Hi everyone! FYI we made a mistake of wording with the video, you couldn’t use the game boy printer to print out your Pokémon in the way we mentioned in the video. (You could transfer the Pokémon you unlocked to your gbc cart and go nuts with the printer from there!) Otherwise you DID have to schlep your N64 picture data all the way to Blockbuster to print out your Pokémon pics. Also, the Wide Boy 64 didn’t make it into this video since it was never commercially offered and is not an “official” Nintendo product (and its crazy expensive!), but we want to cover it someday if anyone’s offering! ;) And for those that are commenting on it, the Power Glove was not manufactured by Nintendo however it was officially licensed and was a part of their product portfolio. In our mind it’s an inseparable part of Nintendo’s evolution from toymaker that makes video games to video game maker that makes toys. Thanks for watching everyone! See you in 2019! 💪🏻
Yes, I'm sure people taking dick pics, and using them in a multiplayer shooting game would have been tons of fun. I alway thought that was one of the reasons this feature got cancelled.
Whoooa.. I'm a huge fan of the original Mario Tennis and still play it every so often now, and never heard of these four characters! I know what I'm buying at Magfest! Thanks!
have you not played the game boy tennis or am I misunderstanding you? Because if you haven't played GBC Tennis you should, it's really fun, well, right up until you beat all the normal leagues and mario characters DESTROY you.
I used the transfer pack extensively with stadium as a kid and wasn't carefully with it AT ALL. I was totally unaware you could loose your save if you bumped it. I guess I was just crazy lucky lol. Also for me as a kid using rental pokemon just seemed wrong. I was a tamogotchi kid and my pokemon were like virtual pets. I refused to use rental pokemon cause to my child logic they weren't my pokemon ergo they weren't special lol
@@F0nkyNinja My Nintendo brand N64 memory card lost data all the time when I was a kid. The only way I could keep it working correctly is if I never removed it from my controller ever. So I had a controller that was exclusively my memory card controller.
Holy hell thank you! I bought perfect dark gbc a couple years ago out of curiousity as a fan of the series. And because it had cartridge rumble, which i thought was cool. Ended up hooked on it and finished it twice.
I got it when it came out and it ended up being one of my favorite GBC games. I remember wondering why more games didn't include the rumble feature, it was so cool at the time and to this day one of the only handheld rumble features.
we discovered that placing perfect dark gbc into transfer pak it granted a few cheats on perfect dark n64 that we couldn't quite achieve...cloaking device and a few others..
One additional note to point out - The Surfing Pikachu ordeal wasn't exclusive to merely Pikachu in Yellow: it was available to any Pikachu as long as they were not registered within the registered sets in Stadium 1 and Pikachu was in every battle in Master Cup. I know this because I did this whole ordeal twice: Once with Yellow, and once with Blue.
I liked how, with the Transfer Pak installed, you could turn your controller upside-down and it'd look like a ship out of Star Trek. Try it, you can't unsee it!
Fun fact: Miis, were originally designed for a 64DD title that ended up getting cancelled. Many of the specific facial features and hair styles that were used in the Wii and 3DS Mii Makers were originally included in the N64 game, which basically just let you MAKE Miis but then they just sort of wandered and did weird stuff. It never saw an official release due to the early cancellation of the 64DD and the main console lacking the power to run the game. Aonuma's initial concept of the title was greatly expanded upon and eventually released on the 3DS as Tomodachi Life.
There is a Japan-only pequel of Tomodachi Life called Tomodachi Collection (NDS). One thing reason why Japan-only because issues with localizing the vocal synthesizer software.
@@mspeter97 It may have! I just remember seeing the original prototype for the software, and don't know as much about Mario Artist. You're probably right, thanks for the info!
That's crazy. I heard the story about how Wii Sports was originally going to be Mario themed and that the miis were used as placeholders during development. Explains why they were already available to do that with if they were created way back in the 64 days.
@@stevethepocket While we're on that subject, Kirby Star Allies has basically been in production since the GameCube. The concept of having Kirby as player 1 and the rest of the players as captured/befriended enemies was first shown way back in 2005. A trailer was even made, but then the Wii came out and Nintendo announced intentions to release it on the new system instead. Star Allies has basically all of the same core gameplay but more befriendable enemies basically just due to more Kirby games having come out more recently that introduce them.
Man, I remember having the genius idea of hooking up my gameboy color Mario Golf to the N64 Mario Golf on the only basis that the games had the same cover art and having it ACTUALLY work absolutely blowing my 10 year old mind. I couldn't comprehend how it was possible since Pokemon Stadium was released a year later than the Mario Golf games, I was convinced the transfer pak was literally programming data on the fly into both the gameboy and n64 counterparts. Ah, the innocent times before internet access :)
no problem man, its just awesome to randomly see you involved with another channel I watch. I've actually been going through some of your older playthroughs in the last week, keep up the great content
I just remember when I was 7 or 8 yo and I asked my parents to have pkmn gold, but it didn't worked with pkmn stadium. So I had to save money to buy a gameboy color. And after that my mom bought me pkmn stadium 2. Thanks mom, I love you.
