User:Zafum/ Crooked Cartridge Guide
Warning!
One of the most dangerous things you can possibly do to your N64 games or console is to perform the Crooked Cartridge trick on them.Performing the Crooked Cartridge trick can delete your saved games, ruin the game cartridge, or even render your Nintendo 64 useless! Use at your own risk.
Also called "cartridge tilting", this trick basically disconnects part of the cartridge from the console so that information can't pass between them. This will usually glitch up the music, scramble text, make saving the game work only partly or not at all, and make changing areas crash the game. For many games it can also glitch up parts of the graphics (usually your character), or cause clipping.
To perform this trick, you must very slowly pull the left side of the cartridge out of the console while keeping the right side pushed down. Keep on doing this until the sound becomes distorted. If the game crashes, then try again (at your own risk, remember). If you can't get it to work at all, It's likely that either it won't work under those in-game circumstances, your cartridge is too sensitive, or it just doesn't work in that game at all. When the trick is on, changing areas or screens will usually crash the game. Probably the most dangerous thing to do to your game is to save or mess with savings while the cartridge is crooked.
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Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
See Ocarina of Time Crooked Cartridge.
Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
See Majora's Mask Crooked Cartridge.
Megaman 64
Normal Gameplay
As far as I can tell, other than that the music glitches up and that the game crashes while changing screens, normal gameplay and graphics are unaffected.
Saving
Saving while it is on is completely safe, since apparently no information can be accessed or written when the cartridge is crooked. This also means that saving while it is on has no useful or interesting purpose whatsoever.
Mario Party
Intro
Paper Mario
Intro
- Youtube: Paper Mario Cartridge Tilting
Saving
- Youtube: Paper Mario: Crooked Cartridge Fun
Super Mario 64
Normal Gameplay
It doesn't seem to do much to the gameplay, but you can do things to freeze Mario in place, and keep him frozen after pushing the cartridge back in.
- Youtube: Super Mario 64 Glitchy Cartridge Tilting Collection
- Youtube: Super Mario 64 tilt Cartridge Funny Walk
- Youtube: Super Mario 64 Crooked Cartridge 1
Yoshi's Story
Opening scene
- Youtube: Yoshi's Story Cartridge Tilting Fun!
