@Yeah Right it’s not to hard considering Nintendo themselves use emulators on a lot of there systems. And most games you don’t need to mess with the settings and most Systems nowadays can run them without any issue. Plus almost every game is compatible at this point.
@@reapertown9267 Eventually your shit wont be yours as you will get bored with it. I look for mods to consoles that damage them and I wont buy them or offer less because it's permanently damaged. It's also 7 bucks and you get, just do the swap
@@MoisesR_XDashGD the tray is not for pin alignment. The tray was made for region lockout. Japanese and US cartridge shells are made different. Remove the tray and cart will be a tad wobbly but it will be region free. Better to just cut off the bits of plastic that stop your japan cart from sliding into us tray. Don't waste $7 on crappy 3D printed junk.
@@davidchenault3462 I use a gameshark cart since I already mess around with cheats and it lets you run any region since it doesn't have a lockout on the top bit.
Because the tech was not as advanced as now a days. There’s more higher quality games and that requires more components and stuff ofc its not gonna be easy to repair stuff with newer technology objects ESPECIALLY video games
I did this with my Switch Pro controller. Turned all the buttons red and such. Then when I put it back together, it had this weird lump thing. It worked nicely tho. Except for the Select Button wouldn't pop out. Then a week later, boop. Just stopped working. Literally had an autistic break down, hitting myself trying to make the thing work just for it to cease with no explanation. I haven't bothered since.
@@1ts3rick That may be true, but some of this stuff is ridiculous. Like sony making the parts to the ps5 not repairable by pairing the parts and you can't replace them.
Tbh its easier nowadays... You can find an instruction to repair almost anything nowadays. Back then you could open it up and put it back together but no clue what to do there lol
Idk what my dad did all those years ago, but he “modded” our n64 with a soldering iron back in the 90s. We lived in Japan at the time so it was perfect when us kids bought any Japanese games, as well as any US games we got on base.
That's what I did as well. Just melted the blocking tabs off. Took a few seconds, costs nothing, works fine. Maybe there will come a time when they're valuable enough to not want to do that (maybe) but they made millions of the things and it doesn't affect it cosmetically.
Yup. I did that with SNES back in the days. You broke off the tabs that would prevent Japanese games to fit inside the US SNES to play Super Famicon games.
@@Bryan_Kenji_Watanabe It never released in South Africa (I think...) Only U.S.A, Canada (NTSC), Europe (PAL), Japan (NTSC-J) and if You really wanted count it China with the iQue Player (Chinese Nintendo 64) then China too and that is it Everywhere else didn't got supported or just copy and paste Consoles from other regions or It never got it anything at all with the only Consoles in that Region being from people Who Imported from outside at a Higher Price (Buying in Japan and bringing Home to sell)
@@TroySan1985 yes. The system was not locked at a system level they did that with the Sega Cd. Japanese and US carts were different sizes, but only the plastic. The memory cartridges were the same.
@08Until 1991AND If you have a pre TMSS console (Sega's Region Lockout post 1991) you could still just cut the cartridge casing. Even after that you could just purchase a Game Genie and insert the Japanese Cartridge into it and play it fine on US Consoles manufactured with TMSS lockout. If I remember correctly it was not until 1993/94 that there was a more aggressive Region Lockout.
So the region block is physical like with the SNES. "All you have to do is disassemble the N64 then using a saw or pair of wire cutters snip off the corners of the cartridge slot that is causing the cartridges from the other region not to work. You then just put the console back together again and your console can play games from the USA and Japan."
I think mine might have already been modified, I played a couple Japanese cartridges on my North American N64 and I never had any issue. I didn't even know there was a region lockout.
Long time ago when they were still making Nintendo 64 games I got a Mario Party in Japanese it would not fit my American-made Nintendo 64 I looked at the back and noticed that there were two plastic prongs preventing it from going into the Nintendo 64 I promptly sawed those chunks off. Worked like a charm
an alternative to this is to swap the back of a north american and japanese cartridge that way it can fit becuase of the parts in the bottom left and right of the cartridge on the back are different from each other just swapping them will make the game fit in and work just like normal.
Yep. All you have to do to an SNES is get a pair of pliers and break these two plastic tabs inside the cartridge slot. Real easy. Once they’re removed you can fit Super Famicom games into your SNES cartridge slot.
Correct. The other way to get around the region lock between US and Japan is to swap the back plate of the cartridge. The back plates have different notches in each country that allow them to fit into the slot on the console. So swapping the backs allows them to fit in the other country’s slot. It’s a less convenient option than this adapter, but it’s free! (Assuming you already have the game bit screwdriver.)
