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Nintendo 64 Game Pak (part number NUS-006) is the brand name of the ROM cartridges that store game data for the Nintendo 64.As with Nintendo's previous consoles, the Game Pak's design strategy was intended to achieve maximal read speed and lower console manufacturing costs through not integrating a mechanical drive, with a drawback of lower per dollar storage capacity compared to a disk.
The Nintendo Entertainment System Game Pak is the software storage medium for the Nintendo Entertainment System, part of the Nintendo's Game Pak series of ROM cartridges. All officially licensed NTSC-U and PAL region cartridges are 13.3 cm (5.25 inches) tall, 12 cm (4.75 inches) wide and 1.7 cm (0.67 inches) thick.
In Japan, Nintendo uses the term Cassette (カセット, Kasetto) when referring to Famicom, Super Famicom and Nintendo 64 game paks, and Cartridge (カートリッジ, Kātorijji) for the Game Boy line and Virtual Boy.
Nintendo 64 games generally used faster and more compact 32-bit data-operations, [74] as these were sufficient to generate 3D-scene data for the console's RSP (Reality Signal Processor) unit. In addition, 32-bit code executes faster and requires less storage space (which is at a premium on the Nintendo 64's cartridges).
The Game Boy Game Pak cartridges store the game's code and data using ROM chips. However, the original Game Boy's 8-bit architecture limited the CPU's access to just 32 KB of ROM at a time, restricting early games to this size. [2] Nintendo overcame this limitation with a chip called the memory bank controller (MBC) placed within the cartridge.
The Nintendo 64 Nintendo 64 Game Paks. Super Mario 64, the reverse of a North American, a PAL region, and a Japanese region game with identical tabs near its bottom edge. The Nintendo 64 home video game console's library of games were primarily released in a plastic ROM cartridge called the Game Pak.
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Nintendo 64 controller. The Nintendo 64 controller (NUS-005) is an "m"-shaped controller with 10 buttons (A, B, C-Up, C-Down, C-Left, C-Right, L, R, Z, and Start), one analog stick in the center, a digital directional pad on the left side, and an extension port on the back for many of the system's accessories.