N64, there is a grey plastic housing for the bottom of your cartridges. With some snips, cut the corners out of it carefully. Your console can now play Japanese region games flawlessly. They are significantly cheaper than American copies, and a lot of the games you care about are very playable with zero Japanese.
You are a good man, thank you.
Just like the super nintendo?
@@BigMacOrange Yup. For the Sega Genesis, just sand around where the flappy cartridge door is to allow Japanese games.
oh wow thanks
@@BigMacOrange I think I remember doing that to my SNES
i fail to realize how a n64 in a hotel room is something cool MY n64 could do
I fail to realize why anyone would want to pay those outrageous rental prices just to save a backpack worth of stuff. I mean the N64 was sorta big, but it was not as thick as the Xbox (iir correctly) and the controllers could be stacked in a manner where they kinda scissored themselves and all of it combined only use up like the bottom half of a school backpack, where you can then throw clothes and toiletries on top... literally a large sized school backpack could carry all the essentials you need. You are a snob if you are just going to Disneyland or whatever tourist site for a week and can't be bothered to bring your N64 but be fine to pay $40 a day to play a video game. I remember being 15 when those things came to the televisions in Hotels, and I was glad I didn't have to be interrupted playing Majora's Mask every hour or so because I just decided to not be a lazy snob.
RazorEdge oh wow, bringing home consoles around during travels... That reminds me of bringing my gamecube to a family's place far away and playing a lot of Metroid Prime and SSBM. I'm getting nostalgic noa lol
Actually that was how I first got into video games when I was 5 year s old they offered the SNES to play in hotel rooms and my parents actually let me play it on vacations, although only for an hour since the rental rates were expensive. However I fell in love with Super Mario World and it was the first video game I ever played.
Steven Mann ME TOO DUDE. I used to love going to this hotel by the beach as a kid. I got to play with that cool looking controller...
Nobody I grew up with ever deemed it worth the money. I remember getting excited the first time I saw one in a hotel room, and then I thought it was bullshit that you had to pay for it. If it was only like 10 bucks a night I would have pushed for it, but the price was just stupid (and would have preferred multiplayer Goldeneye or something).
What did I tell you about clickbaiting
mike wilson don't shut up
mike wilson Who cares get a life
No
GoldenGamer GoldGaming shut up
mike wilson i
I remember the N64 controllers in hotel rooms back in the day. Costed a comically outrageous amount of money to play games and the TVs were usually designed to prevent me from plugging in my own N64 I would bring on most of those trips...
i bet this guy doesnt even own an n64
Considering how he's holding the controller in the beginning of the video im gonna guess its the first time he ever held one. NOBODY USES THE LEFT SIDE YOU HOLD THE MIDDLE AND RIGHT PART.
@@TwiggehTV the left side is for 2d games. i guess you don't own one either. also he didn't record that because he doesn't even have one.
Didn't know they had a blue controller
Still use game shark used to have Nintendo and game genie but they broke still have SNES and n64 and xbox the original one and the nes Japan system family game
Bruh
10 Cool Things You Had No Idea Your Old Nintendo 64 Could Do
#1 - Something that doesn't even use the N64
CV Anims I was going to say that.
This list is stupid.
I thought he was going to say there was a USB to N64 adapter. That would be cool
The USB adapters are out for every system controller out there. Instant thumbs down. All of these "facts" are common known.
CV Anims cu
"Things you didn't know your N64 could do!" Literally half of the points are 3rd party hardware
WokenWisp this channel is for fucking normie trash. just like behind the meme. fucking normies REEEEE!
WokenWisp it's a top 10 what do you expect
Daniel Royster says the normie.
ChainchompDX I
jack McGwire press F to pay respects for the now silent normie.
I got to try one of those special hotel 64s when I was a kid. Nobody I've ever mentioned this to seemingly ever got to do the same though, so I was never sure if I just imagined it. Glad to know I'm not crazy!
