Hi, very informative video! I was also wondering if they can be used to repair Nintendo Switch Online N64 controllers. Right now the only way of repairing that is to buy a new one, and I don't even know if those sticks wear out like the originals.
I don't own the NSO controller, but from what I can see the gears are similar but the bowl is missing the potentiometers needed for the controller to actually tell which way the gears are moving. So it's a maybe for the gears, but a probably not for the bowl. On the bright side, the NSO stick does appear to be lubricated, so hopefully it won't wear out as quickly as the originals that weren't lubricated.
@@ragread So what you're saying is that Nintendo designed THREE stick mechanisms for the N64 controller (original, NSO and keychain)? That's hilarious and depressing at the same time.
Even if this didnt work to well i greatly appreicate the video you linked in the description. Would love to find the time to try that out at some point it seems solid
No problem, it's the only solution I feel comfortable suggesting. I have sticks I repaired that way in 2019 that are still going strong, even after some fierce Mario Party 1 sessions and beating F Zero X on master (among many, many other games played)
Rest in piece to the most personal video game experience of life. video games are dead now as is media as a whole entirely and ive grown now so i dont have the time to devote to video games like i could as a teenager but ill never forget this legendary game and beating gogmazios for the first time and moving on to grind rajangs for hours on end. how simple times were
A couple things that nobody asked about but I still wanted to clarify: - Even if there was a way to trim the toy bowl so that it'd fit, and even if you could remove the toy bowl's gears and replace them with the original optical encoder wheels, the arm that holds it in place on the toy gear is still backwards, so it'd still be useless without extremely heavy modification that would likely be more difficult than refurbishing original parts. - I'm not 100% sure how this compares to the NSO N64 controller because I don't own one and buying one would be a waste of money, but based on teardowns I've seen, the toy bowl is very similar but is missing the enclosure for the sensors they used, so it's unlikely to be interchangeable. The NSO gears look similar to the toy gears though, right down to the backwards position of the horizontal gear. I can't confirm or deny that the gears are interchangeable, but it seems plausible that they could be. - I don't know how the other keychains from this series stack up in terms of feel/usability in original controllers, and honestly I don't plan on buying them to figure out. I don't really care about owning these as toys, and I don't have the same issues wearing down N64 buttons or Gamecube sticks to need replacement parts after normal usage. I'll leave it up to the controller abusing Melee players to figure that out.
ah yes n64 sticks will never be perfect. glad youre the guinea pig for these though, saved me a lot of money from amazon impulse buys of sticks with "4.5" overall reviews :P.
The Expansion Pak might help a little, but the game runs well with or without it. On the N64, the first _Tony Hawk_ game pak was 12 MB (96 Mbit), while its two sequels were 16 MB (128 Mbit) each, so the graphics and audio didn't have the best quality. I believe the gameplay is around 240p. It was really impressive for its time, but the Dreamcast and Xbox improved the _THPS_ games a lot.
People gripe about the pause button being on the Sega console, but at least it was fair. The problem with the Nintendo was that only player one had the pause button. Player two was generally screwed. My buddy that had a Nintendo loved to use the pause button to cheat everytime it was my turn in Mario 3. He'd just keep pausing on me until I got killed.
Black Belt started as Fist of the Northstar. Sadly, they stripped all association with the franchise when porting it to the West, making it a very bland experience. I’d strongly recommend hunting down the Japanese version if you’re interested in playing the game.
Rastan on Master System is up there with my favourite games. Plays better than the arcade version in my opinion. Bit of trivia… it started life as Conan game until Taito failed to secure the licence.
i never owned one of these but i bought a Sega Megadrive when they came out which i sold years later , wish i kept it . but at least you can play on emulation now which is great.
thank you so much for showing eating footage I've been searching all fucking over for this for a video project can I use a bit of this vid with credit as background footage?
The Master System really is an underappreciated console, at least outside of Brazil. It tried competing with the NES, but unfortunately too many people were blinded by the fact Nintendo was the king of video games at the time.
Mostly it was Nintendo's dirty business practices that put them on top, between forcing all the game companies to program exclusively for them (no longer a legal practice) and releasing a worthless robot they didn't support so that they could get their console in toy stores.
To this day, this has got to be the most random thing Capcom has done, not only they re-released the Genesis version of Super Street Fighter 2, which is already a weird version, but they randomly decide to give it Online Play. I don't think any other Virtual Console game had that, heck some Capcom re-releases in general at the time didn't have online.
Man I remember trying the online for Tenkaichi 3 and I thought my Wi-Fi was weak because the game was super lagging and slow! I couldn't do anything and lost twice
