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The only known retail version of the 64DD for the US.Β Neatly distinguishable by the stickers.
Nintendo 64DD Β© Nintendo
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One of Nintendo's biggest letdown of all-time. I mean the Nintendo 64DD was made for an add-on for the N64 Console.Β 64DD involves the introduction of proprietary mass storage disks up to 64MB, which are large-capacity, re-writable, and cheap but moderately fast, complemented by its host Nintendo 64's traditional high speed cartridges, which are low-capacity of 4-64MB, non-writable, and expensive but very fast. So my biggest question is "Why can't Nintendo make 64 console in the use of disk drives instead of cartridges!?"Β Instead of building the 64DD as anΒ consoleΒ add-on, equivalent to Sega CD, It could have been an improvement on the N64 concept. Who needs cartridges when you can have disk drives onto your system.
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ah,the n64 was such a wasted opportunity for backwards compatability.nintendo could have totally done it with the gamecube
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could you make the XBAND SNES cart next? like on a super famicom,that would be cool man,i ask,because i refer people to your page when im trying to explain something nintendo related
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Yeah, me too.Β But, it's the only way to tell it apart besides looking into the firmware.
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I saw the video about it and it's amazing that this version exist. Sadly it doesn't play the Japanese disks.
There were few games that were interesting on it (the 64DD in general), like F-Zero X Expansion Kit, Mario Artist and Doshin the Giant. >w<
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So much potential that was untapped with this thing.
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I wonder if the NUD stands for 'Nintendo Ultra Drive' back when the N64 was known as the 'Ultra 64'.
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It's possibly... but by the time this one was made, the Nintendo 64 name was already finalized.Β Perhaps the internal code name carried over like with Nitro.
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That's true (and the same could be said with the Dolphin to the GameCube), but didn't they have disk drives as early as late '95 with the intention of giving them an American release? And Nitro?
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The 64DD was talked about in 1995, but I don't think there was a working prototype of it until 1996.
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Well there had to have been one in '96 because there's footage of gaming conventions (Either Sakura Expo, Spacekand, or the first E3 I can't recall which) showing it in action.
And what was Nitro again?
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If only Nintendo actually committed to this thing.Β :/
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