The leap from 8bit to 16, to 32 and 64 was so severe and breathtaking.
I feel now we've reached a point where it all looks the same, just with better lighting
The N64 was far too slow, and without the RAM expansion, it was horrible. Most of the N64 games were also actually 16MB and 32MB of storage, with only a couple of games actually using 64MB of storage due to the production cost of the 64MB cartridges. The N64 was completely out-classed by the PlayStation due to CD-R's. Technology won.
@@WardenOfTerra you're remembering things wrong. The N64 had every advantage possible over the PlayStation at the time, with the exception of storage. The CD was good, but some of those games took minutes to load and usually the only downside to the n64 variant was less music.
On the flip side the n64 was barely higher resolution and better frame rates for games on both consoles, and the 3d effect was top notch, not that glitchy mess the PlayStation had. It was a genuine powerhouse compared to the PlayStation
choppy loading blocky graphics and unnecessary cut scenes as fillers I think the n64 was far classier smoother experience I just think it was in a rush to get the competition without realising the hardwares full potential but I agree that memory was an issue that Nintendo should of addressed early on
This video should be titled: 10 N64 Accessories You May Not Have Heard Of
Is there a way I can have CZcams stop recommending me this guys videos?
TheHazard36 Give them some rubees Morshu !
curse in the comments till they block you
No ment for thehazard36 lol
Hablah Opplong Oh
Just report the video for misleading title
"Wow, my N64 has it's logo on it!
I never knew that!"
channels that tell you to subscribe before the video even starts... *skip*
This is what Adblock was made for...
Not supporting channels that has misleading title.
Super Cartoonist FK U
ItsYe Boi he is right you idiot.
Jonathan Is the Best which is exactly what he said 😂🤦🏻♂️
wow i had no idea after all this time, the n64 games that said on the box "designed for the expansion pack" would indeed utilize the expansion pack, crazy world we live in man.
Actually GameBoy Tower was accessible immediately. You could unlock higher speeds by beating the Stadium modes, but the tower was usable from the start.
The N64 expansion pack is why WWF No Mercy was the greatest wrestling game ever. If you didn't have the expansion pack, it was really slow. But with the expansion pack, that game was so fluid.
Wow, I didn't know it had a logo!
Tyler S. *IKR*
Aka 10 things your N64 can't do
I had no idea the N64 was able to play N64 games by using the N64 controller! MIND BLOWN!
I still have my N64 in storage, it's there, and while I don't use it every day, I'll tell you that Starfox 64 greatly depended on the expansion pack even though it came out long before the release of the addon.
Well its not dusty I play my N64 about every day
Why wouldn't you?! It's only the most revolutionary console in existence, but the GAMES, the plethora of AMAZING games is why I binge on the N64 for long periods of time
Yup, got my clear orange N64 hooked up and played Smash Bros
I play it a lot, but i feel there are some games that are just not playable anymore. Like super smash bros. one of my favorite games growing up. i was a monster with Kirby, and Pikachu, but i can not enjoy the game anymore. I prefer Brawl (or more specifically, Project M)
That said, Mario Party 2 and Mario party 3 get played almost every time i power it up.Same with Ocarina of time.
Nick Hadlick Agreed.
KoRnFreeK Last Yep Super Smash Bros. on the N64 is favorite game of all time.
*10 64 related accessories.
I LOVED the N64 remotes in hotel rooms. Lol.
I would always beg my dad to let me play, despite me having one at home.
It just felt more fun for some reason 😂
But man, was it expensive.
One hour of play was like 7 dollars
I envy you. I never got the luxury of an N64 in a hotel. I’m too young. 😭
Ninty was working on a idea where the Gameboy pocket would use the Game Camera to take a picture of yourself, and then attach your gameboy camera to your N64, and it would load up a image of your face, and map it onto a character in Perfect Dark, so essentially you could play as yourself in Perfect Dark multiplayer. I remember reading this in my N64 gaming mag.
