r/M64

I'm not going to defend the launch of the M64. In my opinion, the product wasn't finished and they should have waited. I'll give them some credit though for being mostly transparent about what was and wasn't working and giving us a roadmap of sorts literally built into the settings menu of the console.

That said, I feel like people are severely glossing over some of the details of the A3D launch, the most egregious in my mind being the 13 months that people waited for the product after paying for it. As an added benefit, after sitting on my money for 13 months they announced and quickly shipped limited edition colors that shipped immediately as a sort of middle finger to the patience of their earlier supporters.

ModRetro did no such thing; after paying for my system, I just had to wait a couple weeks to receive it. Sure, they could have just done preorders and sat with my money while they ironed out some of the kinks but they chose not to and instead made updating relatively painless (wifi) and gave us a roadmap for what's coming. I'll take that any day. As of today, I think the A3D is the more full-featured system, but ModRetro seems like the better company. Time will tell if that proves true or not.

Have any of you EDX7 users noticed some roms aren't working with your m64? Most I have tried are working well, Goldeneye and OOT just bring up a black screen. Really enjoying the m64 so far.

Anyone having issues where you can't get the ModRetro to recognize the controller at all with this game-

I'd like to confirm its an issue before I contact Modretro.

Edit: I did some more testing- and when I switched the controller out for one that didn't have a memory pack in the wireless receiver it worked fine- Is that a known issue?

ModRetro selling M64 on Dragonbox.de makes me wonder if they have a partnership going on to use Retrode cartridge adapters for the M64 once the access to more cores become available. It's kind of a big brained move if I do say so myself.

Anyone having issues connecting to a mesh network? Whenever I try to connect to WiFi on my local network, it doesn’t work (doesn’t give me an error or anything, just takes the password, then says “not connected” under the status. I can easily connect to my phone hotspot, but not my home WiFi. Any thoughts?

Hey folks. u/Upstairs_Report6208 has a great post about d-pad replacement fixing the false diagonal input issue, so I contacted Modretro to get a similar replacement. The representative asked for a video to identify the issue, so I put this together. Hopefully other folks can reference this video if they are experiencing the same issue.

My M64 is still sitting unopened in the box because I wanted to wait for a few more updates and spare myself the disappointment of unfinished software. But the temptation is strong, and I think I'm finally going to unbox it today.

Which of the 4 games works best? I don't have any other N64 games (yet).

Has anyone been able to get SNES roms to run properly on M64? Got the games to load but sound and graphics were jumbled with every game I tried.

M64 vs A3D temps test with thermal camera + cart temps + laptop cooling pad temps

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(Hot Spot Results After 60 min)
* Bottom: A3D 37.4c (99.32f) vs M64 56.3c (133.34f)
* Top: A3D 40.4c (104.72f) vs M64 52.8c (127.04f)
* Cart Front: A3D 37.5c (99.5f) vs M64 42.6c (108.68f)
* Cart Bottom: A3D 36.3c (97.34f) vs M64 41.5c (106.7f)

(Hot Spot Results After 60 min on Cooling Pad)
* Bottom: M64 40.7c (105.26f) [15.6c - 28.08f delta]
* Top: M64 38.9c (102.02f) [13.9c - 25.02f delta]
* Cart Front: M64 33.8c (92.84f) [8.8c - 15.84f delta]
* Cart Bottom: M64 34.0c (93.2f) [7.5c - 13.5f delta]

Here’s a discount code for anyone wanting to buy a console: M64EBGHF797LM

Good luck!

1. Can we all comment on what everyone has found to be the best settings to play games on? Pictures of the settings would be great. I want to see what has worked out and looked best for people as I haven’t messed around with it at all beside putting it on insane overlocking.

Thx ❤️

Back again after a few days with a more thorough review of the M64.

I saw mixed reviews now that more people have received their M64 and some are comparing it to the release of the Chromatic. I got my Chromatic late in the game so they probably had worked out all the kinks by the time I purchased mine, so I can't speculate on that. I also won't speculate on Influencer opinions and comparisons to the Analogue 3D (performance or otherwise, as I will be purchasing a 3D to do that more in-depth later).

One thing I will agree with, that I've seen, is that this launch wasn't without hiccups for sure. I am sure MR will work things out quickly, but this feels like it was released to get it out to people first and smooth out the wrinkles later. Plenty of systems can stumble at launch and while this is based of existing tech, it isn't an exact N64 clone, so I do expect some issues and features to not be immediately available.

What I didn't like was the Memory Pak not being supported on the "Launch" titles. Buck Bumble desperately needs the save feature. It cannot be easily beat in one sitting for a casual gamer. I have gotten pretty far, took a cheap death and had to start over, more than a few times. That can be frustrating for anyone, I feel. Also the haze and colors for certain games can make them a little more difficult than usual. I feel like shooting for authenticity is fine, but we live in a modern era and I should be able to enable visual enhancements that actually, enhance the visuals. Sniping on Goldeneye alone has caused me to question my sanity many times in the last 24/36 hours (I live in Honolulu and luckily just got rained out so that gave me plenty of time to die repeatedly on The Dam level)

I have no issues with anything else, to be honest. I remember my eyes not always being great when it came to N64 games (Turok specifically) but I would like to not have to rely on my display to make the colors brighter or adjust contrast, etc. because not all displays are created equally. The system should be able to have some QOL features visually, and adjusting resolution just isn't enough in this age, IMHO. Gameplay is fine and really quite like I remember over the years and compares solidly to ROMs I played of the games I couldn't play as a kid/teen.

This is after spending the last 36 hours of consistent gaming so this is a more gaming based review than my last one, which more focused on my day 1 experience and playing for maybe 3 or 4 hours that whole day. I still think this is a great retro system and I enjoy the personality of the M64 (UI, design language ,etc.).

If you want a polished experience, maybe wait a few weeks. I think by then all the issues that me and others have had, will be non-existent and more comparable to purchasing a Chromatic, today.

After a few days of solid gaming, with a comfortable controller and some fun games, I would say my experience is about 8.5/9 out of 10, leaning closer to a 9.

Still a damn fine job ModRetro, damn fine.