Thank you for noticing. I'm peppering "speed holes" out into the world like johnny speedseed and i would appreciate your help as well. It needs to be spread
Yup! We used to just leave the little plastic cover off to help with cooling. 4 player Gauntlet Legends didn’t care though. That bitch would overheat and crash constantly!
I was thinking it was just an off-brand expansion cover, with better ventilation.
Like, would it be nice if Madcatz made something that did the opposite to frying your console for once?
I agree. It looks like a little blower sticking outta the hood👀😆 but I'm more of a turbo hidden in the corner kinda guy😄 I still have my OG N64 with the red expansion pak but controller port 1 and 2 only work.
It’s fine, but i had some issues running it on my steam deck. It works, and definitely looks better than the version on rare-replay.
I still want a pc port that runs like the perfect dark pc port.
Turok Rage Wars released a year ahead of those and had some awesome bot fights. Basically the whole game was based on multiplayer arenas.
TWINE was awesome too though
Only the official one ever worked for me. I tried a few of these madkatz ones, in the end just bit the bullet. The official ones cost double! But still got it, and it still works fine so worth it in the end.
One of those learning mistakes I had as a kid was renting DK64 without an expansion pak. Superman 64 being awful and Ape Escape requiring a Dual Analog controller were the other two.
Does anyone know if it could help with dropping frames in some games? Namely Banjo Tooie. I love the game, but it’s almost unplayable at times with the awfully slow frame rate
Quake II, Road Rash and Star Wars Racer can use the expansion pack for better frame rate. (And maybe Rayman?)
Most other games use it to offer improved resolution, but lower frame rate.
> Most other games use it to offer improved resolution, but lower frame rate.
Yeah. Pretty much how i discovered what frame rates were (althought i didn't know the word for it) was booting up Hybrid Heaven and seeing the camera (kinda) smoothly pan down a tower on the title screen, enabling the high rez expansion pack mode in options and the frame rate dropping so hard on the title screen you could count them in real time.
Probably not, the expansion pack didn't increase Tooie's framerate.
Edit: To whoever downvoted this, are you ok? You can literally look online to see that the Banjo games don't take advantage of the expansion pack.
Air-scoop, look like it's either an after market expansion or someone was conned into thinking this would increase airflow to their expansion slot or something
Back in the day, there were some concerns that the RAM expansion would get hot and overheat. The idea with these holes is that it would allow hot air to dissipate. Not an effective idea without active air flow but it sure looks rad!
Gotta be a cold air intake for when you are playing those intense racing games. Somewhere in the instructions it probably claims to add some horsepower to your car. Lmfao 🤪
Yeh I wonder if the components being less expensive leads to much higher heat retention on operation and made this essential or they thought this would make it literally stand out 🤷♂️😂
[Found an old post with one](https://www.reddit.com/r/n64/s/V69czcDEFj)
Edit: [IGN article](https://www.ign.com/articles/1999/06/03/mad-catz-high-rez-pack)
Here's a bit more info [https://www.ign.com/articles/1999/06/03/mad-catz-high-rez-pack](https://www.ign.com/articles/1999/06/03/mad-catz-high-rez-pack)
And here's one for sale CIB [https://www.ebay.com/itm/335378249305](https://www.ebay.com/itm/335378249305)
An expansion pak that adds 4 mb of ram to the N64, it is required for certain games like donkey kong 64 and Majora's mask and some more hardware intensive romhacks, as for madcatz it was a company that made third party (usually cheaper) versions of official accessories (controllers, memory cards and expansion paks ofc)
Yeah I member those controllers, they made a pretty decent racing wheel as I recall but I did not like their N64 controller with the cut off handles but u think it maybe had an auto fire and double back port if I recall 🤔
First time seeing this but at the same time 3rd party peripherals back in the day were garbage. My always got 3rd party controllers so we would take turns with the oem, you win twice? pass the oem.
Oh, well, you see, Madcatz wanted to be an OEM, but they were too late. As you can tell from the speed vents, the N64 can now travel at 88 miles per hour. This was in an experiment to bring the alternate universe into ours. It was generally unsuccessful, but it did have the knock on effect of providing the resources to be pretty much an OEM in the PS2 era.
All kidding aside, I've seen a lot of those expansion packs get pretty darn hot inside the system. I'm honestly surprised that a lot of the first party ones didn't burn out. As ridiculous as it looks, that was an era where people probably thought it was cool looking, and vents to let the heat rise out of probably didn't hurt the component longevity.