I dont think they could get it to work in the end, but just think how awesome that would have been. The N64 was such a underrated games console, Im sure it was more powerful than the PS1, it felt like it was.
W O A H I D I D N T K N O W T H A T T H E S T A R T B U T T O N C O U L D P A U S E T H E G A M E
Edit: he changed the thumbnail, lol
ikr! so true!
Tbh the new one isn't that good
@@physicsdenier793 I didn't know my N64 had a logo on it!
WOAH MY N64 HAD A LOGO ON THE FRONT WHAAAAA????!!!!
I know right I'm so amazed
Its a shocking discovery
WHAAT?!?!????? ME TOO!?!!?
I thought it had a dreamcast logo
"10 Cool Things You Had No Idea Your Old Nintendo 64 Could Do" is a bit of a misleading title-- I mean, they make it sound like your N64 can hack the pentagon. It should just be "10 Pieces of N64 Trivia."
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@@TheGamerVideos Your point being?
You’re missing the N64 bio sensor, which measured your heart beat rate during Tetris 64.
I knew all of these, and they have nothing to even do with the console, really. Just accessories.
This is not a good video
Ikr Disliked
The transparent controllers aren't meant to be futuristic, they are intended for use by inmates in low security prisons. This way the equipment can't be used to smuggle contraband.
Good list I hadn't heard about most of those. I have the expansion pack but I wasn't aware it helped upgrade the quality of some of the existing games
Holy shit!!! the n64 controller has a start button?!?!?
Mind blown :0
HOW DID YOU NOT KNOW!
Yes
...
Completely Random OMG woah
It bugs me how they never once mention that the "64 DD" stands for the "64 Disk Drive."
Considering the fact he said you have to complete pokemon stadium to unlock the gameboy tower despite the fact its unlocked from the beginning of the game, This stupid fuck probably docent even know what DD stands for.
@@FloppydriveMaestro i know what DD stands for its for big Boba's
Embassy Suites has this lodge net thing.
I remember that. Always at an Embassy Suites I see those altered N64 controllers...
I miss that part of my childhood always coming into the hotel room and asking my mother if it was okay to play Star Fox 64.
$60 for an hour was a really good price but you had to kick in the afterburners to literally get through the game like I mentioned.
I love the in 64 because I always saw it as something like a first-person shooter machine with the great design of the controller and all the Stellar first person shooters that came out for it
Un, the first thing doesn't even qualify as its what a pc can do with an n64 controller. The system ain't even involved
The new thumbnail is even more stupid than the first one on this video. It is a arrow pointing to the sticker on the console.
It's because there is a video made by an minor channel that really shows some cool things about the N64 and one of them was about the console logo.
Ohhh soooo nostalgic!!!! I'm only 12 but I remember excitebike 64. So many memories!!!
Nobody:
The thumbnail: woah! It’s a N64
WOW! I NEVER KNEW THAT EXISTED!
WOW! I NEVER KNEW THAT EXISTED!
Who is sad that Nintendo 64 DD Was cancelled
me
ArdaBaba23 ENG me
Me
ArdaBaba23 ENG everyone
Its not that great honestly, im a collector and its a low priority item.
Why didn't you include play games?
Had no idea my ol' sturdy N64 could be a USB adapter! Amazing.
2:05 - Whoa, you don't have to unlock GB Tower in Stadium! It's there from the start, you only have to unlock the speed-up modes for it!
10 things that you knew or aren't actually things. Plus who didn't know about the expansion Pak? It was advertised heavily at the time and even now people know all about its uses with games. Plus using a controller on a PC is not a thing the console could do same with it being in a hotel room that's just a place where it is found.
I clicked the Dislike button as soon as I heard the phrase "notification squad". Nice low quality clickbaity video, by the way...
This legit scared me cuz my n64 was in the back closet
10 Cool Things You Had No Idea Your Old Nintendo 64 Could Do
>proceeds to name nothing but 3rd party accessories
Am i early ?
