Hi everyone! FYI we made a mistake of wording with the video, you couldn’t use the game boy printer to print out your Pokémon in the way we mentioned in the video. (You could transfer the Pokémon you unlocked to your gbc cart and go nuts with the printer from there!) Otherwise you DID have to schlep your N64 picture data all the way to Blockbuster to print out your Pokémon pics. Also, the Wide Boy 64 didn’t make it into this video since it was never commercially offered and is not an “official” Nintendo product (and its crazy expensive!), but we want to cover it someday if anyone’s offering! ;) And for those that are commenting on it, the Power Glove was not manufactured by Nintendo however it was officially licensed and was a part of their product portfolio. In our mind it’s an inseparable part of Nintendo’s evolution from toymaker that makes video games to video game maker that makes toys. Thanks for watching everyone! See you in 2019! 💪🏻
Yes, I'm sure people taking dick pics, and using them in a multiplayer shooting game would have been tons of fun. I alway thought that was one of the reasons this feature got cancelled.
Whoooa.. I'm a huge fan of the original Mario Tennis and still play it every so often now, and never heard of these four characters! I know what I'm buying at Magfest! Thanks!
have you not played the game boy tennis or am I misunderstanding you? Because if you haven't played GBC Tennis you should, it's really fun, well, right up until you beat all the normal leagues and mario characters DESTROY you.
Fun fact: Miis, were originally designed for a 64DD title that ended up getting cancelled. Many of the specific facial features and hair styles that were used in the Wii and 3DS Mii Makers were originally included in the N64 game, which basically just let you MAKE Miis but then they just sort of wandered and did weird stuff. It never saw an official release due to the early cancellation of the 64DD and the main console lacking the power to run the game. Aonuma's initial concept of the title was greatly expanded upon and eventually released on the 3DS as Tomodachi Life.
There is a Japan-only pequel of Tomodachi Life called Tomodachi Collection (NDS). One thing reason why Japan-only because issues with localizing the vocal synthesizer software.
@@mspeter97 It may have! I just remember seeing the original prototype for the software, and don't know as much about Mario Artist. You're probably right, thanks for the info!
That's crazy. I heard the story about how Wii Sports was originally going to be Mario themed and that the miis were used as placeholders during development. Explains why they were already available to do that with if they were created way back in the 64 days.
@@stevethepocket While we're on that subject, Kirby Star Allies has basically been in production since the GameCube. The concept of having Kirby as player 1 and the rest of the players as captured/befriended enemies was first shown way back in 2005. A trailer was even made, but then the Wii came out and Nintendo announced intentions to release it on the new system instead. Star Allies has basically all of the same core gameplay but more befriendable enemies basically just due to more Kirby games having come out more recently that introduce them.
I liked how, with the Transfer Pak installed, you could turn your controller upside-down and it'd look like a ship out of Star Trek. Try it, you can't unsee it!
Man, I remember having the genius idea of hooking up my gameboy color Mario Golf to the N64 Mario Golf on the only basis that the games had the same cover art and having it ACTUALLY work absolutely blowing my 10 year old mind. I couldn't comprehend how it was possible since Pokemon Stadium was released a year later than the Mario Golf games, I was convinced the transfer pak was literally programming data on the fly into both the gameboy and n64 counterparts. Ah, the innocent times before internet access :)
I used the transfer pack extensively with stadium as a kid and wasn't carefully with it AT ALL. I was totally unaware you could loose your save if you bumped it. I guess I was just crazy lucky lol. Also for me as a kid using rental pokemon just seemed wrong. I was a tamogotchi kid and my pokemon were like virtual pets. I refused to use rental pokemon cause to my child logic they weren't my pokemon ergo they weren't special lol
@@F0nkyNinja My Nintendo brand N64 memory card lost data all the time when I was a kid. The only way I could keep it working correctly is if I never removed it from my controller ever. So I had a controller that was exclusively my memory card controller.
One additional note to point out - The Surfing Pikachu ordeal wasn't exclusive to merely Pikachu in Yellow: it was available to any Pikachu as long as they were not registered within the registered sets in Stadium 1 and Pikachu was in every battle in Master Cup. I know this because I did this whole ordeal twice: Once with Yellow, and once with Blue.
Holy hell thank you! I bought perfect dark gbc a couple years ago out of curiousity as a fan of the series. And because it had cartridge rumble, which i thought was cool. Ended up hooked on it and finished it twice.
I got it when it came out and it ended up being one of my favorite GBC games. I remember wondering why more games didn't include the rumble feature, it was so cool at the time and to this day one of the only handheld rumble features.
we discovered that placing perfect dark gbc into transfer pak it granted a few cheats on perfect dark n64 that we couldn't quite achieve...cloaking device and a few others..
I had more than one N64 controller. I put the Transfer Pak in my second controller and set it down, and used the first controller to play. The Stadium games did not require that the Transfer Pak be in the first controller.
The Transfer Pak is like a proto-amiibo now that I think about it. Not as much as e-Cards, but it's definitely an early example of cross-game data transfer.
