You don't need one, just something sturdy and very flat you can wedge in there is all. They're probably taking razors off the market there because they don't want the population armed and dangerous.
You don't need one, just something sturdy and very flat you can wedge in there is all. They're probably taking razors off the market there because they don't want the population armed and dangerous.
Ok, so I finally managed to pop it open! My hands (and my right thumb) are going through the consequences, but it's all worth it!Originally Posted by Tanooki
You don't need one, just something sturdy and very flat you can wedge in there is all. They're probably taking razors off the market there because they don't want the population armed and dangerous.
Well now that is an interesting fake. I am not 100% certain, but I think it's safe to say Nintendo quit using glop top blobs like that on the SNES. Some Star Fox games were like that.
Wow, that is interesting. No metal shielding on it either like normally appears on N64 games.
Pirates don't care about shielding, just money and that's an expense.
Yep, as far as I know the first run of Star Fox on SNES had those weird blobs. I wonder why they even bothered to spend money making this fake, considering it's not a very well known (or enjoyable, for that matter) game...
If I remember it's a somewhat interesting entry because it's NOT a fighter but a brawler/platformer. It looked decent, and I know it didn't rate really high but not god awfully either. I think it probably took a bit of a hit alone just because it wasn't the MK fighter people wanted. Perhaps where it was made there was a better following.
Pirates tended to make fakes off any game they could, maybe it was an easy game to copy and manufacture custom boards and chips for. A few of the fake N64 games seem to be of Midway games for some reason.
I've actually heard of people having fake N64 games that didn't contain any chips and didn't work, they were just made to look like real games while ripping people off.
There was a story a handful of years ago about a guy who found a fault in a particular N64 cartridge that caused some sort of feedback loop when booting up that would short out the system. He figured out how it worked, bugged a few cheap games to have the flaw, spread them around local flea markets and then made it known that he could fix the broken systems on the cheap. Supposedly made a killing.
You're not thinking of http://www.actsofgord.com/Wrath/chapter03.php , are you?
"There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge." --Bertrand Russel (attributed)
Almost. After reading that, I got curious as to if anyone else had explored this and did some Googling. Found the story I mentioned on a livejournal page that belonged to a former mom and pop game store owner. And, like many of the neat things I find, I guess I didn't have the forethought to bookmark it.
Wow that's despicable. If that person ever got caught they'd be in serious trouble for destruction of property with intend to defraud and the fraud to those who fell into it and paid for the fix.
That's what I sort of guessed from the situation, some pirates were pretty desperate back then hehe. I also wanted to show this to everyone because I saw somewhere (can't remember where) that there were only a handful of pirate N64 games, and they were certain that those were the only ones, whereas I have for sure seen way more than the ones they mentioned here in Venezuela. It seems you guys here are aware of the fact that the pirate N64 games were more widespread than originally thought.
And regarding the guy who bugged the games to damage systems, you suck.
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You're right, there are more, but some pigheaded types at certain sites will argue that it was like 2 or 3 specific games and that's it. It's easier to be right about that and stick your fingers in your ears and make sound than take in the facts. I recall a really lame argument going years over how many Sachen games actually exist for the NES and the site despite the evidence proven by a member with said games just still isn't good enough. Some people don't want to hear the truth because suddenly their so called complete set or whatever illogical garbage gets shattered.
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