N64 goes portable with Nintendo Sixtyfree Lite-R
It sports all the buttons of a standard N64 controller, a 5" display (yoinked from the PSOne LCD screen), and an unobtrusive cartridge slot. Unfortunately, its petite framework didn't leave room for an internal battery -- it requires an external infolithium (or other 7.2v) power supply to run. A small, small price to pay for on-the-go sessions of
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Misfit Toy @ Dec 27th 2008 4:07PM
Nice. Portable GoldenEye FTW.
Now if we could just get our XBLA version of GoldenEye I'd be a happy man.
Naota @ Dec 27th 2008 4:08PM
I think that's perfect dark.
Naota @ Dec 27th 2008 4:08PM
I think that's Perfect Dark, but whatever.
syrik zero @ Dec 27th 2008 5:52PM
That sure is Perfect Dark. I would love to have either on XBLA though.
Misfit Toy @ Dec 27th 2008 7:12PM
I know its Perfect Dark. But I'd play GoldenEye :)
DWells55 @ Dec 28th 2008 3:24AM
Perfect Dark for N64:
Greatest... FPS... evar.
Perfect Dark 0 for Xbox 360:
Biggest... disappointment... evar.
Moofree @ Dec 28th 2008 4:06PM
Big disappointment? Yes.
Biggest? Hardly.
riv3r @ Dec 28th 2008 8:33PM
This is definitely perfect dark zero.
It looks like portable gaming goes back 2 generations.
Old gameboys like the gameboy color and advance play games that were found on the snes.
I can't wait to play games like halo 3 and cod4 on a portable :)
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Naota @ Dec 27th 2008 4:07PM
Nice
supakoopa @ Dec 27th 2008 4:08PM
I wish people would sell these.... I would easily pay a few hundred dollars for one.
DiThi @ Dec 27th 2008 10:40PM
We'll probably see N64 emulated in the openPandora next year. I belive in 3-4 months from launch we'll see some real portable N64 goodness.
Brodo @ Dec 28th 2008 12:30PM
Im sorry but that would be ridiculous to pay a couple hundred dollars for a portable N64. I mean, the N64 was an amazing console, but with the portable one you would have no multiplayer, plus the DS is better than a portable N64 IMO
onetrueping @ Dec 29th 2008 3:06AM
If the DS has multiplayer, what makes you think that a wireless, portable N64 wouldn't?
Anyway, contributing to the discussion on console advancement:
As far as I can tell the jumps in portable console tech is actually 2.5 steps behind that of static console tech. The Gameboy Advance was close to the SNES, and even included a few of the SNES games, but it was also slightly more limited in scope. A step back, and the Gameboy Color was close to, but not quite, NES quality. A step forward, and the DS is somewhere between SNES and N64. So, the next logical step forward would be between the N64 and GameCube in power.
Personally, that's the one I'd look forward to. With just that little bit of extra power, you'd be looking at an incremental improvement of the N64 games, such as Goldeneye with better textures and smoother graphics. It'd also be at about that point that the graphics would hit the sweet spot between the PS1 and PS2, and right around the Dreamcast in power. Meaning that older games for the PS2 and Dreamcast could be carried around (like a portable version of both Shenmue games pushed into one cart with all the promised-but-never-delivered carryover of items, and a bit of closure, perhaps, or the long-anticipated remakes of the first few 3D Final Fantasy and Phantasy Star games? Who knows?).
Obie @ Dec 27th 2008 4:09PM
NINTENDO! SIXTY! FO....whoa...this is awesome!
Graham Wellington (formerly tyrone washington, or marsha goldberg) @ Dec 27th 2008 4:11PM
ben heck must own stock in an lcd company.
playwhutyalike @ Dec 28th 2008 12:37PM
About 4 years ago (I think) the Media Play in our area had a 75% off bin. In it they had the PS1 screens. I don't think they were supposed to be in there. I bought all 5 of them. They were like $25 bucks each if I remember right. Gave one to the girlfriend's nephew as a birthday present and sold the others on eBay for $90 bucks a pop. Everybody wins.
Except that Media Play, they closed 2 years ago.
Markez (Anti-Panda Death Murder Squadron) @ Dec 27th 2008 4:15PM
To this day, I can still appreciate a good game of Perfect Dark. The 4 player deathmatches stand up to the test of time. My two brothers are still infatuated with this game somehow, so when I'm back in town we play it occasionally.
+1 to the first person who can tell me the name of the weapon that sees through walls.
deaftly @ Dec 27th 2008 4:18PM
http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i27/superbleeder12/invisible-safety-goggles.jpg
Nailio @ Dec 27th 2008 4:22PM
Easy, the Farsight.
My favorite is still the pinball grenades though
Moptimus Slime @ Dec 27th 2008 4:29PM
the best was definitely the N-bomb
Graham Wellington (formerly tyrone washington, or marsha goldberg) @ Dec 27th 2008 4:43PM
umm moptimus, i dont take too kindly to that veiled kind of language.
