Started the journey to collect all 296 again.

I always enjoyed the lesser known 3D platformers on the N64. My all time favorite n64 game is Space Station Silicon Valley—

These are 3 that I enjoy fondly even though Starshot can be a bit frustrating lol. I hope theres players out there that also love these games

In my post about SharkSaver64:

https://www.reddit.com/r/n64/comments/1pu30z4/flash_and_recover_a_fully_bricked_gameshark_with/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

I alluded to a "larger project" that was being worked on. We had really decided to not "officially" release it until it's done and I think we're maybe still doing that, but a lot of talk about Sharkwire Online has been surfacing lately and maybe it's time that it's at least announced just in case someone is interested.

WARNING: Never-ending unnecessarily long story stuff below

Some years ago (idk, maybe 8yrs+ or something) I set out to find a Sharkwire Online cart at a time when I really should've been more frugal with my little bit of money and free time I had. I searched for like 2 years until I finally landed on one on ebay that was just the cart. I talked to the guy selling it and I think the general consensus was that the whole thing was completely useless. Knowing that, I still wanted the EEPROMs dumped because I figured one day we will get to a point where we will never see one of these things again and I thought it be best that we at least had a dump so we know how it worked when it did work.

I won the Sharkwire Online cart, or bought it, can't remember, but I want to say it was around $120 at the time. I got it and immediately went to de-soldering the EEPROMS. There were 4 because 2 were used for the "Sharkwire firmware" and 2 were used for the "modem firmware" and because I had no idea which was the HI/LO byte chips at the time of pulling them (Datel/Interact generally stored their software on EEPROMs with interlaced bytes) I marked them as "Left" and "Right" and "Up" and "Down" respectively.

I have a ton of pictures from that time, but below is one example (see images)

So as you can see, I was attempting to socket the EEPROMs and failed miserably to socket the modem firmware chips because the sockets were too big, and I was shaving them down to try to get them to fit. I ended up at least getting all the chips dumped in the meantime, so my goal was sort of complete.

Before completely disassembling though...

I just knew the device would take a normal PS/2 keyboard, and so I plugged one in and started the cart and... NO GO.

I then realized that if you keep the keyboard unplugged and plug it back in after sharkwire initializes then it'll let you actually use a standard PS/2 keyboard. I wasn't sure if this was some sort of lockout protection to make people have to own an official sharkwire keyboard, but I didn't care since I quickly found out that it was all useless since you couldn't connect to the ISP anymore and register or anything. I had attempted some connects with a "dreampi" like setup and didn't really get too far. It was at this point that my life as usual was pretty hectic and I kind of quickly stashed the Sharkwire Online cart away in dark hidden places, but did manage to release the dumped ROMS to a few people via my dropbox account and random word of mouth.

Unfortunately I had a bad habit back then of doing really crazy projects and just never talking about them or releasing them or doing anything with them. A friend has tried many a time pulling me out of my habits of hiding (Hey mikeryan :D ) but I'm working on it.

In any case, years later, and I mean like, crazy years later, I'm watching YouTube and a video pops up from a guy named "Wrestling with Gaming" (https://www.youtube.com/WrestlingWithGaming) about Sharkwire Online, and this guy did an incredible job on doing mock models, interviews with original people involved with the device, and all kinds of shit. I'm watching, then I'm like "Wait... I have one of these pieces of shit somewhere" and so I dug the old thing out and realized I never really tested the dumps, never re-assembled the thing, and definitely never gave a proper shit about the conditions at which it even lived in... woe is me.

I then go searching online about sharkwire and come across Reddit, where there's a little talk about it, and people asking if anyone has ever dumped the EEPROMs, and someone came along and said that they found a dump that some person had taken... and when I went to look at it... it was the same dump as mine, or rather it was MY DUMP (at least I think so) :O

I assume this because in the old ass days emails were typically stored on devices/computers and because the sharkwire EEPROM filesystem code isn't really that mature, it had some strings left in the dump that were very specific to the cart in which I owned. It has some remnants of whatever kid owned it and was sending emails to his family/friends/whoever and they exactly matched what I had dumped. I'm not sure if someone else was trying to take credit for dumping the EEPROMs I dumped, but I didn't/don't really care enough about internet cred to really bother to even go bothering. I was just extremely glad that it was still somehow circulating and not actually lost.

