/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.7917272]

it's kind of cool to think that a little battery inside this game has been sending pulses of electricity for 21 years straight, preserving game data from long ago and literally powering the soul of the game. these things are practically alive.

[Anonymous No.7917289]

you should break it open and see if any zenny comes flying out

[Anonymous No.7917292]

I get a weird sense of satisfaction seeing games that were on CD get a cartridge version. The thought of a "big" CD with all the related moving parts being converted to a "small" solid state cartridge feels cozy for some reason. I kind of still get this feeling seeing Switch versions of games compared to the PlayStation and Xbox discs. Like the game is "safer" or something in that form.

[Anonymous No.7917295]

>>7917272
I thought that the save files on n64 cartridges weren't battery dependent? I could be wrong though.

[Anonymous No.7917304]

>>7917295
some are some aren't. it's weird. OOT has a freakin battery of all things.

[Anonymous No.7917314]

>>7917272
N64 was a retarded console.

>>7917295
The games that used FRAM and flash chips didn't need battery. The SRAM ones needed to be battery backed.

[Anonymous No.7917342]

>>7917292
I get the same feeling. cartridge versions of disc games are insanely satisfying for some bizarre reason.

[Anonymous No.7917348]

it's kind of cool to think that every CD I own contains a unique monster

[Anonymous No.7917352]

>>7917314
>retarded console
N64 is one of the best consoles ever made.
>basically 0 load times
>analog controls out of the box
>4 players out of the box, separate memory card for every player
>great graphics, the only 5th gen console to support true 64 bit games and 24 bit color, pushed 360k polys per sec
the 64 is legendary and you know it. a solid 30-40 good games that you can pop in and be playing within 10 seconds, no bullshit load times, just good gameplay.

[Anonymous No.7917361]

>>7917295
Here's a random smattering of my games. Ocarina of Time has a battery for some reason, it's strange that Nintendo cheaped out on their magnum opus. Perfect Dark does not, so you might think no battery has to do with it being late gen right? Well, Pilotwings 64 here doesn't either, it has cart saves, it was a launch title, and i know it's a launch version of the game because i have personally owned it since 96!
>>7917272
Megaman 64 doesn't even have a battery LUL. great job /vr/

[Anonymous No.7917364]

>>7917352
Not him but why do N64fags always prance about load times? Will you run off like a gormless crackhead if you have to sit and wait longer than 15 seconds for a game to start? Do you have ADHD?

[Anonymous No.7917395]

>>7917361
>Megaman 64 doesn't even have a battery LUL. great job /vr/
i may have failed, but it's the thought that counts. eat a penis you old gray-bearded baby face.

[Anonymous No.7917403]

>>7917292
It feels old school but in a good way. Games do load quick at least to the start screen.

[Anonymous No.7917406]

>>7917364
Because it's cool daddy-o.

[Anonymous No.7917414]

>>7917364
My Saturn's got a shit laser right now and the loading times with that are unbearable. Back then 5-10 seconds was fine. Over time on consoles with dying lasers, that shit turns into 40-50 seconds. Of course I can just replace the laser and will eventually but in terms of long term survival and shit cartridges definitely beat CDs both with the media themselves and the hardware of the system.

[Anonymous No.7917439]

>>7917414
>dying lasers
That's not the fault of the media format.

[Anonymous No.7917480]

>>7917395
all my hair and no gray to speak of. im pretty psyched though. gonna look distingushed af

[Anonymous No.7917642]

>>7917439
Yes it is

[Anonymous No.7917648]

> Game has no battery
> No life
> Souless

[Anonymous No.7917772]

>>7917395
Take the L, you prepubescent zoomer fuckwit

[Anonymous No.7917775]

>>7917439
Since it's how the media is read it's kind of important.

Cartridges last longer, both the individual carts themselves and the drives that read them.

[Anonymous No.7917819]

>>7917352
>basically 0 load times
The tradeoff is the cart is expensive and games can't exceed 8-100MB in size. The bigger the game is the more expensive the cart is. And that's a huge trade-off.
>analog controls out of the box
Does that make it the best console ever when the PS1 got it only a year later?
>4 players out of the box, separate memory card for every player
4 players is good, but there's little to no point in having separate mem cards for every player. Needing another memory card despite running on a cartridge format is a flaw, in fact.
>great graphics, the only 5th gen console to support true 64 bit games and 24 bit color, pushed 360k polys per sec
Yes, but with vaseline graphics, poor framerate, and awful textures. On practical terms it's not much of an upgrade from the PS1.