If you're a purist like me and don't want to modify your N64 console, there are other options. Option one, You can buy a cartridge adapter, which is what I own. Basically, it's blank cartridge that you insert into your N64 console and it has a slot on the top that you can connect Japanese cartridges to, much like a GameShark cartridge. The adapter acts as a passthrough between the console and the cartridge. Option two, which won't cost you anything... you can unscrew the back half of a Japanese cartridge and screw on the back half of a North American cartridge or vice-versa if you live in Japan. The reason Japanese N64 cartridges won't fit inside North American N64 consoles and vice-versa is because the tabs on the backs of the cartridges are shaped differently and the trays inside the consoles are shaped so that the cartridges will fit only in their respective region's consoles. But if you swap the back half of a Japanese cartridge with the back half a North American cartridge, then the Japanese cartridge will fit the North American tray and vice-versa. Option three, use a GameShark cartidge.
@@fried0nion503 The tray is there to protect your N64 from dust and other junk so you probably shouldn't remove it unless you plan on replacing it with a custom made tray that fits all cartridges. Besides, my post aimed to offer a solution that didn't involve modifying the console in any way, which if you remove the tray, you kind of are modifying it.
I remember IGN had an article on their N64 page near the end of the N64's life about "region unlocking" the N64 and they had you filing the edges of cartridge tray. Fun times! Blessedly I never did that. :)
OR you could just take the back shell off your Japanese cartridge, and switch it with the back of Quest 64 or any other NTCS cartridge. Puts the shovelware to good use 👍
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Doing this will get you dust/debris in the console over time. A lot of people have issues with cart reading over time because there's a lot of space under the cart slot that loves to gather dust. Under the cart reader, you have to actually pull the cartridge slot itself off to clean under it, which is removable, just a pain in the a**.
@@husky3g oh I assumed as much, but this is on my beat up backup n64, literally only to play this Japanese mario kart 64 cart I have. Mind you I haven’t had any issue at all in the 2 years since doing it and it basically turned into my main 64 since we moved and it’s the first one I found lol.
when i was like 10, to play the japanese smash brothers from the rental store, they gave instructions how to file down the plastic bits that keep you from inserting the game. didn't need to order anything or take anything apart.
1 other thing to know: Only the French N64 model had RGB already build in, so you dont need to build in a RGB PCB. The only thing you have to do, is to "activate" it, by soldering some SMD components/fuses on the RGB part of the board.
Miss these days 😩🥺 Late 90’s early 2000’s A brief window of 3-4 golden years old nostalgic gaming . I have 3 siblings, 1 brother 2 sisters So Mario parties won’t ever be forgotten… helping my brother beat Zelda: Ocarina of time with the game guide …. God bless the good times we hold on too. Much love to you all
Dude, kids these days will not understand the feeling of waiting for the next monthly issue of 'Tips & tricks" or "Electronic Gaming Monthly" to get the next helpful hint to beat a long game. Good times 😊
Yeah I from then but I couldn’t of 100 % some recent games without Dev help youtube vids/gamers. I still remember going to newsagent for gaming mag with bonus demo disc for consoles and most times a bum stole the disc from magazine. Good old days. Renting a game from blockbuster on 16 bit days could bought series x from rental dockets . 😢
@@davidswanson5669 I'm confused, because he acts like used videogame stores don't exist.... it's not like used n64s are hard to come by, and the only way you can obtain them is when they were a current generation console lol
@@kylem1112 maybe I’m wrong, but I believe he’s making a joke similar to “the year 2000 called and wants to know if you are excited to play the N64”. It’s like a sarcastic way of saying “N64 is lame”, which of course is untrue. Besides, N64 was a mid/late 90s console.
I knew this already...in 1997 I bought one of the first japanese consoles, and as soon i could buy me an American game, I faced this problem. I just scrape the little blocks off inside that tray. Problem solved, and for FREE.
This hack only enables ntsc-j and ntsc carts to play on a console. If you use the EMS N64 Passport Plus 3 III you get full region free playback. It is a converter for PAL to NTSC, NTSC to PAL Cartridge adapter.
I have a converter, can't remember what it's called(I've had it since about a year after the console came out) and it allows me to play any region on my PAL machine. It's unwieldy as you plug a PAL cart into the back of it and the NTSC cart into the top of it. I swapped it along with an NTSC copy of Goldeneye for just my PAL copy of Goldeneye as the owner had young kids and was worried they'd destroy it/the console. I went from thinkinh Goldeneye was OK to it being one of my favourite games of all time.
@@toast99bubbles J and U are compatible but the J system allows for higher bandwidth to facilitate their 1000 line broadcast system. Before HD it was a moot point in gaming as nothing rendered 1000 line outputs and after HD became obsolete. The last place I bothered using J was on my modded OG Xbox, which I still have.
