Manufacture year of N64?

jjhammerstein · Post by **jjhammerstein** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 6:32 pm

Is there a way to tell the manufacture year of my N64 without opening it?

themadhacker · Post by **themadhacker** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 6:39 pm

are there stickers still on the bottom of the n64? My dreamcast has a sticker on the bottom of it, and somewhere it says something like "June 2000".

jjhammerstein · Post by **jjhammerstein** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 6:50 pm

Nope.
It says:

NINTENDO 64 Model No. NUS-001(USA)
But that just means that it's for a Nintendo Ultra Sixty-four, and it's 001. That means it's the console, and not the cord, or an add-on or anything.

bacteria · Post by **bacteria** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 11:32 pm

Black ones were the old ones, coloured ones later. I don't think there are other clues, without opening them up; apart from lower serial numbers of course.

ShockSlayer · Post by **ShockSlayer** » Mon Dec 08, 2008 9:20 pm

bacteria wrote:Black ones were the old ones, coloured ones later. I don't think there are other clues, without opening them up; apart from lower serial numbers of course.

Yeah, the serial numbers are what will tell you.

Oh, Black was from 1996 to 2001, I think the "colour"ed ones were in there somewhere.

SS

jjhammerstein · Post by **jjhammerstein** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 2:29 pm

ShockSlayer wrote:
bacteria wrote:Black ones were the old ones, coloured ones later. I don't think there are other clues, without opening them up; apart from lower serial numbers of course.
Yeah, the serial numbers are what will tell you.

Oh, Black was from 1996 to 2001, I think the "colour"ed ones were in there somewhere.

SS

How low is low?

Kyo · Post by **Kyo** » Tue Dec 09, 2008 3:12 pm

My five black N64 have the following numbers:

10358247
10795323
11254397
15379956
15998615

I'd say that the first one is pretty good.

What I notice when comparing the first with the last is that the earlier models had the "DC 3.3V, DC12V" on a sticker, while on the later models it was molded in the case.

The earlier model is called "NUS-EUR" while the later one is called "NUS-EUR-1"

The earlier one has a (c) 1996 while the later one has a (c) 1996, 1997 on the sticker

That's all the differences I can spot, note that all of my 5 Systems are german and therefore PAL