The Aleck 64 is a little-known (and likewise little-used) arcade system by SETA and Nintendo based on the Nintendo 64 – and by “based on” I mean it’s literally possible to run Aleck 64 games on stock N64 hardware by soldering the ROM chips onto a retail cartridge. Despite that, only one of the Aleck 64 games was ever officially ported to the N64, Hudson Soft’s Star Soldier: Vanishing Earth.

All dumped Aleck 64 games were converted to the Nintendo 64 by Zoinkity of ASSEMBLERgames.org, their patched ROM images being preserved here. They can be run on a real Nintendo 64 through an Everdrive 64. On emulators, things get a bit spotty; the one that’s consistently better at running them is Project64 with the GLideN64 video plugin. The only games this setup won’t run properly are ViviD Dolls, which has graphical glitches, and Super Real Mahjong VS, which won’t boot at all. The former runs on ares and the latter on Cen64, which is how I got the screenshots.*

This collection also includes the English translations of Aleck Bordon Adventure 4th Story: Tower & Shaft and Magical Tetris Challenge Featuring Mickey, also by Zoinkity.

For information on DIP switches, keybinds etc, check out the readmes in the documentation. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find the relevant files for all the conversions.

Please note that some games require repatching in order to change DIP switch settings.

This item is neither maintained by nor affiliated with Zoinkity.

* For posterity, the emulator versions that I’ve tested on are Project64 Dev-4.0.0.5754-3eec943 (GLideN64 rev.ad091be) and ares v126. Cen64 doesn’t really have version control as of this writing, but any build from late 2021/early 2022 should probably be fine.

Updates:

• 2021/11/23 – Updated Magical Tetris Challenge Featuring Mickey to v2.0 and added its English version

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