This is also important to know: You can use any power adapter in any N64. So for example, you can use a PAL 220V power adapter on a Japanese 110V console, and vice versa. Because the PSU is build in the power adapter (that's why its so big). In for example a Playstation 1,2,3,4,5, saturn, dreamcast etc etc, the PSU is build in the console itself, so in those cases you definitly a power convertor! For the N64: The only difference is the PAL/NTSC video signal, and the cartridge tray as shown in this video.
To be more specific, do NOT use a japanese power adapter in the US! It's designed for a different voltage/current! You can play a japanese n64 in the states by using an american adapter, but don't use a power unit for an incorrect region.
Just because you can swap power bricks doesn't mean you should. You're better off using a step-up or step-down converter and sticking with the brick intented for that system. The PSU being located inside or outside the system is not a factor.
You can also get third party adapters that literally are plug and play as they are literally just passed through adapters. That way you can take the adapter to your friends place.
An easier solution is to just swap the back of the Japanese cartridge with a North American one if you have a North American console and vice versa with Japanese console
Reminds me when I took the 2 little plastic nubs out of my SNES game slot to play Japanese SNES games. The nubs where located in the game slot. No unscrewing anything.
It’s wild that, as a kid, we knew about region locking and thought it was this big difficult programming issue. Only to find out 25 years later, nope, just a piece of plastic.
Or you can just snip the bumps off the stock bracket for free. Though I'd only say buy the 3d printed bracket for special edition versions of the console.
Personally I don't buy consoles from bubba fuck jobs that require breaking part of the item I want. Another thing is playing burned media on consoles ruins the lasers
I bought a jpn version ice blue locally and I didn’t even know it was region free till he texted me it was after. I was going to buy one of these. He melted the plastic off but actually did a nice job
When I was a wee middle schooler back in the 90's I remember using red hot coat hanger hooks straighened out to melt off the tabs inside of a US SNES so that it could fit super famicom games. I used to do it for friends so we could all play imports. Memories :)
I did this to my friend's N64 back when they were a thing with a soldering iron for free. The hardest part was making a game bit out of a pen. I melted and used the end of the clear bic pens as a mold for the screws.
I just took the piece out entirely, no need for a 7 dollar replacement part. The only downside is that it holds the dust flaps, but if you keep a cartridge slotted in, there's no drawback.
I used the saw the back pegs off my Japanese N64 games to fit in my US console back in the day. Nintendo put a PAL/NTSC lock on Euro consoles making it impossible to play them without an adaptor.
@@ORACLEBALL yes that is correct but I’m curious to know which remix it is exactly, I’ve already gone through 20 listed tracks and remixes and I’ve yet to find it
Or also if you want to do it neatly instead of snipping the tabs/buying a part, you can use a Dremel with an rotary abrasive bit and slowing cut out the two tabs and grind smooth. Did it to mine and it came out great, also works great for modding Gameboy shells in prep for IPS Screens
Alternatively, just removing that tray will allow you to play either. You don't have to spend $7 on a piece of plastic. That's just to make it "hold" better. The doors that cover the insert area already make it so it doesn't move around.
I live near a local video game store and they have Japanese copies of N64 games, in very good condition, for like dirt cheap. Definitely gonna try this and save some dough, but I gotta work more on my Japanese lessons on Duolingo first!
I love how cartridge era region locking was just to put some bullshit tabs in the console or cartridge so the cartridge wouldn't fit in another region's console.
If anyone is confused, the reason why this works is because the cartridges from their respective regions are all shaped differently. The difference in shape is the physical method of region locking.
Or, if you want, you can use a game shark because when you connect anything to the game shark it just holds the connector pins with no physical lockout
Игры
Fun fact: “tennis” in Japanese is actually golf!
Thank you for clearing that up I was mad confused 😂
But it says golf
@@electricspeedruns6121 r/woooosh
@@revplay4910 what does that mean???
@@revplay4910 r/wooosh
"YOU CAN PLAY ALL GAMES FOR ONLY 7 BUCKS!"
*Okay now I need games*
Not all! Just NTSC. PAL games won’t work with this fix from what I recall.
Now I need an N64
And none of any of the decent games are less than $40, lol. More like $60-$80.
@Damion Manuel at that point you might as well use an emulator.
@Yeah Right it’s not to hard considering Nintendo themselves use emulators on a lot of there systems. And most games you don’t need to mess with the settings and most Systems nowadays can run them without any issue. Plus almost every game is compatible at this point.
