But the one I am in right now has a full 33 games, including both Zeldas and most, if not all the Marios. It's a shame I won't be able to enjoy it much.
I went to an onsen a couple of years ago, and they had a Hotel Super Famicom box thingy. It was really cool. I couldn't open it up, but I did pull the power cord to see how it booted up. I wonder if any guests actually play that thing these days...
Is it a lodgenet style system? I used to work at a hotel that had n64 systems in their kids/family style suites. They were just regular retail systems that you had to go to the front desk to get games for though.
Yup, it's a LodgeNet setup. I don't understand why the console manufacturers don't support the hotel industry any more.
I think many of the good hotels in Mexico still have Lodgenet. Three years ago I won this literature award and I got a Suite in Mexico City for the night before the awards, and they had the system. Playing was brutally expensive, though, so I just aknowledged its existence and looked at a busy avenue from the huge window away from the TV, and enjoyed the air conditioning.
I went to Disneyland with my ex a few years ago and they had one of these, however there wasn't any time for videogames
I have seen so many lodgenet N64 set ups it's not even funny. Which brings me to this: where is the N64 on the thing? Is it in the TV or something? I don't remeber seeing any system hooked up to the TV.:shrug:
There's a pc with the games on it, and it sends the rom to the hardware in the set top box I believe. Someone on forum took apart a lodgenet and it's n64 hardware with no cart slot, so it has to get the rom from somewhere.
I think all La Qunita Inns have those. Outfreakingrageous prices, too. I prefer bringing Handhelds on long trips.
is 64MBytes the cache for saving the games and acting like a cartridge, or can it hold multiple game images?
There's been a couple of topics on this before. There's a big box full of N64 motherboards in the basement somewhere, and a server to dish out the ROM image to RAM on the boards.
Uhh, what? I guarantee that it's *not* cartridge emulation, there is more to game cartridges than a ROM chip, most games have very different memory decoding schemes and in N64's case, have very different CIC mechanisms which make games very not interchangeable. Unrelated but, RAM emulation would also be a prohibitively expensive design since it takes a lot of finesse to refresh during memory access cycles, this is something even Nintendo doesn't have or care to since the practice is considered bad form in a commercial product. Nintendo is not Bung. They won’t stand for workarounds nor will they license hardware which defeats their own security measures. Back to the point, it's certain the service is an entirely remote operation. Lodgenet remotely switches games with a huge MUX to physical consoles at their end and routes the RF A/V to your room's TV. The services age is also a testament to the technology, they've had this service for 10 years! They also have GameCube units now, let me guess, they have NPDP units with a GCM server hidden in the hotel's basements too?
Had you followed the links I provided, you would have seen this: Looks like RAM-based cartridge emulation to me.
