64DD

The 64DD (64 Dynamic Drive, also known as 64 Disk Drive ) is a gaming console from Nintendo as an accessory for the Nintendo 64 ( in conjunction with the Nintendo 64 Nintendo 64DD or N64DD also called ). It was announced on the 8th Shoshinkai 1996 and should be released in March 1997. After a long delay, the 64DD was not published until the winter of 1999 in Japan. Since only a few units were produced, it is generally classified as a failure. Only published nine games, but you could chat with the help of RandnetDD service and play online. To a publication of the 64DD outside Japan it did not. In March 2001, the RandnetDD was finally shut down. In the end Nintendo described the device as an experiment and much of what has been tested on the 64DD is to find on the GameCube.

Operation

64DD which is connected to the under -side "EXT " of Nintendo shaft 64 and forms a kind of base to which the main console is supplied and the power 64DD. It only works with the included Expansion Pak. Located in the N64 games a module that 64DD is ignored. Otherwise accessing the external drive, which does not use Games modules, but zip -like discs that offer 64 MB of memory, of which up to 38 MB are rewritable.

Equipment

The package was the RandNet disk, which enabled along with the modem module also provided access to RandnetDD, which offered various multiplayer, mail and chat functions. As an accessory there was a mouse, a keyboard and a special capture module with which you could connect external devices.

Released Games

  • Mario Artist: Communication Kit
  • Mario Artist: Paint Studio ( mouse included )
  • Mario Artist: Polygon Studio
  • Mario Artist: Talent Studio (incl. Capture module )
  • F- Zero X Expansion Kit
  • Japan Pro Golf Tour 64
  • Kyojin no Doshin 1 ( Doshin the Giant )
  • Kyojin no Doshin 2 ( Doshin Expansion Disk )
  • SimCity 64

Non- published games

  • 7th Legion
  • Automobili Lamborghini
  • Banjo-Kazooie 2 (later known as Banjo - Tooie released on the N64 )
  • Cabbage
  • Creator ( later integrated into Mario Artist: Paint Studio)
  • DD Sequencer
  • Desert Iceland: No Man's Iceland
  • Dezaemon DD
  • Digital Horse Racing Newspaper
  • Doubutsu Banchou ( released on the Nintendo GameCube as Cubivore: Survival of the Fittest )
  • Dragon Warrior VII ( ported and released on PlayStation )
  • DT
  • Far East of Eden: Oriental Blue (stopped, it was a Game Boy Advance Game )
  • Final Fantasy VII (later appeared on the PlayStation )
  • Fire Emblem 64 ( Some elements of the story were later for the first Fire Emblem game for the Game Boy Advance, Fire Emblem: further used Fuin no Tsurugi )
  • Gendai Dai- Senryaku: Ultimate War
  • Hybrid Heaven ( on the N64 be published)
  • Jungle Emperor Leo ( Kimba the White Lion )
  • Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards ( released on the Nintendo 64)
  • Mario Artist: Game Maker
  • Mario Artist: Graphical Message Maker
  • Mario Artist: Sound Maker
  • Mario Artist: Video Jockey Maker
  • Mission: Impossible ( on the N64 be published)
  • Mission: Impossible 64DD
  • Morita Shogi 64 ( on the N64 be published)
  • Mother 3 (" Earthbound 64") (stopped, it was a Game Boy Advance game of the same name )
  • Mother 3.5 ( Mother- 3- extension)
  • Ogre Battle Saga ( as Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber published)
  • Pokémon RPG 64/Pokémon
  • Pokémon Stadium ( on the N64 be published)
  • Pokémon Stadium Expansion Disk
  • Pokémon Stadium 2 ( on the N64 be published)
  • Project Cairo
  • Quest 64 Add-On
  • Rev limit
  • SimCopter 64
  • Snowspeeder
  • Super Mario 64 2
  • Super Mario RPG 2 (published as Mario Story in Japan as Paper Mario and the rest of the world)
  • Suu
  • Tank
  • Teo
  • Tonic Trouble Add-On
  • Toukon Road: Brave Spirits Add-On
  • Twelve Tales: Conker 64 (published as Conker 's Bad Fur Day )
  • Wall Street
  • Ultra Donkey Kong (published on the N64 as Donkey Kong 64)
  • Ura Zelda (expansion for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time )
  • Yosuke Ide 's Mahjong Juku
  • Zelda 64 (released as The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time )
  • Zelda Gaiden (as The Legend of Zelda: Majora 's Mask published)
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