Nintendo Patents New Cartridge Design

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Wow that will be real uncomfortable to play with. It looks a lot like a memory stick. Maybe this new type of cartridge is for additional software to be stored on the DS card?
 

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it's for the next wii Nintendo are going back to carts!
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geoflcl said:
Whatever this is, it had better be damned awesome for it to have to stick out from the cartridge like some kind of Gameboy Camera or somethi---

THAT'S IT!

Oh wow. ...Oh wow. A completely and utterly failed on that one.

I apologize profusely for that public display of idiocy.
 

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This has me interested but I doubt Nintendo will use it. Just because Nintendo patents something doesn't mean they're gonna use it. They patent all of their (mostly Miyamoto's) ideas and concepts so that no one else can use them.

Nintendo is the North Korea of the game industry.
 

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Looks like one of those old passcards. Maybe they want to keep the DS compatibility without having to have 2 slots. Or maybe there will be 2 slots, one for GBA and the other one for DS/DS2 cards.
 

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Schizoanalysis said:
If there is extra hardware in the cart -- then out standard flash cards won't be able to play the roms....

Maybe Nintendo wants to to render out flashcards useless on all new big name releases...
Wouldn't that just mean new flash cart desigh? or maybe if there a new cart like this that stick out the ds then if people have same game on a small cart they get caught???
QUOTE(Bladexdsl @ Mar 5 2010, 06:01 PM) it's for the next wii Nintendo are going back to carts!
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LoL nice
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There could be a special chip like as the S-DD1 that has automatic copy protection wand serves as a graphics processor. To this day S-DD1 games can't be played on emulators so if its something like this then we have uncrackable AP on our hands.
 

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Hop2089 said:
There could be a special chip like as the S-DD1 that has automatic copy protection wand serves as a graphics processor. To this day S-DD1 games can't be played on emulators so if its something like this then we have uncrackable AP on our hands.
Star Ocean runs fine on both ZSNES and SnesGT.

EDIT: And so does SFA2. These are the only two games that used the S-DD1 chip. Clearly SNES emulation has improved.
 

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flameiguana said:
Maybe its some special game. WarioWare Twisted had an abnormally shaped cartridge.

This. It's not for a DS successor, it's a patent for a kart with accelerometers or perhaps bluetooth or solar sensor I don't know what.
 

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Depravo said:
Hop2089 said:
There could be a special chip like as the S-DD1 that has automatic copy protection wand serves as a graphics processor. To this day S-DD1 games can't be played on emulators so if its something like this then we have uncrackable AP on our hands.
Star Ocean runs fine on both ZSNES and SnesGT.

Ever since 2003.

I'm shocked to see how many people actually consider this to be some kind of new plot against piracy...So they're just supposed to ship every DS game on such a ridiculously huge cartridge? Yeah, that's all the more reason to stop pirating DS games!

And no, they're not putting "better graphics" or "additional software" on these cartridges...How much is it exactly you people think to know about computers?
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or maybe if there a new cart like this that stick out the ds then if people have same game on a small cart they get caught???
What? Caught by whom? The police?
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Maybe it's a 'GBA Shop Channel' cart. You plug in to the DSi and get access to a GBA Shop Channel where you can get GBA Games or play GBA Games. The extra size would be for the extra memory.
 

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Depravo said:
Star Ocean runs fine on both ZSNES and SnesGT.

EDIT: And so does SFA2. These are the only two games that used the S-DD1 chip. Clearly SNES emulation has improved.

Not only that, but they both work emulated even on the PSP and full-speed too as far as I could see.

Hop2089 is really behind with the news.
 

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