/vr/ - Retro Games

>>674529
I had the one on the left.
That was rad.

The Sufami Turbo is a bizarre little thing, not unlike the Aladdin Deck Enhancer for the NES, except it was designed by Bandai and endorsed by Nintendo. It allows one to plug in custom cartridges which could interface with each other (thanks to having two cartridge ports).

Bandai used it for a bunch of Ultraman and Gundam games it looks like, I'm mostly going by Wikipedia.

>>674529
Just posted in another thread about how I hate the EA carts, now they're following me.

On topic, I guess the famicom disks were kinda goofy/awesome-looking.

The unlicensed NES cartridges made by Codemasters, who also designed the Game Genie, have a switch on them for changing between NTSC and PAL.

LETS BET ON HORSES MOTHERFUCKERS!!!!!!

>>674573
Why did EA have those ass backwards carts anyway?

>>674587
Apparently when they started out making games for the Genesis/Mega Drive their games were unlicensed so they used their own carts, then Sega sued them or some shit and they started licensing their games but kept the cart.

>>674587
Because they originally had to make their own cartridges, because they didn't want to pay some fee to Sega or something like that.
After they became official, Sega let them keep their own design.

>>674593
Also, I think they bypassed the region 'sizing'. rather than make a chip-based region ala NES/SNES, Sega just made the carts a different shape. EA bypassed that, and you can still find some imports here in the US that have been 'Shaved' to fit.

>pic related

>>674586
Oh god I love Japan.

Makes me think of Densha de go

>>674603
That might be a thing too. I haven't really ever dealt with any US Genesis games. I'm just an eurofag with a Mega Drive. I assumed the Genesis carts were the same size because the standard carts look to have the same shape and label format.

>>674586
Dad?!

>>674554
And that one Super Sentai car game

>>674605
Is that a drink holder?

Also not retro, but you can't forget the king of 'goddamn, japan' controllers.

>>674608
It's the grooves on the back. Different sizes for different regions. Nintendo did that too with Super Famicom/Super Nintendo in the US.

You guys got the same carts as the nips because they were region coded to PAL instead of NTSC, so they wouldn't work on opposite consoles anyway.

>>674605
yup, it seems that game would put a layover on your screen/channel while broadcating a live horserace somewhere in japan.

Yet here in Merrika our gubbermint can't make up their fucking minds on online gambling in 2013... Japan did it with a fucking Super Nintendo in 1993.

>>674619
And they did a stock trading thing on the fucking Famicom of all systems.

>>674616
It's for a stopwatch I believe. Those Japanese are hardcore about the train being on time.

>>674619
It wouldn't be america if we were all in agreement.

That picture is also inaccurate unfortunately; The Sega Nomad cannot use the CD or 32X.

>>674623
Well then!

>>674623
It can try, dammit!

>>674603
Good article I saw linked in a previous thread on EA's cartridges http://bluetoad.com/display_article.php?id=773681

>>674617
But we're PAL too! and so are the Aussies and Kiwis. I'm sure the jap games have some other kind of region lock though.

Thanks for the info, never knew the US carts were different since they're NTSC and mostly wouldn't work here anyhow.

>>674617
Quite a few early MegaGenesis games aren't region locked, but for some reason,Sega decided to start locking them out around 1991..

>>674627
Should have Micro Machines with two controllers plugged in on top.

>>674629
No, Japan is NTSC, just like the US. You guys have the same cart shapes as they do because they won't work on each other's consoles for the most part.

>>674627
Does a power base converter work through the 32X?

>>674619
>low battery blinking

10/10

>>674635
Ah, I just realized. It's all clear now, haha. Please excuse me, I haven't had my coffee yet.

>>674627
>What could possibly go wrong.jpg

>>674641
MOAR!

(it's a Karaoke system on the side)

>>674641
>power on

The world would simply cease to exist.

>>674645
Did someone ever do one of these with the Panasonic Laser Active?

I guess this counts!
Rumble in the cartridge, powered by a AAA battery.

>>674645
Fun fact : Virtua Racing doesn't work through a 32x, because the 32x uses the data pins needed for the SVP to communicate with the console.

TO THE MOON!

https://images.4chan.org/vr/src/1368663468065.jpg

>>674650
Fun fact: There were more GBC games that used rumble than Pokemon Pinball.

