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by TAForObvReasons 2227 days ago
64DD was an expansion to the 64 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64DD . It was a commercial flop
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It may have done better if Nintendo didn't take so long to develop and release it.

I bought one on eBay, and it's a quirky device. It's essentially a glorified floppy drive with proprietary disks, and it makes loud, albeit amusing scanning noises.

Every Nintendo console prior to the Wii had some sort of "expansion" or upgrade capability for future peripherals to be added. Hardware revisions took the place of this model.

Man, it sounds like it was in development hell. I wish we could get somebody to talk about what it was like developing the 64DD and what problems they ran into. Probably won't ever happen, but I can dream.
We called it 64 cd we where kids so we where waiting every day for a n64 cd kit