You could spend $7 on this or simply do it for free. There are 2 tabs in the cartridge slot that you snip off and that's it then it'll play any region
Noooooooo, you must consume useless plastic junk and stimulate the economy!
Permanent modification of retro consoles is a big no-no though.
@@h8GW it's your shit, so do what you wanna.
@@reapertown9267 Eventually your shit wont be yours as you will get bored with it. I look for mods to consoles that damage them and I wont buy them or offer less because it's permanently damaged. It's also 7 bucks and you get, just do the swap
@@h8GW Only matters if you plan to sell it later. Or buy a second if it means that much to ya.
You don't need the $7 tray. Just remove the tray and it works just fine.
Doesnt both trays are for the pins allignment?
@@MoisesR_XDashGD the tray is not for pin alignment. The tray was made for region lockout. Japanese and US cartridge shells are made different. Remove the tray and cart will be a tad wobbly but it will be region free. Better to just cut off the bits of plastic that stop your japan cart from sliding into us tray. Don't waste $7 on crappy 3D printed junk.
@@davidchenault3462 I use a gameshark cart since I already mess around with cheats and it lets you run any region since it doesn't have a lockout on the top bit.
Holy fuck nintendo fangirls are fucking unbearable.
Does this work with European games on a us console as well?
I miss how simple tech was to tinker with lol now every time I take something apart I'm scared I won't be able to get it back together the same way
#rip old tech... you are missed
Because the tech was not as advanced as now a days. There’s more higher quality games and that requires more components and stuff ofc its not gonna be easy to repair stuff with newer technology objects ESPECIALLY video games
I did this with my Switch Pro controller. Turned all the buttons red and such.
Then when I put it back together, it had this weird lump thing.
It worked nicely tho. Except for the Select Button wouldn't pop out.
Then a week later, boop. Just stopped working.
Literally had an autistic break down, hitting myself trying to make the thing work just for it to cease with no explanation.
I haven't bothered since.
@@1ts3rick That may be true, but some of this stuff is ridiculous. Like sony making the parts to the ps5 not repairable by pairing the parts and you can't replace them.
Tbh its easier nowadays... You can find an instruction to repair almost anything nowadays. Back then you could open it up and put it back together but no clue what to do there lol
Idk what my dad did all those years ago, but he “modded” our n64 with a soldering iron back in the 90s. We lived in Japan at the time so it was perfect when us kids bought any Japanese games, as well as any US games we got on base.
He broke part of the original tray.
That's what he told you 😂😂
Just kidding look further in the comments 5 days earlier than yours by "Lane Campbell". He explained it to ya.
Sounds like you have a fun dad haha
That's what I did as well. Just melted the blocking tabs off. Took a few seconds, costs nothing, works fine. Maybe there will come a time when they're valuable enough to not want to do that (maybe) but they made millions of the things and it doesn't affect it cosmetically.
Yup. I did that with SNES back in the days. You broke off the tabs that would prevent Japanese games to fit inside the US SNES to play Super Famicon games.
That’s neat. For some reason it reminds me of putting tape on cassette tapes so you could record songs from the radio.
Vhs too
You mean there was a better way than getting a second recorder and recording the lowest quality garbage possible?
You are officially my hero. So going to try this here in South Africa.
Doesn't work with pal consoles
First you must check whether south africa uses ntsc or not.
@@Bryan_Kenji_Watanabe It never released in South Africa (I think...)
Only U.S.A, Canada (NTSC), Europe (PAL), Japan (NTSC-J) and if You really wanted count it China with the iQue Player (Chinese Nintendo 64) then China too and that is it
Everywhere else didn't got supported or just copy and paste Consoles from other regions or It never got it anything at all with the only Consoles in that Region being from people Who Imported from outside at a Higher Price (Buying in Japan and bringing Home to sell)
“Japanese Mario Tennis-“
*click*
*Mario Golf intro*
If you can read you can see he wrote *Golf
@@turtles3 I don’t think he can
Lol
Touch grass
He put "golf" at the screen when he said it, why are you telling them the mistake he already fixed?
If only I figured this out back in 1997!
🤣 fr
I do not think 3d printers was out back then. but you could always snip the plastic parts away.
Omg you are preaching to the choir
I remember cutting the edges of Sega Genesis Japanese carts so I could play them in my us system.
and that worked?????
@@TroySan1985 yes. The system was not locked at a system level they did that with the Sega Cd. Japanese and US carts were different sizes, but only the plastic. The memory cartridges were the same.
@@philipadams3325but some games wouldn't start if you have wrong region
@08Until 1991AND If you have a pre TMSS console (Sega's Region Lockout post 1991) you could still just cut the cartridge casing. Even after that you could just purchase a Game Genie and insert the Japanese Cartridge into it and play it fine on US Consoles manufactured with TMSS lockout.
