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Humphreys posted:But it's missing a LD Player and an 8mm player. Lmao
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emSparkly posted:The Famicom, not so much. All the cart manufacturers based in Japan were only doing business with big publishers. Iirc Bible adventures & Co didn't so much 'reverse engineer' it so much as 'overload it with voltage until it glitched'
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Nov 16, 2023 14:45
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Yeah, I think the Tengen (Atari) games (black cartridge, like Gauntlet or any of those "Atari collections" that were on the NES) is the company that reverse engineered it and triggered a lawsuit that I think Nintendo lost? Fake edit: Ok, Nintendo won that one, but did lose the one to Galoob re: Game Genie.
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I'll say this much for Tengen and Camerica, their games weren't that bad (not only for unlicensed third-party companies, but even against some of the publishers for Nintendo) and the Aladdin Deck Enhancer wasn't a bad idea on paper.
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Randalor posted:I'll say this much for Tengen and Camerica, their games weren't that bad (not only for unlicensed third-party companies, but even against some of the publishers for Nintendo) and the Aladdin Deck Enhancer wasn't a bad idea on paper. I was always fascinated by the Camerica carts that had the switch on the back that you had to flip if it didn't work in your NES because they had 2 different defeat methods for the 10NES chip depending on the model of NES you had.
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DrBouvenstein posted:Yeah, I think the Tengen (Atari) games (black cartridge, like Gauntlet or any of those "Atari collections" that were on the NES) is the company that reverse engineered it and triggered a lawsuit that I think Nintendo lost? Meanwhile the Canadian courts ruled game genies were perfectly legal and they ran a bunch of weird THAMK YOU CANADA FOR OUR LIBERTY ads and it was very weird
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Humphreys posted:Nice! I love this poo poo! But it's missing a LD Player and an 8mm player. And the dvd player doesn’t even play SACDs
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Nov 16, 2023 18:13
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Randalor posted:I'll say this much for Tengen and Camerica, their games weren't that bad (not only for unlicensed third-party companies, but even against some of the publishers for Nintendo) and the Aladdin Deck Enhancer wasn't a bad idea on paper. Tengen had the best version of Tetris and Pac-man on the NES, as well as arguably the best baseball game on the NES (RBI Baseball). And Rolling Thunder was awesome.
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DrBouvenstein posted:Yeah, I think the Tengen (Atari) games (black cartridge, like Gauntlet or any of those "Atari collections" that were on the NES) is the company that reverse engineered it and triggered a lawsuit that I think Nintendo lost? The Tengen stuff is wild. Nintendo had its lockout chip and that sourcecode was patented. So Tengen goes to the government and says "We want to sue nintendo, we need their source code" And then they used that to make the black tengen carts.
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Micro Machines was the best NES game and it was unlicensed
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What's the story on those 52-in-1 carts? Where they also Tengen products?
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TITTIEKISSER69 posted:What's the story on those 52-in-1 carts? Where they also Tengen products? Do you mean Action 52 or the bootleg multicarts?
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TITTIEKISSER69 posted:What's the story on those 52-in-1 carts? Where they also Tengen products? No, they were an insane project funded by one guy who thought that The Cheetahmen was going to be a multimedia franchise based off sales of the series, the company only ever made that. l think they used a chip zapper like the Bible Adventure games though, not a clone of the security chip.
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Randalor posted:Do you mean Action 52 or the bootleg multicarts? I'm gonna guess the bootleg, but I'm open to either story
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TITTIEKISSER69 posted:I'm gonna guess the bootleg, but I'm open to either story The other ones were basically just ROMs on a chip, as the NES got older the chips got cheaper, so pirate companies could shove tons of existing games on them and just point the NES CPU at the right place to start in the menu. It worked about as well as it sounds like it would. Get what ya pay for! 
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I once played a NES multi-cart where it somehow constantly randomly hit the left d-pad button. I tried a bunch of games and few different controllers to no avail. Tetris and Dr. Mario were unplayable.
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It can't be all the roms were hosed in the exact same way, it had to have been a wiring problem in the cartridge. I'd like to see something like that explained in detail.
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Dewgy posted:The other ones were basically just ROMs on a chip, as the NES got older the chips got cheaper, so pirate companies could shove tons of existing games on them and just point the NES CPU at the right place to start in the menu. IIRC a lot of them were just as many of the no-MMC chips or just the MMC1 games with the headers cut out and run together?
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Neito posted:IIRC a lot of them were just as many of the no-MMC chips or just the MMC1 games with the headers cut out and run together? I’m not totally sure of the technical specifics, but I do remember back in the GBA flashcart days there was a tool that would clear empty space out of ROMs and pack them all into a menu for you so you could have more on the cart at once, so it was probably something similar.
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Yeah... how the hell else am I gonna watch this? 
