Owning a Nintendo 64 is a pretty big hurdle. Have you seen how much those fucking things cost now?!
Are they bad? I just never let anything go, so I’m still using mine from when I was a kid.
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If you can manage to find a place that has one, they’re usually selling for $200+ now. I’m pretty sure I can get ebay chinese replicas for like $50 though, but there are some games they won’t play.
The N64 had a $200 launch price, which is pretty much $400 now. So nobody is making money from holding onto their N64. Hrm, maybe I should pick one up.
Wait, what? I just bought my younger brother an n64 with an expansion pack, rumble pack, and Majora’s Mask and OoT for Christmas, and all together that only cost 180$. All legit copies and hardware. Made double and triple sure.
Are people just not hitting the “sort lowest to highest” option on auction sites? Or is this a new development in the last few months?
No, it looks like prices have come way down in the past few months. Last time I checked was a year+ ago. My information just wasn’t up to date.
Ah, that makes sense. Consoles do tend to spike in price at the height of their nostalgia wave. Probably got boosted up for a while by the rumors of an N64 mini not panning out, and instead being presented with the sub par switch online expansion. Probably created a lot of demand for the real thing.
Prices have come down in the last year. I see several on eBay listed tested/working for around $60. One even comes with a controller. Shopgoodwill.com has similar prices when they’re available. Prices for auction items with less than 10hrs look very reasonable.
If you can’t have it, emulate it. ;)
You can emulate via software or hardware nowadays.
If you want accuracy, the MiSTer now has an N64 core that is mostly complete.
The biggest thing holding me back from enjoying emulators is their input lag, I’ll give MiSTer a try.
You should also try RetroArch. Very low input lag, although not as low as MiSTer on a CRT.
I regret selling mine when I was 17 cause I wanted to buy a paintball gun and gear. At the time, it was a great call cause I didn’t play any N64 games at the time, and I got to have a blast playing paintball with my friends.
But man I wish I’d sold something else back then so I could still have my original N64 and games. Still got the ol’ NES and Sega Genesis at least.
Are there no emulators?
I’ve got one in a box in my garage
If you don’t like the jank of emulation or the risks of going to pirate sites: An Xbox Series S, Game Pass, and a few controllers is an okay replacement. There’s a bunch of Rare games on Game Pass, classic Goldeneye, and they even have stuff like Timesplitters in the store.
I’d emulate anything over giving Microsoft any money at all. But thanks.
Microsoft, EA, Ubisoft, Activision, Blizzard – all on my shit list and will never get a penny from me.
As a 42 year old woman with no work tomorrow, eating takeaway pizza and drinking wine whilst contemplating zelda on the DS I bought over Covid vs a cheesy movie on Hulu this made me smile. :)
Why not both. Having a movie or show on the second screen while I game is my lifeblood.
Sounds like you were living the dream.
It’s not bad I grant you
I had pizza rolls and played Borderlands 3 last night, but was asleep on the couch at 8:00. I’m 39.
Oh yeah goin to bed at ten
Such a rebel, might even sleep till 730, who knows!
I wish I could sleep in, stupid body
Nothing is stopping you from this right now
Except the cost of the console and games. :(
Also, Beetle Adventure Racing > Wrestlemania
You guys don’t keep your childhood consoles?
I would have if I had the luxury of storage.
Not all of us came from stable backgrounds. My father lost everything we owned when I was in the Army because he couldn’t stop gambling and didn’t pay our storage unit… My entire fucking Magic the Gathering collection. I had power 9 and a full duel lands set, many many decks. Not to mention all my consoles and games.
Someone stole it from me when I was 18.
Your phone has enough power to emulate an N64 and roms are free. Ain’t nobody making royalties 25 years later on Wrestlemania.
Argggh the seas of piracy are calm and rife with plunder
Well, yes, I have a gaming PC as well. (and a steam deck) It just ain’t the same without the OG controller. Need to get a USB one eventually but I’m poor.
I do still have some of my original carts as well. Same with a bunch of NES carts I got from my previous job. Been eyeing those modern consoles that work with NES carts because that would be nice to have in the living room.
Ahhh beetle adventure racing! Brings back memories. I found a legit “cheat” way to play by doing something like turning and then clicking handbrake? A few times and it would take super sharp turns depending on how many times you click handbrake no matter the speed you were going. Allowed be to beat the game and unlock all cars pretty easily.
Did you find the secret level?
I want to say yes, but honestly that was such a long time ago. I remember there was an “out of this world” secret car but I don’t remember much else.
They are pretty cheap. Around 50 bucks. With the box around 150. SNES is expensive compared to it. Also, Diddy Kong racing > beetle adventure racing.
This is very close to how my weekend went actually : ) Just with BG3 instead of Wrestlemania, and the wife was out of town instead of no school. Haha.
Taking turns playing Doom 64 while drinking Mtn Dew Code Red and eating Buncha Crunch. Everything was downhill after that.
Ha! Jokes on you, I’m not 38 until… next week. Guck!
(I meant to type “fuck” but “guck” works just as well.)
This honestly needs to be a lemmy insider only word. Replace all reference of fuck with guck going forward.
WCW/NWO Revenge, or nothing.
Wrestlemania 2000 was cool and all, but WCW/NWO Revenge will always be my GOAT. I remember as a kid being hella impressed by the customization options.
I also owned WCW/NWO Thunder for PS1. Game was dog shit.
no mercy for me bro
No Mercy is the pinnacle of N64 wrestling games, but the glory started with WCW vs NWO World Tour.
The only problem I had with No Mercy is my save files kept disappearing.
WCW vs NWO was the best game on the N64!
I remember Game Grumps playing a wrestlemania game and getting kind of sad because almost all of the Wrestlers depicted had already died.
I don’t think I can be 38 right now unless we want to really break physics. I wouldn’t mind shaving a couple of years off, though.
And I’d have to use that weird-assed controller shudder.
That said, y’all have fun and enjoy it! :)
Pretty sure a N64 can be emulated on a raspberry pi 5.
Granted it’s probably easier to get a N64 than a pi5… but still. For those folks that want to play… It’s possible.
Also I hear steam deck is a great way to emulate it…
Hell, I get 60fps in 1080p on a Raspberry Pi 3b playing Mario Kart 64.
Haha that’s awesome! I didn’t know that!
They were a really impressive little piece of kit. With no extra peripherals, I was able to play NES on one core, and use FFMPEG on the other three to encode and stream to Twitch with mono sound. For $35. Probably my favorite gadget of it’s time.
It’s Saturday night, I have no date, just a roll of quarters and a 2 liter bottle of Shasta. Let’s do this.
I remember the hype of getting chairs from the audience in this game!
We rented this one a lot.
