NTSC-J carts on NTSC N64?

[Snowcone]

TCPers,

What's involved in playing NTSC-J carts on my US N64?

[Arseen]

Same as SNES, remoive the tabs inside cart slot.

[wiggy]

Yup, they just take a little more work to remove.  I'd strongly recommend disassembling the N64 to do it, whereas a chisel and hammer will make really quick work of the SNES tabs.

[Arseen]

remoive the tabs inside cart slot.

No, don't do that!
It looks really bad when you "cut" your N64. Just replace the back of a Japanese cartridge, since there's no region lock, other than the "tab" itself. You can buy those cheap American N64 cartridges (like sports games) to do it.

No it doesn't if you do it well.

[wiggy]

Plus, when are you even gonna see it?  Do you perform a visual inspection of the cartridge bay every time you use it 

Come on, folks.  The N64 isn't exactly a rare treasure.  It's gonna be OK if a few get a little plastic surgery.

[Arseen]

...plastic surgery.

 

[CommunistGamer]

Heres an idea, make a custom connector by gutting a old cart and adding wires and everything to make an extention, and you can plug every ntsc-j or ntsc-u game into it.

[scarmullet]

you have some options..

If you plan on doing alot of importing... cut the tabs on the N64. If you are just doing one or two games, replacing the back is acceptable...I wonder if using a gameshark as a pass through would work.

[wiggy]

If the Gameshark weren't incompatible with like every game, then yes, it would

[CommunistGamer]

ill make a bad mspaint of my idea later

[wiggy]

Oh god, I can't wait to see this!

(BTW, I think we all know what you're suggesting.  But, where are you gonna get a female cartridge connector from?)

[CommunistGamer]

Butaly murder a n64 gameshark.

[CommunistGamer]

Warning, poorly drawn

[wiggy]

No it doesn't if you do it well.

evidence

[CommunistGamer]

I still like my idea better