DOES TH N64 REEQUIRE A GAME TO WORK?

[triple8jm]

do i need a game to get it to work? im waiting for a game to be shipped in. i plugged it in but nothing happened. does it need a game to worK?

[DungeonMan]

Yes, the N64 does need a game too work. There's a lot of really good games you can look for as well. Some of the games need an expansion pack to work as well. I'd check some forums to get good ideas on games.

[triple8jm]

is anything suppose to pop up when i turn it on whith out a game in it? :confused:

is anything suppose to pop up when i turn it on whith out a game in it? :confused: it came with a jumper pak in it and a memory card in the controller. on the jumper pak theres a sticker that says do not remove!

[Semper Phi]

nothing should pop up, the screen may change to a dark, dark green or may have a little white flash, but mothing will really happen...

what does this jumper pack look like? does it have some red plastic at the top, or is the pak just black?

[triple8jm]

o thanks i thought it was broken! i feel so stupid lol :blush:

nothing should pop up, the screen may change to a dark, dark green or may have a little white flash, but mothing will really happen...

what does this jumper pack look like? does it have some red plastic at the top, or is the pak just black?
its black with a pinkish red sticker on top!

[Neo Matrix]

Basically, for the N64 to work you need something in there, either the Jumper Pak or the Expansion Pak. The latter came out a long time after the release of the console so the sticker on the Jumper Pak saying "Do Not Remove" made complete sense until the Expansion Pak came out.

The ONLY reason to take out a Jumper Pak is to replace it with an Expansion Pak. Beware though, using a non-official one can cause games to crash...

[ciano]

Here's the deal with the jumper pak. It completes an electrical circuit or something in the system with its own set of chips and gizmos - I'm not sure exactly what it does but it lets the system do what it does. A few years after the N64 came out, Nintendo released an improved jumper pak with a red plastic top called the expansion pak. It has improved chips and gizmos that let the system do what it does faster and better. Some games, like Donkey Kong 64, Banjo Tooie and Zelda: Majora's Mask will not work unless you've replaced the jumper pak with the expansion pak.

Here's an illustration.
http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa109/Thecianinator/n64_sys.jpg
This took me 1000 hours in MS paint.

[schwa.]

do i need a game to get it to work? im waiting for a game to be shipped in. i plugged it in but nothing happened. does it need a game to worK?
since the older systems such as the N64 don't have the internal hard drive or anything of the sort, it has no programs or games to run if there's no cartridge plugged into it.

as such, you can't do anything "extra" with it, like you can with an Xbox, Gamecube, Wii, etc.....

[mac0591]

The Jumper pack is actually the memory for the N64. Which if I remember right is 16MB. If I'm wrong then it's 32, regardless the expansion pack doubles the memory and that's why if you use one that isn't an official N64 Expansion pack/port then it'll crash games. Simply because all N64 games are written to work on exact hardware unlike a computer game which has tons of different options for what hardware you can have to play a game.

Anywho, thought I'd drop my 2 cents worth on this thread, felt bored today.

Off to play MKT (Mortal Kombat Trilogy).

Warning: There is a huge issue with Expansion packs lighting N64s on fire, so do not leave the system on a cloth surface for a long period of time and try to keep it off when you don't play it.

Disclaimer: Not sure if this all is 100% true, but it's as far as I can remember, been a decade, give or take a few years ;)

[Shralla]

The Jumper pack is actually the memory for the N64. Which if I remember right is 16MB. If I'm wrong then it's 32

The jumper pack is 4MB. The expansion pack is 8MB.