Editing Doctor V64 (section)

== History ==

The V64 was released in 1996 and was priced around US$450.<ref name="V64">{{cite news|title=Nintendo Pirating Device Still for Sale|url=https://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/1997/06/4504|access-date=January 31, 2016|newspaper=[[Wired (website)|Wired]]|date=June 18, 1997|author=Obser, Jeffrey|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105112709/http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/1997/06/4504|archive-date=November 5, 2012}}</ref> It was one of the first commercially available backup devices for the Nintendo 64, appearing not long after the console's international release. The [[Game development kit#Nintendo 64/64DD|Partner N64 development kit]], which was manufactured by [[Silicon Graphics]] and sold officially by [[Nintendo]], was a comparatively expensive development machine. The V64 served as a lower-cost development machine, though its unofficial status would later lead to conflict with Nintendo. Some third-party developers used a number of V64s in their development process, with games such as [[Turok: Dinosaur Hunter]] utilizing the device during development.<ref>{{cite web |title=Turok 64 Official Source Code Analysis · RetroReversing |url=https://www.retroreversing.com/turok64sourcecode}}</ref>

=== Specifications ===
The [[Central processing unit|CPU]] of the V64 is a [[MOS Technology 6502|6502]], and the operating system is contained in a [[BIOS]].

The V64 unit contains a CD-ROM drive which sits underneath the Nintendo 64 and plugs into the expansion slot on the underside of the Nintendo 64. The expansion slot is essentially a mirror image of the cartridge slot on the top of the unit, with the same electrical connections; thus, the Nintendo 64 reads data from the Doctor V64 in the same manner as it would from a cartridge plugged into the normal slot.