Obscure Nintendo 64 (new) games?

[Pecky]

About 2 years ago or so, I came across some listings on Amazon that I can no longer find. They looked like regular Nintendo 64 game cartridges, however none of these games appeared to be authentic titles that I had ever seen before. For context, I am in my mid-twenties and I grew up playing the crap outta my Nintendo 64 at grandma's house as a kid. I played Zelda Ocarina of Time (as one does), but we also had a boatload of other titles in a big cardboard box we used to keep underneath her dresser in a drawer.

All this to say that I'm definitely not uninformed on what games were released for this console, I played a great majority of them. So you can probably imagine my surprise when I see a new Pokémon or a new Zelda title... It was like a fever dream. Now, I clearly am aware that none of these "new titles" are actually produced and sold by Nintendo, nor were they ever. However, growing up hearing creepy pasta stories such as "ben drowned", the thought of getting a spooky or new type of cartridge into my 64 has allured me. Some of these games seem to be so big that a development team must have helped to produce them. Pretty cool and mysterious to me.

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Anyways, my question for you all: Have you tried any of these fake cartridges, did they work, and did you have any fun with them? I love physical media, so if I were to play them I would want the real thing, not a ROM

 

[evenlymatched95]

Yeah, I think there are guys who make custom game carts for rom hacks. I've seen carts for Brutal Mario, for example. Never tried one of the things myself though.

 

[Sketch Relics]

These appear to be what Evenly mentioned, custom carts for rom hacks, however I am aware that people do still release new games for some old consoles. The NES for instance gets a new one every few years or so with this


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFX401vvKTQ&t=0s


being a decent example.
Also the Dreamcast for some reason gets a lot of random new releases

 

[Sidewinder91]

Got a cartridge for The Missing Link.

View: https://youtu.be/dNmlYJ5bpl8?si=SqOAGyRzpbKW0pmT


It's not bad. Haven't gotten around to beating it yet, though, but out of all the other Ocarina ROMhacks it's probably the most faithful to OoT.

 

[Razzle Dazzle]

About 2 years ago or so, I came across some listings on Amazon that I can no longer find. They looked like regular Nintendo 64 game cartridges, however none of these games appeared to be authentic titles that I had ever seen before. For context, I am in my mid-twenties and I grew up playing the crap outta my Nintendo 64 at grandma's house as a kid. I played Zelda Ocarina of Time (as one does), but we also had a boatload of other titles in a big cardboard box we used to keep underneath her dresser in a drawer.

All this to say that I'm definitely not uninformed on what games were released for this console, I played a great majority of them. So you can probably imagine my surprise when I see a new Pokémon or a new Zelda title... It was like a fever dream. Now, I clearly am aware that none of these "new titles" are actually produced and sold by Nintendo, nor were they ever. However, growing up hearing creepy pasta stories such as "ben drowned", the thought of getting a spooky or new type of cartridge into my 64 has allured me. Some of these games seem to be so big that a development team must have helped to produce them. Pretty cool and mysterious to me.

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Anyways, my question for you all: Have you tried any of these fake cartridges, did they work, and did you have any fun with them? I love physical media, so if I were to play them I would want the real thing, not a ROM

There is one game on STEAM called Corn Kidz 64, a dream emulator styled in the same number of polygons that the Nintendo 64 portrayed. It has camera control, 3d platforming, and the best part? You play as an anthropomorphic goat on a quest to find infinity nachos and collecting Dream Dew as fuel.

 

[mamoya chirimoya]

i've seen plenty of these, I'd recommend zelda the master of time and zelda time lost.

but I do agree they look indistinguishable from the official ones...

 

[ĦĦĦ]

Waluigi's Taco Stand

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiVqcFw4KeY