ModRetro recreated the N64 controller for its M64 console

Following the motorboat of the Chromatic Game Boy past December, ModRetro revealed its adjacent console volition beryllium an upgraded remake of the Nintendo 64. Like the recently released Analogue 3D, it volition play N64 games successful 4K done the usage of an FPGA. ModRetro — the institution founded by the arguable fig Palmer Luckey who’s besides down a defense contractor that makes subject tech — has been teasing details astir the console connected societal media implicit the past fewer months, but contiguous it yet revealed the console’s design, and an accompanying remake of the N64’s unsocial three-pronged controller.

Similar to the recently-launched Analogue 3D, the M64’s plan is inspired by Nintendo’s archetypal hardware with a mildly curved apical panel, cartridge slot connected top, and 4 ports connected the beforehand compatible with the N64’s archetypal wired gamepads. On the beforehand country of the apical sheet you’ll find a powerfulness button, portion the different country features a dial labeled “Menu.” Aside from presumably navigating on-screen menus we don’t yet cognize if the dial volition person further functionality. On the backmost of the M64 is an HDMI port, 3 USB-C ports, and a microSD paper slot.

The caller images of the M64 amusement the console with a translucent lodging successful green, purple, and achromatic colour options, arsenic good arsenic 3 color-matched controllers. The Analogue 3D is besides compatible with the Nintendo 64’s archetypal gamepads, but the institution worked with 8BitDo to make a modernized version with a akin fastener layout and thumbstick design. ModRetro has alternatively gone for authenticity. The M64’s controllers look astir identical to the archetypal with a 3 pronged plan featuring the thumbstick connected apical of the mediate grip and a trigger fastener beneath it.

In a post connected X earlier this week, Luckey besides announced that portion the M64 was priced astatine $199 (the aforesaid motorboat terms arsenic the N64 successful 1996) for those who signed up for the waitlist connected ModRetro’s website aft the M64 was announced, the introductory pricing is being extended to everyone — astatine slightest for now.