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How tough are your NES games?
« on: July 07, 2010, 10:49:00 pm »
I wonder if this is real or fake? ::)

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Re: How tough are your NES games?
« Reply #1 on: July 07, 2010, 11:07:19 pm »
Seems legitimate. As long as the connectors and ROM weren't seriously damaged, it should still work.

Nintendo used to sell a cleaning kit that required a small, felt stick be dampened and rubbed against connectors; so liquid really doesn't damage them. Maybe long-term exposure to water would cause corrosion, though.

The main problem with NES systems was bad connectors in the system itself. I think they were too susceptible to atmospheric damage over time. Often, people had to slightly adjust the cartridge while inserting it to align the connectors. The top-loading NES models fixed this problem.

GameBoy cartridges probably have the same level of durability, I imagine.
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Re: How tough are your NES games?
« Reply #2 on: July 07, 2010, 11:09:31 pm »
Yeah true. For my NES, SNES and N64, it's so hard to get games to boot because the cartridge slot went loose. Seems like back then they did stuff more resistant, though :P. Today they seem to do stuff partially purposely to break after a few years to make us buy new ones.
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Re: How tough are your NES games?
« Reply #3 on: July 07, 2010, 11:12:15 pm »
As I understand, it's just cheaper to produce CD mediums than cartridges. This is why N64 games were claimed to be so expensive, at least.

On the other hand, I thought PSP games had a nice design: The disc within a case ordeal. Why didn't we think of that when we made standard audio CDs? They'd never get scratched or scuffed! :P
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Re: How tough are your NES games?
« Reply #4 on: July 07, 2010, 11:15:00 pm »
Yeah I guess so, and yeah I like those PSP CDs. Now I wonder if they'll ever go back to cartridges since they can hold more info? It would be much less loading time than CDs, too.
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Re: How tough are your NES games?
« Reply #5 on: July 07, 2010, 11:28:33 pm »
Nintendo DS uses Flash cards to store its games. Not sure how expensive they are to produce, so I'm not sure if it would be cost-effective for console games, which would require a lot of memory.

At least the good thing about carts / Flash memory now is that it comes in pretty large capacities. NDS games have enough space to feature full cinematics. Back in the N64 days, this wasn't feasible because storage was more restricted then.

I think the first system to actually store games on Flash memory cards was WonderSwan. Their carts are basically like NDS games, but slightly larger.
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Re: How tough are your NES games?
« Reply #6 on: July 08, 2010, 01:16:58 am »
flash cards might be a good idea, idk. Maybe in a few years they'll be compacted enough and cheap enough to allow the usage of flash carts of the size of old GB cartridges for consoles and pack a few GB of stuff in them. Again, tho, they seems to slowly head towards blu-ray discs now.

And wow I wish the Wonderswarn version of FFIII came out on the PS1. I loved FFOrigins, which was ports of the Wonderswarn versions of FF1 and 2 but it missed the 3rd
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Re: How tough are your NES games?
« Reply #7 on: July 08, 2010, 03:10:58 am »
Those PSP CDs reminds me of Zip and Jaz drives made by Iomega, those are like an actual hard drive inside a floppy disk case. If only someone used something like that for game cartridges...
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Re: How tough are your NES games?
« Reply #8 on: July 08, 2010, 03:14:25 am »
Damn, i guess they dont make em like they used to eh?
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Re: How tough are your NES games?
« Reply #9 on: July 08, 2010, 03:49:09 am »
Quote from: juju2143 on July 08, 2010, 03:10:58 am
Those PSP CDs reminds me of Zip and Jaz drives made by Iomega, those are like an actual hard drive inside a floppy disk case. If only someone used something like that for game cartridges...
yeah I remember Iomega zips, we used them at Cegep.
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Re: How tough are your NES games?
« Reply #10 on: July 08, 2010, 10:03:18 am »
That's a really cool video, but I wished they did something completely radical, like putting it in a fire or something. ;D
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Re: How tough are your NES games?
« Reply #11 on: July 08, 2010, 11:06:52 am »
Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on July 08, 2010, 01:16:58 am
And wow I wish the Wonderswarn version of FFIII came out on the PS1. I loved FFOrigins, which was ports of the Wonderswarn versions of FF1 and 2 but it missed the 3rd

I know. FFIII really could have used a good 2D remake. The WonderSwan version was never completed, unfortunately. I can't remember why they stopped development, but I think it had something to do with hardware limitations. Ironically, they later ported Final Fantasy IV to the system. :P
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Re: How tough are your NES games?
« Reply #12 on: July 08, 2010, 12:34:23 pm »
Quote from: Zera on July 08, 2010, 11:06:52 am
Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on July 08, 2010, 01:16:58 am
And wow I wish the Wonderswarn version of FFIII came out on the PS1. I loved FFOrigins, which was ports of the Wonderswarn versions of FF1 and 2 but it missed the 3rd

I know. FFIII really could have used a good 2D remake. The WonderSwan version was never completed, unfortunately. I can't remember why they stopped development, but I think it had something to do with hardware limitations. Ironically, they later ported Final Fantasy IV to the system. :P
Oh it wasn't finished? Too bad, I saw screenies before and it looked quite cool.

I didn't knew there was a FFIV one, though. I wonder if the graphics are similar to the GBA remake
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Re: How tough are your NES games?
« Reply #13 on: July 08, 2010, 01:16:33 pm »
That was a really cool vid. Nice find! =)
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Re: How tough are your NES games?
« Reply #14 on: July 08, 2010, 02:59:37 pm »
Nice! Yeah, there are MicroSD cards w/32 GB capacity; I don't think Blu-Ray has that storage density. :)
Are the discs cheaper for capacity?
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