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There are a few things you should know before you do the stuff bellow:
The instructions below are used for both the North American and Japanese versions of the N64. By removing the rail piece you can play games from North America or Japan on both versions of the system.
First off, the lockout is two little pegs that are on a plastic rail piece just inside of the cartridge slot (if you look inside a N64 you will see them). The pegs in the Japanese N64 are closer together than the pegs in the North American N64. Unfortunately the pegs can't be burned or broke off so you will have to remove the plastic rail piece that the pegs are attached too.
Step 1(A): You have to open up your N64 by removing all the screws that hold it together. One problem though, the screwdriver you need is a special 4.5mm gamebit screwdriver that can't be found at a hardware store. So you have to order the screwdriver from MCM Electronics (if any one else knows any other places you can find the screwdriver please mail me).
Ordering Info:
Step 1 (B): Now that you have the screw driver you have to buy (if you don't have one) a 1/4" hex nut driver from a hardware store to put the gamebit screwdirver that you ordered in (you do this so you have enough length to get the screws out of the N64).
Step 2: Now that you have the screwdriver take out the six screws in the bottom of the N64 (don't lose them cause if you do your screwed). Now pull up on the N64's plastic case, with a bit of force becasue the RAM pack is plugged into the mother board the way a cartige is. Now put the cover and the RAM pack that you unplugged down. Now you can see the plastic rail piece, it's screwed into the casing with two philips screws.
Now unscrew the two philips screws and take the plastic rail piece and the grey dust covers off (the grey dust covers protect the cartrige slot from dust). Unfortunately the dust covers depend on the plastic rail piece to stay in place so you should always keep the cartrige slot covered or always keep a cartrige in the system so you can protect it from dust.
Step 3: Now plug the RAM chip back into the mother board adm make sure it fits good. Then put the plastic case back on the N64, screw it back together, plug in a cartrige, turn on the power and you got one kick ass compatible N64!Pictures:
So there you go the N64 is compatible with a bit of work, it's to bad you have to order that screw driver though. If you don't want to do this you can buy an adapter or you could go to an electronics repair store and see if they have the gamebit screwdriver. I'm on;y going to do this to my N64 if I find a game worth importing, but if you own a japanese N64 I would do this before the N64 is released in North America.