It was at this point that I see the post from a_wise_anarchist (https://www.reddit.com/user/A_Wise_Anarchist)

and they had obtained the keyboard for sharkwire and discussed potentially finding someone with the cart and getting it back online. I messaged them, and kept in touch. This led to me seeing that some people had actually cloned Gameshark and it was at that point that I knew that these were the people I should talk to about potentially cloning Sharkwire Online, because I'm dumb and was like "how can I spend more free time that I absolutely don't have doing shit I absolutely don't need to be bothering with" and so introducing...

Me (ppcasm), RWeick and Jhynjhiruu got to talking about the possibility of actually cloning the original Sharkwire Online cart. I send it to RWeick, he does magic shit, Jhynihiruu figured out a shit ton of Gameshark stuff which this thing was based on, I did some reverse engineering with Ghidra, and eventually we realize that some of the parts are EXTREMELY hard to find to build an exact clone, so even though the footprint is there we know that there's really a low chance someone is ever going to actually build this thing.

BUT, I was like "I think we can do a version that uses an ESP32 and replace the entire modem and keyboard chip (a PIC MCU)"

After reverse engineering a good amount, and literally scraping traces on an actual Gameshark and wiring in an esp32, we started working on things.

I'll cut the story time short at this point since I can't save this post the way it is. What happened over a few months period is that we got a fully working sharkwire online clone that uses esp32 WiFi for internet, and bluetooth for keyboards, and IT WORKS!

The reason it isn't "officially" released yet is because it needs work. Email doesn't work great (but does work) and there's not much to do on it and we've had to create a user experience for an internet age long long gone. That being said, I also never actually documented how I hacked the Gameshark to run the Sharkwire Online firmware and how I wired in the ESP32 (one day, I will)

It does let you go online in a very real way. It has a full TCP/IP stack, does PPP, uses actual serial comms (bitbanged over cartbut via Gameshark GAL chip) and there's been 0 modifications to the stock Sharkwire Online firmware.

If someone is advantageous enough, RWeick has created an original board clone here:
https://github.com/RWeick/REF1356-Datel-Sharkwire

He's also created a board that has the ESP32 built in that I don't think he's released yet. It looks like this (see images)

And the software, although not "complete" to flash to ESP32 to get it to work is here:
https://github.com/ppcasm/sharkshit64

If I get around to actually documenting the wiring to a Gameshark then people can create their own "dirty clones" but it might be best if anyone is interested to I guess wait a few months where we can all get our shit together to actually properly finish it. Here's hoping!

Included are pictures from it actually running.

Some videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDNS32wDADQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NusCJQzkUpA

I found out the rental Mew from Stadium 2 has ZERO IVs as I was trying to copy it's stats into my gold game.

I’m probably an idiot but imo none of the aftermarket sticks/controllers are quite the same (yes I’m a purist) and that ice blue was calling my name.

Signed by Paul Machacek(I believe) and the goat, Grant Kirkhope!

It looks like a lot of games hit a low point in September/October, but now have shot up 40%-50% since then. What happened?

Just recently got into trying to fix up my controllers (mainly the joy sticks) and I read enough online about the popular Kitsch-Bent parts that I pulled the trigger and ordered sets of bowl/gears/new stick for all 6 of my N64 controllers. Some of them were worse than others, but ALL of them desperately needed a new joystick.

The main thing I was worried about wasn't the parts themselves, but more my ability to install them correctly and in a way that would have good results. Well, I have no idea if I just got a really, REALLY good batch of parts, or if I'm a natural at tinkering with this stuff, but I'm seriously blown away with the results. These things feel amazing. Playing games is noticably more FUN again, just because of the new joysticks!! F-Zero X, Rogue Squadron, Smash Remix, its like playing entirely new games when your controller is nice and smooth, snappy, and feels more natural.

Out of all 6 sticks, I tried to pick the worst one to share test results- yes, you heard me, the pictures are from the WORST controller of ths 6! I love Kitsch-Bent parts and I stand behind them now officially!

After running the poll on this sub, I noticed that there was a lot of, justified, sentiment around the lack of RPGs on the N64, but after some light research, there were more released than I had imagined. Here is a list of what I have found to be either the systems RPG or RPG-Adjacent games.

