Finally Got an N64 Today!

Originally Posted by daeth

He's probably pretty young. Just as I think the NES is the best console ever due to me growing up with it, he probably has fond memories of the N64. The N64 certainly had some amazing games, but overall it didn't have enough decent 3rd party games and was fairly mediocre in my opinion.

I think that the SNES, Wii, Xbox 360, and NES are the bet because quality of games, and, in the Wii and NES' case, money earned.

@Ramza: Pokemon Stadium 2 is only 2.99 here. I remember playing both a lot. I remember when my brother, his friend, and I, played the mini-games on Pokemon Stadium 2 all night and we always had a blast. I'm probably gonna get it for that price!

@Tonchiki: I thought I saw it there for 7.99 but I came back today and I didn't see it so maybe I was mistaken or someone bought it already. Most N64 games at my Disc Replay are $8-$15, with not many being above or below. I was planning on buying Donkey Kong 64 anyways though, so I did.
I've never played the Rayman series, but I have seen people play it. I did see an N64 Rayman game today, I just forget which Rayman game it was.

@LinkingTheMemories: Why do you have to be a smart a**? Maybe if you took your time reading my first post you wouldn't of said what you've said. This isn't the first N64 I've ever played, I said I grew up with this system. I'm just happy I got another one since mine disappeared some years back. Can't you relate to me?

@JustEnjoyIt: Thanks!

@squall24: Maybe, but my first systems were N64 and PS1 when I was 3 or four, and I'm the same age.

Congratulations on finding one! :]

I recently set up mine again in my room, and the memories come flooding back when I play it. It's such a great console.

Have fun with it! (:

Don't forget to buy Glover.

Originally Posted by Valhelm

Lol wut? Isn't the 360 360-bit? I've heard that...

Darn I wish I wasn't on 32-bit Wii internet. I would had posted a picture here based offa your stupidity!

Originally Posted by Rorschach

No, the Wii's graphics processor is 32-bit. The Wii's CPU is 32-bit. The DS and PSP are 32-bit. "Bits" mean nothing. The Snes' Sound chip was 8-bit and produced better music than the genesis 19 years ago.

SNES'S soundchip was 16-bit. Do you wanna debate against a music major and a hugh video game music fan here?

Originally Posted by Florina Belmont

*facepalm*

Same here. Same here.

Wikipedia refers to PS1 as 32-bit and N64 as 64-bit. O.o

That's because all the cool kids bought the N64 and the nerds got the PS1.

But PS1 sold twice as much as the N64.

Originally Posted by ShockT

I've been wanting to get another N64 for a while and I got one today! It's awesome. I cannot believe how good its condition is! I cannot find one scratch! I'm really happy with my purchase. Here's what I got:
Nintendo 64 w/ Expansion Pack & Controller - $29.99
Banjo Kazooie - 7.99

So I think that is awesome. And I already have an N64 controller from when I had my old N64 so I already have 2 controllers. And my friend is gonna let me borrow Perfect Dark so that's awesome. And Banjo Kazooie; It's been 5 years since I've played that game and it's bringing so much nostalgia, so yes, I'm happy I picked this game out. And tomorrow, I'm going back to my local Disc Replay to get Donkey Kong 64, so that's awesome.
I'm just so happy with my purchase, and I just thought I'd like to share this with you guys.

I think you're eleven years late. :<

Anyways, great console. Be sure to stock up on gamepacks and batteries. (And buy MM/OoT.)

Wolfen: Quality, not quantity.

Originally Posted by ZeldaMaster#1#1

I think you're eleven years late. :<

13 years. You quoted my post, you saw it. It says I haven't played the N64 in 5 years. I'm just glad I've got another so I can relive my happy childhood memories.

Anyways, great console. Be sure to stock up on gamepacks and batteries. (And buy MM/OoT.)

Wolfen: Quality, not quantity.

Yes indeed a great console. I will be sure to stock up, yes. And I am planning on getting MM next. I would get OoT but I am in the process of beating it on the VC, but when I do beat it, I might redo it on the N64 just for kicks.

Originally Posted by Snow_Storm

SNES'S soundchip was 16-bit. Do you wanna debate against a music major and a hugh video game music fan here?