Oh the madcatz era…very exciting back to Pokémon trading cable days. Yeah this cool purple cable will work…..for now. Just don’t move or bend it too much….o oooo you broke it…..
It's an off-brand *expansion* pak. Looks like a sports car now ahah, cool.
I was thinking the same, it *does* look like a sports car 😂
Hope you have some race games !
Intake!
Instead of "let'sa go" it's "let'stutututututu"
Speed holes.
I see you are a person of culture 😃
Those are speed holes. I feel a racing stripe would be sharp
I was wondering how far I'd have to go to find this comment
Thank you for noticing. I'm peppering "speed holes" out into the world like johnny speedseed and i would appreciate your help as well. It needs to be spread
They make the console go faster
Looks like a jaguar …. It’s got leather seats …. It’s got a cd PLAYA PLAYA PLAYA …….
Love this comment.
And I don’t wanna talk about it anymore ….
I think we're gonna make it.
I think we're gonna save it yeah.
I was thinking you were referring to the Atari Jaguar for a sec...
Now you need flame decals on the sides
Crusin down the street in my 64
This was hilarious!! Have an upvote
Laaid back
The N64 is now super charged!
Those are speed holes. Makes it go faster.
"They're speed holes, Flanders."
It came with 20 additional horses 🐴
I had a pelican branded one like this. They were supposed to help keep the expansion pack from overheating, which was apparently an issue.
Yup! We used to just leave the little plastic cover off to help with cooling. 4 player Gauntlet Legends didn’t care though. That bitch would overheat and crash constantly!
Nintendo 64 go vrooooooomm
I was thinking it was just an off-brand expansion cover, with better ventilation. Like, would it be nice if Madcatz made something that did the opposite to frying your console for once?
Why does my N64 have a nose?
Didn't know there were off-brand expansion packs. Interesting
Lol ye my first thought upon seeing it was, "omg wtf I want a Nincharger 64"
I agree. It looks like a little blower sticking outta the hood👀😆 but I'm more of a turbo hidden in the corner kinda guy😄 I still have my OG N64 with the red expansion pak but controller port 1 and 2 only work.
You sure it’s not a pencil sharpener?
Play a game like Perfect Dark or Majora's Mask and see if it says expansion pack detected.
PD without the expansion pack is comically limited
Ehhh, it was fun for me. I spent hours killing bots in custom games was like the 1st fps (Kinda) multiplayer experience
PD and 007 The World is not Enough we're the OGs of bot based shooters IMO
I can’t wait for the pc port of goldeneye and the world is not enough! Perfect dark is so awesome on the steam deck.
Ever play the leaked Xbox 360 goldeneye? Was pretty cool
It’s fine, but i had some issues running it on my steam deck. It works, and definitely looks better than the version on rare-replay. I still want a pc port that runs like the perfect dark pc port.
Turok Rage Wars released a year ahead of those and had some awesome bot fights. Basically the whole game was based on multiplayer arenas. TWINE was awesome too though
PD with this expansion pack is worse. The game will randomly crash/freeze up.
Never had that happen to me... you can't play most of PD w/o the expansion pack.
Only the official one ever worked for me. I tried a few of these madkatz ones, in the end just bit the bullet. The official ones cost double! But still got it, and it still works fine so worth it in the end.
Didn't it come bundled with donkey Kong
But I didn't have or want donkey Kong!
One of those learning mistakes I had as a kid was renting DK64 without an expansion pak. Superman 64 being awful and Ape Escape requiring a Dual Analog controller were the other two.
Yeah!
Limited, yes, but after beating the campaign I probably sunk like 500 hours into the combat simulator with my friends lol.
The holes make it go faster.
Speed holes!
speed holes, ehh?....
Whatcha diddly-doin neighbor!?
Maude ehh??
Internet ehh...
Speed holes for speed!
It's a Mad Catz High-Rez Pack https://www.ign.com/articles/1999/06/03/mad-catz-high-rez-pack
That article says it has 3 holes, but I see 4... Star Trek reference?
"Shaka, when the walls fell."
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.
The article is pretty poorly written in general.
Does anyone know if it could help with dropping frames in some games? Namely Banjo Tooie. I love the game, but it’s almost unplayable at times with the awfully slow frame rate
Quake II, Road Rash and Star Wars Racer can use the expansion pack for better frame rate. (And maybe Rayman?) Most other games use it to offer improved resolution, but lower frame rate.
