[cartidges] were so unreliable that EVERYBODY who had one experienced it not working

[cartidges] were so unreliable that EVERYBODY who had one experienced it not working

looked back upon fondly

How does nintendo get away with it?

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Mask ROM cartridges are the most reliable storage medium for games.

snoys are mentally ill

my proof? trust me bro

they look cool, they re thick, they feel like you own something and not just binary data on some bullshit. the coloured ones are even better

Only Nintendo had cartridge games

Why are gay people so dumb?

the games were good

As I was saying in another thread, the cartridges are still good when compared to the Nintendo Switch SD Cards. SD Cards work with technology that seems more like witchcraft than reality, but the cost is that the type of storage isn't very stable. Electrons can escape the quantum traps and after a while the memory can be corrupted and the contents of the card become unrecoverable. To avoid this failure, SD Cards have a way of repairing themselves, but for this they obviously need to be connected to the device in order to be energized.
In other words, if you have, say, 30 Nintendo Switch games, you need to be frequently putting all of them into the device for them to self-repair. If you stop doing this, it's only a matter of time before your games start to get lost.

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>[cartidges] were so unreliable that EVERYBODY who had one experienced it not working

?

Needing to take it out and blow into it.

I don't remember having issues except with one bootleg one and later on one cartridge the save battery dying which is inevitable I guess.
But I did not have many cartridge games, because those were very expensive at the time. Cost hundreds of local moneys which was lots of money

Every one of my N64 cartridges works perfectly 100% of the time to this day

THESE niggers though, they originated the arcane ritual of seating it, reseating it, blowing on it, and maybe on the 10th attempt the stars align and your game starts

I don't know how people lived with that as their only console

Lol u gay

I never had a cart not work.
What are you talking about OP?

They had soul. You wouldn't get it. Also this

Go back

Never happened to me. Blowing on it was the cause of the problem

why do you project what you did and keep doing on me? you should redeem yourself, not me

That was a result of the cartridge port design and not the cartridges themselves.

Not that unreliable, you can take a 30 year old cartridge and it will still work today.

Xbox 360 is biggest piece of malfunctioning shit ever released

looked back upon fondly

How did Microsoft get away with it?

they feel like you own something

clean the pins from console and cartridges. you can also try replacing the 72 pin connector in the console

It was entirely the fault of the hardware in the version of NES that has you insert the carts horizontally into a tray and then click them down like a VCR player. The NES version with the top loader has none of these issues.

the arcane ritual of seating it, reseating it, blowing on it, and maybe on the 10th attempt the stars align and your game starts

If you bought a used game or rented a game, you needed to clean it first before putting it in your NES and making a mess of your contacts. If you did that, or only bought new games that you stored properly you had no issues

Didn't Riri teach you to wiggle it?

All GPUs from that era (late 2005 to late 2008) are defective in the same way, including the one in the PS3. It was an industry wide issue and Microsoft did right by extending everyone's warranty. It's funny how you can sell people a broken product and have gamers hate you less then if you force Kinect, TV and no used games on them.

All my games work perfectly. Pokemon RED and Paper Mario don't save no'mo' but that's about it, simple fix but can't be arsed to switch the battery.

Meanwhile digital games KEKS you when the next dogshit console ships, PS2 and PSX games don't work on PS5

cartridge does work?

blow on it

CD doesnt work.

buy a 30 scratch cleaner kit for it to still not work

[cartidges] were so unreliable that EVERYBODY who had one experienced it not working

First I've heard of it. Mine always worked although I had to blow in them occasionally. I remember my friend always complaining about PS1 discs not working after a few little scuffs.

Blowing just adds moisture which isn't good. thing is probably already dirty enough without your spit and mouth fumes in there

nobody knows

my cardriges never failed me and I have a ton of them
only the NES had issue because of the bend connector thingy

casts Winds of Healing

it just works

moisture isn't real stop getting lied to.

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although I had to blow in them occasionally

Hence unreliable.

Why are Playstation consoles such shovelware magnets?

XBOX one that high

Huh? Chat is this real?

lol half the gamecubes tiny library was garbage on par with the worst of ps2's several thousand.

Never had any problem with any cartridge back in the day. I was a meticulous kid, kept all the cardboard boxes and manuals for every game and stored them inside. And to think I litterally gave away for free to other kids my NES, my SNES, my N64 and my Game Cube with dozens of perfectly conserved games with boxes and manuals for every console and dozens of gamepads and accessories....

Most of the PS2 library is shitty multiplats and really bad games. Even titles from big companies suck a fat one on the console.

Remember that it is backwardds compatible and has the Microsoft store, gaylord.

Hence unreliable.

Far more reliable than a PS1 disc that isn't going to work no matter how much you clean it.

By that logic the PS3 and the WII libraries are the biggest

uh. you posted spinoffs, an xbox game and one actual disappointing game in a series with 4 great ones.

But when it worked it always worked.

The PS2 just attracted bad games like no other console before. Even Konami was jumping in on the open world crime slop genre.

out of several thousand games if a thousand are bad that's ok
if half of the 600 gamecube games are bad that's worse.

Shitty design, the top loader never had that problem.

out of several thousand games if a thousand are bad that's ok

It's most of the library that's bad. Genuinely there's not one all time great released on the console that wasn't a multiplat.

Because they're durable as fuck and performed better than discs of the era?

blow in cartridge, fixed in 2 seconds

or clean the pins with a swab and rubbing alcohol properly

It's a non-issue, OP. The only bad thing about carts is the ones with batteries for clock and saves and shit will eventually need to have the batteries replaced but it's so trivial to desolder and resolder on a new battery. You can solder, right?

nintendo needs to stop holding games hostage and release them on PC... said nobody ever.