The Super Nintendo's sound chip the Sony SCP 700, was:

Originally Posted by Absolute astronomy

The Sony SPC700 is the 8-bit sound chipIntegrated circuit
In electronics, an integrated circuit is a miniaturized electronic circuit that has been manufactured in the surface of a thin Wafer of semiconductor material....
designed by Ken KutaragiKen Kutaragi
is the former Chairman and chief executive officer of Sony Computer Entertainment , the video game division of Sony Corporation. He is known as "The Father of the PlayStation", and its successors and spinoffs, including the PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, and the PlayStation 3....
and used in the Super Famicom/Super Nintendo Entertainment SystemSuper Nintendo Entertainment System
The Super Nintendo Entertainment System or Super NES is a History of video game consoles video game console that was released by Nintendo in North America, Europe, Australasia , and South America between 1990 and 1993....
video game consoleVideo game console
A video game console is an game development that produces a video signal which can be used with a display device to display a video game. The term "video game console" is used to distinguish a machine designed for consumers to buy and use solely for playing video games from a personal computer, which has many other functions, or arcade machi...
together with a digital signal processor (DSP)Digital signal processor
A digital signal processor is a specialized microprocessor designed specifically for digital signal processing, generally in real-time computing....
. The SPC700 and its companion 16-bit DSP were developed and manufactured by SonySony
is a multinational corporation list of conglomerates corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan, and one of the world's largest media conglomerates with revenue exceeding US$99.1 billion ....
, who subsequently entered the video game console industry with their PlayStationPlayStation
The PlayStation is a 32-bit history of video game consoles video game console released by Sony Computer Entertainment in December .The PlayStation was the first of the ubiquitous PlayStation ....
brand.

Inside the Super Famicom/SNES the SPC700 is located above the DSP, on the left side of the sound module. The sound chip contains 64KB internal RAMRam
Ram, ram, or RAM as a non-acronymic wordAs a non-acronymic word Ram, ram, or RAM may refer to:...
, and runs at 2.048 MHz. It has six internal registersProcessor register
In computer architecture, a processor register is a small amount of Computer storage available on the CPU whose contents can be accessed more quickly than storage available elsewhere....
, and can execute 256 opcodeOpcode
In computer technology, an opcode is the portion of a machine language instruction that specifies the operation to be performed. Their specification and format are laid out in the instruction set architecture of the processor in question ....
s. SPC700 sound samplesSampling (music)
In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an musical instrument or a different sound recording of a song....
are stored in RAM in compressedData compression
In computer science and information theory, data compression or source coding is the process of encoding information using fewer bits than an code representation would use through use of specific encoding schemes....
(BRRBit rate reduction
Bit rate reduction may refer to:* Data compression, a synonym for data compression.* Bit Rate Reduction, a name given to an Audio data compression format used by the SPC700....
) format. The SPC700 instruction set is quite similar to that of the 6502MOS Technology 6502
The MOS Technology 6502 is an 8-bit microprocessor that was designed by Chuck Peddle and Bill Mensch for MOS Technology in 1975. When it was introduced, it was the least expensive full-featured central processing unit on the market by a considerable margin, costing less than one-sixth the price of competing designs from larger companies such...
CPU family, but includes additional instructions, including XCN (eXChange NibbleNibble
A nibble is the computing term for a four-bit aggregation, or half an octet . As a nibble contains 4 bits, there are sixteen possible values, so a nibble corresponds to a single hexadecimal digit ....
), which swaps the upper and lower 4-bit portions of the 8-bit accumulator, and an 8-by-8-to-16-bit multiply instruction.

