Originally posted by supermariosan100 BACKUPaterraformer, quit being rude.
To be honest, not many people care about N64 compatibility...
....Nobody else wants it.
Regardless of anything else, that isn't true. I and a few others want it, judging by the posts I've read on various forums. Then again, the actually figure of people who would want to play the hacks on a real console if they were available is probably pretty low, maybe not even four figures world-wide, maybe even significantly less than that. But some people do, and I remember a newspaper editor once saying that for every letter he got on a subject, he'd assume that 99 other people felt the same way but didn't bother writing.
No doubt lots of people who've never posted about it still wish that these mods were playable on real hardware, and equally there's no doubt that many people who've never heard of the hacks would, if they discovered them, love to play them on their real N64 hardware.
Originally posted by MilleniumLuigi
But fear not, I have a solution!
Buy a USB N64 Controller.
Buy a CRT Computer Monitor.
Congrats all romhacks are now console compatible.
Treating people like idiots is neither polite nor productive. We are all capable of making decisions ourselves, and the fact that we request real hardware comparability is down to us not being too keen on the present emulators.
You owe us nothing, and if you choose to make your hacks N64-incompatible, then that's fair enough, and we have no right to criticise you for it. But we are free to express our opinions, and it does seem to me to be much less than ideal to write hacks that only run on flawed, glitchy emulators, not only because the next-generation of N64 emulators won't be able to run the hacks (unless the authors or whoever deliberately 'break' the accuracy of these emulators), but also because there are still a number of hard core N64 gaming fans who use the real hardware. Not too many, no doubt, but then the number of gamers who use N64 emulators is no doubt not huge either.
Still, thanks everyone for answering my questions, and for debating the issue.