iQue

TitaniumHamster · Post by **TitaniumHamster** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 10:39 pm

Has anyone actually looked inside this thing? I mean, the iQue is probually the only N64-on-a-chip available...

It would make an awsome portable, if an cartrage adaptor was developed...

XFactor · Post by **XFactor** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 11:25 pm

Yeah, it would make an already awsome portable awsomer...but its really not practical for Americans. Unless they can muster the will to attempt to sell the N64 back to the already N64-saturated market, then we're probably not going to see it. Plus, I bet the cartridges are so small that the cart slot could not even be modified to be used in a portable without breaking the chip and/or motherboard in the process.

I love the N64, but not for $115 when I have a priceless gem collecting dust behind my TV (which is why it's being portablized

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timmeh87 · Post by **timmeh87** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 11:27 pm

this topic has been discussed before. not going to happen.

elementxmaster · Post by **elementxmaster** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 10:40 am

scherzo · Post by **scherzo** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 10:56 am

From what I remember hearing about the iQue, it uses some kind of flash memory cartridges to which you somehow upload officially distributed ROMs from Nintendo. I highly doubt it's possible to mod the thing to use real carts.

Post by **marshallh** » Wed Mar 15, 2006 11:14 am

Basically, the iQue is a N64 condensed into a FPGA using nanotechnology. It's very efficient and doesn't use much power.

It uses proprietary flash cards, all the games converted to the iQue hardware are in Mandarin Chinese. There hasn't been much hacking going on related to it.

I think you can still get it from Lik-Sang. It all depends on whether or not you want to play a small collection of N64 games in chinese.

TitaniumHamster · Post by **TitaniumHamster** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 11:50 am

Personally, I think that the best chance of this thing going mainstream is for nintendo to create a jap/NTSC version, (they said they'd make a jap version...) but I don't really think they'll do so.