Nintendo Switch 2 - For the Soytendo consoomers to speculate about the successor to the Switch, recently announced for 2025.

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Kabobs said:
This genius thought it was a good idea to spray-paint Bananza's cartridge yellow to match the older DK games. It went as well as one would suspect.


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He could of just printed a 3d shell, instead of wasting his time painting a cart that doesn't fit and will likley just have the paint rub of on the inside of the cart slot anyway.
 
Kabobs said:
This genius thought it was a good idea to spray-paint Bananza's cartridge yellow to match the older DK games. It went as well as one would suspect.


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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.
 
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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Differently colored N64 carts actually cost more, didn't they? And then the gold and silver glitter ones actually cost even more. Anyways, I think that differently colored boxes look ugly in a collection, so I am glad Nintendo isn't doing them.
 
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It's not like they were consistent to begin with, the DKC games were grey. As far as I know only the gameboy games and the N64 game were yellow.
 
Kabobs said:
This genius thought it was a good idea to spray-paint Bananza's cartridge yellow to match the older DK games. It went as well as one would suspect.


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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?
 
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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The paint probably heated up enough to become tacky again once he powered it on and played it for awhile. Card slots aren't supposed to be loose-fitting in the first place, and adding a chemical designed to stick to things doesn't help keep things moving smoothly.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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
 
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.
 
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