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10505957 No.10505957 [Reply] [Original]

Why do I need a barcode scanner to play my vidya games?

>> No.10505986

Because you are consumer

>> No.10505993

>>10505957
You certainly don't "need" an e-reader

>> No.10505995

>>10505993
You do if you want to 100% Animal Crossing

>> No.10506014

>>10505995
No one wants to do that

>> No.10506070

>>10506014
are the older Animal Xings worth playing at all?

>> No.10506072

>>10506070
Gamecube is.

>> No.10506081

>>10506072
even if i have New Horizons? i don't because i recognize it as the the achievement porn it is and do stuff irl instead

>> No.10506085

>>10506070
The original N64/GCN game is pretty cool in its own right.

>> No.10506091

>>10506070
only the n64 version worth playing on /vr/

>> No.10506298

>>10505957
not only that you need a second gba and a link cable to access extra levels

>> No.10506302

>>10506070
Definitely, but going for 100% on them? Complete insanity.

>> No.10506326
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>>10506070
The original game on GameCube has a few major differences from later entries, mainly the villagers have a bit more "personality" (they say funnier things) and you can collect actual NES games that you can play within the main game. Animal Forest (the N64 game) is similar but rougher around the edges and is missing a few features. It doesn't even have a museum

>> No.10506349

>>10505957
Because you're an NPC whose only physical form is some dots on a card. You need to be scanned into the system in order to run.

>> No.10506503
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10506503

Barcodes were huge in the early 90's in Japan, but this never caught on in the west.

>> No.10506523

kind of crazy how many forms of "DLC" there were before DLC.
I think it was cool they were physical though

>> No.10506530

>>10506523
there's amiibo now and they're good you should buy some :-)

>> No.10506539

>>10506530
where do i buy them in my country?

>> No.10506572

>>10506530
im not an amiibo-hater, and i stand by my opinion, i prefer them over regular DLC. but amiibos never give substantial dlc.
An example I'd give is i want the new pokemon DLC, and i think it'd be cooler if buying a pokemon amiibo gave me the DLC

>> No.10506616

>>10506530
Amiibos are pretty great when you buy them MSRP. Who would have guessed there would be ever a figurine of Duck Hunt dog?

>>10505957
It's strange Nintendo didn't think of including e-reader cards within the pages of Nintendo Power. I can't imagine it'd have been very expensive to develop a set of mini games over two weeks and then spread them out over the course of a year. I know they were supposed to release a bunch of Game & Watch games but only ended up making one for Manhole.

>> No.10506654

I really wanted one of these as a kid but never found it in stores, I don't know why Nintendo scrapped it so fast.

>> No.10506658

>>10506539
Anywhere that accepts your parents creditcard.

>> No.10506687

>>10505957
you will scan everything and you will be happy

>> No.10506726

>>10506081
Yes, as New Horizons is fucking gay (for many reasons). Give the Gamecube game a try for a few days, and maybe you'll understand the difference.

>> No.10507118
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>>10505957
Digimon made scanning cards look cool.
Also I thought it would work with all of my pokemon cards, not just special ones.

>> No.10508150

>>10506081
oh if you just have New Horizons then you should play New Leaf (not /vr/) too.

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>>10506616
>It's strange Nintendo didn't think of including e-reader cards within the pages of Nintendo Power.
They released the eon ticket in Nintendo Power.

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>>10507118

Barcode Battler, you are truly forgotten.

>> No.10508428

>>10505957
I'm glad someone came up with homebrew to just inject all of the e-reader shit into pokemon ruby and sapphire, because fuck actually having to track down these cards to experience all that content.

>> No.10508882 [DELETED] 

>>10505957
it seems like a pretty good idea. I would imagine that the card would be much easier to manufacture than the gba game carts. I guess having to scan several sequential cards if you wanted an NES game though would be on the annoying side

>> No.10508967

>>10508428
(You) are stealing from collectors who deserve to be rewarded for their foresight

>> No.10509274

>>10508428
I'm glad I got me first ereader over 20 years ago.

>> No.10509282
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>>10505957
Some things never change...

>> No.10509284

>>10508408
>card battle system

Why does that sound cooler than it probably actually is?

>> No.10509442

>>10509284
from a technical standpoint, it sounds cool.
in common practice, it's ridiculous.

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>>10506070
Yes. "you live in their world", VS "they live in your world" in the later ones. A little thing that makes a big difference.

Also the New Horizons soundtrack is horseshit lol. First game best game

>> No.10509874

>>10509458
>original animal crossing
>not animal forest
fake quotes

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>>10509874
okay here

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>>10510063
lmao based

>> No.10512137

>>10505957
Because it was a way for the GBA to have DLC. It wasn't (usually) unlocking existing game code to finally be allowed to be used, but adding brand new code. The one meaningful example I can think of, where it was just unlocking existing code, was for Animal Crossing.
But most of the time, it was adding additional, brand new code, that wasn't there before. The SMB3 e-reader world, wasn't something that could be played with an Action Replay, but something that was being added.

>> No.10512147

>>10508428
It's inevitable that someone will finally be more worried about game preservation, that being a jew. Like the 2 others that replied to you.

>> No.10512163

>>10509874
Animal Crossing IS Animal Forest, rereleased with a few extra features. It's not really a different game, if you actually knew what you were talking about.

>> No.10512197

>>10508150
>not /vr/
At this point it doesn't even matter anymore...

>> No.10512215

Speaking as someone who had one of these things, I can figure out why it was such a massive flop outside of Japan:

1) Too expensive. The e-reader itself was $40 on release (just shy of $80 in 2023 money). Considering its miniscule internal memory, the margins were probably pretty massive on it. This was a retarded option for a device that was designed to sell trading cards (a product category with insanely high margins). It should have been sold at-cost or even at a loss to push people to buy in.

2) Terrible implementation of the idea. The fact that you needed a second gameboy advance to use this with your games was utterly retarded. Ideally it should have only used the link cable port but even if it needed the full connectivity of the cartridge port, it should have provided passthru so you could just plug it and an e-reader compatible game together on the same console.

3) No GBA SP support outside of Japan.

4) The cards were stupidly expensive for no real reason. Even for TCG zombies, e-reader shit was ovepriced (and this pricing almost killed the Pokemon TCG in the US during the e-reader era).

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>>10509282
Indeed. Nintendo will eventually no longer sell cartridges, mini-DVDs, CDs, or amiibos, they'll go back to selling card games you can scan. Bet on it.

>> No.10512602

>>10512137
If you peek into GBA ROMs supporting the e-Reader with a hex editor, you'll find that most of those games contain embedded e-Reader data.

>> No.10513662

I had a bunch of NES games for this thing, you had to scan in like ten cards but then you could play a game. I don't think I used it for much else.

>> No.10513883

>>10506081
Is that the new one? Never tried it, but the others are good. Id definitley give the gc version a chance if you want to play the games.
>>10508150
Had a blast with that one, but after a few months i got tired. Cant even imagine how safe and squishy the series will become.