Talk:64DD

Archived Talk page for 64DD, from February 2006 to July 2014

First possible Mention of a 64dd type device

In the April 1994 issue 13 of Nintendo Magazine System (Australia) it contained an interview of Graham Kerry the director of Nintendo Australia talking about the Nintendo 64.

NMS: Have you heard any new details about Project Reality
GK: Well it will definitely be a cartridge based system, but using a totally new technology to manufacture the games. It will not be a CD system, although it will have the capability of being hooked up to a cd system just incase that becomes a viable option in the future. Atirage 12:37, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Ura Zelda =/= Master Quest

bits from the dungeons from ura were put into master quest, but that is it. there was a ton of things from Ura that went down with the project. http://www.unseen64.net/articles/zelda64-project-development/ from url: "Ura was meant to be an “extension” to Ocarina Of time, with new mini-games,sub-quest, redesigned and new dungeons.In an interview, Miyamoto tells us that when the player reached the end of the Ocarina of Time, with Zelda Ura he could revisit the same world, but with new features, characters, and places to explore. Many questions and mysteries from Ocarina of Time would be aswered in Ura,like the invincible runner on Hirule Field, the Unicorn Fountain, the Ocarina Pedestal, and many others." the only thing in MQ was minor redesigned dungeons —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.224.148.21 (talk) 19:45, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

Media - Magneto-optical discs

There is no source mentioned for this information. Most sources talk about magnetic disks as the storage medium. I have a 64DD with disks and checked them all - the disks have no similarity to any magneto-optical disc, but they do look like magnetic disks. --DS20815 (talk) 10:13, 13 August 2014 (UTC)--DS20815 (talk) 10:07, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

@DS20815:Hello. Feedback from technically inclined 64DD owners is most welcome, and perhaps you can specify more. This issue is a controversy.

The system is so mysterious that there's a big gulf between reading about it and experiencing it, and I've never touched one. I'm the one who put the MO information into this article and into Magneto-optical drive, whereupon I started really questioning whether that's empirical knowledge. Since then, this issue has tormented me, and I've researched it extensively. All my attempts to google for any manufacturer information or specifications from Alps has failed. Personally, I remember hearing about it being magneto-optical back then, but I can't remember where. I was agonizingly astonished to learn that Kent's and Sheff's books do not mention the 64DD at all, whatsoever. That's the first thing I looked for when I got those books!

I have a lot of reliable sources saying that it's magneto-optical and a lot of reliable sources saying it's magnetic — either way, just mentioning it in passing, with no justification. It makes me think that a lot of sources are just reiterating things they don't understand (possibly reiterating this article!), and that maybe some are going off of early prototype information or rumors. Aside from a spontaneous resurrection of reliable contemporary (1990s, possibly Japanese) sources, the only solution is to pursue current expert communities who are reverse engineering the hardware.

I'm still researching so please give me a bit, diving into expert communities. Thanks. Here's a small list:

Magneto-optical

Popular Science 1up The Encyclopedia of Video Games Nintendo Life

Magnetic

Nintendo's official documentation Nintendo IGN IGN a hacker

UPDATE: I have found Nintendo's official N64 and 64DD developer documentation from 1999 and edited the article accordingly. I included a passing mention in an interview because it would be somewhat specious on its own, but it aligns with the developer documentation.

— Smuckola (Email) (Talk) 11:55, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

This article would really benefit from an image of a disk! 145.94.183.177 (talk) 15:18, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

An American 64DD was found!

I don't know whether of not this should be mentioned in the article or not, however, an American 64DD has been found! YouTuber, MetalJesusRocks, has found a rare find of what appears to be an American 64DD from some guy from Craigslist. This 64DD resonates and is truly different than that of the Japanese 64DDs, as it boots up in English and is region locked to only American 64DD games. The YouTuber managed to contact a former Nintendo employee, who was the manager for a technical team at Nintendo from 1995-2000 who goes by the name Mark DeLoura, helped the YouTuber understand the true meaning of what this 64DD was over a phone call, and DeLoura stated that it was an American 64DD that he wrote code for. DeLoura also claimed over the phone call that this 64DD was a prototype retail unit, he demoed it, and was responsible for supporting it for other gaming company partners. 71.163.81.242 (talk) 23:12, 15 July 2016 (UTC)

Source(s):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b64Bx0WKh7M
https://www.linkedin.com/in/markdeloura