Funner fact: Nobody really cares about any of those games because the rumble was half assed and out of place.

>>674654
As stated in the thread this was posted on:
"LOCK-ON TECHNOLOGY WILL PIERCE THE HEAVENS"

>>674649
This Aiwa Sega thing....

>>674656
It wasn't that bad on DrillDozer, but that is for another decade.

>>674645
Once the CD32X is mass produced we'll put an end to Nintendo in no time.

>>674668
I said GBC as well.

>CPS Player
>SNES Controls

Cart and system = awesome!

>>674645
>Someone actually owns the Karaoke addon
[SWEET JESUS] I thought I was the only one who lusted after that thing to complete my sega sandwich.

>>674746
Everyone I know who owns a gameboy has a small pile of these things.
Do they even have save batteries? I've never taken one apart to check, but saves don't seem to last more than a few minutes.

This had an infrared panel at the top to trade robots pokemon style. The GBC already had a IR panel on it though, so god knows why they needed to build another one into the actual cart

Micro Machines 2 was amazing. The one on the playstation was great too.

Whoever decided that the game cart needed 2 controller slots deserves a knighthood for services to gaming. Thye make a great multiplayer game then they make sure you have the ability to play it properly.

Am I remembering correctly - was there even a mode for 8 players where you shared half a pad and only had contoll of steering?

Does the micromachines toy brand even exist anymore? I'd love a modern MM.

The Game Boy Pocket Sonar was a peripheral used by fishermen to turn the Game Boy into a device for locating fish underwater.

>>674656
I remember an awful Star Wars Podracing game that used it. I bought it in hopes that it was anything like the N64 game. I was a very disappointed little boy.

>>674804
Sweet jesus that's fucking awesome.

>>674767
Oh god this fucking cart. I read an article about it a while back, might've even been linked to it by /vr/. It had the IR port because the DMG doesn't have one, and they didn't want to leave anyone out. It ALSO had a small speaker in the cart, and would make a beep every time a world event was occurring in the game, as it was all in real-time. Events occurred at least every 15 minutes, so it was beeping constantly.

>>674857
god damn, that sounds so amazing. Was the game any fun?

>>674804
I wonder how much one of those things go for nowadays.

>>674863
From what I read, no. It was a pretty badly done Pokemon clone, one thing I specifically remember was the draconian requirements for evolving your totallynotpokemon.

>>674869
Only one on ebay is $190

>>674594
>>674593
interesting, people usually make out like nintendo was the only company that required licenses at the time and that sega was the savior of gaming... good to know that's bullshit

>>674636
No, it doesn't work. The signal that the Genesis needs from the Power Base Converter to go into Master System mode won't send through the 32X, just it just won't boot up.

>>674664
wait... what?

>>674891
Sega was far more lax in their licensing requirements in part due to the EA deal at the launch of the Genesis. It worked to their advantage up until they pissed EA off with the Saturn and Dreamcast, and prompted Nintendo to back off with their draconian licensing demands.

>>674767
>The GBC already had a IR panel on it though, so god knows why they needed to build another one into the actual cart
but the original gameboy didn't

I always thought those SFC Ascii carts were pretty bizarre.

What is that hole at the top even for?

>>674906
yeah... I bet that's bullshit and just trying to redeem your great wonderful sega

>>674910
>Nintendobabby realizing his OH SO PERFECT company aren't perfect

LEL

>>674645
The Dreamcast also had its own karaoke peripheral.

No idea about the Saturn, though.

>>674910
Dude, I had Nintendo consoles exclusively through the N64, after which I switched to PC and Xbox. The only Sega games I've played are the Total War series and 10Six.

Just read a bit about the history of Nintendo and Sega. In the NES Nintendo had a stranglehold on the North American market that allowed them to enact extremely restrictive licensing terms. On the flip side, part of the reason they were able to dominate the market was due to those same terms. Their strict quality control restored customer faith in game consoles after the mid-80's game crash. Once their position was secure, though, they were still restricting third parties to five NES games a year and prohibiting releases on competing systems.

They were basically able to keep this up until the uncensored Genesis port of Mortal Kombat proved far more successful than the sanitized SNES version.

>>674615
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AS-8wsledg

Fuck yeah.

>>674891
EA sat the 8-bit console era out and focused on PC games because of Nintendo's bullshit licensing agreements

At the start of the 16-bit era EA sees that Sega has a chance this time around. EA approaches Sega but Sega says "look, Nintendo apparently did right with their licensing practises, so we are going to use a similar agreement. EA is like "you people are stupid! Nintendo is going to bury you AGAIN."
Nintendo says "If you want a better deal from us then I guess you're just gonna hafta reverse engineer the Genesis ain't ya? HAHAHA"
So EA did.
EA goes back to Sega and says "Look, we did it and we're gonna flood the market with unlicensed games unless you play ball>" Sega backs down and part of the deal was that EA could manufacture their own carts.

>>674750
Mine does. Still have my Mario Land 2 save

>>674997
So EA has always been a piece of shit company huh

>>674609

10/10, would giggle twice more

>>674770

8 player controller sharing was an option (at least in MM96), but it sucked balls compared to 4 player. Too hectic, and less control :(

>>674554
What does this even do? Is it so you can reuse graphical assets and sound samples from one game to the next?

Also,
>lock-on technology

>>675214
you could unlock content in one game by having a different game in the second slot it was a cool idea but only like 10 games got made for it

>>675228
It looks like the cartridges don't even work in the normal cartridge slot. Seems like a dumb way to hamstring sales, to be perfectly honest. Cool idea though, and it's nuts that stuff like this actually got made back in the day.

>>675239
They don't, they had to be used through the adapter

>>674627
If the Sega Doom Tower was a dungeon in a vidya gaem I would play it.

>>675239
Actually, it was a way for Bandai to cut back on production costs. The big cartridge consisted of the memory mapper and the lockout chip, among other necessary chips that can be similar between games, while the smaller carts contained the CHR and PRG data. Essentially, cutting costs to produce one set of chips "permanently" while producing fewer various chips.

The NES Deck Enhancer worked in a similar way, except unlike the SuFami Turbo, it wasn't given the OK by Nintendo.

Remember when Nintendo home consoles were the "main" console?

>>674962
The NES had no competition, licensing agreements or not. How many games can a given team make in a single year, anyway? I doubt Konami or Capcom could squeeze out more than 5 NES games per year. That was to keep "shovelware" publishers such as GameTek or Bandai in check, as they never developed games in-house, and could easily hire a bunch of teams to make a bunch of games at the same time.

And some NES titles were on competing systems, just not the Master System. I think they just restricted the programmers to work on the NES, which actually benefits the programmer for once. No need to learn five different assembly languages and consoles.

And the Mortal Kombat Genesis game was used by Howards against Sega, and the Supreme Court stated that "Sega games were unfit for the American youth". NoA was ran by a legal expert, and until 2000-ish, they were feared and respected by everyone. Nintendo tried their very best to make their failures of consoles into "the main console", until Iwata took over and decided to make them secondary Marioboxes.

http://www.notenoughshaders.com/2013/03/14/howard-lincoln-kicking-ass-before-reggie-came-along/

>>674656
Hey Top Gear Pocket was worth it.

>>674616

Youre aware this was released in the west?

Finding one that works and doesnt cost a fortun on the other hand...

>>675283
Yeah, it's been a while. Though honestly, I don't care about other company system that much. Still buy Nintendo because they at least try to not make a crappy PC for your TV. Not retro commentary though so I apologize.

>>674902
It's an Aiwa CD Player that has a Genesis in its base, and itself can be used as a Sega CD. A bit odd in construction (The two parts are actually separate physically but still require one another to work properly) but it was a full working Genesis with CD.

>>674909
Looks perfectly sized for Game Boy carts to me, I bet there was a connection with other games a la the N64 Transfer Pak.

>>674918
Get out now.

>>674909
>>677074

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellaview

>>674627
MUTHAFACKIN TOWER OF POWA

Can we all agree that Jungle Strike is a sick game?

Interesting to learn the history on those cartridges... I still have a bunch of EA Sports games with the identicle shape.

Saving this thread from oblivion

Saved the tread because fucking weird carts are coo, shits.

>>674584
Thats pretty fuckin neat
>>674587
Fun fact:
EA reverse engineered ColecoVision cartridges so that they wouldn't have to display the ColecoVision boot up logo that lasts 7 seconds. EA is so petty, that they can't even let console manufacturers have credit for their own system