Hardware: Settle It With This Customised Super Smash Bros. Nintendo 64 Console

These are amazing just like those Mario Party ones a while back. Maybe we could see someone make a Majora's Mask one.

I love custom consoles. This looks amazing!

I respect the artist... but I feel this looks gaudy. The controllers in particular.

I like that they recognized Samus on there. I feel like most people would have gone to Ness or Yoshi.

@Dankykong Why would you say Ness? Earthbound was not particularly popular back then.

Also who is the character in blue?

@JubilifeRival Kirby I think

@JubilifeRival I think that is Kirby.

@UltraLaserTen @Sleepingmudkip

Thanks! Pink would make it clearer but I understand why he used blue. Follow up question, I've always wondered this, why do I always need to edit my comment before the names of the people I'm replying to turn red?

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Neat! Would love to have one. I mean, it really looks cool, altough that black paint seems kinds weird, at least to me. Either way, the concept is awesome.

@JubilifeRival You don't need to edit the comment - just refresh the page.

Erm, those seem to be the original joysticks on there. The art is neat, but if they were putting in that much effort, why not upgrade the sticks while they're at it?

@JubilifeRival So? Unpopular or not he was still added to Smash 64... I only said Ness because people nowadays pretend they always knew all about Mother/Earthbound and talk like he's kind of the hill, but also he's got an unusual following for a character that's slightly obscure in the west.
There was no Metroid game on N64 but they added her anyway so, but I guess if you couldn't recognize Kirby you probably don't understand my point anyway.

@DarthNocturnal To make it authentic. This is just to spicen up the look, not to change the experience.

@Dankykong They chose the most used players. You're right: Ness was a nobody back in Smash64. The person who designed this knew what was up.

I love it, personally. No way am I buying it, though :/

@Haiassai Which is better than producing fake memories. "ya i knew ness all along" sure you did. Better keep the most used lol. Although I didn't know Samus was in the top 4, but the others seem obvious. I guess makes sense, nty Yoshi or DK even though I said those earlier haha

@Haiassai
It wouldn't really "change" the experience, so much as fix it. Everyone knows the N64 joysticks weren't the best. Compared to other consoles, they seem to wear down a LOT quicker.

@DarthNocturnal I disagree. By making it better, you change the experience. People may hate the stick, but that's what made it the N64. Same thing with glitches in games. Some of them may be frustrating, but the awareness of it is what adds to the legend (granted, unless the glitch utterly ruins the game—and I don't think the stick is so detrimental that no one can play Smash64).

Now do I recommend that all games should have glitches? No. Should all hardware have clunky aspects to it when first released? No. But the product has been made and what is to be experienced has been solidified. A surface-level paint job won't change that, but improving a controller will.

@Dankykong At least among my friend group, Samus was always used. I personally didn't like her, but that's because I was Kirby, and that supercharge blast always got me when I was in air.

@Haiassai
Between "leave well enough alone" and "fix it", this falls into the "fix it" category, in my opinion. I'm the kind of person who feels that a lot of retro stuff seems to go back "too far". A good example off the top of my head is Mega Man 9 & 10. They took away Mega Man's ability to slide... and I have never heard a good reason as to why. I've heard the "because you can't in Mega Man 2" argument, which doesn't hold up. That was Mega Man 2. This is 9 & 10. It had been over a decade, and they want to take AWAY features? The Power Adapter I can understand to a point, but to take out something as inoffensive as the slide (and the charged shot) just seems silly. And yet, they kept the item shop from 7 and 8. I'm surprised we got regular saving as opposed to passwords!

Did I still enjoy 9 & 10? Yes, but it would've been a better experience to keep things that had been established over a decade before. And no, Proto Man doesn't make up for it (Bass kinda does).

Another example, Sonic's lack of spin dash in Sonic 1. Newer versions of the game added it in. And I say that's awesome. My experience with Sonic 1 is that it isn't as good as Sonic 2 or 3, and the lack of spin dash was the main reason. But that reason is gone. So it's now considered to be much better. For me, anyway. If people want to toggle it off to try out the original game, then that's fine. But I'd prefer to keep it on, thanks.

And then there's Smash 64 on Wii (and before too long perhaps, Wii U) VC. Same game + better controllers = good experience. However slight it may or may not be, the controls do feel smoother. And the idea of getting replacement joysticks for aging N64 controllers sounds like a blessing. Then we can play on the retro system, without one of the retro issues.

This custom design looks awesome! I just happen to have the good fortune of my nearly twenty year old N64 still working. So as nice as it is, I don't need this one. Especially with the recent release of N64 games on the Wii U Virtual Console. It kind of negates the need to buy one of these, though it is always best to play the games on the system they were designed for. You can never replace that feeling.

@Dpullam yes i agree.
you never can...

I used to have a 64 and played smash all the time, man good times...
ever since the beginning i have always used samus, she has always been my main, until brawl, that was when she wasn't as good and felt clunky that i switched to ike.
but now in smash 4 i use ike captain falcon and samus. my three mains

I have used Fox and Pikachu since the n64 days as my mains, even after Fox got nerfed in Brawl and SM4SH. That list has grown to them, Zero Suit Samus, Diddy and Sanic.

They should've used yellow with Pikachu and blue with Captain Falcon, either that or change the colors to orange and pink.

How much damn it, how much

SSB64... ah, the days when I ruled the world with Kirby...

@DarthNocturnal Right, but all those changes were made by the developers themselves. Iono. Call me a purist who loves history being kept as is, but if someone were to change the system, it should be the creator of said system. I'm not here to attack people who mod controllers or systems. Having a quickfire controller is a nifty thing to have. I think it's a wonderful aspect of creativity and believe more people should do it. However, I appreciate those who retain a system to how it was originally because the creator made it that way. Thus any improvement on the system or gameplay would alter how the creator meant it to be played.

@MeloMan Seriously. Kirby was the man back in Smash64. I started using him again in SmashWiiU. He isn't as good, but not as nerfed as Melee!

Awesome!

Customizations might be cool, but in my opinion, selling them as if they were a extremely rare collectors item is a rip off, they are nothing but plain regular systems with painting or decals on them, it's like if someone sells a regular $5 CD but adds a CD-R with a new mix of the songs and adds a custom homemade booklet and sells it to you for $60. In the future, people will be restoring consoles from these customizations because the real unaltered item will be more appraised, they do it now with bikes, cars, vending machines or jukeboxes. You pay $600 for this today but because they ruined it for you, in a couple of years people will be offering you far less money than what you would get for the regular thing. It may look cool but its damaged goods.

Holy crap! I've just gone to the page of these guys, they are selling it for 230.63 pounds. Probably a sealed one would cost less. This was something some crook made in his garage, it's not like Miyamoto or Sakurai at least signed it. Keep spending like this, staff of NL, and you won't be able to pay the hosting fees. If you want it so bad, you could make the pattern with photoshop or something, print it, cut it, put it over a $50 N64 from a garage sale, paint it, remove the pattern and that's it. Of course for NL, they wouldn't be getting the share they will get from the moron who does fall for this scam. Shame on you, guys.

It costs about $350.00 US. I'll pass and just make my own.