Forum - View topicINTEREST: Ultimate Retro Game Console Compatible with 11 Different Cartridges
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tangytangerine
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I think what they're referring to is that it probably won't play NES games from outside of Japan. As they list the SNES, Genesis & Turbographx-16 along with listing their japanese counterparts. So it makes it sound like it's supporting different regions. Meanwhile only the Famicom is listed, not the NES. |
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Hameyadea
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That's a nice dea. Now all those cartridges can be played off the same device, and even gain a small graphical touch-up from the hardware.
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Jex2193
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This hit me square in the childhood. Seriously, once I was at my cousin's house and we were playing his gamecube and somehow we started talking about how cool it'd be if there was something that could play all the games from different game systems. And now it's real :O
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CrownKlown
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Actually no its not legal. You buying a cartridge or cd, entitles you to that cartridge or cd, but any copies even if you own the game are illegal. You don't own the rights to the "game", you own the rights to one single physical copy of a game. Granted, like with music, its not something that is really pursued, so its called a grey area, but its by its strictest definition not legal. |
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Lord Dcast
 Posts: 644 Location: 'Straiya |
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Oh. Whoops. Better check my facts last time. Still, I'm pretty sure SOMEONE will sue the company at some point. |
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fuuma_monou
 Posts: 1820 Location: Quezon City, Philippines |
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I used to have a Famicom to NES cartridge adapter. I think they are NES to Famicom adapters as well. My guess is that the relatively larger NES cartridge slot would've taken up too much space. |
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enurtsol
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Heh, we had something like that from Hong Kong way back on SNES that could be put on top of the SNES slot and copy the games on a floppy. 
Anyway, this reminds us of this news: A New Cartridge-Based Console Is Being Made To “Reestablish The Culture Of Video Gaming”
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rizuchan
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I wonder if it copies save files when it "installs" them? If so something like this could be really handy for Pokemon games whose batteries are due to die any day now. (Though speaking of batteries, I wonder how this system does with time-based events...)
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yaki-udon
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Speaking of retro games, it didn't take me long to realize that learning English could be as fun as playing Dragon Quest III.
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Stealth00
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Presumably this console runs off of emulators like the Retron so wouldn't it be in a grey area of legality in the first place? |
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Revolutionary
 Posts: 601 Location: Too Far South |
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Perhaps, but there's just something about playing from a cartridge I paid money for that feels better and right. Downloading emulators to a computer just feels completely wrong. I don't care if I own the cartridge. I never felt like I got the entitlement to play that game any other way. |
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Kadmos1
 Posts: 13567 Location: In Phoenix but has an 85308 ZIP |
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Could someone explain to me how such a technology works? How about they make this for older Sega disc games and take to the west?
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vallum
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Physical region locking? 
Where is it when you can run SNES and Super Famicom, Genesis and Mega Drive, Turbo Grafx-16 and PC Engine? And considering Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Advance never had any kind of region lock to begin with, that would only leave Famicom and PC Engine SuperGrafx. The later had only a few games (less than 10) and the former, well, you can easily use a "Famicom-to-NES" adaptor. |
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mangamuscle
Posts: 2658 Location: Mexico |
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No, they wont. Unlike what Nintendo wants people to think, emulation is NOT illegal and neither is making copies of the hardware since any patents have long since expired since more than a decade has elapsed since their introduction. What it is illegal is to include copyrighted software, but guess what, none of these console requires of any copyrighted bios, kernel, firmware, kickstart or operative system to work and the games are provided by the end user. |
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leafy sea dragon
 Posts: 7163 Location: Another Kingdom |
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The important one for me is Game Boy compatibility--I'm so sick of hearing "New Pokémon games are too complicated!" that I want to practice EV-training in Generation I games to reliably explain that, no, Generation I games were just as complicated. What it had in fewer Pokémon and game mechanics, it made up for in user-unfriendliness and information withheld from the player.
Something else to consider is that someone built a machine that can play NES, SNES, Nintendo 64, and Gamecube games. He then built it another one, gave it a wood finish, and sent it to Nintendo of America. It appeared in Nintendo Power's Letters column where they took a nice photo of it and spent a paragraph praising it, though they also recommended against other people trying it for safety reasons. (I'd look for this and scan it, but I don't want to dig through piles of magazines.) So at the very least, the Nintendo Power division was okay with such a thing.
I still have a working NES, but all of my previous systems were stolen during a burglary, so this will appeal to me quite a bunch. I don't have every system it's for though, and this doesn't have 32x or Sega CD compatibility. |
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