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I had no idea sushi striker was first party. Learn something new every day

My guess is the legit Famicom stuff was made by the publisher for the Japan market only. Outside of Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea and Singapore, Southeast Asia was pretty poor. No way people living in these countries could afford to buy Famicom games at the Japan market price. So the publishers either sold a bunch of pcb and chip parts to companies in other countries for cheap and let them figure out the rest. Or the chip/pcb suppliers for Japan publishers could have been located in other countries and when the suppliers realized what it was that they were manufacturing, they started making unauthorized pcb/chip sales to other companies besides the publishers they were intended for. Question is, how does Nintendo make a cut of the software sales? We’re they only making money on console hardware in Japan?

I don’t get how the sales model worked for Famicom. In the US, Nintendo did all the manufacturing. The publishers would give Nintendo the game code and label/box/manual design. Nintendo would quote a price for the manufacturing order to the publisher and the publisher would buy-resell the product. The Nintendo licensing fees are baked into the cost of the manufacturing order. In Japan for Famicom, it looks like a circus. It appears Nintendo may or may not have supplied the pcb’s depending on the publisher. There are many mask roms that have been supplied by the publisher directly and with the publishers logo on it. There’s many different kinds of shells, obviously most all of the nonstandard shell were not from Nintendo. Since a Japanese publisher could theoretically create the entire game- shell, pcb’s, chips, and packaging on their own, how would Nintendo collect any royalties for licensing it?

I think I got mine for like $30.. it’s authentic and it excellent condition too Edit: I posted this as a joke, but just checked and apparently this Famicom version has gone up quite a bit

Megaman X5 and Megaman X6. Both potentially good games. But they were ruined by many story elements that destroyed the action flow of the game. Apparently there are some hacks available that have eliminated many of the mandatory text dialogue sequences and made other dialogue sequences optional. If I had to play PS1 games on a flash card I would definitely look into the X5 and X6 hacks as definitive versions

I get them. Not all of them, but I do get the LRG game boy games for games that I like. Hopefully all these LRG gameboy games are the same run and we dont have LRG gameboy variants too

I think when he gets high level he goes purely digital:

Here goes your matching black controller. Unfortunately it got cancelled.

I did not create this thread to bash common core math, that’s already being done plenty everywhere else. Rather, I wanted to learn some things about it from people that have actually had to learn common core in the education system. I graduated high school in 2004, so never actually learned common core. By 2008 in college I was a math tutor in the campus library and I was starting to get students asking me for help on common core problems, which I was unable to offer assistance on because it was never a part of my curriculum. My question is to students that did common core math in K-12. After you learn the common core methods, do they still follow up and teach you the old school methods for doing really quick calculations on paper? If so, was there enough time spent on those methods for you to have retained it? I’m just curious because after seeing how many steps they go through to do a simple multiplication problem in common core, I feel that it is not practical to use in everyday life. Maybe it helps visualize what is happening, but the problems take longer to do using the methods. When I look at the complexity of common core problems, it kind of reminds me of doing matrices in Calculus 3. I can do them to pass the class, and then I forget it. I can relearn it if I reference the textbook, but it’s not really practical thing to retain and use in real life. Takes too long. I wonder if they spend all the time teaching the common core learning methods and no time teaching the quick methods if people would actually finish the class knowing how to do the quick methods. I think of the quick oldschool math methods as life skills, and was just wondering if we have a large percentage of the newer generations finishing school without those same skills.

Va Beach has good game stores. There’s a place called Cool Stuff and 7 minutes down the street is Video Game Heaven. Theres also a Video Game heaven in Norfolk and Chesapeake. Hit them all up if you can

This thread needs an ESRB rating

Only thing I can conclude is that Nintendo wants us to forget about the Virtual Boy as it was a colossal failure

Should have been on 3DS virtual console.. missed opportunity

Thanks for the tip. It’s not going to happen unless the following things happen first: -Need to determine if it’s worth doing, that’s what I’m trying to find out now. Like would people actually want to play it this way? -If it is worth doing, how do you convert Gamecube analog stick signals into a format that can be wired up to an arcade stick. I have converted SNES controller signals this way before, but there’s no analog stick on those.. -How much will the cabinet cost? My brother isn’t gonna pay an arm and a leg when there’s Arcade One ups available for $300 with customer service available. Ive seen some pretty pricey brand new 4 player cabinets online. Also seen some relatively inexpensive older cabinets like Turtles in Time that could be repurposed, although I hate the idea of gutting Turtles in Time

Familiar Nintendo controller

Has anyone played Smash Bros with an arcade stick? How does it compare to using the Gamecube controller?? I know the Gamecube controller is preferred for competition, but is the arcade stick any less fun? Reason I ask is I have been contemplating the feasibility of doing a Smash Bros Melee arcade cabinet. It would be a 4 player cabinet with a Gamecube or Wii inside. The cabinet controls would be wired up to Gamecube controller pcb’s (still thinking about how you’d wire the analog sticks to an arcade stick though ).. My brother has an Airbnb rental home that he’s putting a few arcade cabinets inside of and I thought this would be a neat project to include. Since everyone would be on arcade sticks, everyone is equally handicapped by the controller. I’m just wondering if the controller would make it less fun to the point where people would not enjoy playing it.

More yellow!

Don’t Analogue products typically get jailbroken firmware that allows you to load roms? The Pocket would be cart only, so very portable but no cd games unless you jailbreak

Never really thought of myself as a strategy guide collector but somehow I’ve managed to accumulate several dozen of them

@Air Gio I’m curious to hear your thoughts as you are one of the most enthusiastic people on this forum when it comes to Turbografx

Not for me. I’m good with the original hardware and Terraonion. This system is too expensive to collect for. Maybe would go for an Analogue whenever that’s ready

Does the disc still work even with the marks?

If you are the type to look stuff up online and buy it online if it’s cheaper then the games with high markup are not intended for you. I was just visiting my parents in VA for the 4th of July and hit up the retro stores. I was able to find lots deals on stuff that I’m interested in. However, the first party Nintendo titles were all disgustingly overpriced, I’m talking like $50+ Super Mario World on SNES just to give you an idea. Someone who knows games isn’t going to pay that amount. But some random person that doesn’t really play games but randomly wants to get an SNES to relive childhood memories probably will. If they are willing to pay that, I say it’s fair game for the retro store. They are not forcing anyone to pay these prices, you can always choose to buy elsewhere.

Good fashion sense

It’s possible that they were not getting trade ins from walk-in customers, so they may have bought games on eBay at the same prices that you would buy them for and then just marked them up