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Challenge accepted, but I promise I will be fair and give it a genuine rating based on how I feel once I've beat the whole game. I will warn you though, after playing for a around 2 hours I am already LEGIT hovering around a 4...

Oh no... I actually kinda like it!

I was intending on putting this off for as long as possible, but I guess my opinion on this game is required! Here we go, I'll get back to you when I'm done...

I have heard and seen a few pictures of some early N64 bootlegs out of Hong Kong, but I understand they are extra-ordinarily rare. I believe most N64 piracy done back in the day was using either Bung's Dr.V hardware, or the Z64 zip disks. Even those were very uncommon to see though, I never actually knew anyone who used those methods to pirate N64 games back in the day. Meanwhile, people were passing around burnt PS1 and Dreamcast discs like candy, so I reckon Nintendo did pretty well on the piracy protection for this system.

Fuckin hell guys, get a room.

Thanks for the suggestions, there are actually a TON of hacks floating around for the N64 these days. I'm not including those on my list though, only original releases and licensed reproductions. Roo got back to me pretty quick! He said he'd send me another cart, seems like a great guy!

Cool, I shot him an email to the address linked in my order confirmation, so I'll be sure to update here as things develop!

@Scrobins not sure if you have any idea what I might be able to do to remedy this situation? Do you have any lines of contact with the dev for this game?

Hmmm... I've gotten hold of my copy of Big2Small and I'm sorry to say it's been a very disappointing experience. I managed to make my way through the first couple of puzzles, until I reached the final puzzle of the first world. After beating that level, the game crashes as soon as my character enters the overworld screen. I tried several times to progress past that point, including starting a new save file, and it would always crash to this fault screen: Unless there are any cheats that can help me to bypass that level, or some other strategy to fix this issue, I may be unable to playthrough this game as I intended. I will be contacting the developer, as I bought it directly from their site, but other than that I'm pretty bummed tbh.

I thought it was space invaders, because the triangle thing looks just like the ship! But, actually they are hieroglyphics from Mario Land... And the bad guy from Mario Land is ALSO an alien... Aliens built the pyramids confirmed?

I think you're right!

Is that Space Invaders on Game Boy?

Is this the one with the owl-person?

I've already come up with my strat for solving this problem. On the eve of my 64th birthday, I will gather the townsfolk for a celebration and feast in the village square. There will be much eating, drinking, dancing and merriment. As the sun begins to set, the local children will be tasked with carrying all the sacred objects from my game room, and guided in the construction of a vast effigy in my image. Just before the stroke of midnight, an unnatural hush will fall upon the now somber crowd, as I ascend to a seated position in the crown of the effigy. As the winds pick up and strangely oppressive clouds gather, many of the townsfolk share fearful glances and some breakdown in tears. Once ready, I begin the ritual, crying out to the heavens with a righteous fury my cursed bargain in a forbidden tongue. The following moments of silence, accented by gentle sobbing and shocked gasps, stretch out for what feels like an eternity, only to broken in an instant by a single deadly bolt from above. The bargain accepted, the pyre ablaze... I ascend to my final form.

Listen dude, don't take my critical stance as me wishing you or your project any ill-will. I will be VERY happy indeed to see whatever you manage to come up with. I just like it when things are kept closer in line with realistic expectations. The further things stray from reality, the more uneasy I become.

He's speaking a second language, he's translating from Chinese, which screws with the grammar. He means it WILL have that stuff. As far as I understand, that is just literally a famiclone. He has no prototype, he doesn't even seem to have finalized the software side of things yet.

Well he says the first batch IS a test model, but as far as I understand he hasn't actually made one of his supposed consoles just yet. So it's not a test model, there is no test model yet. That picture isn't a picture of his prototype console, it's just a picture of what he expects it to look like. It's just a famiclone. Therefore, I DO think it's misleading, honestly. I want to see a homebrew console, but he doesn't have one. He has an idea for one, but there's no telling it will ever come to fruition. Don't just show us a picture of something that ISN'T what you're going to make, I want to see what he does have, that's what I'm saying.

I see a crowd, I don't see much funding going on tho... Zero fund crowd-risking?

Well I understand that you may want your final product to end up LOOKING like this, but you will need to develop an entirely bespoke motherboard containing all the components you wish to comprise the design of your machine. In so doing, you will also have to produce your own shell design, which might look like the photo you have shown, but will nonetheless still need to be designed to your bespoke specifications. In all likelihood, whatever machine you end up designing will be, in substance, SIGNIFICANTLY different from the photo of the famiclone you have shown. So, I would just like to make sure that people are clear about this fact, because otherwise it may be somewhat misleading.

That's a generic famiclone. The cost of components for a device like that is about 2 bucks, and each of those components is already mass-produced in the millions around the world. What does this photograph have to do with the bespoke gaming system you are supposedly intending to produce? You might as well show us a picture of a Space Shuttle and tell us all about the amazing idea you have for building a spaceship.

Wait, games have stories? Oh, you mean the words that pop up sometimes you need to hammer through with the A button?! Yeah, whichever game has the LEAST of those has the best story IMO.

Nobody tell my kids!

Anyone who hasn't got their kids rounding out a 100% complete save file on GTAV by the age of 6 isn't fit to be a parent IMO.

Oh man, I just remembered another while I was at it. Rugrats Scavenger Hunt. Basically imagine Mario Party, but it looks like complete shit, the boards require EVEN more luck to navigate and win, and there aren't even MINIGAMES to make it fun! Playing that game is boring AF, it takes FOREVER to finish a single board, and you have a CONSTANT barrage of annoying baby sounds and other sound effects ringing in your ears the whole time. Utter hell! However, I do feel it's fair to point out that the other Rugrats game (Rugrats in Paris) on N64 is WAY better. I mean it's still not great or anything, but there actually are fun minigames in that one, and the premise of exploring an amusement park is genuinely fun and engaging. It even has some boss battles thrown in, it's worth checking out if you like the characters at the very least, or are just looking for a relatively relaxing fun game not to take too seriously.