well ive never tooken illegal substance in my life, but it did happen. Still i would not be shocked that its possible to access the memory card without a game that supports it, after all wouldn't it be needed to erase stuff before using it to save on other games that require more space.
Well actually, if memory serves it was actually quite common for N64 games to load code (ie the actual 'program' + data) into RAM during gameplay, partly for speed reasons and to save space - the cartridge would only contain compressed data. I think this is what Goldeneye does, for instance, and it explains the screen going black for several seconds before starting a level. Heck, the '64 has 4 meg, some of which used for the framebuffer and audio but that still leaves plenty. I don't have any doc ready to back this up but I'm pretty sure accessing the ROM is several times slower than the RAM.
Righto.From what i recall, the N64 ROMs are quite slow...unfortunately i dont have any docs here :/ - anyway, i tried the trick with some other games (Winback, F-Zero X), didnt work for me. The only logical explanation for that is that you were using a copier, because _all_ the games you played on it would NEVER fit in that machine, the heck, it was a miracle they fitted a single game on those carts....
I guess my memory is getting the best of me, now. I think thats what I did, and I think the game froze in the middle of the village. However, I had to select the game off of a strange list to play it. That really happened, and no I dont do drugs nor do I drink. Come on, I was like 12 or 13 years old at the time. It wasnt a dream, because my mind doesnt work like that. I did dream that TS4 came out a few nights ago, and the main bad guy from TS3 came back looking something like interlink 6 from Spawn! I have nightmares. I think its because of all the spawn toys I have. BTW, I bought that N64 new, and is now long gone. Im pretty sure it wasnt a test, either. Eventually, I'll buy another one and try it out, again.