If I remember correctly it was not until 1993/94 that there was a more aggressive Region Lockout.
This is freaking amazing! Now I can dust off my N64 and play games I can't read or understand the text in... niiiiice.
assuming you cant speak both languages
@@Nintendoes2I absolutely can, so this is just a skill issue. やっぱりあいつの日本語がすごく上手じゃない。
Yes so you can be a better speedrunner
Japanese tennis is weird
ikr
Pretty English for japan
Oh that's what that is I thought it was futbol
IKR it’s rly weird
Just like football is just as weird in the US I guess!
So the region block is physical like with the SNES.
"All you have to do is disassemble the N64 then using a saw or pair of wire cutters snip off the corners of the cartridge slot that is causing the cartridges from the other region not to work. You then just put the console back together again and your console can play games from the USA and Japan."
Yes, why would anyone spend 7 bucks on that tray
Exactly
@@sonicshoes9299 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yeah, the whole time is was thinking, "Can't you just file that shit down?"
its like with the NES you literally just have to break a microcontroller pin
I think mine might have already been modified, I played a couple Japanese cartridges on my North American N64 and I never had any issue. I didn't even know there was a region lockout.
Long time ago when they were still making Nintendo 64 games I got a Mario Party in Japanese it would not fit my American-made Nintendo 64 I looked at the back and noticed that there were two plastic prongs preventing it from going into the Nintendo 64 I promptly sawed those chunks off. Worked like a charm
@Repo-Man why just cut the two tabs instead
Are your parents divorced?
Damn I'm been playing tennis wrong my whole life
That looks like something that can be 3D printed.
an alternative to this is to swap the back of a north american and japanese cartridge that way it can fit becuase of the parts in the bottom left and right of the cartridge on the back are different from each other just swapping them will make the game fit in and work just like normal.
Wait so it's literally just a peice of plastic that prevents different region carts from being used either the other?
Yep. Same with the SNES.
Yep. All you have to do to an SNES is get a pair of pliers and break these two plastic tabs inside the cartridge slot. Real easy. Once they’re removed you can fit Super Famicom games into your SNES cartridge slot.
Won't work for PAL / NTSC compatibility, though
Correct. The other way to get around the region lock between US and Japan is to swap the back plate of the cartridge. The back plates have different notches in each country that allow them to fit into the slot on the console. So swapping the backs allows them to fit in the other country’s slot.
It’s a less convenient option than this adapter, but it’s free! (Assuming you already have the game bit screwdriver.)
@@kstaggs87 well yeah if you snap the tab off a 3ds game it will fit in the DS Lite. What’s your point
If you're a purist like me and don't want to modify your N64 console, there are other options.
Option one, You can buy a cartridge adapter, which is what I own. Basically, it's blank cartridge that you insert into your N64 console and it has a slot on the top that you can connect Japanese cartridges to, much like a GameShark cartridge. The adapter acts as a passthrough between the console and the cartridge.
Option two, which won't cost you anything... you can unscrew the back half of a Japanese cartridge and screw on the back half of a North American cartridge or vice-versa if you live in Japan. The reason Japanese N64 cartridges won't fit inside North American N64 consoles and vice-versa is because the tabs on the backs of the cartridges are shaped differently and the trays inside the consoles are shaped so that the cartridges will fit only in their respective region's consoles. But if you swap the back half of a Japanese cartridge with the back half a North American cartridge, then the Japanese cartridge will fit the North American tray and vice-versa.
Option three, use a GameShark cartidge.
Or just remove the tray if your going to attempt flip flopping the back half of cartridges.
@@fried0nion503 The tray is there to protect your N64 from dust and other junk so you probably shouldn't remove it unless you plan on replacing it with a custom made tray that fits all cartridges.
Besides, my post aimed to offer a solution that didn't involve modifying the console in any way, which if you remove the tray, you kind of are modifying it.
@@benjaminvlz I like option 3!
A solution to a problem i never knew existed.
I remember IGN had an article on their N64 page near the end of the N64's life about "region unlocking" the N64 and they had you filing the edges of cartridge tray. Fun times! Blessedly I never did that. :)
$0: just remove the old piece, no need to add another
My thoughts exactly
You could play your N64 without the cartridge tray, but the it's there for more than just region blocking. It acts as a dust cover.
@@benjaminvlz the tray he has doesn't have a dust cover 🙂
@@hosam7609 The cartridge tray itself serves as protection from dust and other debris, so you might want to have a tray inside your console.
