Shoutbox

True true, but i dunno if it's cheap enough it could always be possible, but then yeah the DS can pretty much handle n64 games soo....

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Originally posted by blade

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Can you handle more power?

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4mb ! THE POWA!


Anyways, thx Ddunk & Patchou

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Well as much as I hate Ninty thats a 100% increase in Ram:


"There is a trend forming to use a Unified Memory Architecture (UMA) in forthcoming systems. The abortive M2 console also features a UMA. Although the Atari Jaguar was the first console to use a UMA, the Nintendo 64 is the most successful. A UMA uses a single chunk of RAM. All processors access and share the same memory.

The advantages of using a UMA is that the programmer can decide how much memory to allocate to program code, graphics data, screen buffer, audio data etc. In older systems (including the Sony Playstation and Sega Saturn), memory was assigned for certain tasks (1 megabyte VRAM, 2 Megabytes Main RAM etc). If a game does not use all the sound memory, it cannot be used for bitmaps. The UMA is a more flexible architecture.

The Nintendo 64 uses 36Mbits of RAMBUS 9bit DRAM. In more common terms this equates to 4 megabytes. The extra bit is presumably used for parity. The chips use a fast 8bit channel running at approximately 500Mhz. This yields a bandwidth of 520.5MB/sec or 4,500M bit/sec (exact benchmarks vary). The high speed of the memory, coupled with a 256k cache for both the R4300i and RCP, allow the system to make full use of the UMA.

There is an extra 4 megabytes of RDRAM (Expansion Pak) which plug into the front expansion connector on the top of the N64 taking the total amount of RAM in the system to 8 megabytes."

Detailed Specs

....in other words, that's another proof of howsuperious Nintendo is compared to the new players that are Sony and Microsoft .

I can hear Patchou is a Ninty fan

I admit that some Nintendo games are great, most of them are rubbish, as for the whole N64 for the gamecube thing, that sounds like rubbish to me.

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I admit that some Nintendo games are great, most of them are rubbish, as for the whole N64 for the gamecube thing, that sounds like rubbish to me.

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I think that the Nintendo 64 was a lot better than the PS1/PSX was, but Nintendo failed complketly with their sad excuse for a console called the GameCube.

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I admit that some Nintendo games are great, most of them are rubbish, as for the whole N64 for the gamecube thing, that sounds like rubbish to me.

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I think that the Nintendo 64 was a lot better than the PS1/PSX was, but Nintendo failed complketly with their sad excuse for a console called the GameCube.

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N64 was ok, it had some great games, and so did the ps1/psx, IMO, the psone was much better than the n64 all the way, but its a pure matter of opinion, nothing else.

The gamecube sucks.

The Nintendo 64 Expansion Pack doubled the machine's RAM
Think about it...

Dont forget the N64 was made 8 years ago

Goldeneye > *
kthx.

N64, I think, was better than the PS1/X, but I'm glad Square moved the Final Fantasy series to Sony, Crystal Chronicals just plain sucked.

Anyway, back on topic (kinda). Was it even possible to use the Gameshark with the N64 expansion pack?

Lol a few years ago i bought donkey kong 64 or sumthign and it needed an expansion pack and it was like trying to hack into the pentagon i swear it was hard there were like ten left