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Well guys, have you ever noticed the actual money KKR paid to acquire Alias from SGI? $57 millions...
If you don't call that a steal... it is pretty clear SGI is literally giving away its assets in a backyard sale...

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Actually the Joyboard is not the only option to use the Ultra64 board.
Nintendo also manufactured some N64 controllers that could be plugged directly to the Ultra64 board without having the Joyboard; these are also rare but when found are generally less expensive than the Joyboard...
The Joyboard is essential only to develop/test software that uses the EEPROM used to save game data.