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F. Operations Under Z64 LCD Screen
(1) How to Switch to Z64 LCD Screen
By default, the Z64 system will automatically enter into this LCD Screen mode when you
turn on the Z64 device as described in the General Operations Flow
(2) Play Nintendo 64 Game Cartridges from Z64
- Insert the game cartridge into the slot
- Turn on Z64
- If you don’t insert the zip disk into the zip drive, you can only choose “Play
Cartridge” from the LCD Screen
- Choose “Play Cartridge” and push “Enter” button
- The system will request you to turn on N64 console at this moment
- Turn on N64
- Now you can start to play the game from Z64
(3) Play Nintendo 64 Games from Z64 Zip Disks
- Insert the zip disk which has already stored the backup game files into the zip drive
- Turn on Z64
- The LCD Screen will display all the game titles in the zip disk
- Move the Up and Down buttons to choose the game you want to play and push Enter
button
- The system will start to load the game file from the zip disk into the Z64 memory
- If the game file is accompanied with a patch file (.ips), the system will ask you
whether you also want to load this patch file into the memory
- After completing the file loading, the LCD Screen will request you to turn on N64
console
- Turn on the N64 console and start to play the Nintendo 64 game stored in the zip disk
(4) Backup Nintendo 64 Game Cartridges from Z64
- Insert the game cartridge into the slot and zip disk into the zip drive
- Turn on Z64
- On the LCD Screen, you have two choices. One is “Play Cartridge”. The other is
“Backup Cartridge:.
- Choose “ Backup Cartridge” and push “Enter” button
- The system will display the free space of the zip disk on the LCD Screen
- If there are already backup files or other files in the zip disk, the system will also
display these files on the LCD Screen
- The system will start to do the backup
- The system will show “Free Space Not Enough” message if the files size of the
cartridge is bigger than the remaining free space in the zip disk
- The system will display “Backup Completed” when completing the backup process
Please bear in mind that it is not necessary for you to turn on N64 console when you are
running the game backup process from the original game cartridge to the zip disk.