/vr/ - Retro Games

How the fuck have the cartridges from the SNES, N64, etc; not become totally unusable until now? Shouldn't the actual board of these games be powder or worn down enough to not be usable? What the fuck are they made of?

CDs were the real mistake.

Why did game companies before the CD era, instead of alleviating the problem with their expensive ROM storage system, make their games even more expensive by putting fucking RAM expansions and extra chips inside their ROM cartridges? Why not build a console with expandable RAM slots instead? Were retro console developers and game publishers retarded?

A SNES jarpig game could cost you over 100 bucks at launch. It's a wasteful and retarded practice, retro gaming was a nightmare.

>By the mid-90s most console developers switched over to CD format, allowing games to be produced with larger file size and higher quality audio
>Nintendo still decided to stick with cartridges, forcing third-party devs to optimize their games to account for the smaller file size, even then the N64 versions of multiplats oftentimes paled in comparison to their PSX counterparts
>Their "solution" for this was to create a disk drive with a maximum file size of 64 MB (for comparison, Crash Bandicoot was 430 MB), which failed before it even hit the US
>Nintendo's president at the time, Hiroshi Yamauchi, firmly believed that the reason why N64 was a failure was because PSX gamers "liked to be alone in their rooms and play depressing games."
WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?

Do N64 cartridges really have an electrolytic capacitor that will eventually dry out?

ITT: Incurable retro quirks you have.

>it still feels strange to see nintendo games on discs