I FINALLY Got A 64DD In 2023!!!!

I wonder how different the gaming world would be if the 64DD weren't delayed and ended up being released worldwide. We'd probably be playing Ura Zelda 😆 Stay safe ♥

i’m pretty sure the grove in the DD at 5:14 is actually for a microphone that would plug into the capture card that came with and was used for the mario artist talent studio software :)

Had them back in the testing department at rare for a bit in the 90s, we would use them to cache the gameplay on a certain N64 game you all know. I think the idea was it would essentially dump everything the game was doing and record inputs so problems could be found and resolved quickly by essentially having a repeatable real-time live save state of the game they could access , vs the age old a description in text form from the tester, or some crash dump numbers for the coders to go over. They did not last long. Came into work one day and they were just removed. No doubt the devs were experimenting on them as there were loads of innovative stuff going on at rare at that time.

Thanks for sharing!!! I never see this in Brazil.

Congrats on finally getting your very own DD 😁 It’s not an easy task even if you live in Japan, believe me 😅😅 Keep up the good work!

You can get fan translations for most of these games, mainly the Mario Artist series (excluding Communication Kit) and even the F-Zero X Expansion Kit. You can even get conversion hacks of these games that make them function on a cartridge without a 64DD at all (with or without translations), though you will likely need the Expansion Pak to play these that way though (which I assume you would have one already).

What an amazing pickup, definitely a dream item to grab, well done

There is something weirdly fascinating about these old console hardware add-ons. Often the associated game library was tiny and/or rubbish, but even just the presence of seemingly random expansion ports hinted at some kind of arcane untapped potential. With so many hacks for older games, and with things like the Satiator kicking around, it's cool to see that there's still untapped potential in decades-old hardware. Be cool to see if anyone can do anything fun with the 64DD

Bought one in 2024 for an enormous amount of money. I can´t tell anyone this. It is not explainable. You get a top-notch smartphone for this money. Instead you now have this 1.6 kg old hardware block under your N64....But I own my N64 since 25 years, and this has always been my dream. Nostalgia is simply unexplainable.

Fantastic video...i still own my old N64 pal unit...i bought it in 1997 (i was 14 years old too...i and my brother bought it with our summer job's hard earned cash..eheh) and still own it along with over 60 games (and a white/azure japanese N64)...the N64 DD..a far off dream for me...i didnt get to know about it until a few years after its release...

I wouldn't worry about breaking the seal, most Japanese game shops wrap everything in plastic, Trader uses shrink sometimes. I've bought a lot from them on previous trips, some are still "in shrink" but it's not a factory seal.

Awesome video

you can just run DD games from a flash cart, its literally just a disk reader with nothing else. Also the mario thing, reseal.

yep nice i good my in 2001 i still have

Basically thats just a floppy drive.

Background music is way too loud in this video.

That's a reseal by the way