What is the best, all-purpose, host game cartridge to use?
With the right patches, whether permanent or dynamic, most game cartridges work fine with all games. As a general recommendation, Mario 64© works great on all games we have tried so far including 32MB games such as Zelda 64©. Without patches, some games due to their special hardware architecture (double EEPROM, special SRAM, etc.) will have to use original cartridge or similar cartridges. (Please note that when you do this, your original saved data on that cartridge may be erased by the backup game file data.) We cannot possibly and will not test all cartridges so if you have questions on your specific case you should go ask users on the net or N64 discussion forum such as www.dextrose.com or www.n64talk.com.