This is such a cool deep dive into the weird world of the transfer pack. I would love to see a similar Punching Weight video on early implementation of rumble in video games like the Perfect Dark GBC cartridge you mentioned in this video
Mezmorize it’s cool to hack gameboy games by changing the romheader to trick pokemon stadium to make it work, it may be not running 100 perfect but still.
The Transfer Pak is like a proto-amiibo now that I think about it. Not as much as e-Cards, but it's definitely an early example of cross-game data transfer.
You can use the Transfer Paks to trade Pokémon in Pokemon Stadium 1 & 2. Useful if you don't have the link cable. Only Pokémon Stadium 2 allowed you to Mystery Gift each day. Pretty neat. Also the rental Pokémon are pretty terrible. The evolved Pokémon would have weak attacks (so Charmander has Fire Blast while Charizard has Ember). You're better off just raising your own Pokémon.
just as a side you didnt NEED two transfer packs to battle friends with your pokemon you could just drop them into the pokemon boxes located in prof oaks lab and/or build teams of 3-6 where they get cloned any time you create a team bypassing the need to have the transfer pack installed for more than a few min tops
I agree, I love Tony Hawk enough to make 5 a barely passable and playable "modern" take to get my Tony Hawk in the modern gen fix, being unfortunately the only new normal-controls Tony Hawk in the modern era after Neversoft.
I remember taking the front guard off one of these thinking I could stick in a gen 3 pokemon game and transferring a pokemon from it to Pokemon Stadium. I got it to connect in but like you'd expect it couldn't be read.
Another thing to note about No Mercy's Transfer Pak compatibilities was that you could also import your created wrestler from the GBC game into the N64 one, and even unlock a special chapter in the game's story mode where said custom character participates; data for said chapter is still present in the game's data.
I was really hoping, with the way you were saying, "No updates. No patches," you were gonna throw some Blazing Saddles on there and say, "We don't need no stinking PATCHES!" lol. Great video that makes me wanna get a transfer pak cuz I have 2 copies of Pokemon Stadium AND my GB copy of Blue
I never had the peripheral anyway, but I'm just imagining how difficult it would've been to explain to my parents back in the day that, say, Mario Tennis N64 and Mario Tennis GBC are two different games and both are required.
I had more than one N64 controller. I put the Transfer Pak in my second controller and set it down, and used the first controller to play. The Stadium games did not require that the Transfer Pak be in the first controller.
Man, I remember having to rent Pokemon Stadium to be able to get the Transfer Pak. I rented Perfect Dark previously, and my cousin and I wanted to unlock some cheats easily. We went under each cheat, and it told you how to get them. I asked my mom if I could rent Pokemon Stadium, and Perfect Dark (GBC), already had Perfect Dark (N64) rented out, and she agreed. They almost didn't give me the Transfer Pak, and I had to tell them it came with it.
@Stellar Gnoma Newsflash: DQXI's music is bland and its in-game implementation is horrible due to the composer's awful views on copyright. Sugiyama's politics are also horrible. Criticizing someone for denying war crimes does not make you an "SJW".
For WWF No Mercy, the scrapped Gameboy Color mode is available to play and is finished, though the only way you can access it is with a Gameshark code. So it was finished on N64, but the GB version was never released.
Except you effectively need to use the transfer pack for the Stadium games. Rental Pokémon just suck; their move sets are generally awful and their stats are lower than normal as you didn't train them, their basically newly caught Pokémon in that regard. Also the AI sometimes uses illegal move sets and stats.
This is true. I spent literally months upon months grinding like absolutely crazy as a kid, trying to get the last 3 trophies and beat the Elite 4 with rentals. It really, really just wasn't gonna happen. I ended up buying Red and a transfer pak just to beat the game, and was shocked at how easy it was with transferred Pokemon. Seriously, rentals are genuinely like 0 Iv's or something. Also, I guarantee an extremely small amount of players even KNOW that there's a Mewtwo boss fight and literally an entire hard mode for the whole game
That outro music during the ad was excellent also hearing the OST for Mickeys Speedway USA always makes me smile, to bad about the pretty lame transfer pack reward. Good video regardless :)
I wonder if you could hack out the required header check in the ROM version of Pokemon Stadium GS and throw it on an Everdrive or other N64 Flash Cart.
de hecho ya se hizo y funciona con un hack de pocket monster stadium (J) compatible con los juegos del gameboy original trabaja como si fuera el super gameboy
I once lost my data on my Pokemon Red using the Transfer Pak... Since that day I wrap rubber bands around my controller and the Transfer Pak when I use it. Haven't lost any data since!
