Let me tell you something. Once upon a time, someone I knew accidently left a N64 and his controllers outside in extremely cold weather while he was trying to move stuff into his garage. Winter storm takes place and after he takes a break watching an early Christmas movie with his wife, he remembers that he left the said console behind. CONT.
Continued (after getting attacked by an onslaught of signatures)...
Listen. The dude has to wait for a hot minute. A long time to get his N64 again. He takes the N64 much later down the line and he ends up testing it.
IT FUCKING WORKS! To this day, it still works! Even after all that shit! The N64 is such a well made product. In addition to this? The controllers were working just fine. What is that telling you?