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Is it even possible to make blank cartridges for the N64? Has anyone done it? I'd assume that it would be highly unlikely due to most carts being built differently for different games, like more RAM or EEPROM. Not to mention getting around the lock out feature in N64 carts. Also costs.

But surely a decade after the last cart was made, would there be a feasible method to transfer a ROM to a blank cart and have it work on a N64 console?

>> No.498403

>Ram
>On the cart
u wot

Sounds like you want a flash cart though

>> No.498464

>>498403
>battery-backed-up RAM for saved games

I'm just going off what wikipedia says.

Just looked up the flash cart. Anyone have an Everdrive64? How are they?

>> No.498474

>>498464
A few people here have everdrives and I've only heard positive things about them. Except for the price, of course.

>> No.498484

It can be done to gameboy carts, i don't see why it wouldnt be possible with N64 ones.

http://www.reinerziegler.de/readplus.htm#Home%20made%20carts

>> No.498492

>>498484
http://www.digital-circuitry.com/DOC/NINTENDO/GAMEBOY/DIY_Nintendo_GAMEBOY_Classic_Flash_Cartridge_UPDATED.pdf

>> No.498508

>>498464
Big difference between how SRAM and RAM are used, you should specify which you mean

>> No.498527

>>498484
on the N64 and GBA its more complex because the address and data bus share the same connections
unlike the NES, SNES and GB

crazynation . org/N64/n64_cart_info.htm

>> No.498532

>>498464
I have one. Works great. Not much else to say about it. Banjo Tooie and Animal Forest don't work but I think that's it.

>> No.498548

>>498532
There is a crack available for BT now.

www dot 64scener dot com

Scroll down 1/4 of the page to find the post about it.

>> No.498561

>>498548
>>498532
What about Animal Forest

>> No.498562

>>498548
Well that's awesome. I already have a banjo tooie cart but now I can put that in storage.

>> No.498567

>>498561
It doesn't work because it uses a real time clock in the cartridge i believe.

>> No.498572

>>498561
Not sure. Im just doing some research on the ED64 and apparently BT was the last hurdle before 100% N64 library compatible. The crack was only released at the end of last year.

>> No.498589

>>498567
Oh.
Is it still playable?

>> No.498597

Of course it's possible, just not the original cart design, that one is owned by Nintendo and they ain't letting anybody use it I don't think.

>> No.498651
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498651

OP here.

Well after watching a few reviews on the Everdrive64 I think I'll get one when they come back into stock at StoneAgeGamer.
The price doesn't really bother me because I've been spending a fair bit of cash already trying to refill my old N64 collection I had as a kid. (which I sold as I got older and poorer) But now that I'm earning some good cash I thought I might as well get my collection again.
I had Conkers bad fur day back then and looking at jewbay for another copy, I might as well get an ED64 for half the price, and have every N64 game at my fingertips ready to play as they where original intended, on the console.