The SPC700's companion DSP is capable of producing 8 simultaneous voices at any relevant pitch and volume. It has support for voice panning, ADSR envelope controlADSR envelope
An ADSR envelope is a component of many synthesizers, sampler s, and other electronic musical instruments. Its function is to Modulation some aspect of the instrument's sound — often its loudness — over time....
, echoEcho (phenomenon)
In audio signal processing and acoustics, an echo is a Reflection of sound, arriving at the listener some time after the direct sound. Typical examples are the echo produced by the bottom of a well, by a building, or by the walls of an enclosed room....
with filteringAudio filter
An audio filter is a type of Filter used for processing sound signal . Many types of filters exist for applications including equalizers, synthesizers, sound effects, Compact disc players and virtual reality systems....
(via a programmable 8-tap FIRFinite impulse response
A finite impulse response filter is a type of a digital filter. The impulse response, the filter's response to a Kronecker delta input, is 'finite' because it settles to zero in a finite number of sampling intervals....
), and using noise as sound source (useful for certain sound effectSound effect
Sound effects or audio effects are artificially created or enhanced sounds, or sound processes used to emphasize artistic or other content of films, television shows, live performance, animation, video games, music, or other media....
s such as wind). It generates 16-bit16-bit
16-bit architectureThe HP 2100#Descendants and variants , introduced in 1975, was the world's first 16-bit microprocessor.Prominent 16-bit processors include the PDP-11, Intel 8086, Intel 80286 and the WDC 65C816....
stereoStereophonic sound
Stereophonic sound, commonly called stereo, is the reproduction of sound, using two or more independent Sound recording and reproduction channels, through a symmetrical configuration of loudspeakers, in such a way as to create a pleasant and natural impression of sound heard from various directions, as in natural hearing....
audio output at a sample rate of 32 kHz. Communications between the SPC700 and the DSP is carried out via memory-mapped I/O.

The SPC700 operates in a somewhat unconventional manner for a sound chip. The main SNES CPU transfers blocks of data containing commands and sound samples to the SPC700 internal memory. These commands are machine code programs, and are developed for the SPC700 in much the same way that programs are written for PCPersonal computer
A personal computer is any general-purpose computer whose original sales price, size, and capabilities make it useful for individuals, and which is intended to be operated directly by an end user, with no intervening computer operator....
s or Macs. As such, the SPC700 can be considered as a coprocessorCoprocessor
A coprocessor is a computer processor used to supplement the functions of the primary processor . Operations performed by the coprocessor may be floating point arithmetic, graphics, signal processing, string processing, Savitsky-Golay derivation, or encryption....
dedicated for sound on the SNES/Super Famicom.

The emulation-related sound format name .SPC comes from the name of this sound chip.

It was an 8-bit chip that was fed divided 16-bit code.

Originally Posted by Valhelm

Yes, I know the poem is incorrect. I've changed it because, in my opinion, it sounds better that way.

LOL. Yes, lets just all correct one of the most masterful writers of the English language at the age of 14.

Well I got Donkey Kong 64 yesterday and I'm having such an intense feeling of nostalgia! This game is great, as most of you already know, and I'm glad I picked it up. You know what's also cool? My brother said he thought he still had some N64 game cases. Well he found 2 of them! Super Mario 64 and the case to when we originally had! And it had the booklets in both, and an offer for a subscription to Nintendo Power with a free Donkey Kong 64 strategy guide! I just thought that was really cool.

Well next up on my list is The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. I hope to get that soon. Then after that, Banjo Tooie if I've beaten the first game. If I don't, then it will either be Conker's Bad Fur Day, GoldenEye 007, or one of the Mario Party games. Conker's Bad Fur Day is expensive though, and I didn't see GoldenEye. I may be able to get GoldenEye at Gamestop though. And I loved Mario Party, I used to stay up all night and play it with my friends and we had so much fun! Disc Replay had 1 & 3 there. Each were $14.99. But yeah, those are my plans. I'm so glad I got an N64!

Seeing you have a brother, I would also recommend getting the original Super Smash Bros, if you don't have it already.

Originally Posted by Quin

Seeing you have a brother, I would also recommend getting the original Super Smash Bros, if you don't have it already.

Yeah, I forgot about that! I might just get that after MM.

Hurray!
By the way, you really got ripped off. I could buy a Gamecube for less than $30.

except GC sucks compared to N64.

Originally Posted by Hell Hawk

Hurray!
By the way, you really got ripped off. I could buy a Gamecube for less than $30.

$30 seems to be the average price of an N64.

Haha, holy **** dude. You're a couple years behind. LOL

In all seriousness, the N64 is a GREAT system. Some of my favorite games are on the N64.

I can't believe you guys are so surprised that someone just got an N64.
Hell, I never had a Super Nintendo.