But still broken - heh, just like CD64. ok ok ok, V64 info. Bung's first N64 device, used by many third party developers to produce excellent software for the N64. The Turok series was created by Acclaim using V64s. The first revision of the hardware had 128mbits of ram, stating that it would be able to play "ALL" future N64 games. heh. The BIOS that shipped with the units NEVER allowed the units to "Backup" games to pc. "Hacked" versions of the BIOS were made available publicly to "upgrade" this and other features. Most importantly, BIOS revisions made it possible to put all bios versions on one cd with ROMS in joliet long name format. This made making rom cd's MUCH simpler for the masses of lamers who couldn't figure out how to set ISO9660 on their CD software. Then Nintendo announced that Zelda was going to come out on cartridge format, at a size of 256Mbits! Users of the V64 simply paid the extra $$ for a ram upgrade. I'm not sure what the first released 256Mbit game was, but I remember the hassle of complaints on the mesage boards. Anyhow, with the advent of flash-ram, the DocV64 began to lose ground on other units, as making flash-ram games work on the Doc required the user to physically MOD a boot cart - ref. Luna, user superiore, cart hacker extraordinaire!!!! ( I still want you to make me one luna!) After Resident Evil emerged as the first USA release cart over 256 Mbits, the DocV64jr took the stage, and the V64 was discontinued by BUNG. The biggest asset to having a V64 is the CD-ROM drive. The V64 reads the cd at a max speed of 8x. You can load up a CD with a lot of games ~80 on an 80 min CD, using 64Mbit games only. As far as portability goes, if you've got a v64, you most likely will want to put it somewhere safe with ventilation so it will work for as long as possible. Carrying it about, bumping the fragile (read, cheap) circuitry around and jolting the internal connections is NOT recommended inless you want a nice white paper weight. Useability: VERY easy. Put in the CD, press play, select game, press play, turn on V64, press stop, press play, select patch, press play, press play. heh, easy enough right? Reliability: Uhm, more broken CD-64's than broken V64s... That's all I know. Less broken Z64's than both. heh ok, all of that info may be useless, but it took up a bit of my work day!