I just remember when I was 7 or 8 yo and I asked my parents to have pkmn gold, but it didn't worked with pkmn stadium. So I had to save money to buy a gameboy color. And after that my mom bought me pkmn stadium 2. Thanks mom, I love you.
no problem man, its just awesome to randomly see you involved with another channel I watch. I've actually been going through some of your older playthroughs in the last week, keep up the great content
WWF No Mercy also had an additional campaign in the game you would get from the transfer pack. "GBC Championship" actually can still be played in full with modding and NewLegacyInc did an entire stream playing it. You would take your created wrestler from the Gameboy Color game and play with him all the way to Wrestlemania in the N64 game
My parents bought me an N64 and pokemon stadium for Christmas when I was a kid. This was so long ago, and since my first game came with it that I actually remembered the transfer pak as something that came with the n64, lol.
This is such a cool deep dive into the weird world of the transfer pack. I would love to see a similar Punching Weight video on early implementation of rumble in video games like the Perfect Dark GBC cartridge you mentioned in this video
I wonder why the skeletons have still been fighting throughout this whole year even while the Hot Dog Gamer was around constantly?! I mean, his webiste is called NOCHUMPZONE. Only chumps fight even when they don't have to protect someone. Hopefully he can finally stop the skeletons from fighting in 2019. BTW: great video! Especially the selection of BGM and the editing were stellar!
There was a fully working replacement for the transfer pack called the "wide boy" it was purely for journalists to record GB,GBC and later GBA footage by using the N64. Try looking for that rather than wading for the transfer pack to be hacked
I really love the use of Mystical Ninja and Tomba! music, two games from my childhood that I'll always have fond memories of. And the Tomba! series probably being my favorite PS1 games of all time.
A company did make a GBC Player for the N64 (I think it was Intelligent Systems), but it was only available for development and testing purposes (if I recall correctly). My testing team for Kirby Tilt 'n Tumble used a couple so we could record footage. It was strange having to hold the N64 to control Kirby, but also a bit more accurate. Hell, Nintendo sometimes put our names in the credits back then. Those were good times.
The Transfer Pak and Poke'Mon Stadium allowed us to see what Mega Punch looked like when used by a Kadabra (and why, to this day, I call it "Mega Spoon," because he would bend his spoon like a boomerang and toss it).
Absolutely flawless video. There were quite a large amount of points I half expected you to miss out on, like the Wario game thing and Perfect Dark camera thing, but you hit every note. Hell even that mention of New Tetris's Cutting Room Floor (seriously, do check that out, it's gold). It's rare to see someone who actually knows what they're talking about, rather than just making a quick half ass video for some clicks and revenue. Also, not that I really care but you didn't explain what Squarespace actually is. You just said to join it and get some kind of a discount
I love Pokemon Stadium, there is something special about it. You are training you Pokemon, beating the Top 4 and than, than you have to show in the STADIUM that your Monsters are the best of the best. But the Way they designed the hole Game, there is something how you move through the Menus and about the Sound Design, that is so much better than later Pokemon Games for big Consoles. Yeah, it is only an Addition to Pokemon Red, Blue and Yellow, but it the ultimate Challange for everyone who loves the first and also the second Generation. Also, you can save all your Pokemon on Stadium, begin a new Game in the Gameboy and transfer all your beloved Creatures back to the GB. Edit: Ah and i remember having Issues when i was a Teenager, but i`ve cleaned up my Modules and now they are working flawless. But not the Module of my Girlfriend, i have not touched this and i tried like 20 Times until it worked.
@Long Schnozzed Tribesman Well, i played it last Month :P Trained my Pokemon on an Emulator on my Phone, transfered the Save File with the Retrode2 to my original Module and than i`ve gone to the Stadium ;D Ok, but Stadium was much harder as it was in my Memories.
I would complain about the use of the Tomba soundtrack in a video about an N64 peripheral... except that the Tomba soundtrack is totally rad. Another awesome video, guys. Keep stoppin' them skeletons.
Mezmorize it’s cool to hack gameboy games by changing the romheader to trick pokemon stadium to make it work, it may be not running 100 perfect but still.
I assume the N64, when sometimes using the Transfer Pak to write to save files, doesn't update the checksum, thus letting the Game Boy detect that the file was modified, thus destroying the save. All due to that DAMN checksum.
I know I'm replying to an old comment but... do you have any evidence for your assumption? If a simple checksum calculation/write fails the software/hardware is unstable and it's very likely the save data is also corrupted.
I was really hoping, with the way you were saying, "No updates. No patches," you were gonna throw some Blazing Saddles on there and say, "We don't need no stinking PATCHES!" lol. Great video that makes me wanna get a transfer pak cuz I have 2 copies of Pokemon Stadium AND my GB copy of Blue
I agree, I love Tony Hawk enough to make 5 a barely passable and playable "modern" take to get my Tony Hawk in the modern gen fix, being unfortunately the only new normal-controls Tony Hawk in the modern era after Neversoft.
I remember trying to find one of these sold separately from the Pokemon Stadium game so my brother and I could trade Pokemon through the N64 rather than having to buy a second Game Boy and a link cable, or a second Pokemon Stadium cartridge, and that search being almost impossible.
Except you effectively need to use the transfer pack for the Stadium games. Rental Pokémon just suck; their move sets are generally awful and their stats are lower than normal as you didn't train them, their basically newly caught Pokémon in that regard. Also the AI sometimes uses illegal move sets and stats.
