What made you want to make a n64p?

brbhavetopee · Post by **brbhavetopee** » Fri May 02, 2008 10:58 pm

What made you want to make a n64p?

What makes me want to make one is to be able to have something handheld that isn't on the market, something unique.

HBN · Post by **HBN** » Sat May 03, 2008 12:06 am

Cuz I think I can. And I want to see what I can do.

bacteria · Post by **bacteria** » Sat May 03, 2008 1:02 am

I hate having bulky consoles on the floor with spaghetti wiring at the back and sides of a television; especially when you have more than one console. It is also nice to be able to play a game where you want to, eg at work during a break. Yes, also "because I can".

brbhavetopee · Post by **brbhavetopee** » Sat May 03, 2008 10:46 am

bacteria wrote:I hate having bulky consoles on the floor with spaghetti wiring at the back and sides of a television; especially when you have more than one console. It is also nice to be able to play a game where you want to, eg at work during a break. Yes, also "because I can".

My floor looks like a main course of spaghetti, heavy on the spaghetti.

bacteria · Post by **bacteria** » Sat May 03, 2008 11:19 am

Indeed, so making your systems portable is beneficial. You can always make a tv-out option too so you can still play your system on your television if you like.

brbhavetopee · Post by **brbhavetopee** » Sat May 03, 2008 11:26 am

bacteria wrote:Indeed, so making your systems portable is beneficial. You can always make a tv-out option too so you can still play your system on your television if you like.

I think I'm going to do that on mine.

Also I think it would be awesome before school or something to be playing some Banjo Kazooie on the TV then saving, taking it out, and taking it with me on the bus.

bacteria · Post by **bacteria** » Sat May 03, 2008 2:57 pm

You can do that on the later titles which saved to the cart itself. The other games save to a memory card, so you would need to connect your portable to the television and play your game on that, then when you go to school you take your portable with you; all the game saves are on your portable then.

On my last project (MK1) I had the composite and video plugs to do this; on my current one (MK2) I am using a Scart plug as I can make some of the systems output RGB instead of just composite; and can use an adapter to convert the Scart to the composite and video plugs; so both bases are covered. I suggest you might like to do the same?

brbhavetopee · Post by **brbhavetopee** » Sat May 03, 2008 3:44 pm

bacteria wrote:You can do that on the later titles which saved to the cart itself. The other games save to a memory card, so you would need to connect your portable to the television and play your game on that, then when you go to school you take your portable with you; all the game saves are on your portable then.

On my last project (MK1) I had the composite and video plugs to do this; on my current one (MK2) I am using a Scart plug as I can make some of the systems output RGB instead of just composite; and can use an adapter to convert the Scart to the composite and video plugs; so both bases are covered. I suggest you might like to do the same?

I always wondered why when my first N64 broke some games kept the save files and some didn't.
How did you learn to do all this?

brbhavetopee · Post by **brbhavetopee** » Sat May 03, 2008 4:20 pm

brbhavetopee wrote:
bacteria wrote:You can do that on the later titles which saved to the cart itself. The other games save to a memory card, so you would need to connect your portable to the television and play your game on that, then when you go to school you take your portable with you; all the game saves are on your portable then.

On my last project (MK1) I had the composite and video plugs to do this; on my current one (MK2) I am using a Scart plug as I can make some of the systems output RGB instead of just composite; and can use an adapter to convert the Scart to the composite and video plugs; so both bases are covered. I suggest you might like to do the same?
I always wondered why when my first N64 broke some games kept the save files and some didn't.
How did you learn to do all this?

So what you're saying with that is you're making it so you can save data do both the memory and the cart itself. Please tell me if I'm right.

Tibia · Post by **Tibia** » Sat May 03, 2008 7:55 pm

If you make a TV out connector, couldn't you just play your game through the portable on the TV, then just unplug the portable to take on the bus?

bacteria · Post by **bacteria** » Sat May 03, 2008 8:08 pm

brbhavetopee - a) "I learnt all this" from reading all the threads in the N64 forum, other sites, personal experimentation, trial and error. b) No, some games save directly to the game cart and don't need a memory card, lots of games only save to a memory card, some don't save and rely on tapping in passwords instead.

Tibia - That's what I was saying!

brbhavetopee · Post by **brbhavetopee** » Sun May 04, 2008 9:26 am

bacteria wrote:brbhavetopee - a) "I learnt all this" from reading all the threads in the N64 forum, other sites, personal experimentation, trial and error. b) No, some games save directly to the game cart and don't need a memory card, lots of games only save to a memory card, some don't save and rely on tapping in passwords instead.

Oh, thanks for clarifying that for me. Did you put a memory card in your portables?

bacteria · Post by **bacteria** » Sun May 04, 2008 12:12 pm

Yes, read my threads.