Just Bought a N64...

[Smuff]

The only games I came across on the N64 that needed the mem pack were DK64 (came bundled with) and Perfect Dark.
Could well be others though.........

they needed the expansion pak, not the mem pak

Oh yeah sorry - my mistake. Didn't read it properly lol

 

[Rokku]

I remember Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon needing a Controller Pack, as well as Daikatana, Turok... and some others, but I can't completely recall all of it. Oh btw, gratz with ur n64, I enjoyed it while I was younger, and you shall too.

Oh, I used to play N64 games all the time, I just never owned a N64 myself.

But now I will!

 

[YoshiInAVoid]

Buck Bumble is awsome! It needs one of the memory things that go in the n64 though, you can't use the memory things which go in the controller.

 

[Rokku]

Buck Bumble is awsome! It needs one of the memory things that go in the n64 though, you can't use the memory things which go in the controller.

Uh...you mean the Expansion Pak?

Buck Bumble came out a year before the Expansion Pak did...

 

[adamshinoda]

Yeah I got the N64 last week and it was also the first time to see it. When I look at its power adapter I was like "Holy shit"

 

[Ben_j]

N64 saves on the cartridge.

Some games don't. World Cup 98 needed a Memory Pack to save, and you needed a memory pack for saving ghosts in Mario Kart for example.

 

[Deleted member 158512]

I know it was mentioned already, but both Mystical Ninja games require it. I just had to say it again because they were the only reason I bought a memory pack >:|

 

[Rokku]

The great thing about the N64 and its games is that it's extremely reliable, and if the games are in good shape, they're pretty much guaranteed to work. I bought a copy of Mischief Makers from a flea market, popped it in, and it just...worked.

You don't get that with a disk based system.

 

[YoshiInAVoid]

Disks suck. They take ages to load, you have to buy memory cards since the disks can't save on them and they are harder to pirate.

 

[YayMii]

Disks suck. They take ages to load, you have to buy memory cards since the disks can't save on them and they are harder to pirate.

1. They're fairly quick at loading if they're implemented properly.
2. No modern console (well, at least this generation) uses memory cards...
3. IMO they're easier to pirate. They only usually need software mods (unless they're not available for that console yet) in addition to DVD-Rs, whereas cartridge-based consoles need flashcarts. Sure, flashcarts are practically plug-and-play, but unless you're talking about the DS not many people are going to want to pay over $100 just to get pirated software.

 

[YoshiInAVoid]

Maybe I just have a bad experience with disk consoles:

1. PS2 and GameCube are the only disk consoles I own, and they take a while to load each level, whereas cartridges access the memory almost instantly without the whirley disk noise,
2. Fair point, but disks still scratch and break far more easilly than cartridges,
3. But they are harder... Most ISO's are torrents which you have to burn to a disk with the right speed and it takes ages, and you have to mod your console, (except for GameCube where you can use a SD card, they had pirates in mind when they designed the GameCube ) but with memory cards it takes seconds to download and copy. And $100 is nothing compared to the $40 each modern games like COD.

Face the facts, disks suck. Cartridges rule!

 

[indask8]

you can't have rumble AND memory paks.

Games that uses rumble and memory pack ask you to remove the rumble and insert the memory pack when you want to save then you can remove it and insert once again the rumble.
It's hot-swapable.

 

[Rokku]

Woo, I finally lucked out and scored a copy of Super Mario 64 for fairly cheap off eBay.

This is a game I HAD to buy.

 

[elgarta]

N64 saves on the cartridge.

That doesn't make sense, there wouldn't be Memory Paks if you didn't need them at all.

Honestly though, not alot of games that I used had them. The main one I remember was Quest 64/Holy Magic Century. Ghost records may have been saved on some games like Mario Kart, but I certainly don't remember getting too much use out of mine. Generally if anything needed to be saved to it there was very little space left over D: