/vr/ - Retro Games

>>1739096
Because people are stupid. The first design was the way it was because the power button pushed a little piece of plastic into the cartridge, acting as a lock. But some kids were so stupid, they attempted to yank the games out WHILE THE CONSOLE WAS ON. And the consoles themselves broke, and the people complained, so Nintendo had to redesign the cartridges so that they were retard proof.

Only in America, my friend.

So beautiful..

>>1739120

This is better

>>1739101
>Only in America, my friend.


Then explain this >>1739120

>>1739302
>PAL version
>America

>>1739101
It was to save plastic. The consoles were revisioned to remove the need for the lock, and cartridges were redesigned to accommodate.

>>1739302
That's the European/Japanese cartridge design.

>>1739302
PAL is Europe.

>>1739101
What does kids being kinda dumb internationally and not realizing nuances have to do with America? Asshat.

>>1739672
Because only the version released in the US needed to have redesigned cartridges. Jesus, can you not read?

>>1739101
I think we all had one of *those* friends
>stickers all over console
>writing in marker all over games
>stains from spilled liquids all over everything
>disc games always in the wrong container
>discs scratched to hell
>doesn't even know how to plug in their console without parents' help
>will take game out while console is in
>"WHAT THE FUCK? HOW DID IT BREAK? SHITTY NINTENDO/SEGA/PLAYSTATION! CAN'T MAKE A GOOD CONSOLE!"
and the best part
>invites you to their house and forces you to watch THEM play vidya

>>1739120
>96 levels

>>1739697
>go over cousin's place
>he got a PlayStation close to launch
>good shit
>several months pass
>US flag stickers on PlayStation
>sticky substance on open button
>doesn't matter because the latch broke and a book is needed to weigh down the lid
>marker on top
>butt ugly martians stickers on it years later

It's baffling because he's generally decent to other things, and he's the one who tells others to wash their hands before touching his controllers.
But that fucking PlayStation... Jesus.

>>1739715
>>doesn't matter because the latch broke and a book is needed to weigh down the lid
how do people accomplish these things

>>1739748
well the latch on one of my top-loading PS2s is partially broken, but that's only because I modified it so I could hotswap the discs.
It doesn't impact performance though since the system now reads discs just fine with the lid open

>>1739780
>>1739748
This happened on my old playstation and my gamecube. Gamecube is irrelevant since I just use my Wii now but I don't know how they broke, but its not like I played with them or switched games that often, they just don't work.

>>1739793
>Gamecube is irrelevant since I just use my Wii now
Ahem, does the Wii have N64 backards compatibility?

>>1739815
Well the Gamecube sure as hell doesn't, but you can run N64 emulators with some success on the Wii

>>1739823
>Well the Gamecube sure as hell doesn't,
where have you been for all these years? n64 carts work on the gcn. check out this pic

>>1739815
Are you drunk right now?

>>1739101
pretty sure this has more to do with it being easier to sue over anything in america than the fact that american kids are particularly dumber.

>>1739880

>>1739815
Does anything?

>>1739884
>>1739902
See
>>1739880
how new are you guys

>>1739880
That doesn't work. You need to have the gamecube plugged in.

Also
>having to photoshop that picture instead of actually doing it

>>1739938
That's not a shop that was completely real

>>1739964
Yeah that is definitely a shop. Mario 64 never had a salmon colored cart. I reverse image searched that and found the original unshopped picture.

>>1739302
>>1739672

It's because no other version of the SNES had to have it's cartridges redesigned to prevent damages done to the game or consoles if you were to pull the game while the console was on and the game was locked in. Japanese games don't have that, neither do European games.

>>1739886
That too. It's amazing what kind of things people do here in the States. Why is it that Americans seem to be so, well, stupid? I mean, suing McDonalds for the coffee being scalding hot? Suing McDonalds again for their food making you fat? I'm an American myself, but some of the things we do is just amazing.

>>1740021
>Yeah that is definitely a shop. Mario 64 never had a salmon colored cart. I reverse image searched that and found the original unshopped picture.

>>1740314

Don't brown nose the Socialists. You're one of us, and you'll always be one of us.

>>1740356
>the joke
>your head

>>1739096
Oh, man, I somehow ended up with three copies of Super Mario World, each one distinguishable from the other, two of them were from your pic but one of them was pretty much the one on the right but with left's thin horizontal indentation. I took a pic of it but I lost it.

>>1740417
Yeah there were multiple print runs of SMW
I forget which one is more valuable but none of them are that much more valuable than the other two versions

>>1740314
>suing McDonalds for the coffee being scalding hot?
I saw a video once where they tried to drum up sympathy for the woman, saying "well there's no reason a cup of coffee needs to be six hundred degrees."

Yeah? There's no reason you need to drink coffee while driving either, you stupid hillbilly!

>>1740493

The cup melted, you dense faggot

>>1740314
>I mean, suing McDonalds for the coffee being scalding hot?

What was wrong with this?

The coffee was way too hot for consumption and, spilled, the lady actually suffered third degree burns.

The old lady didn't sue for millions of dollars, she just wanted McDonald's to cover medical costs. That's it. The judge, on the other hand, was the one who stepped over his bounds and awarded a ridiculously high six-digit sum that wasn't even the plan

>>1740314
>I mean, suing McDonalds for the coffee being scalding hot?
Polite sage for off-topic
Yes there are a lot of dumbass Americans and yes that story is easy fodder for laughs but I take it you never actually read or learned about it past the funny headlines. The coffee was just a hair below boiling and the woman received third degree burns on her thighs near her vagina. That's extreme negligence on behalf of the workers and more than enough grounds for a lawsuit.

>>1740493
Actually the McDonalds in question had broken several safety regulations with their coffee to begin with and the woman ended up with third degree burns over most of her legs and stomach. The lid also hadn't been put on properly so the shit went everywhere. People like to talk that case down as an example of everything wrong with America but they like to overlook that it was someone genuinely being injured by a company's incompetence.

They also had the coffee that hot so it would evaporate and fill the building with the aroma of coffee. It was done on purpose.

>>1740538
how is being a fucking genius of physics is going for you? What temperature did they kept the coffee? Above boiling point? I think that's very interesting... tell us more about how high school physics was such a challenge for you.

>>1740021
i actually found a GC the other day for 2 bucks, didn't need it but i grabbed it incase a friend wanted to start collecting or some shit. no games, but you can't beat a 2 dollar system.

>>1740554
>What temperature did they kept the coffee
What is steam buddy.

>>1740587
not a number, not always the same temperature, since it has stuff diluted in it (it changes the boiling point).
we all know you barely got through school, so shut up.

>>1739096
I like the second design better

>>1740538
>itshconshpirashyyyy

If you walk into a restaurant that's serving coffee, it's going to smell like coffee. That's something that just kinda happens on its own, it's not something restaurants actively "do."

>>1740592
>What temperature did they kept the coffee
u so smart doe

>>1740770
> it's not something restaurants actively "do."

You should get out more.

On topic: There were many cartridge redesigns. The Atari Lynx cartridge went through two redesigns; the first because kids coudn't get the cartridge out of the handheld, and the second because the first redesign's carts wouldn't stack properly. The redesigns were world-wide, BTW.

>>1739672
>being this amerifat

>>1741576
>Europeans think they're not fat too

>>1739328
>>1739656
>>1739664
He said only America had the locking design on the cartridges and SNES, yet someone posted right below him the PAL version of smw with the locking design

>>1739302

That's a PAL region cart. Note that the locking design is intact.

>>1742050
It's ok bro. Your other post made perfect sense. You have to remember you're arguing with bitter yuropoor dumbshits.

>>1742050

He said the cartridges had to be redesigned to be retard proof in America. No other region needed this change.

>>1743165
yeah don't discriminate europoors. childish stupidity isn't limited to our superior country

>>1740314
Hey, anyone can sue anybody at any time. Doesn't mean the guy'll win or that the judge won't kick him out of court for wasting his time.

>>1739880
Yes, and the Sega CD makes the Genesis as powerful as the Xbox 360. Observe.

>>1739101

How is this redesign not reasonable?

Did you know Microsoft would include fixes for other people's software's bugs within Windows itself because if you upgraded to a newer version and old programs failed to work you'd probably blame Microsoft?

>>1739748
>>1739715

I remember when I was at my cousin's he'd literally fucking punch his Playstation so hard it'd jump up noisily.

At some point we were playing games with the console upside down because it wouldn't work otherwise.

>>1744224
And the Master System can be upgraded to 32bits.

>>1744224

>>1744239
I enjoyed this too much, what the fuck.

>>1739101
>Only in America, my friend.

The *tips fedora* meme couldn't be anymore relevant than with this post.

>>1746330

I've always thought the cartridge-style CPUs from that era are pretty cool. Interesting take on how a CPU can connect to the board. I wonder what the benefit of it was, beyond having the heatsink already attached to it. Was it supposed to be faster than the pins?

>>1739101
burgers btfo

>>1739707
holy shit
never noticed that

There are only like 80(?) levels in the game but EXITS.
In the US and PAL versions, at least. The Japanese one has 100 'legit' exits but the last four are not worth the trouble and only accessible through glitchin'

>>1739715

>>1743234
>No other region needed this change
>THE FUCKING PAL VERSION

Jesus you slav-shit euroshits are inbred.

>>1739101
>Only in America, my friend

>Invented modern computers
>Invented the Internet
>Invented Cell Phones
>Invented Online Social Networking
>Invented Video Games
>Invented Video Game Consoles

Yup, only in America indeed.

>>1746647
>Eurotrash too autistic to realize that NTSC includes Canada, Argentina, Paraguay, Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea

>>1744224
>>1744239
>>1744730
WHAT THE FUUUUUUUUCK
HOW DID NO ONE ELSE SPILL THIS SECRET

>>1744224
By the way what's up with the artwork on your Dead Rising disc? Pic related: NA NTSC Dead Rising

>>1747551
Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil operate in Pal-N, burgerboy.

>>1747529
>invented video games
>invented consoles

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