I love how big they are. I wish my PS4 and PS5 games were on LaserDisc.

They do the same with switch carts I guess? Not extra space inside the cart itself but the boxes are huge compared to the cart, which could be a little square (I've rarely if ever I can remember got a little leaflet bar so do we need that space?). Even weirder with the boxes that come with a download code 😅 when I got minecraft (code) from a store it was a plastic card

Never held reset button. Seemed stupid.

Why my code in debugger start in index $8070?

Just like the DS and 3D cartridges, which take 1/10 or less of the box space😂😂

Actually went on Google Maps to figure out what District has the most book off/hard off locations (hobby off must be relatively new)... it should be noted there's Giant locations called Super book off you might want to check out those locations. Personally if I ever save up the money to go to Japan, I'm going to be going to Sapporo it seems to be a hotspot for second hand stores.

Look at the switch game boxes lmao. The actual game is tiny compared to the box

I thought A203 was the sound.

That cpu is supposed to be the 6502

That gold Legend Of Zelda takes me back. I wish I still had my old copy.

"because americans stupid"

If Nintendo sued Bowser, you can be assured they would sue you too.

I am screwed

Knock on wood, my original gold Zelda from 1986 still had the same battery in it, and still functions to this day in 2024. I played it just a few days ago. Again, knock on wood!!

Gyromite was awesome, especially when you had ROB and both tops.

@8:00 "...another big *ram*-ification", hmmmm?? 🧐

Wait Zelda had save? I regret a lot of things now.

This is the best technical explanation of 10NES I've ever seen. Definitely cleared a few things up for me. Thanks Ne Shacker!

5:12 I thought it was 5 games a year no?

Man, I had to load my games off cassette tapes at that time as cartridges and floppy drives were way beyond my budget, can't imagine complaining about a floppy drive being slow.

I love the confused CPU

Why did blowing on the cartridge made it work? 😂😂😂

Back in the early '00's I attempted to write a game in ASM and after about a month and a half I got "EAMON RULES!!!" to flash on the screen in purple text on an infinite loop. Yeah, it was some pretty breakthrough stuff actually... 😆

I just played the first zelda on original hardware and saw that. I never did and thankfully never had a problem. Good to know

That actually explains why my D&D: Warriors of the Sun game on Genesis wouldn't keep a save file.

Thats like... on every dam game though...

When implementing a multiplication system, you don’t solely rely on addition and subtraction In base 10, if you shift something to the left, that is equal to multiplying it by 10, so if i have 25, i shift it to the left, i get 250. In base 2, its equal to multiplying by 2, so lets say i want to multiply 3 by 12. 3 in binary is 11, and 12 in binary is 1100, which gives us information on how we need to shift. Reading from right to left, the first number is 0, so we do nothing. The second is also 0, again nothing. The third is 1, so we shift our 11 by 2 to get 1100. The fourth is also 1, so we shift our 11 by 3 to get 11000. We then add 1100 to 11000 to get 100100, which, when converted back to base 10, gives us 36. Basicly, base 2 lets us exploit a quirk in math that makes it much easier to multiply than it is in base 10, and so we can finish multiplying any 8 bit number by another 8 bit number in 16 calculations rather than in the 256 calculations we would have to do if we were only using addition

I would love to see a video on the logic of the classic Tetris game for nintendo. So many times when I'm playing, I wonder why or how I get the block patterns on the B Style game that I get and the Order of blocks that Tom's each time I play. I know it's all randomly generated, but I would love to understand how it picks what's going to be on the screen.

Japan didn't allow renting back in the 1980s, and Nintendo took Blockbuster to court over its game rentals. And of course there were multiple backup devices for the SNES, and those also existed for N64.

nintendo is a bit uhhh zealous about copyright. Makes you remember its a megacorp and not your friend. Which is sad. I wish i had friends with billions of dollars.

Real question....are these worth anything?

Remember, "unauthorized" does not mean "illegal".

Still have the original zelda with the original Nintendo and the thing still runs

Backup or archival are not necessary to protect your software? I beg to differ. I bought Mario 64, but I sure as hell can't play it now without resorting to emulation. And no, buying a new system and a copy of SM64 / Nintendo Online subscription does not count as preserving the original software.

Credits for Philadelphia 😉

Fun fact: Backups and archival are only illegal in Japan and South Korea.

Well that sure escalated quickly 😂

I feel really torn about how invested I am in Nintendo, especially their early years. Granted, all corporations are driven by profit but Nintendo has a long history of particularly vicious and arguably unnecessarily intense anti-consumer behavior. I've just started to really dig into NES development over the past month, and I'm enjoying it immensely, but the Stallman in me is deeply uneasy.

I always thought it was a fun part of the game when after you saved, it would ask if you wanted to take a break and then promptly do a shutdown or idle animation when you said yes. Most of the time you couldn't back out of it if you fat fingered it, until you turned off or restarted the system.

We are loyal fans of NES games

It's ridiculous that they don't allow backup. In my country, I think you can have roms to play on emulators if you have the original copy. Also, I heard there was someone who won in justice the right to copy it's CD for backup reasons

Apparently there’s still a decent bit of original batteries that are still active. So my theory is that the saves draws even less power than we thought, but stuff like Pokémon are ded.

I always get happy when I get a notification of a new video in this channel. I'm really amazed on the love you put on the making of these videos. Bravo 👏

Bigger means more visible on the shelves and that means more sales. They still do this, too. Switch carts are smaller than standard SD cards but still come in boxes nearly the size of DVD/Blu-ray boxes. At one point they could excuse the larger case size for the inclusion of the safety and gameplay manuals, but they removed those to cut cost and waste. Still, the large boxes give more visibility and shelf appeal for the box art. The slightly different case size keeps them from being mixed up with DVD/Blu-ray cases.

i assume secam is dual (ntsc & pal)

7 grade math teacher scolded us whenever saying O when referring to zero. Said: “O’s are in the alphabet”. Yeah, that stuck with me for life

What a game system in the 80’s loved the original Nintendo ❤

Calling them NES and Famicom games is far more accurate than "American" and "Japanese", and also isn't needlessly USA-centric.

The first 2 methods are technically possible, but historically were never used. That's just stuff hobbyists came up with for fun. The Gameboy doesn't have DRM.