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L64 - The Portable N64 (Custom-made)

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wait so since there are controller ports, you can still do multiplayer on top of playing it like a gameboy. and it would even more awesome if it was able to connect to a tv via the three colored wires. SO you can choose to play it like normal or like a handheld.

actually i think i do see a port for the wire connecting it to a TV, sooo sick
 
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Macman said:
wait so since there are controller ports, you can still do multiplayer on top of playing it like a gameboy. and it would even more awesome if it was able to connect to a tv via the three colored wires. SO you can choose to play it like normal or like a handheld.

actually i think i do see a port for the wire connecting it to a TV, sooo sick
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Built in headphones-jack and all. This beaut is gawgeous!
 
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It has a guide on how to make it?!

Looks like my friend and I found another project to add to our list. I really like the way it turned out though, excellent design. Especially the av cord port and the controller ports.

Gawd it's so sexy.
 
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Yeah, people have actually made a ton of things like this. Benjamin Heckendorn is particularly famous for making portables (his site, along with the forums, dedicated to portabilizing, is located here). Not just N64, but everything from NES to even current gen consoles. My friend is actually into portabilizing and has made one NES portable, has started on another NES portable, and a PSOne portable. And, as soon as he tracks down another SNES, he's going to try to make a portable of that.

It really is rather amazing. The wiring of a portable itself baffles me, but apparently it isn't all that hard to make one, according to my friend. Making a good, nice-looking one is obviously not the same case.
 
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Mr.Victory07 said:
...wow that thing is sexy

But emulators on a laptop=L64
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Playing the original thing >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>...(9001 '>' signs later)...>>>>>> legally questionable emulators.
 
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That looks so awesome. I really want this thing considering that most of my favorite games are on the N64.
 
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Only 2 1/2 Hour battery? Other than that, virtually perfect.
 
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Darkslash said:
LOLOLOL no.

Try playing OoT on a emulator and come back. Or how about rouge Squadron? Pretty hard now right?
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Not OOT. OOT was actually pretty easy on an emulator.

Haven't played Squadron on it though -- but any FPS is going to be hard on the emulator of course since you don't have an analog stick.

Very nice looking btw -- I'll just stick with the NDS though -- a see it as a basic, yet sucky port from the n64. Too bad they never covered the good games.
 
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Dash_Fox said:
Lab top and N64 controller adapter. Doh.
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Spell things right. D'oh.

Also, you clearly do not appreciate the concept of playing something on the original...modded or not, it's the original. Also, once again. ROMS ARE LEGALLY IFFY. D'oh.

Even though this is technically able to be imitated on a computer, so what? Is this not amazing? Are you really that jaded that you're going to say "Lulz emulatorz guise" rather than acknowledge the awesomeness of this?
 
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FirustheHedgehog said:
Spell things right. D'oh.

Also, you clearly do not appreciate the concept of playing something on the original...modded or not, it's the original. Also, once again. ROMS ARE LEGALLY IFFY. D'oh.

Even though this is technically able to imitated on a computer, so what? Is this not amazing? Are you really that jaded that you're going to say "Lulz emulatorz guise" rather than acknowledge the awesomeness of this?
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You think I don't appreciate the concept of playing something on the original? You clearly don't know me. I don't care if roms are illegal. Though you have no idea how happy I get when I get to play Super Smash Brothers 64 on the console with friends or with someone like Isai and a few other smashers around where I live. Console > Emulator we all know that. N64 Emulation thus far cannot emulate the graphics or N64 controller deadzones perfectly yet.

It's only cool because it's nice to see the technical skill people have by building this stuff. It's nice on paper but in life it would be very clumsy to carry around all those N64 games if you want to swap them on the go. I would rather have them all on my computer assorted and neat.

You criticize my crap spelling like it shows I'm stupid by making a mistake. I won't call you out for this "this is technically able to imitated on a computer".
 
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Dash_Fox said:
You think I don't appreciate the concept of playing something on the original? You clearly don't know me. I don't care if roms are illegal. Though you have no idea how happy I get when I get to play Super Smash Brothers 64 on the console with friends or with someone like Isai and a few other smashers around where I live. Console > Emulator we all know that. N64 Emulation thus far cannot emulate the graphics or N64 controller deadzones perfectly yet.
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The way you phrased it, it sounded like you were saying "Why does anybody care? You can do this on a laptop." No, I don't really know you...and by what you said, it came off to me that way which implies that you are completely oblivious to the value of playing it on the original. I apologize for being mistaken, but you can see how I got mixed up, no?

It's only cool because it's nice to see the technical skill people have by building this stuff. It's nice on paper but in life it would be very clumsy to carry around all those N64 games if you want to swap them on the go. I would rather have them all on my computer assorted and neat.
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I would rather play the original. ROMs are legally iffy, hard to track down, the controls are clumsy unless you track down something to let you use the original controller on the computer, and it just...feels right. I've bought about 6 games off of the Virtual Console, one of which I have already bought the original of (Super Metroid). It's just not the same on Virtual Console as it is on the original. The general feel of it, as well as everything else. The original graphics, the original sound and music, and I swear it's easier to do things in the original version than in the Virtual Console, like wall jumping and other techniques. I intend to get the other games I've bought for Virtual Console for the original console as well.

Also, unless you have a REALLY GOOD laptop battery or multiple ones to swap them out on-the-go, laptops are not very viable for portable gaming. As it is, I think the best laptop battery that someone I know has is about an hour and a half, and they don't have multiple batteries -- probably because laptop batteries cost a TON. My personal battery is basically non-existent. Literally -- if I were to unplug my laptop, it would die immediately. This particular portable doesn't have great battery life, but most you can at least replace the batteries on-the-go. For me, playing the originals would be worth the extra space they take up.

You criticize my crap spelling like it shows I'm stupid by making a mistake. I won't call you out for this "this is technically able to imitated on a computer".
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Actually, that was just a joke...I'm serious about grammar and spelling but mistakes happen and I've accepted that some people just don't care.

And that was a mistake. I was trying to figure out how to phrase that you can do the same thing on the computer, and I kept retyping it and forgot to fix that.
P.S. By saying you wouldn't call me out for it, you kind of did.
 
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No, from my experience, defense attorneys are usually stuffy old guys who exploit a inaccuracy so far that their client gets off. Pisses me off so bad, let me tell you, It's easier to be on the defense side that the prosecution.

Anyway... Do you use the N64 carts or something else?
 
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godsmith2 said:
Anyway... Do you use the N64 carts or something else?
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For the L64? Yeah, you use the original carts. It's basically an N64 wired to a screen and a battery pack with a built-in controller.
 
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That is really...amazing.

One thing the site doesn't say is how long it took. Probably days, considering plastic et cetera had to be shipped so it could be molded. But really, that is one of the most awesome video game related revamps done to a system I've ever seen.
 
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This means Super Smash 64 on the go! =D

and other games like SF64, MK64, SM64, OoT, etc.
 
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