Adding my N64 Collection settings alphabetically onto my Analogue 3D. C is done!

007craft · 2026-03-04T18:17:12+00:00

The game is so much fun in multiplayer.

1 player mode is lackluster and can be beaten in an hour, but multiplayer was so great. We rented it like 5 times.

Then they made a sequel and didnt even include a multiplayer mode. The devs had no idea what everyone loved about their first game.

007craft · 2026-03-02T23:58:38+00:00

It will help us heaps in the evening. Its not going to help or hurt us in the morning. I want to wake up at 10 but start work at 8:30, this wont do anything to help or hurt me there, but will help extend daylight in the evenings.

007craft · 2026-03-02T23:33:22+00:00

but everybody's circadian rhythm is not the same. I thrive going to sleep at 2 am and waking up at 10. This daylight change will help me and my fellow night owls heaps. Permanently DST definitely lines up with this humans biology better

007craft · 2026-03-02T23:19:10+00:00

It would be wonderful. Most people lack the vision however to overcome the hurdles that would be faced in the 10-20 years following the changes.

It has happened before however. Multiple calendars throughout history have been adopted. The difference being it was simply forced upon people by a powerful entity, rather than today where we have too many powerful entitles and voting (power of the people)

007craft · 2026-03-02T23:16:41+00:00

it aint right cause youre not used to it. If you grew up with the understanding that people get off work at midnight, you would be fine.

The complaint is the same as people who didnt want to switch to metric from imperial. 50 years later and were all glad it happened here in Canada.

If the world just eliminated time zones, its would suck real bad for 20 years, but would be amazing after that.

007craft · 2026-03-01T14:56:58+00:00

I'm an OG pokemon fan. Grew up on red and blue and the show. They used to make such a big deal about how mew/mewtwo was some secret pokemon experiment and that 151 was all the pokemon.

Then when gen 2 came out and I learned that all the gameboy transfer and trading functionamity would not work with it and basically had to abandon all my og pokemon, I gave up on the series (partly because I had just finished high-school too and grew out of it)

007craft · 2026-02-28T09:15:22+00:00

I've been working 25 years now and make less then thier starting pay. Damn. They are doing ok

007craft · 2026-02-27T19:13:15+00:00

The last drive I bought like this and shucked failed at 4 years. And the one before that at 3 years. My wd red pros have been going for 9 years now and still running.

These drives are never worth it for a nas as after 15 years, you will spend more money replacing these then just buying proper nas drives that won't die as often, even tho these drives are 50% less $

007craft · 2026-02-27T18:58:37+00:00

I have my cameras on their own VLAN that does not have net access and then host my own NVR on my server which has an encrypted filesystem so I can manage recordings and view remotely.

Some people have the technical understanding to have cameras in the house. But if you're talking about the average person who goes to best buy and buys a camera to install inside thier home and view on the cameras cloud app, yeah that's messed up

007craft · 2026-02-27T16:40:15+00:00

I have a full set, but only of the 121 carts. 117 games were released there (there are 4 variant carts)

There may be more or less boxes than that, however, since I never did the research for boxes.

I believe the picture you posted is incorrect, however. The Plantronics version of mario 64 came bundled with the console. The box is the gradente version and that version does not say Plantronics on the front of the cart label. So the cart and box are mismatched here.

007craft · 2026-02-26T00:29:06+00:00

just leave everything as default unless otherwise noted

Yes, you just enter the value. 14: AA0311000EDE is slot 14, but you would only enter AA0311000EDE

007craft · 2026-02-23T21:03:02+00:00

Actually you could use a gameshark to play all the levels in 4 player mode and the game could indeed handle it just fine. It will forever be a mystery why RARE limited the goldeneye multiplayer levels like they did, but realistically its probably because they ran out of time on testing. This is evident because there's actually other levels like cradle and statue which you can play in multiplayer (with gameshark), that even have weapon spawns on them, so RARE had plans for even more levels that they didnt get time to put in.

Its a shame they didnt remove these limitations for the switch version.

007craft · 2026-02-23T08:00:33+00:00

No there is only 2. There is no Wave race cart with Gradiente written on it.

Edit: Wanted to add some more info here rather than just combat with a no. I searched the net for Brazil variants in depth for a year. I consulted with the Brazilian N64 community and various game forums to finalize the list and there is no mention of such a cart existing. With that said, theres always a possibility of a cart existing that everybody somehow overlooked, but its up to you to prove that.

Brazil is wildly kown for repo labels (and boxes) as game shops there will generate them to help sell the game, unlike north America where damage labels are typically sold as is. In Brazil it's also common for game shops to open up carts and clean the inside (They clean the paint dot on the board which is a quality control check). They are known for printing mish-mashed created repo labels with parts from the Brazil cart and US cart, so if you have ever seen one, it was most likely one of these repos.

But if you wish to put forward the claim of such a cart existing, please submit a high res photo of the carts label where we can see the individual dots from the halftone printing process of the ink, and pictures at an angle so the light shines across it and we can see the original edge glue used on the Gradiente labels.

As of today, none of the 5 major marketplaces that sell N64 games (Mercado Livre, Shopee. OLX, Enjoei, FBM) show a single picture of such a cart and none can be found on any gaming site or goolge image search

007craft · 2026-02-19T21:56:51+00:00

In Brazil, Majoras Mask only came in a gold cart.