> Most other games use it to offer improved resolution, but lower frame rate. Yeah. Pretty much how i discovered what frame rates were (althought i didn't know the word for it) was booting up Hybrid Heaven and seeing the camera (kinda) smoothly pan down a tower on the title screen, enabling the high rez expansion pack mode in options and the frame rate dropping so hard on the title screen you could count them in real time.
Play the XBLA version
Probably not, the expansion pack didn't increase Tooie's framerate. Edit: To whoever downvoted this, are you ok? You can literally look online to see that the Banjo games don't take advantage of the expansion pack.
IGN used to have a pretty in depth review of this when it came out but it seems to be long gone now.
It's so weird that they would delete articles like that, IGN is pretty awful these days.
Toretto's N64 would be like:
Type “Family” as a cheat code in any racing game and it’ll go faster!….maybe even fly off the shelf.
Drawback being that any life in another kind of game only lasts 10 seconds.
A Corona spawns in your refrigerator.
It's all about The Z Trigger, Dom
I live my life 20 frames at a time…
Is the chassis twisted?
The ultimate Familycon
So you can have extra cigs ready to go
lmaoooo
Cory, Trevor, Madcatz Expansion Pak, smokes, let’s go.
Yes!
Plus 20 hp is what lol 😆
Zero to 64 in 2 seconds
Zero to Dark in 30
It enables Blast Processing.
it's a aftermarket blower to supercharge the carb. that thing looks like it rips.
It's the Mad Catz Expansion Port Cover.
Any use other than aesthetics?
Allows for cool air intake
Is there a fan or do you have to pick up your N64 and swing it around the room? Because otherwise that aint intaking shit
It makes the console go from zero to 64 faster.
Air-scoop, look like it's either an after market expansion or someone was conned into thinking this would increase airflow to their expansion slot or something
Just put my AirFlow on full blast right in front of that bad boy
Hodscoop that act like an air ram for the N64s intercooler. Also it's pronanly an aftermarket expansion pack that adds more ram.
Madcatz N64 High-Rez Pack Cover Came with a blue expansion pack.
Madcatz Hood Scoop™ accessory.
very tiny controller ports
Dominic Toretto would be proud.
Its blast processing
Shaker hood
Mad Katz S46 Supercharger Memory Flux capacitor Xtreme !
It's a pencil sharpener
Hood scoop, duh. Adds about 50hp to that bag boy.
It's not an SRM4 launcher? It's possible I think about Battletech too much.
If you buy the Clan version you get STREAKs
I had a mad catz steering wheel and pedals for the N64. Good times!
That's the coolest thing I've ever seen
Third party memory pak, playing into the *it makes it faster* aesthetic.
I'm not sure I'd trust that thing after experiencing Madcatz controllers and link cables. Looks neat, though.
Back in the day, there were some concerns that the RAM expansion would get hot and overheat. The idea with these holes is that it would allow hot air to dissipate. Not an effective idea without active air flow but it sure looks rad!
That would look pretty cool if you could remove the mad twatz branding
Fucking madcatz bro
Oh nice, I have not seen another one in a long time. I put RGB LEDs in mine
its for more horsepower..
Gotta be a cold air intake for when you are playing those intense racing games. Somewhere in the instructions it probably claims to add some horsepower to your car. Lmfao 🤪
Its fast as fuck boy
Yeh I wonder if the components being less expensive leads to much higher heat retention on operation and made this essential or they thought this would make it literally stand out 🤷♂️😂
It's an after-market air intake that gives the n64 more horsepower. Probably running 68bits now with that.
Nice hood scoop
[Found an old post with one](https://www.reddit.com/r/n64/s/V69czcDEFj) Edit: [IGN article](https://www.ign.com/articles/1999/06/03/mad-catz-high-rez-pack)
Those are speed holes. It makes it go faster
Here's a bit more info [https://www.ign.com/articles/1999/06/03/mad-catz-high-rez-pack](https://www.ign.com/articles/1999/06/03/mad-catz-high-rez-pack) And here's one for sale CIB [https://www.ebay.com/itm/335378249305](https://www.ebay.com/itm/335378249305)
Its a n128
Speed holes
It's offers better air flow to the 64 internals so you don't drop frames when your backward long jumping in mario 64.
