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The expansion pak was only required for 2 or 3 games, and bundled with one of them.

Most of the games with epak support used it to increase quality and / or framerate, the game worked fine without. It was also relatively cheap ($50).

> It was also relatively cheap ($50).

Which is kinda impressive (for the time at least) considering how expensive RDRAM was/is relative to e.g. SDRAM.

If i remember right the expansion module was included with DK64 which helped ease the pain a bit.

The expansion module was just more RAM, not a whole new system. I think the 32x is more comparable to the N64DD, which failed and never actually made it to the US.

Heh, my friend believed it turned his 64bit system into a 68bit system.

The fun fact about N64 memory expansion is it was on a 9 bit bus ;o) Rambus at that.