This is true. I spent literally months upon months grinding like absolutely crazy as a kid, trying to get the last 3 trophies and beat the Elite 4 with rentals. It really, really just wasn't gonna happen. I ended up buying Red and a transfer pak just to beat the game, and was shocked at how easy it was with transferred Pokemon. Seriously, rentals are genuinely like 0 Iv's or something. Also, I guarantee an extremely small amount of players even KNOW that there's a Mewtwo boss fight and literally an entire hard mode for the whole game
@Stellar Gnoma Newsflash: DQXI's music is bland and its in-game implementation is horrible due to the composer's awful views on copyright. Sugiyama's politics are also horrible. Criticizing someone for denying war crimes does not make you an "SJW".
Still love playing the Stadium games to this day and I still go back to the handheld games to make teams for them, but the Transfer Pak has always been a massive headache. It's just so finicky, especially if you're not holding the controller perfectly still.
I wonder if you could hack out the required header check in the ROM version of Pokemon Stadium GS and throw it on an Everdrive or other N64 Flash Cart.
de hecho ya se hizo y funciona con un hack de pocket monster stadium (J) compatible con los juegos del gameboy original trabaja como si fuera el super gameboy
You can use the Transfer Paks to trade Pokémon in Pokemon Stadium 1 & 2. Useful if you don't have the link cable. Only Pokémon Stadium 2 allowed you to Mystery Gift each day. Pretty neat. Also the rental Pokémon are pretty terrible. The evolved Pokémon would have weak attacks (so Charmander has Fire Blast while Charizard has Ember). You're better off just raising your own Pokémon.
Over my 4 years of playing Pokemon Stadium, i never lost my data with the pack. All my 6 boosted mewtwo made it easy as hell to beat the Pokemon Stadium League. One of the best things ( if u wanna play pokemon the gameboy game on ur tv ) was you could speed up your movement speed to x2 or x3 like an emulator.
Well, it was made by a completely different programmer. The GB Tower mode was made by Tomohiro Kawase, one of the creators of the iNES format and someone who worked in the emulator scene in the 90s.
I remember reading about the GB Camera in perfect dark, and when it came out it was one of the first things i tried and was disappointed when it didn’t work.
Another thing to note about No Mercy's Transfer Pak compatibilities was that you could also import your created wrestler from the GBC game into the N64 one, and even unlock a special chapter in the game's story mode where said custom character participates; data for said chapter is still present in the game's data.
The Unable to Save screen was scary; just playing your game, then while casually saving, a dark screen pops out of nowhere, taking you out of the moment to address something bad just happened.
I remember seeing somewhere that the Transfer Pak is also compatible with Pocket Puyo Puyo SUN to connect to Puyo Puyo SUN 64, and Pocket Puyo Puyo 4 to connect to Puyo Puyo 4 Party. I think it just unlocks gallery images though, so nothing too fancy there. Interestingly though Pocket Puyo Puyo SUN, when played on a SNES via the Super GB, will actually allow for two-player matches without the need for a link cable. Just plug a second SNES controller in and it just works like any other Puyo game. I think that's really cool.
I've played through Mario Tennis more than I can count and had no idea you could unlock more characters through the Transfer Pak! I really love finding out more weirdness, and I do hope you eventually cover my favorite unnecessary gaming love: Steel Battalion on the original Xbox.
Fun fact: Rugrats in Paris also used the Transfer Pak. It was the only way you could use the save/load feature. If you didn’t have a Gameboy copy of the same game, you were forced to restart every time you turned the game off. It was the most baffling and unintuitive thing ever to me as a kid, and I always just left the game running with the TV screen turned off to keep from losing my progress lmao
Correction: the Power Glove was /not/ a Nintendo peripheral. Yes, it was made for the NES but Nintendo had nothing to do with its production, it was all AGE.
Would a Gameboy Flashcart something like an Everdrive GB, work with the transfer pack? (since you can make the header whatever you like in a few minutes.) Alternatively a game genie with a apropriate code?
The transfer pack needs a slight modification to do this, due to the Everdrive GB needing a little bit more power to function. If you did this, you wouldn't be able to use it with retail carts (unless you soldered on a switch of some sort.) Also, it's only the original Everdrive GB that would work for this. No one's found a way for the X3, X5, or X7 to work yet.
Super late response, but for the record, the GB USB Smart Card is compatible with the Transfer Pak and Stadium, the game recognizes it as a normal Pokémon cartridge and it all works just fine. (Apparently they've been discontinued, though...)
You may need to make modifications to your Dreamcast memory cards to make that work though, Khris. Make sure you reformatted your save games using the Wonderswan.
The Transfer Pak is my all time favorite Nintendo accessory. Being able to battle Pokemon on one of the Stadium games on TV for everyone in the room to see was what led my friends and I to host Stadium tournaments, which we've done annually since 2009. It's funny to see the popularity grow and people actually get nervous at playing in front of other people. Totally worth it, thanks Nintendo.
3:37 this was a weird sight. thats the same layout i have for my transfer pack sitting on my shelf. Right down to the same pokemon version and being to the right of pokemon stadium, wtf dude.
