N64 Everdrive or repro?

[StrayGuitarist]

I sold my childhood N64 years ago, and I’m looking for a way to play Pokemon Stadium 1 and 2 again, on my good ‘ol CRT. I’m not a purist per se, but I’m not going with emulation because I also have the GBC Pokémon games and wanna use the link functionality there.

I don’t know how many other games I’d be playing to justify the cost of an everdrive, but I don’t know whether it’s really just more worth it in the end for compatibility reasons as opposed to a repro. Another questions is if there’s a Retron-esque N64 clone. I’d be willing to go with one of those, too.

 

[FAST6191]

Do you have the little adapter thing?

Anyway many around here would generally view repros as bad news with them being essentially paid piracy, and if you have a hack involved as well then likely to be an old dodgy version of said hack.

A flash cart in turn allows multiple ROMs, cheats, ROM hacks (that are up to date), possibly region dodging and more besides.

 

[contezero]

The only everdrive able to play Pokemon stadium 2 is the everdrive v3: it cost a lot more than the standard everdrive 2.5. If you are only interested in pokemon stadium games a repro should be fine, assuming ou are able to find a good repro. Compatibility and link capability should be the same (on original hardware).

 

[pedro702]

or you can buy the official games used on ebay, they are probably cheaper both of them before an everdrive lol.

 

[FAST6191]

But then you have not got ROM hacks and cheats.

 

[StrayGuitarist]

Cheats don't matter to me, and ROMhacks for N64 aren't really that high on my list of priorities.