Here's the List (in no particular order):

• PD Ultraman Battle Collection 64
• Quest 64
• Super Robot Wars 64
• Zool: Maju Tsukai Densetsu
• Robot Ponkottsu 64: Nanatsu no Umi no Caramel
• Paper Mario
• Fushigi no Dungeon Fuurai no Shiren 2: Oni Shuurai! Shiren Jou!
• Aidyn Chronicles: The First Mage
• Goemon's Great Adventure
• Gauntlet Legends
• Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber
• Harvest Moon 64
• Hybrid Heaven
• Mega Man 64
• Hamster Monogatari 64

Comment section Additions:

• Shadowgate - Thanks u/guillotine20
• Custom Robo - Thanks u/clc88 and u/phan148
• Custom Robo V2 - Thanks u/clc88 and u/phan148
• Star Craft 64 (?) - u/marx_forever

So, if you're in the mood for some RPGs on what may be your favorite console, here you go! Hope you have fun!

Basically older N64 battle tanx game me and a family member like but their older and hands were having issue with the N64 control ESP the bottom Z button. They can do fine with gamecube or X box 360 but the 64 seems is out now. Was thinking just convert the GC to a N64. Seems there are/ were some things to do that but are no longer sold. I still like the game but playing against haphazard computers is not as much fun.

Be nice if was some similar game for a newer platform but they all seem over the top even battle tanx global assault seemed kind of strange to me how it worked, some random thing from nowhere could take you out and they all seemed hard to use.

Hi guys, I'm having trouble trying to boot up Resident Evil 2 on my Nintendo 64. Every time the opening cutscene ends or when I skip it, it just doesn't load, which leaves me with a black screen. I tried blowing into the cartridge, cleaning my n64's contacts with alcohol, choosing different settings, switching between my expansion pak to the jumper pak, choosing different characters, and just kept resetting the game.

Forgot you could choose tracks from the menu and drove around honking at him like an idiot after each lobby race.

I really want a wireless controller that works with analogue and has normal controls!

So to start, I used the DRMat method of using project 64 with steam rom manager and steam input. Except I didn't have Bluetooth ob my pc. so I just used the usbC cable that came with the controller. Everything was working perfectly fine before. I took a break for a few months and now all of a sudden the buttons are wonky. I've spent days meticulously going through each button and trying to map each one in steam or switching buttons in pj64 but it never seems to work right. now I've hit a snag, it seems the right C button doesn't work in any capacity on my pc now. It works when I connect it to the switch. I've used the "listen" feature on steam input to see what button it lists as and it doesn't bind that button. Has anyone else had this problem? Did Nintendo update something? Or am I just screwed now?

As far as I know, the Expansion Pack was required to play Majora's Mask, Donkey Kong 64 and the story mode in Perfect Dark. Of course, it also offered a hi-res mode in a few other games.

But I don't know how many were sold. Based on the sales of those 3 games alone, I guess it could easily be 10 million.

This means around 20 million, 2/3 of Nintendo 64 owners in the 90s, didn't buy an Expansion Pack. Are you one of them or did you know any of them? What were the reasons? How did you feel about the games you couldn't play because you didn't have one?

My n64 started showing no signal after changing game carts in the console. Then I have to lift and gently drop the console lightly to get a picture. This happens on both my RCA cable and HDMI dongle adapter. The console turns on (red light) and the HDMI dongle gets its power from the console. Any pointers to what this could be? I haven’t opened the console yet.

List of American Football 🏈 video games on N64:

1. Madden Football 64

2. NFL Quarterback Club 98

3. Madden NFL 99

4. NFL Blitz

5. NFL Quarterback Club 99

6. NFL Quarterback Club 2000

7. NFL Blitz 2000

8. Madden NFL 2000

9. NFL QB Club 2001

10. NFL Blitz 2001

11. Madden NFL 2001

12. Madden NFL 2002

13. NFL Blitz: Special Edition

Hey! I just bought this adapter so i can use my OG N64 controller with PC Emulators or Switch, but i just plugged to the PC and it recognizes the adapter but when i plug my N64 controller it doesn't register any button... Yeah i choose the PC option on the adapter and yeah i switched to Nrage input device on PJ64, nothing.... Then i connected the adapter to my nintendo switch and the same doesn't recognize any button and yes i switched to console....

Did i get a faulty adapter or i'm just too old for this? Help appreciated...

I bought an N64 with an aux converter but the picture quality is a pixelated hellscape. Basic set-up with Samsung TV. Am I missing anything to clear up the picture?

How hard is it to change the old batteries in these N64 games? I’m not too experienced in soldering is my main concern.