One of the most useful unofficial things you can do with a transfer pack that wasn't mentioned: If you own an Everdrive for the N64, there is a certain custom written program you can put at the root of your Everdrive's SD card directory. Upon executing the program, it gives you the option to save or restore the RAM of the gameboy/gameboy color game inserted. In my case, I used this to backup my childhood pokemon yellow with all my pokemon still intact before the internal battery in the cartridge died! Here is the link: micro-64.com/features/gbromdumping.shtml
i owned a transfer pack at one point! i remember losing my Pokemon RED Data, which was okay cause i was using red as a Starter mule, my main game was blue until Yellow came out~ ah the memories! Thanks for this video! :D
Hi everyone! FYI we made a mistake of wording with the video, you couldn’t use the game boy printer to print out your Pokémon in the way we mentioned in the video. (You could transfer the Pokémon you unlocked to your gbc cart and go nuts with the printer from there!) Otherwise you DID have to schlep your N64 picture data all the way to Blockbuster to print out your Pokémon pics.
Also, the Wide Boy 64 didn’t make it into this video since it was never commercially offered and is not an “official” Nintendo product (and its crazy expensive!), but we want to cover it someday if anyone’s offering! ;)
And for those that are commenting on it, the Power Glove was not manufactured by Nintendo however it was officially licensed and was a part of their product portfolio. In our mind it’s an inseparable part of Nintendo’s evolution from toymaker that makes video games to video game maker that makes toys.
Thanks for watching everyone! See you in 2019! 💪🏻
You could do that with Pokemon Snap.
I see we still haven't found a way to stop skeletons from fighting. Darn shame they just keep hitting each other.
Can't you inflict them with paralysis
It’s funny that this is the top comment, it was literally what I was about to mention
Licensed or not, the Power Glove is 100% part of Nintendo's history. It even made it into the Captain N Show.
Oh how I wish Nintendo had given us Perfect Head. Wait, let me rephrase that....
Damn fine job on that one, damn fine
This man needs applause. 👏👏
Phrasing, BOOM
Yes, I'm sure people taking dick pics, and using them in a multiplayer shooting game would have been tons of fun. I alway thought that was one of the reasons this feature got cancelled.
phreakinpher ... Rare was probably hoping someone would say that
Whoooa.. I'm a huge fan of the original Mario Tennis and still play it every so often now, and never heard of these four characters! I know what I'm buying at Magfest! Thanks!
Mario tennis n64 walkthrough coming when?
I might have to join you on that if I can. I kinda really want the Waluigi court.
wew
small internet, hello.
have you not played the game boy tennis or am I misunderstanding you? Because if you haven't played GBC Tennis you should, it's really fun, well, right up until you beat all the normal leagues and mario characters DESTROY you.
Fun fact:
Miis, were originally designed for a 64DD title that ended up getting cancelled. Many of the specific facial features and hair styles that were used in the Wii and 3DS Mii Makers were originally included in the N64 game, which basically just let you MAKE Miis but then they just sort of wandered and did weird stuff. It never saw an official release due to the early cancellation of the 64DD and the main console lacking the power to run the game. Aonuma's initial concept of the title was greatly expanded upon and eventually released on the 3DS as Tomodachi Life.
There is a Japan-only pequel of Tomodachi Life called Tomodachi Collection (NDS). One thing reason why Japan-only because issues with localizing the vocal synthesizer software.
But.. Mario Artist Talent Studio had some form of the Miis in them for the actors didn't it?
@@mspeter97 It may have! I just remember seeing the original prototype for the software, and don't know as much about Mario Artist. You're probably right, thanks for the info!
That's crazy. I heard the story about how Wii Sports was originally going to be Mario themed and that the miis were used as placeholders during development. Explains why they were already available to do that with if they were created way back in the 64 days.
@@stevethepocket While we're on that subject, Kirby Star Allies has basically been in production since the GameCube. The concept of having Kirby as player 1 and the rest of the players as captured/befriended enemies was first shown way back in 2005. A trailer was even made, but then the Wii came out and Nintendo announced intentions to release it on the new system instead. Star Allies has basically all of the same core gameplay but more befriendable enemies basically just due to more Kirby games having come out more recently that introduce them.
I liked how, with the Transfer Pak installed, you could turn your controller upside-down and it'd look like a ship out of Star Trek. Try it, you can't unsee it!
hahaha very true!
Lmao 🤣 that is so awesome
Cool, a Romulan Warbird!
What do you do for work?
Man, I remember having the genius idea of hooking up my gameboy color Mario Golf to the N64 Mario Golf on the only basis that the games had the same cover art and having it ACTUALLY work absolutely blowing my 10 year old mind. I couldn't comprehend how it was possible since Pokemon Stadium was released a year later than the Mario Golf games, I was convinced the transfer pak was literally programming data on the fly into both the gameboy and n64 counterparts. Ah, the innocent times before internet access :)
Have we stopped the skeletons from fighting yet tho?
Nope!
not yet, but we're not giving up!
No, but the Anti-Skeleton-Fighting War is on our side
If we ever did, they'd have to stop making videos, so I hope they keep fighting so we can keep stopping them fighting for many years to come.
Drifter Carbon poetic
I used the transfer pack extensively with stadium as a kid and wasn't carefully with it AT ALL. I was totally unaware you could loose your save if you bumped it. I guess I was just crazy lucky lol. Also for me as a kid using rental pokemon just seemed wrong. I was a tamogotchi kid and my pokemon were like virtual pets. I refused to use rental pokemon cause to my child logic they weren't my pokemon ergo they weren't special lol
Seems very un-nintendo to release a product with a flaw like that
yeah I didnt know about this defect either.
