so ive been looking through my collection of games and ive noticed not all are the same. for some games came in diffrent colors or the cases have diffrent designs. for example, zelda for the NES has the gold cartridge and donkey kong 64 has a bright yellow one. what are some of your guys favorites and do you wish they did more of them?
Unique Cartridge and Disc design.
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater on the N64 was blue. I think I have a white or beige Atari 2600 cartridge but I can't remember which game it is at the moment.
@believer258 said:
If I remember correctly, the backs of some PS2 games were blue. I have no clue why.
They were some special version of CD. I think they were only early ps2 games though.
@DoctorDanger99 said:
so ive been looking through my collection of games and ive noticed not all are the same. for some games came in diffrent colors or the cases have diffrent designs. for example, zelda for the NES has the gold cartridge and donkey kong 64 has a bright yellow one. what are some of your guys favorites and do you wish they did more of them?
I think my favorite cases are the early Playstation ones. There's no real reason to why I like them so much, I just do. I always liked them back in the day too, so it's not just nostalgia. I also like the large jewel case versions, but those would almost instantly crack.
I really like the Killer Instinct black one.
@peritus said:
I really like the Killer Instinct black one.
That's a great one
Gold OoT and MM for the N64, I paid extra money for them specifically just because they are the Gold Cartridge
DOOM on the SNES had a red cartridge. Not sure if that was US-exclusive or not; I have a US copy but not an EU copy.
I think my favourite from the NES-era was the bootleg shit that Codemasters pulled with Micro Machines, namely, this monstrosity:
@peritus: This is the DOOM one. A search shows that in Europe it got a regular cartridge, thus making it 1000% less awesome.
@believer258: I believe the blue discs were CD-Roms, and the silver ones were DVD-ROM. Although that could be bad speculation but I believe I looked into it at some point.
@Jams said:
@psylah said:
Super Noah's Ark 3D was a bootleg-ass Wolfenstein reskin, and as a result, required another legit game be plugged into the top of it for it to work.
What game had to be put in the top for it to work?
Any legitimate NES game.
@WilltheMagicAsian said:
@Jams said:
@psylah said:
Super Noah's Ark 3D was a bootleg-ass Wolfenstein reskin, and as a result, required another legit game be plugged into the top of it for it to work.
What game had to be put in the top for it to work?
Any legitimate NES game.
how... I don't... what? You had to actually put any game in the top for it to actually run? What the hell?
This thread made me want to check out Pokemon Crystal on Ebay. Some assholes are selling some homebrew counterfeit game called "Crystal Shards Version", which I guess is a pokemon Emerald hack dumped onto a GBA cart.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/POKEMON-CRYSTAL-VERSION-NINTENDO-GAME-BOY-ADVANCE-TESTED-VG-SHAPE-/370659223439?pt=Video_Games_Games&hash=item564d02e78f
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Pokemon-Crystal-Shards-Version-Nintendo-Game-Boy-Advance-/251163012852?pt=Video_Games_Games&hash=item3a7a7b6ef4
If you're feelin' bored, get to reportin'.
I have the black Killer Instinct on the SNES, the red Spider Man for the N64, Gold Majora's Mask and the blue THPS for N64.
@Jams said:
@WilltheMagicAsian said:
@Jams said:
@psylah said:
Super Noah's Ark 3D was a bootleg-ass Wolfenstein reskin, and as a result, required another legit game be plugged into the top of it for it to work.
What game had to be put in the top for it to work?
Any legitimate NES game.
how... I don't... what? You had to actually put any game in the top for it to actually run? What the hell?
It booted the legit cart to get past Nintendo's lockouts for bootleg games and then loaded the other game.
@psylah said:
@Jams said:
@WilltheMagicAsian said:
@Jams said:
@psylah said:
Super Noah's Ark 3D was a bootleg-ass Wolfenstein reskin, and as a result, required another legit game be plugged into the top of it for it to work.
What game had to be put in the top for it to work?
Any legitimate NES game.
how... I don't... what? You had to actually put any game in the top for it to actually run? What the hell?
It booted the legit cart to get past Nintendo's lockouts for bootleg games and then loaded the other game.
That doesn't sound very Christian to me. Jesus wouldn't do that.
@Jams:
I'm guessing that it had some sort of security lockout similar to the 10NES chip on the original Nintendo, and the only way they could figure out a workaround was to get a real game to bypass it.
I don't know if this really counts or not, but one of the things that makes Famicom collecting fun is that there was no real universally used cartridge type; game publishers also manufactured their own carts, so there's a lot of variation in both color and shape between companies.
On that note, the early Konami carts with the large wraparound label and often painted artwork are my favorite designs from any gaming era. I grabbed a mostly random selection of carts based on visual differences, but it's no coincidence Konami gets some heavy lovin' in these pictures.
ps2 disc were blue. i remember buying one of those but for some reason it broke on me. it was an arcade game with guns, i can't think of the game. it was pretty fun game.
donkey kong 64 had a yellow cartridge
tony hawk pro skater had blue cartridge
some pokemon games were clear
some pretty cool stuff.
@iam3green: Only a few PS2 games were blue, and I do believe these were the CD-ROM games for Ps2, the Silver ones being DVD-ROM.
This thread made me want to check out Pokemon Crystal on Ebay. Some assholes are selling some homebrew counterfeit game called "Crystal Shards Version", which I guess is a pokemon Emerald hack dumped onto a GBA cart.The label on that second one. Wow.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/POKEMON-CRYSTAL-VERSION-NINTENDO-GAME-BOY-ADVANCE-TESTED-VG-SHAPE-/370659223439?pt=Video_Games_Games&hash=item564d02e78f
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Pokemon-Crystal-Shards-Version-Nintendo-Game-Boy-Advance-/251163012852?pt=Video_Games_Games&hash=item3a7a7b6ef4 If you're feelin' bored, get to reportin'.
@zombiepenguin9 said:
@CaLe said:
I remember EA cartridges having a yellow tab on them. That's about as extreme as it gets for me.
I've always wondered why those tabs were there...
Same here! No idea.
I loved my yellow Donkey Kong 64 cartridge. Probably the best of the colored carts.
@zombiepenguin9 said:
@CaLe said:
I remember EA cartridges having a yellow tab on them. That's about as extreme as it gets for me.
I've always wondered why those tabs were there...
EA didn't want to pay Sega's cart licensing thing so Sega decided to allow them to use their own carts as long as it was distinctly different.
@A_Talking_Donkey said:
@zombiepenguin9 said:
@CaLe said:
I remember EA cartridges having a yellow tab on them. That's about as extreme as it gets for me.
I've always wondered why those tabs were there...
EA didn't want to pay Sega's cart licensing thing so Sega decided to allow them to use their own carts as long as it was distinctly different.
Interesting. So just throw a yellow tab on there for no reason?
As you can see, the famicom disk system has a big stonking adapter on top. I'm counting that as a cartridge.
@LaszloKovacs said:
@ArtisanBreads:
It wasn't for no reason. The EA logo was stamped on it.
... That counts, right?
haha sure I guess but the way it's put on the cart it always seemed like some kind of release or something. But yeah just a weird yellow tab.
@A_Talking_Donkey: Bingo!
As silly as that is, I always thought it was need that the EA Sports cartridges were a bit different.
Got a couple color cartridges in my collection: Red Maximum Carnage (Genesis) , Yellow Donkey Kong 64 and Black Killer Instinct to name a few. I don't have anything that's totally boot leg looking or weird. I've got Pokemon Pinball with it's battery slot and Sonic and Knuckles with it's lock on slot though.
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