64DD

I don't know if they ever bundled it with games.

I know we'll get to it, but I think they bundled it with the 64DD in Japan.

Ah, that makes sense.

But I

It was a different time back then.

It definitely was.

Real quick, just to close the loop on the 64DD, this is a fun historical artifact to me.

Nintendo was pretty big on copy protection, going back to the original NES, like they were implementing cartridge copy protection all the way back.

Launched only in Japan, this peripheral allowed the N64 to use proprietary floppy disks.

That's the 64DD.

Mm-hmm.

64DD is right.

I think we could have had an F-Zero track editor.

That's true.

... developed by somebody, and Nintendo approached Square, who had developed the previous game, to develop the game, but they'd originally turned it down to work on Final Fantasy VII.

Instead, the company initially hired another developer to write the main story, and the game was initially called blah, blah, blah, blah, blah II, and was slated for release on the Nintendo 64 DD.

Wow.

"The game combines traditional role-playing elements with concepts and features from the series that it's from.

Like, video games, movies.

I remember us talking about the N64 DD, like, this, like, magical thing that, you know, we never got to see.

Right, right.

So, to be able to play that.

And it really kind of impressed me.

I will say we also really didn't talk that much about the N64 DD, the disk drive, which that game was on.

But yeah, I think I think you kind of touched on it a little bit very briefly.

But it's a shame we never got that here in the States.