Vigilante 8 Two Player Cooperative Mode - Secret Base (Actual N64 Capture)

This is a capture of me and a friend playing the Cooperative mode in Vigilante 8 for the Nintendo 64. This is not an emulator. This footage was captured directly from my Nintendo 64. I'm player one and Drew is player two.

Vigilante 8 is another favorite of mine from the Nintendo 64 era. I used to play this game all the time in high school. I'd get some friends over and we'd have a blast (literally). This game has great multiplayer, especially for two people. I miss vehicular combat games. I've liked them ever since I first played Twisted Metal around 1995 or 1996.

I like to grab a friend and jump into Cooperative mode in this game, which allows you to fight up to nine cars in a team match. You can't do this with more than two people though because the system simply can't handle AI cars while splitting the screen more than two ways. So if you're playing with three or four people, you'll simply have to battle each other.

We entered in two cheat codes before we started. One was FIRE_NO_LIMITS. This allows you fire special weapons as fast as you can press the R button (there's normally a cooldown in between shots, which sucks). The second code was MIX_MATCH_CARS. This allows multiple players to use the same vehicle. Since Drew and I both like to use John Torque, we always enter this code.

What's nice about this game is that it supports the Expansion Pak and it allows you to split the screen either horizontally or vertically. Since I have an Expansion Pak, I always enable high resolution mode. There's also a cheat for an ultra resolution mode, but it drops the framerate way too low.

In this video Drew and I battled six school buses and three moth trucks on the Secret Base map and bass quaked them into oblivion using John Torque (because Bass Quake is awesome. Although it hardly does damage, launching school buses off the screen is still hilarious).

Recorded with the Hauppauge HD PVR and the official N64 S-video cable. I used a Toshiba model D-R550 DVD Recorder to standardize the N64's 240p/480i output so that the Hauppauge could capture the console's audio/video signal.

We're using standard Nintendo 64 controllers.