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8624510 No.8624510 [Reply] [Original]

>game uses a password system instead of saving on the cartridge

Who thought this was a good idea?

>> No.8624515

>>8624510
The game is cheaper without battery-backed save.

>> No.8624527

>>8624510
The shareholders

>> No.8624528

Retard

>> No.8624534

Fuck off, wojak posting retard.

>> No.8624549
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8624549

FPBP. It was a necessary evil. Battery-backed save cartridges were pretty expensive, so putting one in a game that wasn't a surefire hit was a big risk. This is why you see them so rarely in the NES era.

Most of the games that had save batteries in the U.S. were Famicom Disk System games in Japan; a game like The Legend of Zelda was a sure thing, so it got a battery But Kid Icarus and Metroid? Maybe not. The ability to save and re-write FDS disks was a selling point of the system, and the efficacy and cost of setting up a similar game kiosk network in a country that wasn't solely comprised of dense urban centers (like the U.S.) just made it unfeasible. So, they shelled out for batter-backed saves for big games and just kept it password style for the rest.

>> No.8624557

>>8624534
Its a picture of a retro character. Stay on topic

>> No.8624572

>>8624549
Retard OP BTFO

>> No.8624582

this is why I like emulation and flashcarts, save states let me save without saving

>> No.8624596

Did your mother drop you on your head?

>> No.8624605
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8624605

>>8624549
I think following the NES era lots of games just kept using passwords because it was an established process most consumers would accept and it was cheaper. I'd wager a guess that it's much more of a recent thing to complain about it than it was back then. Still, the password systems for Metroid and Kid Icarus are way too fucking long and tedious and I'm sure people hated them back in the day too. Super Castlevania IV is an example of a password system done really well. Can't beat simple quick symbols.

>> No.8624607

Why is it anytime somebody asks a question on this board, they have to phrase it in this aggressive, offended, superior tone?

>> No.8624612 [DELETED] 
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>>8624582

>> No.8624615

>>8624607
Clickbait

>> No.8624619
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8624619

>game has no password system or battery save

I just want to get back to the part I was at last time without playing through the entire game

>> No.8624626 [DELETED] 

>>8624612
it's relevant to the thread topic tho

>> No.8624630

>>8624607
because people like shitposting and trolling more than actually discussing anything

>> No.8624631

>>8624619
fucking casuals

>> No.8624639

It's hard to find a directly translated manual, but I swear that at the end of the Japanese manual for Super Mario Bros. 3 there's like a letter from Mario or the Mario team actually apologizing for not including a save battery or making it a Disk System game. The chips needed to do what they wanted required a cartridge.

>> No.8624658

>>8624607
ironic

>> No.8624679

>>8624510
I wish computers were designed to electrocute users when they type in stupid shit like this.

>> No.8624681

Batteries cost $$$ and Metroid actually has an attachment point on the cartridge PCB for a battery suggesting one was originally planned but Nintendo cheaped out at the last minute.

>> No.8624691

https://desuarchive.org/vr/thread/8624472/#q8624556
This is false, Return of the Joker has a Sunsoft mapper in it. They just didn't do it because it was expensive.

>> No.8624727

>>8624691
That one seems like the exception that proves the rule. Are there any other licensed examples like that?

>> No.8624735 [DELETED] 

>ask a simple question about video games
>multiple seething replies unrelated to thread
>they stay up
>mods delete picture of a nintendo piranah plant

>> No.8624754 [DELETED] 

>>8624735
cope, seethe, dilate, kys yourself, you will NEVER have an ethnostate, include me in the screencap

>> No.8624768

>>8624727
Gauntlet and RBI Baseball used the Namco 109 mapper in both the licensed gray shell and black unlicensed shell versions.