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Humphreys posted:Yeah... how the hell else am I gonna watch this? it appears this absolute classic is on fuboTV
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Grassy Knowles posted:it appears this absolute classic is on fuboTV Oh i don't have problems playing it haha
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I've never heard of fuboTV so I looked it up and it's described as an "over-the-top" (?) television provider. Had not heard of that term before for internet streaming.
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My partner saw this posted somewhere and knows me well enough that they sent it to me. I can't find any other pictures or writeups about it - is this real???
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Both the phone and the keyboard are real, sure. Here's an eBay listing for one. Those Ericsson phones were well built.
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Big Mac posted:My partner saw this posted somewhere and knows me well enough that they sent it to me. I can't find any other pictures or writeups about it - is this real??? Chatboard CHA-10 https://youtu.be/E8_fSUfwG5E?si=_sHcQbvhEbxx-RJk
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Hell yeah, I love this thread. This is the best place I could imagine to ask - does anyone know about this very strange concept cell phone a friend of mine had? It was a glossy black thing, about the size of a pack of gum. It did this little slide open, didn't have a keypad, just a weird dial that sucked. This would've been 2005-2007 or so. I can't imagine he stuck with it long, and I've never gotten it out of my head. EDIT: ok I googled it right this time and it was a Nokia 7280. drat that thing was dumb as hell in a texting centered world. 
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I miss physical phone keyboards. I still can't type right on a screen.
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Big Mac posted:Hell yeah, I love this thread. I would have loved this, I still didn't have unlimited texting in 2005, they were like a nickel per text
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Peanut Butler posted:I would have loved this, I still didn't have unlimited texting in 2005, they were like a nickel per text The late 2000s were almost now, but almost not. Like they were HUGELY more now to now, than the late 1970s were to the early 1990s. Aw gently caress, I'm old.
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Scarodactyl posted:I miss physical phone keyboards. I still can't type right on a screen. I used to be able to type fine on a screen*. Just whatever bullshit predictive 'ai' bullshit they're using these days actively fights me. Plus for whatever reason on my phone the dead space beside the A defaults to Q for some reason because that makes sense. People always using the Q. *Have to look at the screen though. I could shitpost while not looking on a Blackberry.
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Big Mac posted:Hell yeah, I love this thread. I loved my samsung juke, especially the fact that it was a bluetooth mp3 player that was about the size of an ipod shuffle long before bluetooth mp3 was common. If there were a version that could run on modern cell networks I'd probably still be rocking it today  Also that Ericsson keyboard was the exact model to buy and then solder a different connector to in order to use with the gp32 
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Sentient Data posted:Also that Ericsson keyboard was the exact model to buy and then solder a different connector to in order to use with the gp32 I love this, more kitbashes of tech accessories please and thank you.
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Big Mac posted:My partner saw this posted somewhere and knows me well enough that they sent it to me. I can't find any other pictures or writeups about it - is this real??? there were a couple of girls b dudes going hogwild with texting at my school back then. spending up to $20 per month on sms alone. one of em had this thing even tho we already had t9 back then? people just werent good at it yet the first phone cameras round here were detachable as well, iirc they even cost you extra as an add-on module. really confused the crap out of me cause the pictures were trash compared to the common point n shoot cams of the day and those werent bigger than a phone anymore
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Big Mac posted:Hell yeah, I love this thread. I really miss phones like this. As a kid I used to buy magazines about cellphones and was delighted reading about weird poo poo they came up with this month
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Why can't we still have things like this? We have smart watches. There are simplified phones for when you don't want your full smart phone or whatever the hell those things are. Why can't we have cool gadgets that connect to your full phone that's in a pocket or a backpack or something and then you just have a cool gadget that looks like a space ship and you can see your texts on it and maybe it has a nice camera.
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Big Mac posted:My partner saw this posted somewhere and knows me well enough that they sent it to me. I can't find any other pictures or writeups about it - is this real??? Yup I had that phone and the chatboard. For my next phone (Ericsson T68) I even got the Bluetooth Remote Control Car. Still have it, with zero way to easily charge it or use.
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Cojawfee posted:Why can't we still have things like this? We have smart watches. There are simplified phones for when you don't want your full smart phone or whatever the hell those things are. Why can't we have cool gadgets that connect to your full phone that's in a pocket or a backpack or something and then you just have a cool gadget that looks like a space ship and you can see your texts on it and maybe it has a nice camera. have thought this every time I miss my old Walkman Phone
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Big Mac posted:My partner saw this posted somewhere and knows me well enough that they sent it to me. I can't find any other pictures or writeups about it - is this real??? 
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The General posted:*Have to look at the screen though. I could shitpost while not looking on a Blackberry. I also used to fluently text on my Nokia 6110 while having it in my coat pocket. That was nice during cold winter days.
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