I smell a caddicarus reference

Connor has pretty much become the Nintendo version of Caddicarus, and I, for one, accept this future

"The GameCube had the DK bongo." The Gameboy Player: Do I mean nothing to you?

"No bootleg game console is complete without a gun" connerthewaffle 2023

Every Rumble Pak game I remember had a specific prompt to switch to the Rumble Pak or Controller Pak when needed.

with the transfer pack with the pokemon stadium games, if you didn't have any friends, you could evolve your trade pokemon by yourself by trading them from your gb games to the stadium games

You didn’t mention one of the best uses for the GameShark: playing imports! Nintendo did a pretty good job of releasing their best stuff outside of Japan, and the system didn’t have a ton of third-party support, so there aren’t a ton of Japanese exclusives that are worth playing (at least not ones that didn’t have a massive language barrier, like that train game), but the N64 is region-free. Like North America, Japan is an NTSC region, so Nintendo used the same motherboards for both versions of the N64 (and the SNES before it, which can also be modified in the way I’m about to describe)). The only thing preventing you from playing Japanese games on your North American N64 (or vice-versa) are a couple of plastic tabs in the cartridge slot that can easily be removed. If you don’t want to do that (or replace the back half of the Japanese cartridge with that of an American donor), the GameShark works perfectly as a pass-through converter. Hyperkin also makes a converter now that not only allows cross-NTSC play, but enables an NTSC system to play PAL games (in other words, European/Australian import). There aren’t enough PAL exclusives to justify the $40 price tag in my book (really, NONE of the PAL exclusives interest me), but the option is always there. Selection may not be that great, but there is one pretty good reason to get into N64 imports, and that’s saving money. The Japanese versions are usually quite a bit cheaper, so if the game you want to play doesn’t have much text in it anyway, why not? “Mario Kart 64” and the original “Super Smash Bros.” are fairly common imports for this exact reason.

Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards was originally going to be a 64 DD game, but due to poor sales it became a regular N64 game.

The Wide boy64 and WideBoy Advance were meant for developers and the Pres to have an easy way to show off games and capture screenshots for magazines and press releases. They were developed by Intelligent Systems for Nintendo for those purposes.

This entire video gives off Nathaniel Bandy/Scott The Woz vibes. So, that’s good. Good job Mr. The Waffle!

"what to do with my hands" it's intended to be held either with the joystick prong or the d-pad prong. This was designed and made before joysticks on controllers were commonplace and Nintendo didn't know if people could handle the complexity of using both a d-pad and a joystick at the same time, so the idea is you could develop a game for either d-pad or joystick controls and people could use the same controller for both games just by switching which part they held with their left hand. Lots of the N64 design decisions make sense when you realize nobody knew what they were doing yet and everyone was figuring out this 3D thing. Lakitu was the camera man in SM64 because they worried people wouldn't understand a 3D camera without that expansion.

The Super Joy III really has nothing to do with the N64 despite being shaped like the controller. As this selection of built-in games would suggest, it’s a Famiclone, complete with 60 pin cartridge slot more or less where the Z-button would go. You can even run NES carts on it if you have a 72-60 pin adapter, though it’s not very practical. I have a few that I picked up at thrift stores with the intention of using them for various projects. Famicom cartridges fit just fine (if a little too tight, the plastic slot is a bit too small) but the pins don’t latch onto cartridges very firmly. You can stick the pin converter in there and an NES game in the pin converter but (aside from the same awkwardness that came with using the Rumble Pack or Transfer Pack on the N64, only more so since an NES cartridge is a lot bigger) the slightest bump will break the connection if the weight of all of that stuff hanging off off of the Super Joy doesn’t pull it out of the pins. Anyway, it actually had a successor. By all accounts, it uses pretty much the same internals, but the Super Joy IV (fittingly) is modeled after the Gamecube’s controller.

What is said about 4:00 that one you had to choose between using the pak to save or rumble and you couldn't do both in the same game is wrong. Of course you could. While at the save menu, you was prompt to make the swap if you wanted to. The tremor pak did nothing different than that, while it was within a single piece of hardware its switch button made the controller consider it has either a memory card or rumble pak but it worked at the time the game was meant for it while checking the device inserted in the controller.

