r/nintendo64

Hi! Thanks in advance for reading and for hopefully helping a lost soul out.

I have a Nintendo 64. I've loved it since I was young but I haven't actually used it in about 10 years. I've finally decided to use it after all these years but I'm learning that getting it up and running isn't as simple as the plug and play design it was one based on.

I have an unmodified Nintendo 64 with all the original cables. I once upon a time bought a third party component adapter and used a scart lead to plug into an old sharp TV (which is no more) and this worked fine whilst I was uni, but the Nintendo took a bang one day, went black and white and I got scared and never used it since. I don't exactly know what happened that day, but either way, it's back out the box and I'm hopefully gonna be thrashing my niece in mario karts soon.

At the moment, I'm trying to use this on a Samsung LED smart TV and I know that it isn't likely to work, nor is it working for the original AV cable or the component cable. I've got a component to HDMI adapter, which is also not working to save the day. I don't have access to a crt TV, otherwise I would check on that.

I know the radx cables exist, but I'm trying to see if I could get what I have to work - I'm sure there's some sacrilege in the above that connoisseurs would curse me under their breath for, but I just wanna show my niece what's what on mario kart. I would eventually also be taking it back home with me and I have a 55" Samsung UE55U800FK smart 4k TV which I would love to have available for playing on.

So, treat me like I'm dense. Treat me like I've missed something obvious. Treat me like I'm looking at dissecting and alien and I have no idea what the green goo is. I (and my niece) appreciate anyone that may take the time to help me out!

The picture quality still looks the same to me but motion is better I guess. Print on the SummerCart 64 menu is much more legible. Has anyone had an experience where they were able to amplify the picture even more? Given these cables just convert analog signals to digital, i dont think it’s possible.

I'm very surprised with the popularity of nintendo 64, and super Nintendo how Nintendo hasnt made a console with all the games of supernintendo and nintendo 64 on it and may aswell add gamecube on it

I reckon all us 80s and 90s generation would all get it

Thoughts?

Been looking on amazon but dont know which ones i can trust. Looking to legally download the entire n64 library.

Hello everyone! I really need some help as I'm at a complete loss here. My N64 has a weird issue. It only reads cartridges after I put in DK64 and start the console with it inserted. If I try to put in any other games first, the console won't read them?? But if I put dk64 in it and power on, it just works and every other cartridge works?!

I have cleaned every cartridge I own, plus the cartridge slot several times, so it's not that... please please help me🥺

I decided to try and play n64 and I cant see the display and no audio is coming out does anyone know about any fixes. I HAVE LITERALLY TRIED EVERYTHING 🙏🏼

You can only pick one: Mario 64 or Ocarina of Time. The other one not selected cannot be played ever again. In fact, the only video game you can ever play again is whatever you pick. What do you choose?