Better make a joke . . .
This entire channel
OOOOOOOHHHH GOTTEM
who said it was old.......I played mine yesterday.
Ethan Peeples bc its from 1996
I Played Mine In 2017 And It Still Works After All These Years!
Ethan Peeples Just cause you played doesn't mean its new
xXLightXx Videos yea and I played on a commodore 64 from 1982 and it still works...... I dont see what the big deal is.
Hello to those, US addresses, interested here is a 1/24/2018 listing for my Nintedon 64 7 game bundle with a memory card www.ebay.com/itm/162867479137?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1558.l2649
WOAH I DIDN'T REALIZE MY N64 HAD A LOGO ON IT!!!! IM BLOWN AWAY
I still have my 64 that i had since the year 2000 when i was eight years old...this is a cool list to me despite the negative comments on here,i did however knew back then about playing pokemon blue,red,yellow version on Pokemon stadium as a kid lol. Good times
Is this supposed to be a parody? It sucks as a "fact-video" and it would even suck as a parody...
Nope, I know this channel well. This serious.
Does this work on a New N64 too?!
:'D
0 New N64s are existant
@@newagederpderp you do realise it’s a joke
I can't believe all these info, when I had my classic consoles, I never thought all these features were possible.
I do remember seeing an N64 in a hotel that me & my family stayed at one time on vacation. I remember thinking it was the coolest thing even though I owned one WAY before that & had more games than it offered lol
I remember the n64 and gamecube hotel versions. It was a cool concept to be honest. See kids today think all this stuff is just gross and nasty old but it was cutting edge at the time. To put it in perspective, 20 years from now, kids are gonna complain and say that 4k gaming is gross and low res. It sounds crazy but its gonna happen.
I still have my n64 and GameCube hooked up via hdmi sitting next to my ps5 lol
lmao N64 and gamecube were never "Cutting edge" the hardware in them was simply made more acccessible than the hardware you'd need to build a beefy gaming PC back in the 90's because PC building was much more decentralized with lots of bits having specific connectors so they only worked with exclusive parts and firmware and software compatibility were still not universal, the closest you could get were 386s and 486s which were more expensive and in home adoption at the time.
Good video but the title is beyond misleading.
No, not good video.
How about we rename this video to: “accessories for your Nintendo 64”
10 cool ads you never knew you didn't want to watch......
Wow this was a horrible list, with a clickbaity title. Thumbed down, will ignore this channel.
Good choice. Watch for cringe.
@@kyndull THIS CHANNEL IS HAUNTING ME TO WATCH IT!
Who still has Nintendo 64?
anyone that's actually cool, get with it!
Tyler Wade
Me
I have a computer, so I just emulated a N64
I was in a hotel in Winter Park, CO that had N64s in the rooms. I remember renting Rampage on it. Fun times.
I actually knew all of these except for the last one about the GameShark internet service bundle. That one actually seems really cool... I wanted something like that back in the day. Didn't know it existed. If it were better advertised, I'd have had one.
there was no online gaming back then. there was no 'online' back then. why don't remember this? O yeah cuz you were born in 2000
Internet Gaming has been around since at least the regular Nintendo in Japan.
Lawl. I remember the play dates just to play multiplayer video games.
This is the first video I ever disliked...
I bought my n64 from a second hand store and apparently even to my knowledge had the expansion pack in it. Only problem is idk how to get it out. Lol
Where can I buy the adapter for the 64 that allows you to play nes games and snes games? I want one!
Can we get this channel terminated too
I love some of his videos. This video does need a different title.
NOPE
I actually remember those hotel n64 consoles...I still can't get over that lol
WOW I remember being on a Carnival Cruise Ship back in 2001 and they had N64 in our cabin. I remember my parents telling me to NOT play the games because they'd get charged! So I remember the LodgeNet they had! Also had no idea about the tri game thing. So cool. Miss my childhood and miss my N64 so just snagged one on ETSY. Hopefully it will be in good enough condition to replay a few of my N64 Favorites! I remember getting my Nintendo 64 at Toys R Us the day it released!!
