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wtfNeedSignUp said:
How the fuck did this happen? Did he put an insane amount of paint or did Nintendo make the card reader as tight as possible to prevent possible piracy, and that can mean old cartridges can get stuck?
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Even way back on the DS, slot tolerances got tight enough that certain carts would definitely be a very tight fit. Just in the video alone, it's pretty clear the paint would wind up thick enough with just one coat.
 
whatever I feel like said:
Differently colored N64 carts actually cost more, didn't they? And then the gold and silver glitter ones actually cost even more.
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No, N64 games were priced according to the amount of memory used, the type of memory and how big the print run was. For example, a 8 megabit cart with a battery backup was much cheaper to produce than a 32-megabit cart with EEPROM for saves. Cart color did not seem to factor into the price. I injecting color into a cart mold was trivial, it's producing a board that was expensive.

Check out this archive page from October 2000. Madden 2001 is a blue cart. Majora's Mask is gold.
 
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New coincidence just dropped, apparently Mario Kart World shares voice actors with Bananza, and fans are speculating the potential unveil of two characters because of it.
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Fans cannot seem to find the voice actors in World or who they play, though it could always be a random NPC. Still interesting as multiple games have credited unreleased characters voice actors before reveal.
 
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Basic Blond Boy said:
New coincidence just dropped, apparently Mario Kart World shares voice actors with Bananza, and fans are speculating the potential unveil of two characters because of it.
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Fans cannot seem to find the voice actors in World or who they play, though it could always be a random NPC. Still interesting as multiple games have credited unreleased characters voice actors before reveal.
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Given the weird lack of dk and pauline costumes compared to other non-npc characters, it's been speculated for a while that there would be some sort of bananza addition. Hopefully it's a free update and not a dlc pack, the game could really use it.
 
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BullfrogBill said:
tbf as autistic as this is I do agree that it would have been a nice touch to make the cartridge and packaging for Bananza yellow instead of red. I don't why Nintendo insists on everything being identical. I miss the personality games used to have with their packaging and with the systems themselves. I miss the clear colorful systems that Nintendo made with the N64 and Gameboy Color. Why would they stop doing that? Or the different colored snes cartridges like Killer Instinct having a sleek black cartridge that stands out from the others or Maximum Carnage with it's red snes cartridge. I miss when games had personality and passion.
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Those games got colorful carts at a time when the cart was large and visible and not enclosed in a RF shield in a small card slot, no one’s going to notice or give a shit about the game cards now being another color outside of redditors spazzing if no one’s going to see it other than the time where it’s not in the game case or the system
 
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Never Scored said:
No, N64 games were priced according to the amount of memory used, the type of memory and how big the print run was. For example, a 8 megabit cart with a battery backup was much cheaper to produce than a 32-megabit cart with EEPROM for saves. Cart color did not seem to factor into the price. I injecting color into a cart mold was trivial, it's producing a board that was expensive.

Check out this archive page from October 2000. Madden 2001 is a blue cart. Majora's Mask is gold.
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I'm not talking what the customer paid, I'm talking what they charged 3rd parties when making carts. You wouldn't have known this back in the day unless you saw Nintendo's development partner catalog, which has since leaked.
 
whatever I feel like said:
I'm not talking what the customer paid, I'm talking what they charged 3rd parties when making carts. You wouldn't have known this back in the day unless you saw Nintendo's development partner catalog, which has since leaked.
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Why would they bother to make Madden 2001 blue or Rayman 2 green and not charge the end consumer more if there was any significant associated cost? I could see there being some difference, but I find it hard to believe it'd be anything more than a 2-3% increase per cart(around 50 cents). The idea that there would be any substantial increased cost reeks of bullshit, or else why would any third party ever do it?

Besides, the original discussion was about Donkey Kong, a Nintendo IP, so whatever is in any leaked development partner catalog is a moot point. Injecting existing plastic molds with a different color plastic would be trivially cheap, even in the N64/GBC days.

Back in the day, each cart was a custom board that had to be custom designed and manufactured. I'd say the reason colored cards aren't generally done for systems like DS, 3DS and Switch is because the cards are standardized and don't have custom PCBs, therefore they are just mass produced as blank cards and written later, whereas with the old PCBs you had to have a custom run for each game. Carts were basically plug in ram that interfaced directly with the system's cpu as memory whereas the cards Nintendo has made post GBA are more along the lines of a custom type of flash memory similar to an SD card that is written after the fact.
 