I have never understood why the rumble pack required batteries when I was younger, because I used to assume that it should get powers from the cord it self

Small correction: N64 is much more capable with graphics than the PS1, but mainly struggles with having much less memory for games. You simply can't get a game like Ocarina of Time or Majora's mask on the 32bit hardware of the Saturn or PS1, no matter how much room for data you have

Conned you ok? All you ever upload now are compilations of your older videos. We miss you. Please be safe and healthy.

Your style is so entertaining! I love your channel and you ❤

5:33 - Pokemon Stadium, Pokemon Stadium 2, Mario Golf, Mario Tennis, Perfect Dark & Mickey's Speedway USA was the games that Nintendo marketed the Transfer Pack for. Other then them, I don't remember any more games. If there are then they are truly obscure ones that where poorly marketed (!)

Ya just gotta love connor’s style

The Japanese version of Majora’s Mask is technically compatible with the microphone

I love how you used a track from Bomberman 64. That was among my favorites, ahh the nostalgia..

Awesome caddicarus reference love your vids

Always nice to see a brand new video

Fun fact: Madcatz released an extremely obscure and rare 2nd version of the Force pak called the "force pak +". It lets you switch from low rumble, high rumble, and saving at will, which is pretty cool. I have one and it's still holding my saves, but the rumble never worked, battery slot is filled with rust. (And when I say obscure, there's like one expired Ebay listing for it and that's the only reference to it online)

My girlfriend, brother, and I usually scream and cuss at Pikachu when playing Hey You Pikachu.

Holy shit. I haven't watched you in 2 years. Glad to see you're still uploading videos

Bud, without that “useless” rumble pack you would have no dual shock. Respect should be shown for that.

Hi Connor I just started watching your channel again its good to see your doing great. Last time I watch your vids was probably 3 years ago

Doshin brings me back that memory of seeing the trophy of him in Smash Melee and being so creeped out / confused by it.

You literally and unironically could swap between the rumble pack and the memory card. Any game that required a memory card and supported rumble had a prompt both before and after saving to let you know when it was safe to swap them.

The Tilt Pak woulda been better as a standalone controller than as an extension to the stock one.

most games that use the rumble pak and controller pak will prompt you when to switch paks, so its not so much you have one or the other, its more like you swap when you load the game, and swap again when you're done to save your progress.

Love your videos man

Loving the Tales of Symphonia music throughout the video!

"Super Hero" looks like a high school volleyball teacher

37:40 love how it’s just got the Duel Of The Fates right on the box.

Nice video man. I've had one of those power joy as a Kid here in Brazil. I don't remember if it was this exact model but it had straight nes clones games on it.

I completely thought that this was a April Fools based off the Caddicarus PS1 Accessory video!😅

34:37 You forgot to mention Mario Artist Polygon Studio having a compilation of micro-games in the same style as WarioWare Inc. These micro-games served as a prototype of what's to come for the WarioWare games three years later.

Densha De Go is hilarious! You gotta show people what happens when you fail! You basically showed off GTA while obeying traffic laws lol the animations and sound fx are worth the laughs

There was a thing I had as a kid, though I can't remember the name of it, that was basically a vest with several small rumble packs sewn in all around it. It still plugged into the controller like a regular Rumble Pak, but instead of the controller vibrating, it was your whole torso.

"This is the only way to play Pokémon Stadium. There is no way I'm going back to crappy rental pokémon." Nintendo proceeds to reveal release date for Pokémon Stadium without any sign of Red, Blue, or Yellow.

My boy is basically telling caddy "notice me senpai" senpai should notice him

I can confirm that the glove was incredibly painful. It kinda worked with racing games, but that only made it LESS painful.

Also, funny enough,Caddicarus' video also had the train game!

I was surprised to hear "Perfect Dark" mentioned. I remember playing that game with my daddy when I was little. It's been so long I can't remember if it was an N64 or some other console we played on.

As someone who loves trains, Densha De Go is awesome. I'd reccomend playing Densha De Go Professional on PS1. It's my personal favorite in the series.

"Most of the time you'd just end up corrupting the hell out of your game" And that is exactly why I stopped using GameShark as a kid. I nearly rendered my copy of Goldeneye unplayable.