OR you could just take the back shell off your Japanese cartridge, and switch it with the back of Quest 64 or any other NTCS cartridge. Puts the shovelware to good use 👍
But you'd have to do it for every japanese cartridge you have.
@@sabrakt two screws really?
My dads old n64 just looks like someone took some pliers to it 💀
Hungrybox getting jumpscared is like him winning a major
...I might be sleep deprived, I thought the title said "Don't do this" for the entire duration of the video
The Bible says that no one is a good person. We have all broken God's law the 10 commandments, we have all committed, lies, adultery, idolatry, and blasphemy. We deserve hell, but because of what Jesus did on the cross we can be forgiven. So if you Repent of your sins, change your wicked ways, and put your faith in Christ you will be written in the book of life. 👌 🙏Repentance is reviewing one's actions and feeling contrition or regret for past wrongs, which is accompanied by commitment to and actual actions that show and prove a change for the better.. .
Why did you get replied with what seems like a message from a online evangelist
Thats exactly what i read.. I was thinking to myself "why is he showing us how to do it" and then I looked at the title again...oof.
Or you know, just emulate the games..?????
Lol for only seven bucks.....Plus 50-150 per game...
Well, a hot knife to cut the pads works too, but I think this solution is more elegant, but it costs money, in the other hand.
Looks simple enough to 3D print, so if you're already set up for that, that might cost you 25 cents in material.
All this time I felt great about my high scores in Japanese Mario Tennis....
My first console ever. Thinking about modding it. Thx I never knew about this!!!!
You could just take the tray off. We use to clip the extra plastic prongs off of the Japanese games lol!
Did exactly this a while ago to my Japanese ice blue n64, best decision ever :)
I 3D printed mine. lol
And we did it for only $1 (prob less cant remember how much filament it used lol but it wasnt much)
@@nintariplays5654 mine was pretty much free since the filament im using I got for free lol HOT DEALS!
I like how it cuts to the screen likely because it took like six tries before it actually started up
He really can swing that tennis club 😂
Lol I just took the tray out in general.
Doing this will get you dust/debris in the console over time. A lot of people have issues with cart reading over time because there's a lot of space under the cart slot that loves to gather dust. Under the cart reader, you have to actually pull the cartridge slot itself off to clean under it, which is removable, just a pain in the a**.
@@husky3g oh I assumed as much, but this is on my beat up backup n64, literally only to play this Japanese mario kart 64 cart I have. Mind you I haven’t had any issue at all in the 2 years since doing it and it basically turned into my main 64 since we moved and it’s the first one I found lol.
when i was like 10, to play the japanese smash brothers from the rental store, they gave instructions how to file down the plastic bits that keep you from inserting the game. didn't need to order anything or take anything apart.
I just take the screws out of the cartridges and take off the back when I want to play it
@@TRJ2241987 i did thst too! Lol
1 other thing to know: Only the French N64 model had RGB already build in, so you dont need to build in a RGB PCB.
The only thing you have to do, is to "activate" it, by soldering some SMD components/fuses on the RGB part of the board.
They probably thought that SECAM vs. PAL was still a topic back then. ;)
Nice cut/edit right before the screen lights up.
Okay but the top stickers have me sold
Tell's you to buy it now, fails to give direct link.
Just 3d print one yourself it would cost 15 cents at most
@@DrKlown Tells you to 3d print one yourself, fails to give direct link.
@@jcdenton4911 Klown Hour over here
Miss these days 😩🥺
Late 90’s early 2000’s
A brief window of 3-4 golden years old nostalgic gaming . I have 3 siblings, 1 brother 2 sisters
So Mario parties won’t ever be forgotten… helping my brother beat Zelda: Ocarina of time with the game guide ….
God bless the good times we hold on too.
Much love to you all
Dude, kids these days will not understand the feeling of waiting for the next monthly issue of 'Tips & tricks" or "Electronic Gaming Monthly" to get the next helpful hint to beat a long game.
Good times 😊
Bro everything your talking about is still happening lol
@@El_Migz and I’m glad we dont
Yeah I from then but I couldn’t of 100 % some recent games without Dev help youtube vids/gamers. I still remember going to newsagent for gaming mag with bonus demo disc for consoles and most times a bum stole the disc from magazine. Good old days. Renting a game from blockbuster on 16 bit days could bought series x from rental dockets . 😢
@@El_Migz shut up try the last of us
I'm more impressed that they both worked first try !
Did it to mine! Worth every cent
I'll make sure and do this when I time travel back to 2000...
Why would you have to do that?
@@kylem1112 I don’t think he’s ever gonna reply because he already went back in time.