Markez (Anti-Panda Death Murder Squadron) @ Dec 27th 2008 5:02PM
Fan of the one hit kill on the crossbow here.
syrik zero @ Dec 27th 2008 5:58PM
N-Bombs were the most fun weapon!! I can agree with that one! They made cool sounds and everyone dropped their weapons and you wouldn't be able to see anything so you would run around karate chopping. None of my friends liked them though haha
capt_carl @ Dec 27th 2008 6:54PM
I liked the laptop gun, with the mounted sentry secondary fire mode.
syrik zero @ Dec 27th 2008 7:01PM
We always used the Laptop gun. It was awesome too! Man, I'm really missing that game now
Uncontrol @ Dec 27th 2008 7:06PM
i like to play with only crossbows turned on, it's intense
syrik zero @ Dec 27th 2008 7:11PM
Controls were so difficult back then. Everyone would just be moving around all crazy and you would miss you shot then have to reload. I always thought that was more a game of luck. Like a game with rockets only or something. It was still fun though!
deaftly @ Dec 27th 2008 4:18PM
Cool idea but looks terrible to play on
Markez (Anti-Panda Death Murder Squadron) @ Dec 27th 2008 4:23PM
I'm just going to go ahead and assume you'd enjoy this book one of my old roommates was just showing me the other night...
http://www.mycathatesyou.com/book
deaftly @ Dec 27th 2008 4:25PM
My gf actually just bought the lolcats book :(
Hala Madrid!! (Somebody get me a tie! And it sure as hell better be red!) @ Dec 27th 2008 4:29PM
lolcats FTW!
Moptimus Slime @ Dec 27th 2008 4:43PM
I made you a book, but I ated it
Shane86 @ Dec 27th 2008 4:22PM
(yoinked from the PSOne LCD screen)
Huh?
syrik zero @ Dec 27th 2008 5:57PM
They're used in all kinds of mods. You can buy them on eBay for not too much money. I actually have one lying in my garage. But I don't mod things... not smrt enuf
Moptimus Slime @ Dec 27th 2008 4:39PM
He managed to make the N64 controller to look even worse?
He is a GOD!
Markez (Anti-Panda Death Murder Squadron) @ Dec 27th 2008 4:40PM
No joke. The shoulder buttons are probably on a peripheral the plugs into your ass.
mr mobius @ Dec 27th 2008 4:58PM
If only the DS was able to play N64 games, then we wouldn't need this at all.
Alien Lord @ Dec 27th 2008 11:06PM
Someone should make a peripheral so we can do that.
mr mobius @ Dec 27th 2008 11:20PM
It already can play N64 games...
Super Mario 64 DS is a good example of that. An almost direct port. The DS can easily manage N64 games with a little tweaking of control scheme.
Kye says: Wake me in January @ Dec 27th 2008 5:19PM
Idea 7/10
Design 6/10
Ergonomics 4/10
Practicality 3/10
Effort 10/10
Health +1
Attack +2
Defence +3
MP +2
Creator learned `patience`
New skill gained `dedication`
Level up x 2
Lee @ Dec 27th 2008 5:54PM
I quite like this, mostly because the PSP will never make for good N64 emulation. What with the lack of buttons and such.
A shame that the device that made 3D playable and brought us Goldeneye, Ocarina of Time and Mario 64 hasn't been done in handheld form yet.
Lee @ Dec 27th 2008 5:55PM
Oh wait no, it's broken. It's using a C-stick not C buttons. So I guess it's not a perfect control system. Trying to play Starfox 64 on the Wii with an analogue C-stick? Oh it doesn't work.
Yatcho @ Dec 27th 2008 8:54PM
Cant the DS do this already?
If only Nintendo took a page out of Squeenix's book and started reselling older games(maybe even remastered ones, i would kill for A Link to the past remade al la FF4DS
Moptimus Slime @ Dec 27th 2008 9:03PM
they did, for the GBA
BPMOmega [gamertag] @ Dec 27th 2008 9:38PM
I'd prefer, instead of a 3D remake of ALttP, an all-new Four Swords game, with Wi-Fi Connection support. A vast, expansive adventure, much like FSA... but maybe even longer. As well as alternate modes (the battle mode was fun, as was Navi Trackers).
BPMOmega [gamertag] @ Dec 27th 2008 9:42PM
This is really something. Surely the smallest N64 mod yet. It's a shame it has such an odd button layout, and he's using an analog stick for the C buttons.
And nothing wrong with liking Pokémon Snap. It was a great game.
Shmil @ Dec 28th 2008 2:44AM
anybody else print out your Pokemon Snap pictures at your local blockbuster?
Alien Lord @ Dec 27th 2008 11:04PM
Nice job but there is a bit better one shown on YouTube, I think it's called Darth 64.
sntothemax @ Dec 27th 2008 11:49PM
Is there an expansion bay like the 64, because without the jumper pack you could never play the full version of perfect dark.
i found the cheese.
JJ @ Dec 28th 2008 3:24AM
umm i dont know if you guys are seeing clearly but that is clearly from a gamecube controller and not a N64 controller, look at the d-pad, look at the analog stick and look at the C-stick... its clearly from a gamecube controller and not from a N64 controller...