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Exclusive Video | Wonderful World of Weird Carts | UDUG Ep 3
🕑 Added 2023-10-31 01:33:29 +0000 UTCHello Skela-fam!
Sorry for the lateness on this one. And I know it's been quiet around here lately but I assure you things are happening!
First of all I got this month's exclusive Patreon video, episode three of Uncle Derek Underground! But more importantly it's the first episode ya'll voted for - Weird carts! Some I've talked about in videos, some I haven't, and few more that I don't own but we check em out anyway. I'm actually realizing now there's a couple I don't own that I downloaded pictures for that I forgot to actually put in the video. Too many weird carts!!
Poll for next month's UDUG is gonna be tomorrow and I'm going to get started on it as soon as voting closes. My plan is to get these out earlier in the month, I'm upset I wasn't able to get this out sooner. Grace and I will be flying out to visit family for thanksgiving so it needs to be out and finished by the week of the 20th anyway, but I'm pushing for sooner than that!
I say this at the end of the UDUG video here but - it's been a tough year but, you know what, every year is tough! This one just got to me and I'm better than this. Especially for how long I've been doing this, it's really unacceptable how little content has come out this year. I've almost made more UDUG videos now than public SSFF videos, which I'm not happy about.
But in the spirit of "ask forgiveness not permission" I've been plugging away on the Zeebo Games Part 2 video while also getting other videos going as well, to avoid another upload drought. Zeebo Games Part 2 is 1/3 finished, 1/3 being edited, 1/3 being written/recorded. It's looking to be just shy of an hour and it's gonna be a super fun video I hope. And then I have another video on Garbo Amazing Switch ports nearly ready to go, that's just gonna be classic Punching Weight stuff which I feel like we haven't had in a while. And of course I'm just waiting of the RE4 Remake iPhone port to drop any day now! I hope to end the year on a high note and slide into 2024 with some momentum behind me!
Thank you for your support and patience. I'll have some more updates about the future of the channel next month. I've been doing this for 16 years and I'm not ready to quit yet!
Stay powerful,
Uncle Derek
Comments
betweenmyself
I’m not sure it necessarily qualifies as a “cart” for the purposes of this video, but I remember renting the SEGA Channel Adapter from our local cable provider for a good two and a half years during the mid 90s. Access to a some 50 full Genesis games each month on a subscription basis. Good times.
NekoIncardine
Interestingly, on a bit of quick research, it turns out the Sufami Turbo WAS licensed, on an interesting condition - Bandai had to do ALL manufacturing themselves. And yes, the purpose was that those memory-card-ass carts were like half the price to build and half the price to consumers than standard SNES carts. So it was like: "We're Nintendo, you gotta use our carts." "Bullshit we do, we're gonna build this." "You gonna maintain it yourself?" "Well, yeah." "Eh. Sure. Pay us licensing on the adapter itself, games are all on you." "Sweet."
Great Joe
The big thing about HuCards is that if you look up pictures of "de-potted" chips, you'll see that inside those packages the actual chips are TINY. NEC with their expertise could just replace having a tiny chip in a big package, the package's pins soldered onto a circuit board - with just the actual chip, some wires to some contacts, and bury all that in the same resin that the chip packages are made of, save money and make something longer-lasting than the NES cartridge.
Stop Skeletons From Fighting
Yeah that would make sense. It launched in 85 so Atari and the like was still the image of a video game at the time in NA. And there was very little knowledge of what was happening in Japan to the average consumer over here. And it stands to reason when they redesigned the NES it was a top loader like a famicom.
Stop Skeletons From Fighting
It's pretty far along! 1/3 completely finished right now, I have an editor cranking on the next third and I'm working on the final third! Unless something happens, this month for sure!
Cushion Sapp
Hope the Zeebo video can come out before 2024
themanwithsauce
IIRC, the official reason for why NES carts looked the way they did was to emulate VHS tapes in a VCR. The thinking was the extra size made it seem more "appliance-like" and would also look/be sturdier when kids inevitably handled them. When nintendo was launching the NES in the USA, they wanted to avoid as many comparisons to the Atari as possible due to the video game crash from just a few years prior. So they were specifically told to make it look much more like a VCR or part of a Hi-Fi stereo system than an Atari 2600. And so they "hid" the game behind the door like a VCR instead of having the game be displayed out and proud like on the famicom or atari consoles at the time.