@@davidswanson5669 I'm confused, because he acts like used videogame stores don't exist.... it's not like used n64s are hard to come by, and the only way you can obtain them is when they were a current generation console lol
@@kylem1112 maybe I’m wrong, but I believe he’s making a joke similar to “the year 2000 called and wants to know if you are excited to play the N64”. It’s like a sarcastic way of saying “N64 is lame”, which of course is untrue. Besides, N64 was a mid/late 90s console.
I knew this already...in 1997
I bought one of the first japanese consoles, and as soon i could buy me an American game, I faced this problem. I just scrape the little blocks off inside that tray. Problem solved, and for FREE.
Bro, I subbed
Best fix ever! I did the same thing too my snes
me too. I imported my N64 before the US release. when thr US games were released, I just removed the black plastic. Free.
You are a smart one, kudos 😁😁
I never had a Snes, but I think it's basically the same thing I did to my US Sega Genesis to play Japanese games.
Nintendo watching this guy do this: "hey that's illegal we're losing money on games we don't sell anymore!"
I remember videos along time ago where they would open the tray and take a Dremel to the region block plastic pieces
This hack only enables ntsc-j and ntsc carts to play on a console. If you use the EMS N64 Passport Plus 3 III you get full region free playback. It is a converter for PAL to NTSC, NTSC to PAL Cartridge adapter.
NTSC-J and NTSC-U. There is no standard NTSC.
I have a converter, can't remember what it's called(I've had it since about a year after the console came out) and it allows me to play any region on my PAL machine. It's unwieldy as you plug a PAL cart into the back of it and the NTSC cart into the top of it. I swapped it along with an NTSC copy of Goldeneye for just my PAL copy of Goldeneye as the owner had young kids and was worried they'd destroy it/the console. I went from thinkinh Goldeneye was OK to it being one of my favourite games of all time.
@@toast99bubbles
J and U are compatible but the J system allows for higher bandwidth to facilitate their 1000 line broadcast system. Before HD it was a moot point in gaming as nothing rendered 1000 line outputs and after HD became obsolete. The last place I bothered using J was on my modded OG Xbox, which I still have.
@@darthwiizius Why are you tagging me in that comment?
This is also important to know: You can use any power adapter in any N64. So for example, you can use a PAL 220V power adapter on a Japanese 110V console, and vice versa. Because the PSU is build in the power adapter (that's why its so big). In for example a Playstation 1,2,3,4,5, saturn, dreamcast etc etc, the PSU is build in the console itself, so in those cases you definitly a power convertor!
For the N64: The only difference is the PAL/NTSC video signal, and the cartridge tray as shown in this video.
To be more specific, do NOT use a japanese power adapter in the US! It's designed for a different voltage/current!
You can play a japanese n64 in the states by using an american adapter, but don't use a power unit for an incorrect region.
This is just bad. Don't listen to this man, kids!
@@h.celine9303 where are your arguments? Tell us, what's incorrect about my info??
@@sander230e People won't try to kill their machines just for a comment on the internet, if you can do it, then prove it in a video...
Just because you can swap power bricks doesn't mean you should. You're better off using a step-up or step-down converter and sticking with the brick intented for that system. The PSU being located inside or outside the system is not a factor.
the most weird ass tennis i ever saw
You can also get third party adapters that literally are plug and play as they are literally just passed through adapters. That way you can take the adapter to your friends place.
Hey Rick! I’ve been a fan of this channel for a little while and it’s awesome how much you’ve grown!!! Game on and may the force be with you dude!
An easier solution is to just swap the back of the Japanese cartridge with a North American one if you have a North American console and vice versa with Japanese console
"japanese Mario Tennis" 💀
Reminds me when I took the 2 little plastic nubs out of my SNES game slot to play Japanese SNES games. The nubs where located in the game slot. No unscrewing anything.
"Now you can play any N64 game for $7"
Europe: Am I a joke to you?
Yes
yes
Yes
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No, but PAL is...
I wonder what I would have paid to have had this back in high school
Back in the day people would grind the bits out of the original cartridge bay. Nowadays 3d printing is extremely common so that's the easier solution
Love that things like this exist now, back in the day I had to melt & file down the notches on my Megadrive (UK) to play Japanese games haha!
It’s wild that, as a kid, we knew about region locking and thought it was this big difficult programming issue. Only to find out 25 years later, nope, just a piece of plastic.
That was all that kept it region locked?! Damn thanks for the tip!! 👍👍 Miss my 64😢
The SNES/ SFC was basically the same way. Just little plastic tabs in the SNES prevented you from putting in JP games.
You've still got PAL/NTSC problems though. Not 100% compatible.
What happened to it?