@@F0nkyNinja My Nintendo brand N64 memory card lost data all the time when I was a kid. The only way I could keep it working correctly is if I never removed it from my controller ever. So I had a controller that was exclusively my memory card controller.
@@briandhamby
Yeah, i just recently brought out my old n64 and all the memory data was gone 😥
@@briandhamby The batteries probably ran out, as the memory cards save using battery-backed SRAM (Why they did this for _memory cards_ I don't know)
One additional note to point out - The Surfing Pikachu ordeal wasn't exclusive to merely Pikachu in Yellow: it was available to any Pikachu as long as they were not registered within the registered sets in Stadium 1 and Pikachu was in every battle in Master Cup.
I know this because I did this whole ordeal twice: Once with Yellow, and once with Blue.
Perfect Dark for GBC is worth its own episode of Punching Weight. I loved that version of it as a kid
Holy hell thank you! I bought perfect dark gbc a couple years ago out of curiousity as a fan of the series. And because it had cartridge rumble, which i thought was cool. Ended up hooked on it and finished it twice.
I got it when it came out and it ended up being one of my favorite GBC games. I remember wondering why more games didn't include the rumble feature, it was so cool at the time and to this day one of the only handheld rumble features.
I played Pokemon Pinball a lot. That was my only GBC game with rumble.
Would like to see that as well
we discovered that placing perfect dark gbc into transfer pak it granted a few cheats on perfect dark n64 that we couldn't quite achieve...cloaking device and a few others..
I had more than one N64 controller. I put the Transfer Pak in my second controller and set it down, and used the first controller to play. The Stadium games did not require that the Transfer Pak be in the first controller.
I still do this i got 3 transfer packs too
Why does ultraman always have good games?
The Transfer Pak is like a proto-amiibo now that I think about it. Not as much as e-Cards, but it's definitely an early example of cross-game data transfer.
In a mode called “perfect head”
Wow lmao
I just remember when I was 7 or 8 yo and I asked my parents to have pkmn gold, but it didn't worked with pkmn stadium. So I had to save money to buy a gameboy color. And after that my mom bought me pkmn stadium 2. Thanks mom, I love you.
Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon is amazing.
Thanks for using my footage and giving the credits. 😎
everyone here should check out N64 Brasil's channel, found it back earlier in the year and it has some great GameCube and of course N64 playthrough's
@@sierrakobold6896 Thanks for the shout-out, man. And of course, for enjoying our content and participating on our streams.
no problem man, its just awesome to randomly see you involved with another channel I watch. I've actually been going through some of your older playthroughs in the last week, keep up the great content
@@sierrakobold6896 I'm very happy that you're stll enjoying our videos. Thanks again.
do you plan on doing a RE 2 remake video after release? If not a whole playthrough, a gameplay/review video or something?
That Goemon music. I swear to god I could listen to that soundtrack for the rest of my life.
Thanks brother, it was bothering me where that song was from. Mystical Ninja FTW!
Rarely utilised in videos
What minute?
PLASMA!!!!!
Same! Also, Mystical Ninja and Goemon's Great Adventures = Freakin' great.
Yesss! You used my Peter Griffin from No Mercy :)
3:49 "The transfer pak is not essential to playing pokemon stadium" Spoken like someone who never unlocked R-2
was planning on using ho oh and lugia from my silver cart for round 2 castle... if only my transfer paks wouldn't give me save errors every 6 seconds
Yes I also found that slightly suspicious but decided to let him slide on that one XD
Dude wtf why are all these skeletons still fighting
They’re fighting over the last slice of pizza
WWF No Mercy also had an additional campaign in the game you would get from the transfer pack. "GBC Championship" actually can still be played in full with modding and NewLegacyInc did an entire stream playing it.
You would take your created wrestler from the Gameboy Color game and play with him all the way to Wrestlemania in the N64 game
1:50 those bananas look pretty cool
1:50 Oh these are pretty cool bananas
*_AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA_*
I paused the video at that point just to look for this obligatory comment. Thank you for that.
I uncontrollably laugh every time I hear or even think about that scream
@@Rafula same here
My parents bought me an N64 and pokemon stadium for Christmas when I was a kid. This was so long ago, and since my first game came with it that I actually remembered the transfer pak as something that came with the n64, lol.
I love how you have the ability to speed up RBY with the transfer pak. It’s a shame more Pokémon games don’t let you do that.
was that with just with pokemon stadium 2 or could it be done in the 1st game as well?
@@legendaryhulk5972 yep both. Stadium would only do 2x I think it was? Stadium 2 was 2x for GSC and 3x for RBY after you unlock the dodrio gb tower
I don't know how you knew exactly what music to play to get me to not skip through the Squarespace pitch, but you nailed it. God, I love that game.
This is such a cool deep dive into the weird world of the transfer pack. I would love to see a similar Punching Weight video on early implementation of rumble in video games like the Perfect Dark GBC cartridge you mentioned in this video
I wonder why the skeletons have still been fighting throughout this whole year
even while the Hot Dog Gamer was around constantly?! I mean, his webiste is
called NOCHUMPZONE. Only chumps fight even when they don't have to protect
someone. Hopefully he can finally stop the skeletons from fighting in 2019.
