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Man I loved that series tho. But then again, I'm a huge nerd for Three Kingdoms China.
Thinking more on it, and I wouldn't treat CoD as a great benchmark. Last gen, the series was almost entirely sub-720p, except Black Ops II, and it still drops resolution to cope at certain points. The first Black Ops was so poorly programmed, it was damn near 480p.
It's hard to optimize performance or visuals when a new game is being churned out every single year, and the underlying engine used has only been modestly upgraded over almost a 7 year period. Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy.
The lockout chip won't cause the game not to come on at all. It only solves that occasional problem of the game starting normally but then reseting over and over.
It doesn't surprise me that bending the connectors wouldn't work. Once you start bending the connectors it's hard to have them line up exactly at the same angle where they all would make good solid contact with the cartridge pins.
I'd recommend getting a new 72 pin connector you can get one on ebay in $7-8 USD range. Even if it doesn't fix your problem you'd still have it for your next NES.
What you can try doing as a last ditch effort to save that old 72 connector is take a piece of sandpaper fold it over something like a credit card and insert it in and out of the connector. (not side to side) If there's something like a bit of rust or corrosion that's causing a connectivity issue that will make short work of it.
Not sure if it's related to the date fix... but I was putting in some comics and item numbers and barcodes don't seem to be working now on submitted items. Not sure on edits though.
I'm not so sure putting barcodes on comics is a good idea, anyways.
Since the early 80s, the majority comics have come out in both "Newstand" edition and "Direct Sales" edition. Newstand are the ones sent to grocery stores, convenience stores, etc. and have the barcode. Direct sales editions are the ones sold directly in comic book shops, and don't have the bardcodes.
We could also get into Whitman and Baxter versions, too, which ran in the 80s.
Suffice to say, it's probably more of a headache than it's worth to put the bardcodes in. Because then we'd need 2 of each comic in the database to represent both versions.
I think there is a certain level of mysticism people see when dealing with cart games. I think that is a large part of the argument. Notice we aren't talking about reproduction Sega CD. This is because everyone has a cd burner. Not everyone has the equipment to reprogram a cart. But it is the same thing as burning a CD. Just a different format.
If I burnt a whole bunch of copies of Sega CD's Night Striker, removed the region, put it in a nice package made from cover project images, put a nice laser engraving on the CD, and sold them, I imagine most people would call me a thief. But with carts it's different. I don't get it. If burnt and sold Sega CD games can't make the cut. Why do burnt and sold NES games make the cut? Believe me it is not about translation. Where is that Golden Axe 3 translation? Some games are just in English. But I do understand that people do like to list some of them. I would admit that I would like to have Golden Axe 3 right next to Golden Axe 1 and 2.... But at what cost.... (That last bit should be read in a very dramatic voice. Maybe some *dun dun dunnn* music)
Just because you pay someone money to do this for you doesn't make it part of the system's library.
Huh... I just OnLive sort of pointless to have if you have a PC, it doesn't really seem to fit into any segment of the market IMO. Anything you can play on OnLive, you can play on PC. Meh.
As for Ouya... I've had one since a bit before launch (one of the lucky ones who actually got his kickstarter console before the retail release) and I still think it's a bad console. 500 games is nice, it'd be nicer if more than 1 or 2 of those were interesting. I've been hooking it up every few weeks to navigate through the discover store thing, and I never come out downloading anything.
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