Nintendo 64 repairs and restoration - when eBay junk turns nasty 🤮 

Lagoon on the Sharp x68k vs. SNES is wildly different. The x68k used the bump mechanics from Ys type games originally but they changed it to a tiny hilarious little knife-swing for the SNES release, plus a lot of other changes. Final Fantasy also got busted on the NES. Not so much changes as, half the code didn't work- the elemental resistances for weapons didn't work, rendering half the unique weapons useless. Many spells were busted, like Mute, Fog, and Evade and didn't work as intended if at all. Other stuff too but those were the big ones.

While there are only two distinct regions for the lockout, PAL official releases will not work in NTSC, and NTSC won't work in PAL. This is due to the CIC lockout chips, or more specifically, the PIF which communicates with the CIC chips at boot. Although the code is identical between PAL and NTSC CICs the data is different. The PIF will check that the region the CIC says it is matches the region stored in the PIF's hardcoded data and will outright refuse to run the software. So it doesn't matter if your NTSC copy is from Japan, Taiwan, or Brazil, it'll work on a US NTSC console, but not any PAL consoles. Modern unofficial carts will use some form of an UltraCIC that can be switched between NTSC and PAL either by a switch or automatically to avoid this issue.

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@@TheRetroChannel I usually have one word I repeat throughout each video and later catch myself on after the fact. Way of the road.

That would have been my preferred route, but it's had enough IPA and scrubbing to remove anything

Yeah the HDMI out of the retrotink feeds into a EVGA XR1 lite, then USB out to the laptop running OBS

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NTSC games will not work on a PAL machine and vice versa. The CIC chip in the cart and the console must match, hence why that everdrive clone has a NTSC-PAL switch on top

@@TheRetroChannel Also, As you know the games won't play right even if you got them working. Ntsc runs too slow on pal and pal runs too fast on ntsc. That's why the US and Japan can import each others stuff. They play fine once you get passed the region lock of the systems. Since they use the same video encoding so the TV doesn't care and will output a correct display.

@@TheRetroChannel I've never tried one, but you can buy or 3D print a 'region free' cartridge tray. Allegedly that's all you need to boot games from other regions. Again, never tried one, no clue if that is accurate.

That is true, but really only applies to NTSC consoles. The only thing stopping a Japanese cartridge from working in a US N64 is the cart slot. But PAL games still will not work due to the CIC mismatch

It's like everdrive cartridge: it has a SD card slot, where you can upload roms and run it on N64 like original cartridge

Looks like an ED64 which is basically a rip-off of the Everdrive. Can be bought for a low price on Aliexpress

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It was almost certainly a child, so there wasn't likely too much logic. They were stickers of pictures they took themselves of the Pokémon in Pokémon Snap though. They could be printed out at Blockbuster stores in the US, not sure how it worked in Aus, but definitely some personal attachment involved.