• Willie@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I’m impressed they’re sticking with cartridges, since that has been a source of issues with some games. I appreciate it myself. I like them.

    This guy is kind of silly for saying that this has been the only time there have been games that fit into the old system, since you could totally put Gameboy Color games into the Gameboy Pocket, they just wouldn’t work. They’d scold you and be like “This game can only be played on the GameBoy Color!”.

    I hope there’s no forward compatibility, where games must target the lower spec hardware, since that’s the same thing holding the Xbox Series X/S, I hope there’s backwards compatibility though, it’d be nice to tuck my old Switch into storage.

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      4 months ago

      The first generation DS could play GBA games.

      The original Wii could play GameCube games.

      The 3DS ran DS games.

      The GBA ran GB and GBC games.

      The WiiU could run most Wii games.

      Nintendo has history making backwards compatibility a selling point of it help sell consoles.

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      4 months ago

      Huh? I thought there was a bump out on the GBC cartridge that prevented you from inserting it into a Game Boy? Also the notch cut out of the corner that prevents the power switch from operating. Am I mis-remembering?

    • ZephyrXero@lemmy.worldOP
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      Huh. I am that guy and was not aware some GC Color games would do that. Never had one, always thought of the Color as the first Pro model rather than its own generation.

      But it’s neat to hear they did that because it matches up with my assumptions about how it may be handled

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        4 months ago

        There were a few games that worked on the OG gameboy, but were GameBoy color games, the ones that come to mind first are Pokemon Gold and Silver. You could play them on the og gameboy, without color and missing some hardware features, or you could play them on the Gameboy Color as they had intended you do. It was a really nice addition.

        I always thought of the GBC as its own generation, since the games were mostly incompatible, just as I thought of the GBA as its own generation for the same reason, but really, it’s almost just arbitrary.

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      4 months ago

      The Switch is a thin tablet, so there isn’t any room for a CD drive. It’s either cartridges or no physical media at all, probably.

      • Willie@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        Oh yeah, I know it.

        We could get something like UMDs from the PSP again though. Haha!

        • bigmclargehuge@lemmy.world
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          Those things were so cool, and were absolute junk. I remember the case crackin on Secret Agent Clank, so I carefully pried open my copy of National Treasure 2 that came with the PSP and transplanting it over. Good time