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Posted: Dec 27th 2008 4:08PM (Unverified) said

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I wish people would sell these.... I would easily pay a few hundred dollars for one.
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Posted: Dec 27th 2008 10:40PM (Unverified) said

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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.
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Posted: Dec 28th 2008 12:30PM Brodo said

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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
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Posted: Dec 29th 2008 3:06AM (Unverified) said

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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?).
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Posted: Dec 27th 2008 4:07PM Misfit Toy said

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Nice. Portable GoldenEye FTW.

Now if we could just get our XBLA version of GoldenEye I'd be a happy man.
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Posted: Dec 27th 2008 4:08PM Aperture said

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I think that's perfect dark.
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Posted: Dec 27th 2008 4:08PM Aperture said

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I think that's Perfect Dark, but whatever.
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Posted: Dec 27th 2008 5:52PM (Unverified) said

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That sure is Perfect Dark. I would love to have either on XBLA though.
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Posted: Dec 27th 2008 7:12PM Misfit Toy said

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I know its Perfect Dark. But I'd play GoldenEye :)
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Posted: Dec 28th 2008 3:24AM DWells55 said

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Perfect Dark for N64:
Greatest... FPS... evar.

Perfect Dark 0 for Xbox 360:
Biggest... disappointment... evar.
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Posted: Dec 28th 2008 4:06PM moofree said

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Big disappointment? Yes.
Biggest? Hardly.
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Posted: Dec 28th 2008 8:33PM (Unverified) said

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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 :)

Hey btw, can any1 check out my new blog
http://riveraven.blogspot.com/
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Posted: Dec 27th 2008 4:07PM Aperture said

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Nice
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Posted: Dec 27th 2008 4:09PM Obienator said

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NINTENDO! SIXTY! FO....whoa...this is awesome!
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Posted: Dec 27th 2008 4:11PM dr steve brule said

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ben heck must own stock in an lcd company.
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Posted: Dec 28th 2008 12:37PM (Unverified) said

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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.
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Posted: Dec 27th 2008 4:15PM MarkezJM said

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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.
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Posted: Dec 27th 2008 4:22PM Nailio said

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Easy, the Farsight.

My favorite is still the pinball grenades though
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Posted: Dec 27th 2008 4:29PM (Unverified) said

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the best was definitely the N-bomb
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Posted: Dec 27th 2008 4:43PM dr steve brule said

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umm moptimus, i dont take too kindly to that veiled kind of language.
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Posted: Dec 27th 2008 5:02PM MarkezJM said

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Fan of the one hit kill on the crossbow here.
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Posted: Dec 27th 2008 5:58PM (Unverified) said

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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
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Posted: Dec 27th 2008 6:54PM captcarl said

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I liked the laptop gun, with the mounted sentry secondary fire mode.
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Posted: Dec 27th 2008 7:01PM (Unverified) said

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We always used the Laptop gun. It was awesome too! Man, I'm really missing that game now
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Posted: Dec 27th 2008 7:06PM (Unverified) said

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i like to play with only crossbows turned on, it's intense
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Posted: Dec 27th 2008 7:11PM (Unverified) said

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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!
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Posted: Dec 27th 2008 4:18PM (Unverified) said

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Cool idea but looks terrible to play on
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Posted: Dec 27th 2008 4:23PM MarkezJM said

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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
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Posted: Dec 27th 2008 4:25PM (Unverified) said

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My gf actually just bought the lolcats book :(
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Posted: Dec 27th 2008 4:29PM (Unverified) said

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lolcats FTW!
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Posted: Dec 27th 2008 4:43PM (Unverified) said

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I made you a book, but I ated it
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Posted: Dec 27th 2008 4:22PM (Unverified) said

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(yoinked from the PSOne LCD screen)

Huh?
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Posted: Dec 27th 2008 5:57PM (Unverified) said

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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
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Posted: Dec 27th 2008 4:39PM (Unverified) said

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He managed to make the N64 controller to look even worse?

He is a GOD!
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Posted: Dec 27th 2008 4:40PM MarkezJM said

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No joke. The shoulder buttons are probably on a peripheral the plugs into your ass.
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Posted: Dec 27th 2008 4:58PM mrmobius said

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If only the DS was able to play N64 games, then we wouldn't need this at all.
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Posted: Dec 27th 2008 11:06PM (Unverified) said

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Someone should make a peripheral so we can do that.
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Posted: Dec 27th 2008 11:20PM mrmobius said

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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.
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Posted: Dec 27th 2008 5:19PM (Unverified) said

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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
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Posted: Dec 27th 2008 5:54PM (Unverified) said

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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.
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Posted: Dec 27th 2008 5:55PM (Unverified) said

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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.
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Posted: Dec 27th 2008 8:54PM Yatcho said

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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
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Posted: Dec 27th 2008 9:03PM (Unverified) said

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they did, for the GBA
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Posted: Dec 27th 2008 9:38PM BPMOmega XBL PSN Steam said

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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).
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Posted: Dec 27th 2008 9:42PM BPMOmega XBL PSN Steam said

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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.
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Posted: Dec 28th 2008 2:44AM Shmil said

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anybody else print out your Pokemon Snap pictures at your local blockbuster?
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Posted: Dec 27th 2008 11:04PM (Unverified) said

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Nice job but there is a bit better one shown on YouTube, I think it's called Darth 64.
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Posted: Dec 27th 2008 11:49PM (Unverified) said

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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.
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Posted: Dec 28th 2008 3:31AM Ricky Bango said

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Awesome mod job, even if it does defeat it's own purpose.
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