![]() * And the N64DD addon isn’t even a CD – it’s a magnetic disk. * The CDi is a completely different type of kit entirely (I know, I’ve used one). * The SNES CDROM was never released (only prototyped). Sony might have blocked it, but I doubt philips or matsushita or any of the other companies would give a damn what sony said and would supply Nintendo, it just sounds very bullshit to me. Primarily cited was the ROM cartridges’ very fast load times in comparison to disc-based games, as contemporary CD-ROM drives rarely had speeds above 4Ã-” … Read that section and look at the references for corroboration. “Nintendo cited several advantages for making the N64 cartridge-based. –> also dont forget this little gem which was Japan only. Laurence, is there any proof to back up that statement ? Do they actually have any proof about Sony blocking Nintendo from using a cd drive ?Īccording to Wikipedia Nintendo chose it and I remember at the time when I got my n64 reading Nintendo wanted to use Cartridges, this is why it all seems a bit bullshit to me. ![]() The front loading design was necessary for business reasons due to the then recent video game crash.Ĭartridges are more rugged, have much faster loading times than optical discs, and require no moving parts, whereas optical discs can hold much more data and are far cheaper to produce. The reason the NES would blink is because of a bad connection, which was due the NES having a front loading design as opposed to the much superior top loading design of. I’ll summarize it super quickly for any who doesn’t know: Blowing into NES cartridges hardly ever had any effect. ![]() I can’t tell if you’re joking and just wanted to make a silly comment or if you actually don’t know the history / details about NES cartridge design. Plu-h’ease ! I do not recount how many times I had to give the NES connector a blow job before getting it hard and steady for a round… Kochise Nintendo selected the cartridge as it thought it superior / more rugged. However if this is true and Sony deliberately sabotaged Nintendo’s attempts at gaining a deal with another 3rd party – forcing Nintendo to release a substandard product, then this just makes me hate Sony even more than I do already. ![]() I knew the reason why Sony created their own console but up until now I always thought Nintendo chose the cartridge system over CD. NEC, and Pioneer not to license any optical drive technology to Nintendo either. They also convinced Phillips, Matsushita, That!), it was the last straw and pulled their technology. When Sony found out that Nintendo was going to someone else, (and a foreign one at Nintendo went behind Sony and asked Phillips for assistance, as they also could license CD-ROM I think the first few pages are definitely worth a read though, even if you’re not interested in this game specifically, because there’s some history about the politics between the different companies at that time: ![]() In case anyone is put off by the page count, it’s really only about 6 pages of back story and then followed by 200+ pages of technical manuals which are really only interesting to anyone thinking of getting into game development or have a particular geeky curiosity in such things (weirdly, there’s also the odd Lorem Ipsum floating about where they’ve overlooked a topic). ![]()
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