Favorite Carts

[Anonymous No.1657753]

Last night I just sat and held some of my SNES and GB carts in my hand for a minute in between play sessions and thought to myself, "This thing has weight. This thing doesn't require a protective case. This physical thing itself is a piece of art let alone the content inside. This thing is a fucking game."

What's your favorite cartridge /vr/?

I'm talking aesthetics not the games themselves.

>pic related

Idk why but, to me, Gameboy carts are the shit.

[Anonymous No.1657832]

>>1657753

GBA carts. My only gripe with older Nintendo cartridges is that they're too prone to discoloration and stress-based damage. Case in point, the cartridge in your pic is covered with brown shit that won't simply wipe off.

GBA carts were usually black, so even if you did leave them lying out in the sun for days, you wouldn't see any discoloration.

As for the stress-based damage, this occurs when you pack cartridges together tightly, or have NES cartridges stacked together in huge piles. It causes the plastic on the sides of the cartridges to develop permanent white streaks.

[Anonymous No.1657881]

>>1657753

N64 looks breddy gud.

If you were to ask me about something besides aesthetics, I'd say SNES because they look nice and also have great stackability.

[Anonymous No.1657892]

>>1657832
>dat angled stack

[Anonymous No.1658393]

Super Nintendo all day.

Especially with a dust cover.

Shit is sexy as fuck.

[Anonymous No.1658394]

boxes and cartridges are garbage

digital downloads is the epitome of gaming

[Anonymous No.1658402]

>>1658394

Please take your bait elsewhere.

[Anonymous No.1658408]

>>1658393
Dude the smell and feel of those dustcovers brand new when you got a new game.

Pic related, how that shit FELT.

[Anonymous No.1658423]

>>1658393
>Not having a dust cover on super metroid

[Anonymous No.1658453]

>>1657753

I want some of whatever you were toking, anon, 'cause it sounds like good shit.

And honestly, I can't think of any carts that I DON'T like.

[Anonymous No.1658578]

Genesis carts are my favorite. So perfect and satisfying to put in.

Famicom carts are just fun. N64 carts always have this great weight to them.

Atari carts always have great variety in the label from publisher to publisher.

[Anonymous No.1658582]

>>1658393
Not preferring the shape of the jp/pal carts

[Anonymous No.1658583]

I only have three games for my N64, but I think those carts are the absolute best.

[Anonymous No.1658584]

>>1658393

Super Nintendo carts are the worst to clean because they have so many thin little dips that you really gotta dig deep to clean in. As a person who frequents yard sales in the search of vidya, this is a problem for me that reduces my appreciation for the SNES cart.

Personally I love the carts for Game Gear. They're oddly shaped, but masterfully designed and the games they contain are often unsung quality titles of ages past. Not only that, but they're durable as hell and are big and imposing, like the Game Gear itself.

[Anonymous No.1658987]

>>1658423
Reminds me that as I lost my dust covers I kept the remaining ones on my favorite carts.

Super Metroid recieved such a treatment.

[Anonymous No.1659216]

My pins on my cartridge used to get so dirty that I used to dab a cotton swab with alcohol to clean them. You'd be surprised how well that works.

They used to sell these little overpriced cleaning kits that would expressly tell you NOT to do that, but they were full of shit, it worked perfectly and I never had a problem connecting a pin to the receiver after I cleaned them with alcohol.

Occasionally the cotton swab would leave a little soaked cotton fiber residue, but that was easy to pick up out of the carriage case and so long as you were careful and brushed to contacts gently that wouldn't happen.

Later on I did have some issues with having to pin back the SNES cartridges with a folded slip of paper to press the contacts into physical contact, eventually the female connector would somehow get too "loose" and you would have to shore it up by folding a scrape of paper and bending the cartridge at an angle so that the connectors would stay in contact.

[Anonymous No.1659219]

>>1659216
Oh man, I'm remembering that scene in FF2 where Tella sacrifices himself by casting Meteo, god that chokes me up.

[Anonymous No.1659224]

>>1659219
Or where the twins cast stone on themselves, or Yang sacrifices himself. I remember how it felt to see him alive and well with the faeries from the underworld after he had been hurt.

I knew he hadn't died.

[Anonymous No.1659228]

The reasons the pins collect dust is because they have a static charge, like a capacitor, and dust particles that have been in the sun too long tent to gather on things that have a slight electrical charge, like magnets, people, or the pins on your connector.

[Anonymous No.1659231]

>>1659228
Honestly, when I played those games, I could feel them suck up all my negative energy, all my feelings would just suddenly be gone and replaced with joy and happiness.

I could completely tune out my surroundings and just immerse myself, I swear, sometimes it was like the only thing I lived for was those games.

