• grue@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Things you just categorically could not do with a game running from a disc instead of a cartridge, BTW.

    • Fluffy_Ruffs@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      It did make the cartridges more expensive than the ones without the enhanced chips, which stunk. You could have multiple SuperFX games on SNES and you had to pay for similar / same added hardware several times over.

      I’d still take those special carts than not have them at all but just offering a counterpoint. Cartridges were expensive especially when you adjust for inflation.

      • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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        1 day ago

        but in addition to the capacity expanding add ons inside the cart… you also had virtually no load times.

        I wish the advent of large scale flash storage would herald the return of carts, since they can be even bigger than blu-rays now, and on top of that all the crazy stuff you could do with them.

        I miss sticking carts in carts.

        i miss consoles that you could add other consoles to.

        I miss the weird, wacky ingeniusness of it all.

        Now consoles are just desktop PCs with DRM.

    • RagingRobot@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Cartridges were awesome and should come back. They gave you something fun to collect too. You could see all your games