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moocow said:
The paint probably heated up enough to become tacky again once he powered it on and played it for awhile.
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This is 100% what happened.

Delany's Donkey said:
Mario has risked his life to save her 100s of times, and still can't get even a crumb of pussy. Gaming's biggest simp.
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Mario has a girlfriend, he isn't going to cheat on her with some inbred mushroom monarch.

Mario does what he does for pure reasons: to keep the koopa race down where they belong.
 
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Problematic User Forever said:
Nintendo fans when the "family game" characters aren't spreading their legs and fucking and sucking each other offView attachment 7691260
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Can we stop the insanity of things being either porn or completely sanitized? People on the site are getting to the point of acting like literal faggots that can't understand that relationships aren't only based on fucking.
 
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wtfNeedSignUp said:
Can we stop the insanity of things being either porn or completely sanitized? People on the site are getting to the point of acting like literal faggots that can't understand that relationships aren't only based on fucking.
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My post was to be taken in jest, but seriously, WTF does them being in a relationship add to anything?

I remember seeing people on GameFAQs getting upset when Peach didn't marry Mario in Oddessy and I was just like "Really?"

I dunno, I just don't get it I guess.
 
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Problematic User Forever said:
My post was to be taken in jest, but seriously, WTF does them being in a relationship add to anything?

I remember seeing people on GameFAQs getting upset when Peach didn't marry Mario in Oddessy and I was just like "Really?"

I dunno, I just don't get it I guess.
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to be fair, i always thought it was weird how at the end of that game she treats the guy who saved her with the same disdain she has for the lizard monster who tried to force her to marry him.
 
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Never Scored said:
Why would they bother to make Madden 2001 blue or Rayman 2 green and not charge the end consumer more if there was any significant associated cost? I could see there being some difference, but I find it hard to believe it'd be anything more than a 2-3% increase per cart(around 50 cents). The idea that there would be any substantial increased cost reeks of bullshit, or else why would any third party ever do it?

Besides, the original discussion was about Donkey Kong, a Nintendo IP, so whatever is in any leaked development partner catalog is a moot point. Injecting existing plastic molds with a different color plastic would be trivially cheap, even in the N64/GBC days.

Back in the day, each cart was a custom board that had to be custom designed and manufactured. I'd say the reason colored cards aren't generally done for systems like DS, 3DS and Switch is because the cards are standardized and don't have custom PCBs, therefore they are just mass produced as blank cards and written later, whereas with the old PCBs you had to have a custom run for each game. Carts were basically plug in ram that interfaced directly with the system's cpu as memory whereas the cards Nintendo has made post GBA are more along the lines of a custom type of flash memory similar to an SD card that is written after the fact.
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It was, indeed, cents on the dollar. Which is why it only rarely happened and usually just with Acclaim titles and a select few first party/Rare releases.
 
Delany's Donkey said:
to be fair, i always thought it was weird how at the end of that game she treats the guy who saved her with the same disdain she has for the lizard monster who tried to force her to marry him.
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In a way, that proposal scene came way out of left field and the devs had written themselves in a corner. It's just kind of funny how Peach just fucks off and goes exploring, instead
 
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Delany's Donkey said:
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Mario has risked his life to save her 100s of times, and still can't get even a crumb of pussy. Gaming's biggest simp.
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Is this unfathomable faggotry canon now? Where did Nintendo say it?

Problematic User Forever said:
My post was to be taken in jest, but seriously, WTF does them being in a relationship add to anything?
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What the fuck does retconning them not to be a relationship add to anything?

Delany's Donkey said:
to be fair, i always thought it was weird how at the end of that game she treats the guy who saved her with the same disdain she has for the lizard monster who tried to force her to marry him.
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It was trash and the lowest point of the game by a mile.

NerdShamer said:
It's just kind of funny how Peach just fucks off and goes exploring, instead
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She does this after rejecting Mario, saying some vaguely feminist shit about going off to travel the world herself, "on her own terms". It was a precursor to girlboss movie Peach.
 
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