You could be the biggest Nintendo fanboy but this model is so old that you can be forgiven for not knowing about it.
The 64DD was a magnetic drive that snapped onto the bottom of the Nintendo 64, slated to run bigger, rewritable games, and give the massively popular console internet connectivity. After four years of development delays the 64DD finally launched in Japan in 1999. Only 10 games ever came out for it—fewer than the equally embarrassing Virtual Boy—and Nintendo eventually scrapped the US release.
Since it tanked when it came out not the 64DD has become highly valued among collectors estimated to sell for thousands of dollars. Some rare developer units and prototype discs also surfaced and YouTuber MetalJesusRocks thought he might have both but actually he had something even more rare.
This working 64DD unit MJR that he procured through Craigslist had one very bizarre feature: the boot-up screen was in English. But if this was never released in American soil why would it have english on it? MJR’s first theory was that it could have been a developer unit, but Mark DeLoura, a former lead engineer at Nintendo, refutes that. This was an original retail model that had gone through quality assurance and hence the unusual “lot check” sticker on the front.
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