You may need to make modifications to your Dreamcast memory cards to make that work though, Khris. Make sure you reformatted your save games using the Wonderswan.
Remember the myth about mew behind the truck next to the boat? You normally wouldn't be able to use Surf or strength at the location because surf is learned when the boat eaves, so you can't go to the area anymore. And when you trade a surf pkmn before entering the boat, the pkmn would not listen to your command, would not use HM's. However, i found out, somehow. that by trading using the transfer pack, you would have a 5 to 10minutes window during which your Pokemon actually DOES listen, and you CAN surf before entering the boat, without hacks etc. But strength unfortunately didn't do anything to the truck. so that's where my mystery adventure ended. I was a bit too young, didn't have a PC or internet, and didn't continue from there on after trying a couple obvious things like other HM's. I don't remember the steps fully. It would be cool if someone would like to take some next steps as i've never seen a post or whatever online about this little "hack" or whatever you want to call it. i thought it was very cool to be legit able to get there after hearing the myths ^^ To this day, I'm still hoping there's something i missed.
WWF No Mercy also had an additional campaign in the game you would get from the transfer pack. "GBC Championship" actually can still be played in full with modding and NewLegacyInc did an entire stream playing it. You would take your created wrestler from the Gameboy Color game and play with him all the way to Wrestlemania in the N64 game
My parents wouldn't buy me a Game Boy back in the Poke-Craze of the 90's. So I was able to convince them to buy me Pokemon Stadium and a copy of Pokemon Yellow as well :D
Aha.. yeah, no, Rental Pokemon were purposely designed to be as absolutely garbage as possible to encourage (or as I prefer to call it, enforce) using the Transfer Pak just to have a smidge of a chance at beating Pokemon Stadium. With some luck you MIGHT be able to beat the first half of the game, but once Round 2 unlocks, all bets are off, those rentals are never going to save you there.
Pokemon Stadium 1 and 2 do not have the entire instruction set in the GB emulator, in fact the noise channel is only partially implemented. Even weirder is that the developers implemented a green palette that looks similar to a Game Boy, so maybe they were intending to make the transfer pak allow you to play GB games but rushed the hardware and emulator because of Pokemon Stadium games. It's just a theory.
Another Gameboy color game that uses this is Super Robot Wars Link Battler which if you link it with a completed game to Super Robot Wars 64 with the Nintendo 64's Transfer Pack it unlocks several exclusive units and characters in the latter.
Would a Gameboy Flashcart something like an Everdrive GB, work with the transfer pack? (since you can make the header whatever you like in a few minutes.) Alternatively a game genie with a apropriate code?
The transfer pack needs a slight modification to do this, due to the Everdrive GB needing a little bit more power to function. If you did this, you wouldn't be able to use it with retail carts (unless you soldered on a switch of some sort.) Also, it's only the original Everdrive GB that would work for this. No one's found a way for the X3, X5, or X7 to work yet.
Super late response, but for the record, the GB USB Smart Card is compatible with the Transfer Pak and Stadium, the game recognizes it as a normal Pokémon cartridge and it all works just fine. (Apparently they've been discontinued, though...)
I love Pokemon Stadium, there is something special about it. You are training you Pokemon, beating the Top 4 and than, than you have to show in the STADIUM that your Monsters are the best of the best. But the Way they designed the hole Game, there is something how you move through the Menus and about the Sound Design, that is so much better than later Pokemon Games for big Consoles. Yeah, it is only an Addition to Pokemon Red, Blue and Yellow, but it the ultimate Challange for everyone who loves the first and also the second Generation. Also, you can save all your Pokemon on Stadium, begin a new Game in the Gameboy and transfer all your beloved Creatures back to the GB. Edit: Ah and i remember having Issues when i was a Teenager, but i`ve cleaned up my Modules and now they are working flawless. But not the Module of my Girlfriend, i have not touched this and i tried like 20 Times until it worked.
@Long Schnozzed Tribesman Well, i played it last Month :P Trained my Pokemon on an Emulator on my Phone, transfered the Save File with the Retrode2 to my original Module and than i`ve gone to the Stadium ;D Ok, but Stadium was much harder as it was in my Memories.
Correction: the Power Glove was /not/ a Nintendo peripheral. Yes, it was made for the NES but Nintendo had nothing to do with its production, it was all AGE.
Well, it was made by a completely different programmer. The GB Tower mode was made by Tomohiro Kawase, one of the creators of the iNES format and someone who worked in the emulator scene in the 90s.
Have you ever heard of Project Atlantis? It started development in 1995 and was supposed to be the game boys successor. It was gonna be 32 bit with 160mhz cpu and was gonna be comparable to the n64. It was cancelled and the game boy color was a stopgap
I don't know if it was common with the design, but my transfer pak would not sit tightly in any N64 controller, so I would have to duct tape it to a controller and even that was shaky at best. So I lost my Pokemon Yellow data multiple times because i was too stubborn not to keep trying it.