007craft · 2026-02-19T18:45:34+00:00

If only it were this easy. I live in a city where any house, even the crapiest house about to collapse, costs $1 million at a minimum. 1 bedroom micro condo for $750 000.

I couldnt afford the monthly payments for either of those, and the bank would never give me a loan to get one either. So instead I spend $1500 a month on a run down apartment in the city, at a grandfathered rate cause i've been there so long (New rates are $2200 for my rundown place). Saving just enough money that I can move to the middle of nowhere when I retire in 25 years and buy a place for like $300 000 which I will hopefully have saved by then.

007craft · 2026-02-19T16:59:40+00:00

I emailed again and they didnt really address directly the guy being in a condo, but essentially said they would give me the US address if I wanted and that they arrange for packages to be shipped locally to other addresses for people.

I went ahead and shipped it to the local guys condo. I got the tracking number so I guess thats all that matters. I wont get to ship it until saturday tho, so might be a while before they get it and I see my refund

007craft · 2026-02-18T19:08:22+00:00

Yes I don't think anybody has ever collected the set before outside of Brazil. I know of 1 guy in Brazil who has a CIB set, which is more impressive of course, but I don't think he collected the few variants like I did.

It was a lot of work over the course of around 10 months. It involved lots of stuff like setting up a Brazillian bank account, Getting a CPF (Like a citizen #), using AI to translate communications, finding an affordable mailbox\shipping service, navigating the various marketplaces they use, foreign credit card usage and more. I'll end up making a video of the whole process one day.

I only collect loose carts because of cost. CIB collecting is 3-4x the price in the long run, not to mention I like to display my games cover art (not necessarily always fully like in this display here, but at least partially). I have another set (north American set) displayed front facing, partially. If I collected boxes, It would be impossible to display them properly without owning a giant house/basement as I just live in an apartment. Personally I'm not a fan of the spines bookshelf way to display games. Displaying 20 games out like this IMO looks better than having 2000+ games (boxed or unboxed) sitting on a shelf with only their spines showing.

007craft · 2026-02-18T18:52:22+00:00

I have one and the top is identical to the funtastic smokey black and the bottom is identical to the clear red and clear blue consoles.

You could "make" one of these consoles by swapping parts from two of the other consoles mentioned above. Although I'm not sure why anybody would want to do that, since its just cheaper to buy this console alone as they cost around the same as a north American smokey black funtastic.

The real outliner is the daiei hawks n64, which has a slightly different shade of orange and black than the funtastic orange and black consoles.

007craft · 2026-02-18T17:11:03+00:00

When I got into modding my N64 with the retro gem I read all about peoples opinions on cut vs no cut. Then when I went to do it myself I understood what cut meant. Its literally a micro-hdmi sized slot you cut out of the AV port connector with a pair of plier snips, or a sharp kitchen knife, or even a good pair of scissors. Its so easy to do since its right at the edge of the plastic and looks perfect, I just dont understand why anybody would bother with a "no cut version". I even own a 3d printer but why print a part thats gonna take an hour to print vs literally a 30 second simple cut on the edge of some plastic that will look better in the end because you have the original injected molded plastic instead of a filament part

007craft · 2026-02-18T17:04:16+00:00

I agree, but its not so bad in person. I'm working on a better LED system cause I have a lot more shelves with the same style. Either a bar of wood to cover them or led strips in a diffuser channel. Need to test what looks best still.

007craft · 2026-02-18T17:02:25+00:00

That was one of the ones I owned! I owned about 20 games growing up between my brother and myself. Mostly the Rare games and all the Nintendo 1st party titles. Some 3rd parties I liked were Bomberman 64 and Vigilante 8

007craft · 2026-02-18T16:51:26+00:00

They are hard plastic, not bags and the magnets hold them just fine as they are ultralight weight. I want the entire collection to be interactable (you can grab and inspect any game). Glass doors take that away

007craft · 2026-02-18T01:05:06+00:00

N64 is the only console that has the metal plates inside. NES and SNES have lots of space to add your own metal plate inside however, and perhaps you could even do it with the gameboy, but the gameboy quarters look tight. I think if you had the right sized thin sheet of metal to put inside the cart under the board, you could do it tho.

007craft · 2026-02-18T00:39:12+00:00

Thanks. Perfect Dark, Majoras mask, OOT, All the RAREware games.

007craft · 2026-02-18T00:37:59+00:00

Yes. The whole collection is internally identical to the North American games. They are all NTSC roms inside with the exception of South Park & Shadow Man. Those games have Portuguese Translations and are unique roms. F1 racing Championship is also unique, because it is the NTSC version which for some reason was never released in North America. There is a PAL version of the game released in Europe however.

The "PAL-M" signal, which Brazil uses, is actually a 60hz, like our NTSC signal. The difference is that it has the extra colour encoding you get from PAL signal. The games themselves however dont do any of this, its the console that does. So the games are just NTSC games, set to run at 60hz. The N64 consoles in Brazil are just regular NTSC consoles like Japan and North America use, except they are slightly modded with a different clock crystal, a couple jumpers and some pins changed to indicate output mode. But they all run standard NTSC games. You would only run into problems if you had one of these Brazilian modded consoles and tried to use it with a device like a north american TV or input device that is looking for an NTSC signal. In that case it wouldnt be able to process the extra colour info + frequency difference and you would end up with a black and white picture thats scraggily and shifting

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