>>7917414
Back in the 5th gen era it was probably cheaper to fix the laser than to buy N64 games. Nowadays you could mod a hard drive or an SD card into the console.

[Anonymous No.7917821]

>>7917272
> pulse
it's DC anon

[Anonymous No.7917827]

>>7917364
with some games the load times wear you down. Pause, load, unpause, load, door, load, save, loaaaaaaaaaaad, its a big buummer and yes the memcards are even slower than the discs

[Anonymous No.7917830]

>>7917827
shit is soooo slow yo

[Anonymous No.7917849]

>>7917827
Most jarpigs have awful optimization.

[Anonymous No.7918239]

>>7917304
Man, I know if would have been hard but I love how that proof of concept looked that Square made for n64

[Anonymous No.7918241]

>>7917292
The word you're thinking of is cope

[Anonymous No.7918630]

>>7917304
Even if you were to gut the FMVs, could the N64 run FFVII?

[Anonymous No.7918664]

>>7918630
They got RE2 I don't see how they couldn't. One day it'll happen.

[Anonymous No.7918679]

>>7918630
They would have to gut a lot more than the FMV in order to get there.

[Anonymous No.7918686]

>>7917292
same

[Anonymous No.7918692]

>>7918679
Lmao what? The game's models and animations are insanely simplistic, all the soundtrack aside from the vocals on One Winged Angel was fucking cheap ass MIDIs the N64 could run circles around, really the textures and prerendered backgrounds only needed either some compression or a larger size cartridge.

[Anonymous No.7918773]

>>7918630
no

[Anonymous No.7918793]

>>7918630
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPO7c_XmesU

>The Final Fantasy VI CG demo made for the Siggraph exhibition took 20 megabytes. The developers thought the demo had a visual impact, and there wasn't a question about which hardware Square would use in the future; to realize the promise of the demo, nothing but the CD-ROM format would suffice.

https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Final_Fantasy_VI:_The_Interactive_CG_Game

[Anonymous No.7918794]

>>7917272
you're the fucking reason mario 64 is $40

[Anonymous No.7918802]

>>7918239
> proof of concept
it was 10 minutes of Gimp but thx bro

[Anonymous No.7918803]

>>7917361
>Ocarina of Time has a battery for some reason,

> Limited Edition gold cart
> Battery

WTF Nintendo?

[Anonymous No.7918809]

>>7918803
nintendo love cash!

[Anonymous No.7918812]

I assumed all n64 games had batteries, I'm genuinely shocked that most didn't

[Anonymous No.7918816]

>>7918812
By the mid 90s FLASH and FRAM chips were already commonplace. Sega already used FRAM instead of battery backed saves for some of their genesis games. Battery backed SRAM saving in 1996 is totally ridiculous.

[Anonymous No.7918828]

>>7918802
He’s not talking about the cart in >>7917304

[Anonymous No.7918839]

>>7918828
oh ...what proof of concept?

[Anonymous No.7918843]

>>7918839
>>7918793

[Anonymous No.7918908]

>>7917292
only old cartridges have that magical feel. Switch games are basically just SD cards.

[Anonymous No.7918942]

>>7918809
>nintendo love cash!

I all fairness, the grey Zelda OOT carts have batteries in them too.

[Anonymous No.7918957]

i have a copy of links awakening GB (not dx) and the battery save still works on it. blows me away that the battery is almost as old as me and still works

[Anonymous No.7919001]

>>7918843
holy shit i thought that was just a fanmade thing i didn't realize Square actually did it

[Anonymous No.7919003]

>>7918957
i haven't had one die on me yet. my Zelda still kickin after 35 years or so. if you don't store your carts in extreme heat / cold i assume they will just last forever. time will tell.

[Anonymous No.7919012]

>>7917772
>take the L
>immediately followed by zoomer
>take the L
motherfucker you are the biggest zoomer i have ever seen in my life, i bet you have a tiktok account