N64 goes portable with Nintendo Sixtyfree Lite-R

by Griffin McElroy { Dec 27th 2008 at 4:00PM }

This certainly isn't the first time Nintendo's enumerated home console made the jump to the handheld realm -- but it might just be the sleekest portable N64 we've seen to date. SifuF, a disciple of modding guru Ben Heck, recently displayed his terrifying techno-prowess by crafting the Nintendo Sixtyfree Lite-R (catchy, no?), pictured above.

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 ~~Pokémon Snap~~ Ocarina of Time.

Tags: ben-heck, n64, nintendo-sixtyfree-lite-r, portable, sifuf

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)

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?).

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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http://riveraven.blogspot.com/

Naota @ Dec 27th 2008 4:07PM

Nice

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.