BTW: great video! Especially the selection of BGM and the editing were stellar!
If anyone is wondering what the song is at 1:34 it's "The journey begins on the way to Fujisan" from Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon, such a great game
GrUmpy GrUmpStAr Gru Gru or just Kai Highway. That works too.
There was a fully working replacement for the transfer pack called the "wide boy" it was purely for journalists to record GB,GBC and later GBA footage by using the N64. Try looking for that rather than wading for the transfer pack to be hacked
Didn't nintendo start out making cards?
Justin Y. Yes
Yes, semi-illegal ones no less.
They were legal, but Their common usage wasn't.
@@JohnDoe-vq9ck Yeah, the loophole was it couldn't have numbers. So it had different amounts of flowers
Nintendo also had love hotels in Japan
I really love the use of Mystical Ninja and Tomba! music, two games from my childhood that I'll always have fond memories of. And the Tomba! series probably being my favorite PS1 games of all time.
At first I understood "Perfect Asian" instead of "Perfect Agent" lol
A company did make a GBC Player for the N64 (I think it was Intelligent Systems), but it was only available for development and testing purposes (if I recall correctly).
My testing team for Kirby Tilt 'n Tumble used a couple so we could record footage. It was strange having to hold the N64 to control Kirby, but also a bit more accurate.
Hell, Nintendo sometimes put our names in the credits back then. Those were good times.
Oh, how you keep tempting me with that Tomba! music.
The Transfer Pak and Poke'Mon Stadium allowed us to see what Mega Punch looked like when used by a Kadabra (and why, to this day, I call it "Mega Spoon," because he would bend his spoon like a boomerang and toss it).
Shoutout to the Mystical Ninjas Starring Goemon music!
Having watched a lot of your videos, I now hear "stop skeletons" as "stopskeltons"
Love the Mystical Ninja musik in the background ❤
Absolutely flawless video. There were quite a large amount of points I half expected you to miss out on, like the Wario game thing and Perfect Dark camera thing, but you hit every note. Hell even that mention of New Tetris's Cutting Room Floor (seriously, do check that out, it's gold). It's rare to see someone who actually knows what they're talking about, rather than just making a quick half ass video for some clicks and revenue.
Also, not that I really care but you didn't explain what Squarespace actually is. You just said to join it and get some kind of a discount
I organismed when I heard Tomba OST three minutes in.
Dude, the amount of research you do on this stuff is truly appreciated. I grew up with this stuff and it really let's me feel young again. Thank you!
I love Pokemon Stadium, there is something special about it.
You are training you Pokemon, beating the Top 4 and than, than you have to show in the STADIUM that your Monsters are the best of the best.
But the Way they designed the hole Game, there is something how you move through the Menus and about the Sound Design, that is so much better than later Pokemon Games for big Consoles.
Yeah, it is only an Addition to Pokemon Red, Blue and Yellow, but it the ultimate Challange for everyone who loves the first and also the second Generation.
Also, you can save all your Pokemon on Stadium, begin a new Game in the Gameboy and transfer all your beloved Creatures back to the GB.
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Ah and i remember having Issues when i was a Teenager, but i`ve cleaned up my Modules and now they are working flawless.
But not the Module of my Girlfriend, i have not touched this and i tried like 20 Times until it worked.
Oh man, the sounds effect in the menu were the BEST in the stadium games.
@Long Schnozzed Tribesman Well, i played it last Month :P
Trained my Pokemon on an Emulator on my Phone, transfered the Save File with the Retrode2 to my original Module and than i`ve gone to the Stadium ;D
Ok, but Stadium was much harder as it was in my Memories.
I would complain about the use of the Tomba soundtrack in a video about an N64 peripheral... except that the Tomba soundtrack is totally rad.
Another awesome video, guys. Keep stoppin' them skeletons.
Awesome, you guys did a fantastic job on the video :-)
Mezmorize it’s cool to hack gameboy games by changing the romheader to trick pokemon stadium to make it work, it may be not running 100 perfect but still.
I assume the N64, when sometimes using the Transfer Pak to write to save files, doesn't update the checksum, thus letting the Game Boy detect that the file was modified, thus destroying the save. All due to that DAMN checksum.
I know I'm replying to an old comment but... do you have any evidence for your assumption? If a simple checksum calculation/write fails the software/hardware is unstable and it's very likely the save data is also corrupted.
The awesome music in the first few minutes is from Tombi/Tomba.
I was really hoping, with the way you were saying, "No updates. No patches," you were gonna throw some Blazing Saddles on there and say, "We don't need no stinking PATCHES!" lol. Great video that makes me wanna get a transfer pak cuz I have 2 copies of Pokemon Stadium AND my GB copy of Blue
I wished they had released the rumblepak feature for goldeneye and perfect dark. An idea was to reload your weapon by replugging the rumble pak
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>channel is called stop skeletons from fighting
>monitor in background shows two skeletons almost fighting throughout 1/5 of the video
Hey Derek I have a completely off-topic question for you: What is your favorite bad game to play As a guilty pleasure? Mine is Tony Hawk Pro Skater 5!