Nintendo games would sell millions on PC. Hence the efforts to emulate them. If Nintendo weren't so stubborn they'd just release them on PC themselves since the market is so obviously there.

Hence the efforts to emulate them

That's just because they're piss-easy to emulate.

The only time I ever had an issue with a cartridge not working was on the NES and that was because it was manufactured poorly. Zero problems with my SNES. Zero problems with my Genesis. Zero problem with my N64.

what's the point of wanting your games on individual SD cards instead of just getting a 2tb SD card and downloading them all?

Cartridges at least made sense when they had more hardware components but selling games on sd cards is dumb.

i grew up with a sega genesis, moved on to the original xbox, got a wii, and eventually moved on to pc. there was a neighbor boy who had a playstation and i never understood why anyone would go out of their way to play it. Anything playstation had you could find a better original version of on another console, mario BTFO any crash or spyro collectathon, tony hawk underground 1/2 BTFO any playstation game where you couldn't even get off the goddamn skateboard, xbox had Halo, wii had mario kart and also gamecube accessibility, plus virtual console. When i moved to PC, playstation made even less sense, their library always felt like a cheap imitation of actual games, something youd see in a movie so they didn't get sued. Nowadays you gotta pay monthly on all these consoles to play online, which is pants-on-head retarded. I just dont understand playstation at all, and playing jack and daxter or twisted metal will never change my opinion of that baseless, nothing that they call playstation. Maybe if i gave a shit about japanese rpgs? then playstation makes sense, the vr for playstation was cool, but i never saw anything that clicked and made sense and would justify ever purchasing that fake ass gamebox called a playstation. snoys need not reply.

Ico, Shadows of the Colossus.

90% of the water is 100% toxins

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For you kids, today; do you like holding your phone?
That's why.

When the next generation doesn't have phones, they have some sort of VR display that pops up and mocks (You) and (You)r "ancient phones," you'll understand.

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i grew up with a sega genesis, moved on to the original xbox, got a wii, and eventually moved on to pc

They didn't break like discs if you grabbed it the wrong way

implying phones are superior technology and not just an inferior poorfag computer for normies

lel lol xD!

Nah blowing usually worked. It’s like when they say you shouldn’t use ear swabs to clean your ear yet they work every time.

Just blow into it

Most of the PS2 library is shitty multiplats

They're multiplats now because it's been 20 years, back then they were exclusives.

tomb raider

rayman

soul blade

metal gear solid

FF 7-9

resident evil 1-3

silent hill

GTA 1, 2

armored core

just to name the ones that were popular.

EVERYBODY who had one experienced it not working

The you blew it on it once or twice and it worked perfectly for a year.

only two (2) of those are actual games.

"Grandpa, why the FUCK are you still using a FUCKING USB DRIVE? Just upload your goddamned music to GreaterAIDistribute, already!"

"Kid, you don't know that it feels nice to own your mp3 music, all in one sturdy 128GB thumbdrive..."

"MP3!?!?! A THUMBDRIVE!?? 128 GIGS!?!?! Fucking HELL, gramps! Just die, already!"

That's what you can expect.

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seek help

for n64 carts I just clean the pins with a q tip and it works 98% of the time

I can hear your picture

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you're almost as insufferable as the genxers that talk about arcades and watching ESB in theaters.

That was only NES cartridges you fucking retarded zoomer

Personally I never had an issue with the N64 cartridges. SNES worked good too and all the renditions of gameboy. It was really only the NES ones that were sons of bitches with long pins that can be misaligned and dust blocking the connection.

stay mad snoy boy. Playstation never had games, its a fake console for Japanese kids to do their homework on before doing chores.

The advantage of the Switch's SD cards is that you can resell them when you get tired of the game, whereas you can't with digital games bought via the Nintendo eShop. But for collection purposes I think they're a bad deal. It's not uncommon for you to go years without playing a game. I recently replayed a game on Steam and realized that I hadn't played it in six fucking years. Six years is dangerous enough for an SD card, if you've left it in a drawer all this time, it's possible that when you try to play the game, it won't work anymore.

My cartridges from 30 years ago that were stored loose at the bottom of a cardboard box still work perfectly in the console stored in similar conditions

The only cartridge malfunction I've experienced was when my friend dropped his WCW Mayhem down the stairs. Everyone after that was wearing cut off jeans and flannel for some reason. Konan became Kendag, and LaParka became La Papka. Haldouad Hegan lmao

Carts in general or picrel? We played that shit daily when I was uni in the 2010s. Fired up perfect every time.
Yeah I blew on nes/sega games but are u rly bitching about that minor inconvenience when disc read errors and red/yellow lights of deaths came around?

Just a shitty inferior PC with a dogshit screen. Simple as.

What’s the best way to store N64 cartridges?
Mine are in a cardboard box right now but I’d like to get something better to display them.

Have you tried shellac?

dad's classic rock/soul collection

300+ cds stored safe

ripped expertly by yours truly

make master backup

been making copies off that and giving out 250 gigs of music for years as a gift to older folks

another safety backup on an external

Feel I got a good system.

It's the shitty lockout chip that does it. If you cut the chip leg the console will work just fine. Also never put a game genie in the cartridge slot, they bend the pins.

maybe something like this?
it's of course only concept image i made but there's lots of potential for storing and display purposes with few tweaks

I miss soundboards and ventrilo harassment.

customgamecases.com

go to swap meet

buy a crayon-covered NES and an uninventoried box of games

everything works fine

go to swap meet

buy a PS2 and a stack of games in unmarked jewel cases

half of the games are scratched to the point of uselessness

go to swap meet