Artigiani always says "it's 8bit! Videogame experts know what I'm talking about!" during the commercial the infomercial has been the same since the 90s, even though the console changed through the years, I remember it was a fully bootleg loaded nes ripoff at the beginning, then there was also one that had the psx format with COMPATIBLE SEGA GENESIS (Megadrive in Italy) 6 BUTTONS JOYPADS! It was called POLYSTATION 😂 nowadays you can still catch the ad on some regional TV channels

How can someone 'not know what to do with their hands' with the N64 controller? The single most comfortable, easy-to-use controller in history?

First video of yours I've watched a while... I'm now questioning why I left to begin with cause this is great.

You definitely could unplug and plug in rumble, then memory, then rumble packs.

Mr. FrenchToast looked drained of his life in the first opening shot of the video

Best N64 accessory was the Transfer Pack.

I just had an awesome, stupid idea. The tilt pack, with the glove controller.

N64 is and forever my favorite console! Grew up with this console

Sometimes I Feel like I'm the only person who thought the N64 controller was rather intuitive? The moment I tried it at the Walmart Display, I immediately Figured things out and played Mario 64 like a champ. I was 5 and thought it was great.

Drinking a case of red bull or monster and playing Tetris with the bios thing would make Tetris easy as hell. You'll be on fricking steroids and the game's moving in slow motion. It's like you stopped time

Lol punctional 😂 really tho how'd you deal w the 13 hour plane trip!? I wanna go so bad but that terrifies meee!

The worst is when ya had Pokemon stadium and transfer pack but didn't have a Gameboy or main line Pokemon game til gen 3, never got to use it 😭

Bro is da new caddicurus

Ha, I had the playstation version of that glove controller when I was a kid. It was the most goofy, awkward thing ever.

I NEVER knew about the save/rumble pack/GB packs for the N64! That's SO COOL! I love it! Now I kinda want to find my Red/Blue/Crystal copies and try it with Pokemon Stadium (though I'd have to find a Transfer Pack first, lol)! Hey You, Pikachu has always seemed to me like a Pokemon Channel prototype, which is great 'cause I LOVE Pokemon Channel! I WISH they'd release a new, improved version of PC or smth like it for Switch! :D

I saw this video playing in a game store I went to, Connor would be proud

Electronic Gaming Monthly was the shit in the 90s!!! Times were so different lol

This video was awesome bro

Hey You, Pikachu! was designed for younger kids, which means if you have a deep voice, Pikachu will have a hard time understanding you (which sucks)

You left out that the transfer pack and the gameboy camera combined can allow you to take a picture of your face and use it as the perfect dark character

Whose train system is most punctual? Japanese vs Germans? I think some German train conductors actual blitz through the station so hard that they'll be unusually early or something

32:18 The way the road moved looked like the car was barely moving. It looked slow until I saw road signs fly by.

love the referene to ol' daddy caddy

Did I notice 'Persona' music in the train bit? Honestly, I feel like that helped portray the emotions correctly

The rubble pack to fish in Zelda was totally not needed but I wanted it

Granted, Yes the internet was NOT "as cooll" back in 1999.. Google was JUST a baby still barley learning to walk. Internet was slower & you had to PAY for PRON sites if you wanted to access such stuff. There was a battle between Apple desktop computing and PC desktop computing users at the time. (Now it's Apple ios & Android cell / mobile phones). Online gaming had Starcraft and you still had what was left of AOL. Chat things at the time were : A.I.M. & MSN Hotmail Messenger. Internet is FASTER and better now, depending on whom you ask.

13:28 cool thing about this accessory, i was able to use a headset mic from my PC to play hey you, pikachu

4:17 yes!!!!!! Tremorpak is peak design (except that it didn’t really add anything) 😅

Needs more SSFF references

Ngl that GB Perfect Dark looks way more impressive than it has any right to be for the hardware.

I had the mega joy 2 looks like the N64 but the accessory slot is where you put 4 double a batteries and can plug in lol

As a Brazilian, it's kinda insane to see someone being busted for selling bootleg consoles, Nintendo of America does not fuck around

"it was the 90s. we were easily entertained." whoa. i would have bet anything this dude was a teenager (im old lol). anyone know how old he is? he was gaming in the 90s??

I think the left prong is for DPad games & the middle one joystick games

Even tho a lot of people hate the controller, I still love the N64! It's my fav retro console. Something about the games just hits different from games now a days. You can also mod a rumble pack to work without batteries. You have to solder tho.