Joey Parkhill EDF except I have no guilt it is a full on pleasure!
Also Medal of Honor for the GBA
@@StopSkeletonsFromFighting are you making a breakthrough in optometry?
That's a really hard question to answer. I feel like there will always be a place in gaming for the game equivalents of b-rate horror flicks.
ROBLOX. It’s f-grade garbage, but the idiot kids playing it are fun to mess with in chat.
I agree, I love Tony Hawk enough to make 5 a barely passable and playable "modern" take to get my Tony Hawk in the modern gen fix, being unfortunately the only new normal-controls Tony Hawk in the modern era after Neversoft.
I remember trying to find one of these sold separately from the Pokemon Stadium game so my brother and I could trade Pokemon through the N64 rather than having to buy a second Game Boy and a link cable, or a second Pokemon Stadium cartridge, and that search being almost impossible.
Do you guys have a source for the Earthbound Dungeon Man art you've got hanging behind you?
Yes! That is by Squarepainter th-cam.com/users/squarepainter
Really cool to see Pug Hoof (technically) making an appearance here!
The Golden Bolt And they got my good side, too ;)
Except you effectively need to use the transfer pack for the Stadium games. Rental Pokémon just suck; their move sets are generally awful and their stats are lower than normal as you didn't train them, their basically newly caught Pokémon in that regard. Also the AI sometimes uses illegal move sets and stats.
This is true. I spent literally months upon months grinding like absolutely crazy as a kid, trying to get the last 3 trophies and beat the Elite 4 with rentals. It really, really just wasn't gonna happen. I ended up buying Red and a transfer pak just to beat the game, and was shocked at how easy it was with transferred Pokemon. Seriously, rentals are genuinely like 0 Iv's or something. Also, I guarantee an extremely small amount of players even KNOW that there's a Mewtwo boss fight and literally an entire hard mode for the whole game
i beat it using rentals only
@@paulbeach8949
The ENTIRE package? The cups on all difficulties and gym leader castle? If so then mad respects but how many attempts did it take?
yes all of it probably over 100 attempts
1:49 Oh these are Pretty cool bananas
AAAAAAAAAAAA
Y'all channel is so under rated
Your grammar is underrated.
Stellar Gnoma they’re used to be a guy that played with Derek named Calvin that now identifies as a girl and is super liberal.
@Stellar Gnoma Newsflash: DQXI's music is bland and its in-game implementation is horrible due to the composer's awful views on copyright. Sugiyama's politics are also horrible. Criticizing someone for denying war crimes does not make you an "SJW".
too much pointless over rateed nintendo in this video. Why are people not cracking this ? The smart people do other things.
Still love playing the Stadium games to this day and I still go back to the handheld games to make teams for them, but the Transfer Pak has always been a massive headache. It's just so finicky, especially if you're not holding the controller perfectly still.
I'm going to transfer my pak to your doorstep and when you see it you will be mad.
I will ensure that sir, I will.
Ron Very nice, ron. Thank you!
I went two full minutes before realizing that I was listening to Tomba! What a great game.
I wonder if you could hack out the required header check in the ROM version of Pokemon Stadium GS and throw it on an Everdrive or other N64 Flash Cart.
de hecho ya se hizo y funciona con un hack de pocket monster stadium (J) compatible con los juegos del gameboy original trabaja como si fuera el super gameboy
Best music for a sponsor spot ever. Man I love mystical ninja music
You can use the Transfer Paks to trade Pokémon in Pokemon Stadium 1 & 2. Useful if you don't have the link cable. Only Pokémon Stadium 2 allowed you to Mystery Gift each day. Pretty neat.
Also the rental Pokémon are pretty terrible. The evolved Pokémon would have weak attacks (so Charmander has Fire Blast while Charizard has Ember). You're better off just raising your own Pokémon.
Stadium 1 had usable ones. 2 rentals are just awful
Over my 4 years of playing Pokemon Stadium, i never lost my data with the pack.
All my 6 boosted mewtwo made it easy as hell to beat the Pokemon Stadium League.
One of the best things ( if u wanna play pokemon the gameboy game on ur tv ) was you could speed up your movement speed to x2 or x3 like an emulator.
I love the mystical ninja music at the start of the video, great job as always!
1:50 *oh these are pretty cool bananas... AAAAAAAAHHHH*
stealth waluigi in the background
LOVING that Mystical Ninja soundtrack in the background!!
There was a missed opportunity to make this into a super game boy for n64
Well, it was made by a completely different programmer. The GB Tower mode was made by Tomohiro Kawase, one of the creators of the iNES format and someone who worked in the emulator scene in the 90s.
I remember reading about the GB Camera in perfect dark, and when it came out it was one of the first things i tried and was disappointed when it didn’t work.
Y'all should really get around to making a Punching Weight on the Dreamcast's online functionality.
I’d love to see that
Another thing to note about No Mercy's Transfer Pak compatibilities was that you could also import your created wrestler from the GBC game into the N64 one, and even unlock a special chapter in the game's story mode where said custom character participates; data for said chapter is still present in the game's data.
The Unable to Save screen was scary; just playing your game, then while casually saving, a dark screen pops out of nowhere, taking you out of the moment to address something bad just happened.
indigograves For me, it was the Unable to read disc messages on the GameCube. Less scary and more so GOD FRIGGIN DAMMIT.