[Anonymous No.1659235]

>>1659231
It was so childlike and innocent, like real innocence, not that smarmy crap you would see on television. Everything about his world was childlike and fun. It was like you could come back and visit the Garden of Eden whenever you liked.

[Anonymous No.1659247]

>>1659219
>not renaming Tella 'my dick' so that at game's end, Edward says:
>Anna... Watch me from up there, Anna. I have the people of Damcyan with me! I hope my dick will keep you company.
It's like you weren't 12 years old when the SNES game was first in your grubby mitts. It's disgusting.

[Anonymous No.1659313]

>>1658393
>US carts

[Anonymous No.1659361]

>>1659228
>static charge, like a capacitor
>magnets have an electrical charge

nigger if you dont know anything about electricity, don't bring electrical components into your fucktarded explanations, you sound like someone who buys 'healing crystals'

[Anonymous No.1659534]

>>1658582
>>1659313

Japayuro carts are boring-looking. They don't give you the impression that YOU ARE PLAYING WITH POWER.

[Anonymous No.1659569]

>>1657753
Gameboy carts are nice, the only problem is when the carts have a convex top instead of concave. I can't stack them up neatly when that happens.

Specifically Pokemon Crystal is my favourite looking cart.

[Anonymous No.1659593]

OP post more blank carts.

[Anonymous No.1659594]

I know most people dislike N64 carts, but you can't deny they are solid as fuck. When I used to get a new game back in the day you felt like you were getting something for your money.

[Anonymous No.1659598]

>>1659594
compare it for example to the sega megadrive carts which felt flimsy as fuck

[Anonymous No.1659632]

>>1659594

Taking them apart for a deep cleaning is a pain in the ass though, two screws outside, two more inside, take the shielding off and you can finally swap off the crap that the previous owner somehow pushed up there.

I do like the look of the cart though, I just put strips of masking tape on tops for end labels, because fuck that. The more you have, the more you probably will want to give them end labels.

[Anonymous No.1659636]

>>1659632
Why not keep them in the box?

[Anonymous No.1659642]

>>1659593
Not OP but here's my copy of Pokemon Crystal, I don't remember how I lost the label.
I always liked the look of transparent hardware.

[Anonymous No.1659643]

>>1657753
It seems to be a battle over form vs. functionality with everything.

Tengen form, NES functionality
Genesis form, EAcart functionality
GBA form, fucking NGPC functionality

[Anonymous No.1659656]

I like these one. They just look special to me, they aren't just square or rectangle.

[Anonymous No.1659671]

>>1659642
No no post blank carts that we can use as templates.

[Anonymous No.1659749]

>>1659671
>what is google image search

[Anonymous No.1659780]

[Anonymous No.1659793]

>>1659749
Too much effort for me, that's what.

[Anonymous No.1660164]

Japanese Mega Drive carts are probably my favourites in general, with Famicom a close second. So many cool labels and they feel great to slot in to the console

[Anonymous No.1660225]

>>1659636

Most of my games were bought used, that's why.

[Anonymous No.1660242]

I like the gameboy carts... mostly the GBcolor ones.

[Anonymous No.1661936]

As long as we all agree these were an abomination then its alright.

[Anonymous No.1661950]

>>1661936

These are pretty horrendous. However, I quite like Accolade's proprietary carts (even when they cotiain godawful shitbiscuit games).

[Anonymous No.1662001]

>>1661936

>mfw these are my favourite kind of carts

Based 1990's EA.

[Anonymous No.1662010]

>>1659656

NES carts are very wasteful in regards to space, though.

[Anonymous No.1662025]

>>1661936
Those were pretty cool actually. I always thought the yellow thing on the side was some kind of button.

And they had ROAD RASH on those carts so they cannot be abominations.

>>1662001
Now that's what I call Virtua Hamster.

[Anonymous No.1662027]

>>1662010
why where they so big back then? i owned a NES and i took it apart once but never the cartridge

[Anonymous No.1662046]

>>1662027

In order for the front-loading mechanism to work. Nintendo redesigned the NES to look like a VCR in order to sell it to after the video game crash.
The front-loading is also the reason for the contact problems of the NES.

The original Famicom, being a top-loader, doesn't suffer from this. Famicom modules are also a lot more compact.

[Anonymous No.1662048]

>>1662027
They wanted to set it apart from the cart games before it. They also went out of their way not to call them video games. It was a marketing strategy that made people forget about the game crash a few years prior.

[Anonymous No.1662064]

The japanese Virtua Racing for Mega Drive.

>>1662025

>Road Rash
>Desert/Jungle/Urban Strike
>Fifa 95
>Lotus

I love it more at every second.

[Anonymous No.1662820]

>>1662010
I find that it's what make its charms

[Anonymous No.1662862]

>>1662010
Wow, all these years having them and only now do I actually see what a NES cart looks like on the inside.