The use of the microphone...slightly confuses me, but I get it. Japan is one of the most rail enthusiastic countries on the planet so the concept of an _actual_ train simulator game for a console makes total sense, as well as why it never left Japan. Of course they'd go the full mile and have you try to pronounce the station names! All the other train simulator games in the world were a lot more casual and exclusive to PC. Still trying to wrap my head around the fact you can play Train Simulator on actual consoles now

Connor, the coprocessors in some SNES carts were basically graphics cards. They allowed the SNES to run games that it otherwise couldn’t. They usually just expanded the amount of RAM used for graphics or sound (meaning that the cartridge could have more 2D images or music/sound effects stored on it than the earlier versions of the cartridge board), but some (like the Super FX chip) actually improved its graphical capability. Nintendo once joked that they didn’t really need to ever release another system, they could just keep releasing games with bigger and better chips on board. It wasn’t actually true, but it’s probably part of the reason that the SNES had such a long run, especially in Japan. They were still releasing new games for the Super Famicom in 1998. Let me repeat that: 1998! That’s almost halfway through the run of its successor. Anyway, if I were to venture a guess, the reason that an unlicensed clone couldn’t run games with those chips probably comes down to either cost or simply not knowing how to build a version of the board that can communicate with the chips. Computers can be limited in that way, they have to know where an accessory is plugged in and how to communicate with it (parenthetically, that’s part of the reason why USB was such a big deal when it first came out, it eliminated many of the frustrations with the former). There are no guarantees even with official hardware. My AV Famicom can’t interface with my Zapper, for example, because when I boot up a light gun game (even one on a North American cartridge), it doesn’t look for a gun plugged into the second controller port. It looks for one plugged into the Famicom accessory port. I really need to get or wire up a dongle to bridge that gap one of these days, or just import the Japanese version of the Zapper.

also.with the stadium games if you beat them youd unlock a speed up feature for the tower allowing you to play the games at 2x speed

I still don't get how people are so confused on the n64 controller. Especially if you were of age enough to enjoy it while it was new.

WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY USELESSS? All these accessories all have a specific purpose. And there all pretty cool in there own right.

It looks like this is the _one_ world that caddy was beaten to

About the N64 mic not working with Hey You Pikachu, I've online heard two reasons that may be why it fails so badly with that game. Reason 1: The mic was tailored to kids' voice pitch levels, and so, when, say, an adult male, for example, tries to use it, it does not work because the gamer's voice is not compatible with how the voice recognition is built. And reason 2: Hey You Pikachu, only has a small number of words programmed in the voice commands, and so, most things you say to Pikachu, the game cannot understand it, and so, Pikachu does anything but what you said to it. I do not possess the N64 mic, nor have the rom of Hey You Pikachu, to dig into the files myself to get any sense of proving if either or both claims of reasons I heard online, is true, nor can I playtest on my own side. And before anyone replies to this comment and says that Pikachu will use it's electric powers in a rage by saying "Playstation", that's an old rumor. In truth, the word "Playstation" is not within the voice commands in the internal coding, and so, any case of Pikachu angrily using it's electric powers in response to the player saying "Playstation", is just a coincidence of the game not understanding what you're trying to say to Pikachu

6:00 speaking about useless accesories, i haf this like armor kit for My game boy which included a magnifying glass/back light/wall charger/ a grip for the back/ some type of adapter gor the buttons I don’t even remember exactly what the button moddid lol

2:52 This feels weird now that F-Zero 99 is a thing.

I remember back in the day I had a force pack mad catz rumble pack thing that had memory built into it two different settings for two different sets of memory... So it would rumble and held storage for two different memory cards worth and had batteries.. but it was the same exact look as the one in your video red and black.

I always called GB accessory the Gameboy pack just because N64 having that naming style for a huge percentage of controller add ons and even the console eventually before it was done

"The Heart Sensor was only compatable with 'Tetris 64'." Excuse me, what?

Seriously we can do a drinking game every time he says 64 😂

Kind of surreal to see an Ultraman game with the capsule monsters, obviously that was the basis for Pokemon.

Every comment i see says conner is like a nintendo version of cadicarus but i think hes more like jontron especially during the super joy segment hes fun, spontaneous, explains games fun and quickly and he has good humor and jokes

love that persona 5 in the background

Ah, the rumble pack, going through puberty in the 90s and having this as a makeshift vibrator