Donkey Kong 64 Expansion Pak

[A Black Falcon]

Yeah, I heard this somewhere not too long ago. That seems like a very expensive bug fix, but regardless of the reason, I still think DK64 has great graphics. It looks really good, and doesn't have the framerate problems of Banjo-Tooie or Conker...

Oh, and yeah, I got my Expansion Pak from the DK64 bundle as well.

It was always so nice to pop in a game and see the screen flash "EXPANSION PACK ENABLED" with a spinning 3D render of it.

Yeah, that is kind of neat when games do that.

Not that it made much a difference. I couldn't pick out any real graphical upgrade, would probably barely even discern between the two resoluions side-by-side.

And damn it, that thing crashed my game of Space Station: Silicon Valley. :colbert: I had to rely on OBQuiet to advise me to put the standard pack back in. You know how much I hate admitting I need help from that guy!? The grudge burns me over a decade later.

Was nice to have one handy for the games that needed it, though, sure.

I'm in no way a graphics-focused person, but you can absolutely tell the difference in games which let you enable and disable the higher resolution; 320x240 and resolutions as high as 640x480 look different. In a game which just enables stuff in the background and you can't disable it without removing the expansion pak, yes, it's much harder, but most games with resolution changes with the expansion pak do allow you to turn it on and off because the higher resolutions usually also have worse framerates.

Offhand, I definitely can tell the difference in games such as Aidyn Chronicles and Castlevania: LoD... in both framerate and graphical quality, which is why some people turn it off. I'm not one of them though, and beat Legacy of Darkness in high-res, liking it more that way because of the much sharper graphics.