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| Dragon Ball Z: Super Butōden 3 - An Snes Anomaly | |
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| Topic Started: Nov 24 2008, 03:29 AM (115 Views) | |
| Greth | Nov 24 2008, 03:29 AM Post #1 |
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Kay, so back in the 90's when the Super Nintendo/Super Famicom was released, Nintendo decided that the only form of region lock they were going to have between US games and Japanese games was a set of 'tabs' inside the Super Nintendo. This meant that no American could play Japanese carts simpy because the cart would not go into the super nintendo... because of said tabs. The American carts had slots for those tabs. Here's a comparison i quickly pulled off the net. See the slots in the American cart( and the lack thereof in the Japanese cart)? Now I learned this fact recently... and my first thought was: "What in the fuck?" I've been playing my copy of the japanese DragonBallZ game Dragon Ball Z: Super Butōden 3 for a couple of months now. So i looked at the back of the DBZ game's cart... holy shit...  the game had tab slots? weird. definitely weird. pointless topic i guess, but i thought i'd share with you guys. i dunno if anyone else on here is an old-game collector like me. MOAR shots:  
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| Soja | Nov 24 2008, 06:13 AM Post #2 |
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lol. Weren't the tab slots there so that you couldn't play Japanese carts? |
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| Davidof | Nov 24 2008, 07:41 AM Post #3 |
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I remember that from the SNES Era. We had some weird converter thing so our European SNES could play American games. Apparently Japan-land has the same system we did. Cool. It only worked like half the time though. We had to put in a non-slotted cart in the back too for it to work. Mario Kart was our magical cart to make things work </pointless but funny add-on> |
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| Feez | Nov 24 2008, 01:50 PM Post #4 |
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Hey that game was kinda cool. |
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| Greth | Nov 24 2008, 02:22 PM Post #5 |
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exactly. both US and Japanese games were NTSC, so technically you could play them on the same system. So the Japanese added the tabs to the American one so they couldnt play Japanese games. So why would this Japanese game have the slots for the American tabs?
And yes, the European and Japanese systems/carts looked the same, but were different in that one ran 50Hz for NTSC, and one ran 60Hz for PAL. Although you could get a convertor, or alternatively, hack your system to add a switcher. Though only Europeans would need to do that, since any game that came out in Europe came out in America, the only import games you really wanna play are the exclusive Japanese ones. You can simply remove the tabs from the American system, but I don't plan on doing so anytime soon. |
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| Myke | Nov 24 2008, 06:49 PM Post #6 |
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If it ain't Hyper Dimension or Legend of the Super Saiyan I ain't interested. Might as well be playing Ultimate Battle 22. |
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| Asvel | Nov 24 2008, 07:08 PM Post #7 |
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Hah, shows how dumb I am. For the longest time I thought the "pins" you had to break off to make Japanese games work were the connectors on the bottom of the cart. >_> (Or maybe that was for NES/FC? One had, like, 60 connectors and the other had 72.) |
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| Greth | Nov 25 2008, 12:46 AM Post #8 |
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who asked your opinion on the game? that wasnt the point of the topic 
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| Soja | Nov 25 2008, 02:34 AM Post #9 |
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Lmao. Nothing is as bad as Ultimate Battle 22. I actually spent $50 for the imported game and a boot disk, and I was like, heeeey, this is kinda' cool. Then I realized the game sucked balls and stopped playing. I was like 13 back then, and not quite over the dumbass stage in my development. I still have it, lol. Novelty item now, I guess, since I probably couldn't get five dollars for it now. The boot disk did come in handy when I got one of the Slayers RPGs for the PS1, though. But for what it's worth, Super Butôden 3 > Ultimate Battle 22. |
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| Myke | Nov 25 2008, 06:07 AM Post #10 |
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I clearly posted my opinion of my own volition, knowing nothing of the tabs but attempting my best to attribute to the conversation. SUH-REE. |
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