Using a dual stick controller works well for N64 games, just map the right stick to the C buttons, and set up everything else how you'd normally have a controller set up and you're done. Well, that's how I do it anyway.
I remember those Hotel room N64 controllers, I think a few hotels still have them to this day. I remember if you were playing a game that saved, at the end of the hour of play it would wipe the memory lmao.
The TriStar 64 didn't function as an emulator - it contained cloned copies of the innards of the NES and SNES.
It was like stacking an 8 bit and 16 bit console atop your shiny new N64, which only served to provide power and controls.
The TriStar 64 even had its own video output, which used a cable from the N64's own video out as a pass-through when playing N64 games on it, which would be the only time it used the N64 hardware for running game code.
I remember being able to rent the power glove for nes from my local tape rental place
I actually bought one of those adapters (The exact one you showed in the video actually) around 2011ish?
It still works flawlessly to this day. Let me tell you, those things are cool.
Not many people have gold n64 controllers the controller and gold set in general are pretty rare collectors items
WHAT!?
THE NINTENDO 64 HAS A LOGO ON IT
I NEVER KNEW THAT
MY LIFE IS A LIE
things you didnt know your n64 can do
number 1: hook your controller up to a pc.
The Power Glove failed, cause of production cost cuts that used cheaper work arounds for motion sensing. The technology originally in mind would have made the glove too expensive and fragile.
If you put stickers on your N64, then your N64 could have stickers on it.
I still have my N64 and games, plus Gameshark, today. I bought it back in 1997 and built a wooded, made of sassafras, box in shop class.
I didn't know there was a Nintendo 64 Logo on the console OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH
I liked this information here I had no idea about these options, cool stuff.
Does anyone know if you would still get the grove if you go on eBay or somewhere?
Top 10 things your n64 could've done or is slightly n64 related
6:43 During my senior trip to Disney World, I had an N64 in my room. It was awesome. Didn't play a single game because it cost I think $50 to use.
I loved the Lodgenet n64 games! We would beg our mom to set it up for us while we were in the hotel room! So much fun!
You know your channels bad when someone sees the video, dislikes it, and then find out that its bad.
PSA: The memory pack upgrade was not a graphics processor, but simply more RAM for the system. The original advertisement made it out to be a device that made graphics look better, but in actuality, the N64 was (at stock) capable of producing finer graphics. The issue was that a cartridge could include "high res textures" and "more detailed polygon models", but had nowhere to dump these high res files because they wouldn't fit in the stock RAM until you included the RAM upgrade... THEN the cartridge could dump the high res files onto the RAM and thus play a game that looks better. Some games included both the low res files and high res files and you simply enabled it in the game's options.
This video goes on like: did you know? Your Nintendo 64 can not only play games, but it can play *Nintendo 64* games too!
What was the N64 cartridge with the RCA connectors used for? (Saw on Facebook)
Most of these things you have to buy an accessory, an aftermarket one, which came out decades after the n64 time.
you didn't have to beat anything to play pokemon on the N64 with pokemon stadium, you could do it right away. The speed increases were locked behind completing stadium game modes though.
for people wondering how to set up a regular controller for your n64 emulator try this.
left dpad and joystick, L and R, Start are the same.
Z is L2, C buttons are the 4 buttons on the other side, B is L2 and A is y+ (y+ is up) on the second joystick. depending on the game I would recommend setting L2 as the more commonly used button and flicking the right joystick up as the least used. This is probably as close as you're going to get with a normal controller.
Not that many children got to enjoy the N64 in hotel rooms. In the rare cases where it was still working a few months after installation, the cost was prohibitive. It could cost $9+ dollars to play the system for 24 hours. Most parents wold not spring for this luxury. Usually using excuses like "we are supposed to be on vacation" "you can play video games at home for free"