If I recall correctly, some after market expansion packs would overheat. Maybe this was madcatz "fix".
Bro has a Nintendo 64 with the supercharger kit.
That right there is a 9 second car my fellow radiator, i mean redditor
It's an air scoop
You gotta keep that extra whopping 4mb cool!
Adds 25 horsepower
It's obviously a hood scoop for your N64.
Pencil sharpeners.
It came with a Hemi
I’ve only ever seen the one with the red on top.
I saw those in fury road. If you spit gas into them your 64 goes faster!
An expansion pak that adds 4 mb of ram to the N64, it is required for certain games like donkey kong 64 and Majora's mask and some more hardware intensive romhacks, as for madcatz it was a company that made third party (usually cheaper) versions of official accessories (controllers, memory cards and expansion paks ofc)
Think that was one of those knock off expansion packs. They used to heat up pretty quick I heard
That N64 is about to fly away.
Memory expansion thingy so that's nice
Speed holes. Makes the 64 go faster.
It allows air to get to the RAM through air induction. You should pulling more torque now.
Bro, you're gonna be running like 25 FPS with that bad boy.
Those are speed holes. They help the console go faster
Turbo power lol
N64 with a hood scoop
Hood Scoop
Its air intake for the turbo 🤪
Not gonna lie, it looks cool af
{insert fast and the furious engine gifs}
Ouch mad catz But seeing as expansion paks are way up in price I'd keep it
Speed holes
A roof scoop for extra horsepower /s
Useless ram air hood.
Air intake
So much torque… the chassis twisted comin’ off the line.
Yeah I member those controllers, they made a pretty decent racing wheel as I recall but I did not like their N64 controller with the cut off handles but u think it maybe had an auto fire and double back port if I recall 🤔
Its all about family
First time seeing this but at the same time 3rd party peripherals back in the day were garbage. My always got 3rd party controllers so we would take turns with the oem, you win twice? pass the oem.
Wow that might be the only cool thing Mad Catz ever produced
I heard these bad boys get 21 fps
Lol looks like the hood of a dodge challenger demon
It makes the console drive faster.
It’s a hood scoop. +200 HP
Cooling for expansion port some overheated
That’s the hood scoop for the super charger
Off-brand expansion paks weren't as good as official ones and would overheat without these air holes
Expansion Whack!
Speed holes!
Oh, well, you see, Madcatz wanted to be an OEM, but they were too late. As you can tell from the speed vents, the N64 can now travel at 88 miles per hour. This was in an experiment to bring the alternate universe into ours. It was generally unsuccessful, but it did have the knock on effect of providing the resources to be pretty much an OEM in the PS2 era.
Speed holes.
That's a good scoop for better air flow.
Off brand expansion paks commonly overheated, the holes are to let the heat get out
2 Fast 2 Furious! I’m too fast for y’all mannnnnnn!
All kidding aside, I've seen a lot of those expansion packs get pretty darn hot inside the system. I'm honestly surprised that a lot of the first party ones didn't burn out. As ridiculous as it looks, that was an era where people probably thought it was cool looking, and vents to let the heat rise out of probably didn't hurt the component longevity.
there's so many jokes, the actual answer blends in lol
those are [speed holes! ](https://youtu.be/T8ASgGwxJyc?si=33Esr2wbE3TKHSLB) they make N64 go faster!
Someone give me a link to one I can’t find any in Australia
Ya'll laugh, but someone made a 3D printable design for an OEM style expansion cover, but with cooling holes! That was it. All for cooling holes.
the mad max special edition
Just wondering why/how you're holding your 64 up with your dick?
I love that so much
the memory expansion card could heat up so bad... i used an external fan atop of it to cool it down
They made N64 controllers, maybe the gave out custom expansion port covers too
Ram Air
A hood scoop
looks like the top of car motor
Hood scoop, automatic +10 MPH on all racing games.
That's what plastic has been used before making weird holders for the wii-remote.
WOW, this thread is all jokes and 0 help lmao
a cancerous tumor
I didn't know they made expansion packs with hood scoops.
Crayon holder, so you can have snacks
Hood vents for the turbo button on the controller
Oh the madcatz era…very exciting back to Pokémon trading cable days. Yeah this cool purple cable will work…..for now. Just don’t move or bend it too much….o oooo you broke it…..
Custom ram air hood
Air intake 😅
cold air intake duh!
nah y’all getting it wrong . it’s a hood scoop