It's almost been a year since my brother Andrew has passed away.

That is so cool. You are awesome.

So sorry for your loss.

Thanks guys. I just wish the CRT was bigger. 13" hardly captures the blurred and fuzzy glory of a Composite N64 picture.

My heartfelt condolences to you and your family. So beautiful and so adorable!

I didn't know you could overclock N64s. Won't it speed up the audio and gameplay though? If the game is normally trying to compensate for a lower framerate by adjusting the game speed up, then once you "fix" the low framerate, it will still be trying to compensate resulting in the game logic running faster than normal in areas where it would usually have lag. Example, while it's not entirely related, I noticed that in Banjo Kazooie/Tooie, if you use a 60 FPS patch in an emulator, it also speeds up things like turning/aiming in 1st person or turning while swimming underwater making the controls feel a bit inconsistent and making some things way harder than they should be. It stands to reason then, that increasing the framerate in other ways on real hardware would have much the same effect, throwing off the balance where games were hardcoded with the limitations in mind.
Another example, and a bit more related, is if you've seen the "no slowdown" patches for Gradius 3, they make some parts of the game way fucking harder because the level design was made under the assumption that some parts would always be running at like 4 FPS giving you ample time to react to all the crazy shit going on. When that slowdown is no longer there you end up with something that requires superhuman reaction times to complete.
Also, my understanding was that anything time based like delays/sleeps which are used constantly for pretty much everything, was hardcoded for a specific clock speed, and that's why on older consoles when you play games in PAL regions, they usually run overall slower than the NTSC equivalents (unless they have specific workarounds to keep the game speed consistent across regions), simply because of the way they adjusted the clock speed of the CPU to match the TV signal's "clock" better. So overclocking by say, 25%, would increase overall game speed by 25% across almost all games, and perhaps even increase the audio speed. So it would not be very useful as far as getting better performance goes - it would only be good for having a speed up option to skip past boring parts in games.
Am I wrong and is that not an issue with overclocking N64s?

@Jayro Show us what treasures you've got over on that shelf there. The bottom right one

Two yellow carts = DK and THPS2?
Blue cart = TWINE?

I legit didn’t know you could overclock an N64 either.

Sorry for your loss Jayro but that's a cool idea and a good lookin' console!

Do you still have any of his save files on there?

The blue cart is Tony Hawk 1, yellow are DK64 and Tony Hawk 2. The N64 can be overclocked with just two wires, and the only thing it really affects "negatively" is that in-game cutscenes seem to play too fast, like it's on 4x fast-forward. But it's really a minor gripe. I'd rather have smooth gameplay.

The games listed are:
Super Mario 64
Super Mario 64 (Japanese)
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2
Excitebike 64
Donkey Kong 64
Mario Kart 64
Mission: Impossible
Resident Evil 2
Perfect Dark
Goldeneye 007

These are most (Not all) of my childhood games, but some have been re-purchased.

I'm still looking to buy:
Tetrisphere
Conker's Bad Fur Day
San Francisco Rush: 2049
Shadowman 64
Yoshi's Story
Kirby 64
Star Fox 64
Banjo 1
Banjo 2
Jet-Force Gemini

@Lostbhoy Yes, on DK64 they are all his save files. He really loved that game.

Awesome. Awesome game too, they all are I guess!

I'm unsure of the truth of the story but there's a youtube video of a guy who finds his old xBox he used to play with his father who since passed and he finds his fathers saved ghost lap times in need for speed i think that he can race against. Very sentimental and thought provoking.

I've read a similar story before, where this guy's mom played Animal Crossing like crazy on his gamecube, and after she passed away, he fired up his town to see that his mom had sent him SEVERAL gifts the entire time she played. It broke his heart, but in the good way.

@Jayro What, no Zelda? No Banjo? What about Pokemon Stadium and Snap?

I never had the Zelda games growing up, and playing them now just seems more like a hinderance than "nostalgia" that I never had. I played and beat snap 5 times over, so I'll just get the new one later this year. Stadium was meh, and I don't have anyone else to play it with. I also never played the Banjo games, and never knew any friends that had it either. I'm sure they're just as great as DK64 and Conker's though, it's one of Rare's "golden age" franchises at the time. I wouldn't mind adding the Banjo games to my collection, at a fair price. I also want Jet-Force Gemini, it looked fun.

Sorry about your loss, that kind of shit is never fair. Still best thing to do is exactly what your doing and keep all the good memories you have going with things like this.

Stadium was the shit man. And not for the reasons you might expect.
The little minigame extras they added are where the fun is at, not the battling. Sad that those haven't returned in any later Pokemon battling title like Pokemon Battle Revolution. So many good memories from playing those back in the day, it was a real competitor to Mario Party.

I built him a Gameboy last spring, but he passed away before I could give it to him so now it sits on my mantle with his urn, and has his favorite Gameboy game in it: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Back From The Sewers. (Great game, by the way)

I only saw him once a month when we would meet at our parents' house for dinner on the last Sunday of every month. So on the last Sunday of March is when I planned on giving it to him, but he passed away on the morning of March 5th in 2020. It wasn't until his passing that I looked around my apartment and realized I didn't have any family photos hanging up anywhere, so his wife lended me her camera SD card and I took it to Walmart and printed off a bunch of 5x7's and 8x10's of him and my other family members for my home, and framed them. It's given me a fair bit of comfort too, especially right after the tragedy happened. I've never been without my brother in my life, so this has hit me pretty hard. We shared a room our entire childhood and teen lives, so we never really got to have time apart. Could be why we had such a tight bond later in life. Nobody could tell a story with the hilarious charisma like Andrew could. He was my rock, through thick and thin. Given that my family is already small, him passing unexpectedly really shrank our family by what seems like 100 people. (My mom was an only child, so I don't have any aunt's, uncle's, or cousins on her side at all.)

Sorry this reply got a bit long.

Nah, don't be sorry about a reply like that. It's good to just let out whatever words you wish, especially in a time like this
Now you gotta play through SM64, all the way.

I've never beaten Super Mario 64, it's too difficult for me on actual hardware. I may give the Switch version a go with my Pro Controller though.

R.I.P Much Love, and know he's looking down on you glad and proud! Game on!