NES Excitebike "save custom track" option doesn't save.
Stanley Dr. Livingston passwords apparently leave you at the very beginning of the game without your accumulated stock of items.
Video Game Features That Don't Work
NES Excitebike "save custom track" option doesn't save.
Stanley Dr. Livingston passwords apparently leave you at the very beginning of the game without your accumulated stock of items.
Crackdowns "same screen Co op"
and black and white 2's "sandbox mode"
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While the game over screen passwords work just fine, I've never gotten a single password that Winkle gives you to work in Golvellius: Valley of Doom for the SEGA Master System.
Almost none of the games work on those Dream Gear X-in-1 plug-n-play devices.
When you end the SMS game Ghost House, it doesn't add your 500,000 final round clear bonus to the final score.
I'm not sure if it counts, but the room that the instruction manual tells you to enter the 'suicide' code in on SEGA Master System game Zillion doesn't work (in that room). I suppose that's just a typo though.
It's because it uses the Famicom Data Recorder to save.Originally Posted by Casati
Nintendo left it in the NES version because they didn't know if they were going to release an NES version of the Data Recorder. (the manual even says "they have been programmed in for potential product development")
Any online multi-player feature from games older than 5 years, give or take. Anything Midway (NOT WB) on PS3 no longer has servers, etc.
The Saturn started a generation of games that no longer have all features accessible, mostly online.
It works on the Virtual Console release.
Neat idea for a thread.
I can't imagine it'd be easy to connect a Famicom Data Recorder to NES. IIRC that requires the keyboard too, which plugs into Famicom's expansion port...
Lum fan.
I personally had a lot of issues with the passwords system between the games Zelda: Oracle Of Ages and Zelda: Oracle Of Seasons. Other than that, they're great games.
Wrecking Crew also has a nonfunctional save feature for the same reason.
The other one of the three like that is Mach Rider.
It also works in the version of the NES game in Excitebike 64 on the N64.
Hmm I can't say that I had any issues but it was years ago.
Come to think of it that whole concept was kind of cool but hindered a bit by its technology.
It started earlier than the Saturn, mind.
Besides online, most networking features from long ago in general are long gone. IMHO the XBand, Sega Channel and Satellaview are probably the biggest of the early losses. I'm sure many people miss Meganet as well.
As for games with features that never worked from the start..?
Many RPGs tend to have magic that are completely useless or do not function as you're lead to believe they are.
KOF Neowave on the Xbox has a filter level option that does nothing. No matter what setting you use, it has really heavy bilinear filtering. Its "heat mode" (special button which drains life to increase your damage output) also does almost nothing - it drains your life, but doesn't increase your damage!
They didn't test that port very much... needless to say, the arcade and PS2 versions didn't have those problems.
Using the second memory card slot in MegaMan Legends 2 doesn't work. I think there are several PS1 games that the second memory card slot glitches on, but I can't think of any others.
Glitchy saving or not, PSX games that don't support the 2nd memory card slot for saving/loading are just stupid. I can't think of a legimitate reason why that wouldn't be implemented.
I was under the impression that the only thing Saturn games did "online" was connect to the Xband "match making service". That "convenience" service aside, all of the games are still fully playable through direct dial.
Although over great distances, they only work efficiently on land lines. Vonage customers and the like need not apply.
If a god is willing to prevent evil, but not able, then he is not omnipotent. If he is able, but not willing, then he must be malevolent. If he is both willing and able, then why is there evil? If he is neither able or willing then why call him a god?
Such as those NES Heroes of the Lance spells. The find traps spell actually works, but is pointless because their damage is light enough that it's faster and easier just to try dodging them.
I was seriously disappointed regarding the lack of Excitebike save. If it worked, Excitebike would truly deserve its place on top NES lists.
And I was hoping someone would refute my claim that the Stanley Dr. Livingston password doesn't work. I hate starting at the beginning on that game.
There are plenty of games on all systems that allow multiple memory cards that only support port 1. It's common on the PS1, N64, Dreamcast, Gamecube, PS2... all of them. I agree that it's extremely annoying in all cases, though. Just allow us to save to any memory card plugged into the system darnit!
In Dashin' Desperadoes for Genesis there's supposed to be a minigame called Rockfall, they even tell you about it in the manual. You're supposed to type in rockfall in the password screen to access it, but it never works. The other mini games work, just not that one. It used to bug the hell out of me as a kid.
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