@@GamingMaster43210 sold my small collection few years back
@@TheJadeFist srsly wasnt the cic different per region tho?
I looooove when channels like this always negate that europe exists
and when comments negate that Australia exists
Extremely valuable information rick. Thanks bud.
Man I would absolutely LOVE to have my old N64 back
That's pretty awesome! I'm glad you're breathing more life into this classic by opening barriers from retro gamers!
Or you can just snip the bumps off the stock bracket for free. Though I'd only say buy the 3d printed bracket for special edition versions of the console.
Personally I don't buy consoles from bubba fuck jobs that require breaking part of the item I want. Another thing is playing burned media on consoles ruins the lasers
I did for one of game
Cool vid. I mean, you could just do it for free too. Get rid of the little notches that prevent the other region game from playing
I dig the mario kart remix there
Ah, ゴルフ。 Japanese for tennis!
Same plastic gate keeping for the SNES and Super Famicon lol.
I bought a jpn version ice blue locally and I didn’t even know it was region free till he texted me it was after. I was going to buy one of these. He melted the plastic off but actually did a nice job
When I was a wee middle schooler back in the 90's I remember using red hot coat hanger hooks straighened out to melt off the tabs inside of a US SNES so that it could fit super famicom games. I used to do it for friends so we could all play imports. Memories :)
I did this to my friend's N64 back when they were a thing with a soldering iron for free. The hardest part was making a game bit out of a pen. I melted and used the end of the clear bic pens as a mold for the screws.
Awesome! Now to learn japanese!
did ya notice his Japanese mario golf loaded in english, no way a plastic tray can change the language
@@jopieparker1735 a bunch of Japanese games have some stuff in English some in Japanese
I just took the piece out entirely, no need for a 7 dollar replacement part. The only downside is that it holds the dust flaps, but if you keep a cartridge slotted in, there's no drawback.
This is super rad thanks man
As a person who owns an N64, I find this very useful, thanks!
Although cool. I just use a game shark
As I kid a remember using a solder to melt the tabs in the cartridge slot to play Pro Wrestling 2. If only it was so easy😅
CLASSIC! NJPW
Grab a travel passport 3 or whatever it’s called
I love the intro: "now we have a problem"
I swear back in the day a local game store would just shave the Nintendo 64 games to fit
Thank you sooo much for the simple fix!=) more vids like this please?
You actually can you just trim the corner bump on the cartridge that stops you from inserting it into the console and it works fine
I used the saw the back pegs off my Japanese N64 games to fit in my US console back in the day.
Nintendo put a PAL/NTSC lock on Euro consoles making it impossible to play them without an adaptor.
The PAL Region: always having to be an exception…
i even live in PAL territory
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Now you can play any N64 game _legally!_
That Mario Kart track slap tho
I’ve been scouring the coment section and I’m trying to find what version it is
@@BlazePiffington 3 Raceways from the Mario Kart 64 OST
@@ORACLEBALL yes that is correct but I’m curious to know which remix it is exactly, I’ve already gone through 20 listed tracks and remixes and I’ve yet to find it
Or also if you want to do it neatly instead of snipping the tabs/buying a part, you can use a Dremel with an rotary abrasive bit and slowing cut out the two tabs and grind smooth. Did it to mine and it came out great, also works great for modding Gameboy shells in prep for IPS Screens
I did 3d print one of these trays myself and installed it in my n64
Alternatively, just removing that tray will allow you to play either. You don't have to spend $7 on a piece of plastic. That's just to make it "hold" better. The doors that cover the insert area already make it so it doesn't move around.
I remember when I modded my PSX to play imports... it was like a rite of passage, like getting a tattoo...
That hat is so clean
I'm going to do this right now. Thank you!
Or you know, just emulate the games..?????
@@awildmoose6541 You must be new here.
Bruh I didn’t do that crap I took the tray piece off of my Japanese ice blue and cut the tabs with a saw and still plays both Regina
Regina? Like the city in Saskatchewan?
I live near a local video game store and they have Japanese copies of N64 games, in very good condition, for like dirt cheap. Definitely gonna try this and save some dough, but I gotta work more on my Japanese lessons on Duolingo first!
I love how cartridge era region locking was just to put some bullshit tabs in the console or cartridge so the cartridge wouldn't fit in another region's console.
Can't you just remove the tray
Yes you can. But you will miss the dust covers.
Same as the Atari Jaguar.
Thank you!
If anyone is confused, the reason why this works is because the cartridges from their respective regions are all shaped differently. The difference in shape is the physical method of region locking.
Or, if you want, you can use a game shark because when you connect anything to the game shark it just holds the connector pins with no physical lockout