Wii Too?
I remember seeing somewhere that the Transfer Pak is also compatible with Pocket Puyo Puyo SUN to connect to Puyo Puyo SUN 64, and Pocket Puyo Puyo 4 to connect to Puyo Puyo 4 Party. I think it just unlocks gallery images though, so nothing too fancy there.
Interestingly though Pocket Puyo Puyo SUN, when played on a SNES via the Super GB, will actually allow for two-player matches without the need for a link cable. Just plug a second SNES controller in and it just works like any other Puyo game. I think that's really cool.
I can think of one other good reason not to use the phrase "Perfect Head"...
Not serious enough?
When I was a kid, I was the one in the neighbourhood who always had the gameshark for every system so we didn't have to mess around with all this.
Tomba! music, always a good choice
I've played through Mario Tennis more than I can count and had no idea you could unlock more characters through the Transfer Pak!
I really love finding out more weirdness, and I do hope you eventually cover my favorite unnecessary gaming love: Steel Battalion on the original Xbox.
I THOUGHT WE WERE DONE WITH BOWSETTE.
NO.
Fun fact: Rugrats in Paris also used the Transfer Pak. It was the only way you could use the save/load feature. If you didn’t have a Gameboy copy of the same game, you were forced to restart every time you turned the game off.
It was the most baffling and unintuitive thing ever to me as a kid, and I always just left the game running with the TV screen turned off to keep from losing my progress lmao
I GET IT DEREK, YOU LOVE GOEMON. ME TOO.
No really keep using that music. Maybe sprinkle in some...DA-DASH DASH.
For those who weren't kids and/or fans of Pokemon at the time, you probably can't understand how awesome it was to see your Pokemon in 3D and color.
I saw the Sans. I always have my eyes open for Sans.
When you use common Sans.
Origin trail 100
Had this just for Pokemon stadium, loved using it for Mario Tennis and my all time favorite GBC game, Mario Golf!
Correction: the Power Glove was /not/ a Nintendo peripheral. Yes, it was made for the NES but Nintendo had nothing to do with its production, it was all AGE.
Best part of the video is by far the PS1 Toomba music in the background!
Would a Gameboy Flashcart something like an Everdrive GB, work with the transfer pack? (since you can make the header whatever you like in a few minutes.) Alternatively a game genie with a apropriate code?
The transfer pack needs a slight modification to do this, due to the Everdrive GB needing a little bit more power to function. If you did this, you wouldn't be able to use it with retail carts (unless you soldered on a switch of some sort.)
Also, it's only the original Everdrive GB that would work for this. No one's found a way for the X3, X5, or X7 to work yet.
Super late response, but for the record, the GB USB Smart Card is compatible with the Transfer Pak and Stadium, the game recognizes it as a normal Pokémon cartridge and it all works just fine. (Apparently they've been discontinued, though...)
I had a sudden urge to play Mystical Ninja: Starring Goemon at some point during the intro
Your eyes are so intense and captivating, it's almost scary but it's so damn alluring. Am I being hypnotized?
All that talk about perfect head...
If I remember correctly, you could also play Pokemon Yellow via the first Pokemon Stadium.
Guys can I use the transfer pak to put my wii games on my xbox one
Only on wiiu through minecraft,but people are trying to find out how on the wii
No, because you still need a dualshock to control the system.
You may need to make modifications to your Dreamcast memory cards to make that work though, Khris. Make sure you reformatted your save games using the Wonderswan.
Yes, but you need the 64DD.
Only if you fold the discs in half so they fit in the Transfer Pak's slot.
I still have mine. Got it WAY back when I first got my N64 as a kid...and I have never used it.
No one gonna mention the Mystical Ninja music?
Divinis13 don’t worry we all are
It was called perfect head... lmao
Perfect Dark is an N64 Rare game, so I suspect the innuendo was delibrate. :3
The Transfer Pak is my all time favorite Nintendo accessory. Being able to battle Pokemon on one of the Stadium games on TV for everyone in the room to see was what led my friends and I to host Stadium tournaments, which we've done annually since 2009. It's funny to see the popularity grow and people actually get nervous at playing in front of other people. Totally worth it, thanks Nintendo.
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this was a weird sight. thats the same layout i have for my transfer pack sitting on my shelf. Right down to the same pokemon version and being to the right of pokemon stadium, wtf dude.
Does the cartridge have the same black marks on the top? If so call the police right now!
If you change your name to Big Chungus I might suggest a potential situation that’s happening
The N64, still one of my all time favourite console's and still consider it one of the most handsome looking systems. I love the design of it.
One of the most useful unofficial things you can do with a transfer pack that wasn't mentioned: If you own an Everdrive for the N64, there is a certain custom written program you can put at the root of your Everdrive's SD card directory. Upon executing the program, it gives you the option to save or restore the RAM of the gameboy/gameboy color game inserted. In my case, I used this to backup my childhood pokemon yellow with all my pokemon still intact before the internal battery in the cartridge died!
Here is the link: micro-64.com/features/gbromdumping.shtml
i owned a transfer pack at one point! i remember losing my Pokemon RED Data, which was okay cause i was using red as a Starter mule, my main game was blue until Yellow came out~ ah the memories! Thanks for this video! :D