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ChadTower

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I didn't know this thing existed...
« on: November 03, 2005, 12:40:45 pm »
So, I go to a game store today that I rarely go to... and picked up a NIB N64 modem/keyboard.

I thought I knew the N64 pretty well but someone this one totally slipped by me.
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Re: I didn't know this thing existed...
« Reply #1 on: November 03, 2005, 12:46:29 pm »
O_o

Ebay that ---smurfette---.. seriously..
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Re: I didn't know this thing existed...
« Reply #2 on: November 03, 2005, 12:47:38 pm »
It is nothing special.

It was some sort of action replay sort of thing, where you would connect to a closed network run by them, and have access to special cheats and other information.

Completely worthless it was.


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Re: I didn't know this thing existed...
« Reply #3 on: November 03, 2005, 12:54:20 pm »

It says you could send email and had 5 email accounts, so clearly it was ISP in nature too.
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Re: I didn't know this thing existed...
« Reply #4 on: November 03, 2005, 01:01:10 pm »
Well...

It was still a closed network. You couldn't go browsing around wherever you chose. It was just their site.

Allowing you to have email isn't all that great of a benefit for such a gimped device.


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Re: I didn't know this thing existed...
« Reply #5 on: November 03, 2005, 01:03:38 pm »
wow, versa, did this thing crap inyour oatmeal when you were a kid or something?  ;D

chad thought it was cool.  ;)
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Re: I didn't know this thing existed...
« Reply #6 on: November 03, 2005, 01:08:57 pm »
Quote from: orntar on November 03, 2005, 01:03:38 pm
wow, versa, did this thing crap inyour oatmeal when you were a kid or something? ;D

chad thought it was cool. ;)

Nothing personal against CT or the device. :P

It was just a turd of a product.

I was just making it clear that it had NO online gaming ability, or even any real web browsing ability for that matter.


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Re: I didn't know this thing existed...
« Reply #7 on: November 03, 2005, 02:03:49 pm »

I wasn't looking for online ability... I wonder if it could be haxored for marginal ISP use... that would be funky.
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Re: I didn't know this thing existed...
« Reply #8 on: November 03, 2005, 02:40:53 pm »
Quote from: ChadTower on November 03, 2005, 02:03:49 pm

I wasn't looking for online ability... I wonder if it could be haxored for marginal ISP use... that would be funky.

Well...

Sorry.

Didn't mean to come in here crapping in your oatmeal, as the saying goes. :)

It hasn't been hacked to this day, but I dunno if it was just due to lack of interest or to actual lack of ability.


Good luck.


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Re: I didn't know this thing existed...
« Reply #9 on: November 03, 2005, 02:55:07 pm »

Eh, things that have already been hacked are not fun.

Things to hack, fun.
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Re: I didn't know this thing existed...
« Reply #10 on: November 03, 2005, 02:56:29 pm »
any pictures of said device(s)?  :)
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Re: I didn't know this thing existed...
« Reply #11 on: November 03, 2005, 02:58:21 pm »

Not yet, it's still sitting in my car.
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Re: I didn't know this thing existed...
« Reply #12 on: November 03, 2005, 03:00:44 pm »
Well, from the very beginning I assumed we were talking about the Sharkwire...





If that is NOT what we are talking about, then I will quietly slide back into the dark corner over there. :)

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Re: I didn't know this thing existed...
« Reply #13 on: November 03, 2005, 03:10:34 pm »

Yeah, that's it.

Would look good with another translucent N64.  I have like ten N64s but they're all the standard grey.
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Re: I didn't know this thing existed...
« Reply #14 on: November 03, 2005, 08:33:23 pm »
I'm almost afraid to ask. Why do you have 10?   ;D

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Re: I didn't know this thing existed...
« Reply #15 on: November 03, 2005, 08:46:10 pm »
Quote from: pmc on November 03, 2005, 08:33:23 pm
I'm almost afraid to ask. Why do you have 10?
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Re: I didn't know this thing existed...
« Reply #16 on: November 04, 2005, 11:48:03 am »

For a while I was working on completing the domestic N64 library.  I got most of them at yard sales where if you want the 8 games, you have to buy the console too.

At some point I'll probably RGB mod them and sell them off.
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Re: I didn't know this thing existed...
« Reply #17 on: November 09, 2005, 05:24:01 am »
Quote from: pmc on November 03, 2005, 08:33:23 pm
I'm almost afraid to ask. Why do you have 10?   ;D

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For the ChadTower Historical Console Video Game/ Computer And Other Stuff Museum he plans to build  ;D
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Re: I didn't know this thing existed...
« Reply #18 on: November 09, 2005, 09:42:57 am »

I actually wanted a small display like that for a while... not really anymore.  Never wanted computers, though.
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