The New N64 Golden Age is Upon us!

Citizen_404 · 2026-08-06T15:44:52+0100

Hanafuda said:
Zelda OoT
Zelda MM
Mario64
Paper Mario
F-Zero X
Waverace
Conkers BFD
Perfect Dark
007 Goldeneye
Super Smash Bros
Mario Kart 64
Diddy Kong Racing
Starfox64
Banjo Kazooie
Banjo Tooie
DK64
Blast Corps
Star Wars Rogue Squadron
Star Wars Shadows of the Empire
007 The World is not Enough
Jet Force Gemini
Harvest Moon
Animal Crossing
Mickeys Speedway
WWF No Mercy
Ogre Battle 64
Space Station Silicon Valley
Sin and Punishment
Resident Evil 2

And there are a ton of mid-shelf games (IMHO) like Mario Tennis, Mario Golf, Turok games, Quake II, Duke Nukem, Doom, Kirby, Pilotwings, anything Pokemon, 1080 Snowboarding, Snowboard Kids, Beetle Adv. Racing, Cruisn USA, and a personal fav of mine, Re-Volt.

That's just off the top of my head. I've never understood the 'only a couple games' shit-talk re: the N64. IMHO its core catalog has held up a lot better than PS1.

Mario Tennis and Gold mid-shelf? That statement is even crazier than some of your political beliefs, lol

VmprHntrD · 2026-08-06T15:55:42+0100

Well it just arrived, already pulled my day one N64 console w/UltraHDMI off the tv. The red m64 is in, irony of it all, about a month or so ago I found an immaculate red OEM controller, so that's going into use.

I don't get this one butthole I saw on I think reddit claiming the M64 was broken, had to use SD cards to update, had problems. I think it was flagrant fanboyism or a plant from analogue, as this fired right up, easy to see 8bit retro style idiot buttons in colors if you can't somehow read. You go right over a few spots, right at top is wifi, flip the on switch, pick your network and get password set, and off it goes when you hit check for update, then click on the same field as it says update available. I've been at it between 5-10min and it's around 2/3 there as i write this.

I wish I didn't have to work the rest of the morning and dentist later --sigh. I'll find time to throw Mario 64 in there and Pilotwings after as a rite of passage. First games out (96), first games IN on this in 2026 almost exactly 30 years to the date...ironicy well timed I'd say.

,,,and now it's on the last edge of a 16 slice circle.

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Citizen_404 said:
Mario Tennis and Gold mid-shelf? That statement is even crazier than some of your political beliefs, lol

I agree with the first part, I don't know about the last part -- and I don't want to. Keep the fucking poltiics out of here, leave it in drama land elsewhere. Already had one retard try that in here the other day. I've been on forums for decades and I'm happy to see places banning it outright or keeping it into one localized dumpster fire to ignore. if the software allowed it I'd set the entire damn slice of ignorant behavior ghosted but I didn't see a way to erase it.

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I should be working but tweaked with the settings some. I put a custom setup in with the bloom at 3/5, and then under advanced set the 2/4/6 option for scanlines to a 2 and that came off looking quite a lot like the fine lines and solid look bloom and all to my 14" color monitor so I'm pretty impressed. I kept Mario 64's bounding around head as the test panel given it's so up close and animated along with the flat tiled sprites text and background panels it's a good catch all. I've got a 120 save on that cart in an alt spot, wiped off A, will be taking a new spin on this sometime later today.

I'll have to see about that QR code or what not from their website, curious about the whole run down on the manual and all that but it's so far a good impression in the setup at least vs output.

Hanafuda · 2026-08-06T22:14:52+0100

wrt: the Mario Tennis and Mario Golf rankings in my previous post, I'm not a big fan of any video game renditions of real world sports*. And Nintendo routinely farms out such games to outside developers. So I didn't include them in the prime list, but anybody else's opinion is just as valid as mine.

* Except for Mario Tennis Power Tour on GBA. That one kicks ass lol.

VmprHntrD · 2026-08-07T05:45:42+0100

Hanafuda said:
wrt: the Mario Tennis and Mario Golf rankings in my previous post, I'm not a big fan of any video game renditions of real world sports*. And Nintendo routinely farms out such games to outside developers. So I didn't include them in the prime list, but anybody else's opinion is just as valid as mine.

* Except for Mario Tennis Power Tour on GBA. That one kicks ass lol.

Well I get that, and I am the opposite, I dislike strongly the yearly wash-rinse-repeat real world people/stats sports stuff as it ages like milk and gets boring fast. The thing is, you're right, Nintendo does farm those out, but if you were going to go to the farm, they found the best one in the business, Camelot, which created Hot Shots Golf, it's basically Hot Shots Mario Edition, and the same crew had skills similarly enough to do Tennis too on the GBC/GBA N64/GC in the era, not sure if they stuck with it as I didn't. Mario Power Tennis GBA is in some ways both a downgrade and an enhancement, not so blatant as Mario Golf though. They may look and sound nicer on the better hardware, but while Tennis didn't have as much to lose, the Golf game is kinda trashy on GBA and GC compared to the first go, especially GBC as they made this stunningly excellent RPG of sorts with it with growth that years later GOLF STORY exclusive to Nintendo Switch parroted excellently well. I'm not one to put most sports games in that top tier, but Mario Golf I would, right in there with the likes of Baseball Stars, Neo Turf Masters, Blades of Steel, and not so many others.

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Also while i'm at it, time and interruption ruined a long run, but I was able to tinker with the M64 some doing about 30min or so on Mario 64 and 1/2 that on Pilotwings. So far I'm impressed, but also slightly annoyed. The EXPERIMENTAL features section does NOT save on power down. So those 2line vs 4line depth feature for scanlines gets shut off and default is just ugly, so I guess in the meantime I'll just play with NO lines until that's sorted.

I wish I had time to look into Xibalba, feel bad about it a bit, but with tomorrow and the days after I can properly open it up, enjoy that new paper smell, read the manual and give it a go.

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