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I don’t agree. Because if it’s true what they are saying and Switch cartridges suffer from the same fate, then having porting the games to switch only extends the lifespan of the games by another 5-10 years

Maybe someone will come up with a new chip that can go into Wii U to give them second life

I think they had to roll with purple because it was like the only color they hadn’t already done with the play it loud series or the gameboy pockets. It would not stand out if they re-used a color.

According to TechCrunch in 2021: To date, Tile has sold more than 40 million devices and has over 425,000 paying customers — a metric it’s revealing for the first time. It doesn’t disclose its total number of users, both free and paid combined, however. Likely even more users today.

The Tile will ping its location to anyone who has the Tile app installed on their phone. Since Tile has a large user base (it’s sold in retail stores like Target and Walmart), chances are if you are within city limits, it will ping off of plenty of phones. I would guess several times a day as long as it is within range of any moderately trafficked street

You could get a tile. They’re kind of similar

I doubt new games would work on the old Switch. Basically like how the *NEW* 3DS games didn’t work on the old 3DS

I think GBC is like the DSi versus DS or the *NEW* 3DS versus the regular 3DS

You must not be familiar with the library. That or you think is a good thing

I would think this is the case for any device that has NAND system chips. Basically it’s bit rot. Bit rot is mostly a problem on programmable chips. It’s not so much a thing on MASK roms. Any system that has NAND system chips will be in danger of this. You might be able to reflash the chip directly onto the pins. But if the chip is encrypted that might be an issue. I read that if you reenergize the circuit, it has a way of refreshing the stored energy charges (representing bits of data). Maybe can even self repair some completely lost bits of the data as long as the data isn’t totally corrupted.

I agree but try telling that to a person who never held a gameboy color in their hands but has a few black carts that they play in their collection

GBC does have two handfuls of good games. I don’t do full set collecting since it’s absurd, but I do pick up games that I like and probably have a few dozen of GBC games. I suspect a lot of people don’t count the black carts as part of GBC since they still work on the regular GB. But they play way better in color.

Yea I maybe could have got that backwards. Maybe it was the GBC released to kill the NGP. Then NGPC had to be made quickly to keep up. I thought GBC was in response to NGP but it seem GBC came out a few days earlier. Maybe Nintendo had knowledge that NGP was being worked on? Or maybe I am just not remembering the story

It seems low effort because it was. Nintendo would have went straight to GBA from GB. They specifically made the GBC to kill the Neo Geo Pocket which had recently made a colorized system. It wasnt made for our enjoyment, it was made to keep Neo Geo out of the handheld market

I didn’t see anyone discussing this trailer, though it appears it is 8 days old… I noticed all the text in this trailer is in another language, though it appears to have been posted by Nintendo of America.. maybe some other region leaked out a new trailer too early?

I heard you can play both ways. Also the gyros built into the controller give another degree of control when aiming with the sticks

@Vaosuthanks for your input. This game looks incredibly complicated. Do they make mahjong as a deck of cards? Seems like it would be more convenient to transport around that way.

I suspect there may be shenanigans at play.. Nintendo has been know to play games with supply and demand in order to tease customers, ultimately influencing people to buy games at least partially with the element of FOMO. The leadtime on manufacturing video games has got to be at least a couple of weeks. Add ocean freight from Japan on top of that and maybe it takes at least a month to bring new shipments of games to the stores. If the stock of this game is already depleted in retail stores and we get more restocks later this week or next week, that tells me that they probably have a ton of stock sitting in a Nintendo warehouse and they are just slow-dripping it out to build hype and to get people to talk about the game. I am anticipating that this game sells at minimum 5 million copies and maybe up to 10 million and I’m sure Nintendo knows this too

I am a 2D Metroid fanboy so naturally did not get overly excited for Metroid Prime Remastered. But I respect the series and am quite surprised that there is still no discussion about this new remaster which has been out for like two weeks now. Who’s been playing? I wanted to pick up a physical copy, but they are sold out, so I will delay playing it until a restock happens. No biggie, it’s just a Metroid Prime game, I can wait

So you could do a label swap and technically people can’t say that it is a repro label

I wonder if there are any one of a kind 5 screws out there that nobody has on their radar due to being cart refurbs from either Nintendo or the publisher. Look at this: Limited Run Josh Fairhurst, the developer/publisher of Breach and Clear, has a spool of extra Vita cart labels sent to him from Sony. He could presumably do a label replacement and the replaced label would still be considered original. I wonder if publishers back then also had extra OEM game labels and a stock of 5 screw shells that could be used to refurbish games with

It seems strange to me that 5 screw Megaman could be more desirable than purple Megaman 6.

Is it that they tolerate it.. or do they not have the resources to track down who to contact to let them know they are in violation especially since another business can easily pop up with same/similar product. Killing illegal games is like slaying a Hydra. Something interesting I found while reading up on the World Intellectual Property Organization. Taiwan is not listed as a member nation. It could be that China is pulling its political shenanigans trying to disallow them from being recognized. If this is they case, then Taiwan can be a free haven for IP theft and nobody can do anything about. Taiwan can always say we’ll crack down on IP as soon as you ask us to become a member to the agreement. WIPO can’t ask them to stop it because as far as they’re concerned, they are already included under China.

Hmm apparently people have decided to pay lots of money for the launch version

Ok don’t hold me to this because I found it with just a quick Google search, but it seems that China didn’t sign the Paris IP Organization agreement until 1984 (to take effect in 1985.) So this is right around Famicom timeframe and I would personally allow a grace period for implementation. As far as changing game code to avoid IP infringement…. I dont think I necessarily agree with this. To me, it seems to be a general misunderstanding with the “bootleggers” about what the problem is. I think someone probably briefly tried to explain to them that they were not allowed to copy other peoples work and they thought a remedy the situation would be to make subtle changes, not understanding that it is in essence still a copy even if you make subtle changes. With this being said, I agree that there is tons of bootlegs coming out of China today. I would let the stuff from the 80’s, maybe even early 90’s slide My guess is that most other countries in Southeast Asia also came late to the game. If I wasn’t lazy, I’d lookup when they all agreed to take it seriously edit: Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea - 1974 Vietnam - 1976 Sri Lanka - 1978 Republic of Korea -1979 Indonesia - 1979 Philippines -1980 Malaysia - 1989 Thailand - 1989 Singapore - 1990 Cambodia - 1995