You can't forget about the 3DS' secret function to play games in 3D. It's been long forgotten in time since not even Nintendo seems to care about it anymore.
Re: Sonic 3D Blast - In The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past on SNES, the Chris Houlihan room is basically the same thing, if you would get sent to an invalid area, you get sent there instead. They're both error catchers. I'm sure there are plenty of other games with similarly disguised error catchers, too.
@@that1lizardjamie There is a channel called "GameHunt" that let him go in detail about how he developed Sonic 3D blast and it's fucking amazing. He is a optimization god.
Another one: The fifth generation Pokémon games have infrared built in to connect between them. That was a way to ensure that you are trading/battling using real cartdriges, since flash carts lack that feature.
You can use the infrared interface in white/black to trade or battle. But you can also use the standard wireless connection without a infrared connection.
Just want to mention that I like your topics. I like videos that focuses on more obscure things in gaming in general, there is already a million videos out there covering the most generic within modern and retro gaming. Going through more undiscussed topics is always more entertaining.
I found the sonic one myself, a book fell onto the Megadrive, unlocking the level select. Didn't realise it was ment to happen. Their was also a code for level select, b,a,r,r,a,c,u,d,a when paused.
Luke Whitsell I was being an obvious bullshitter and tried to ensure people knew I wasn't being serious by mentioning Blockbuster. The only Blockbuster open is in Alaska I think.
Most likely not. It's probably hard-coded to pair with that specific model. They would've considered including a full BT pairing stack a waste of resources.
I never would have thought that discs weren't the way to go until now. Never have I thought of game units (discs and cartridges) as removable hardware not unlike that of a usb stick/thumbdrive. I always thought of them as just memory data file storage for reading and writing. In simpler terms, I always considered stuff you write a game onto to just be software holders. With this concept of games being hardware as well you can do so many more things with it. I just wonder if the switch cartridges will ever get any special treatment.
SNES cartridges in particular were always designed to be modular to expand the consoles capability, as part of keeping the cost of the base system down. The SuperFX chip is the most well known, but there were over a dozen other enhancement chips embedded in cartridges that vastly expanding the capabilities of the original SNES. This is laymans terms, but the SA1 chip in the Mario RPG cartridge essentially included an overclocked version of the SNES's own CPU inside it. About 3x the clock speed. From Sega, you have the SVP chip used for the Mega-Drive version of Virtua Racing, which could draw more polygons at about twice the framerate of the SuperFX chip (but it was absurdly expensive as well). Or of course, Sonic & Knuckles, which could actively patch the data from a Sonic 2 or 3 cartridge to expand and change those games.
ValiantAleste _ It was common on the Dreamcast. Sonic Adventure, among others, included several wallpapers for your PC in the low-density part of the GD-ROM that could be read from a normal PC CD-ROM player.
Do you think that game disks and cartridges could be a secret BLUETOOTH adapter??? Do you think Pokemon games like X and Y are like that. That would be scary.
Fitting extra features on cartridges to meet the needs of specific games was definitely a cool idea, but in the case of modern consoles like the Switch, this is a practice that is no longer necessary. The console has all the features that these hardware extensions aimed to capture (like Bluetooth and 3D rendering capabilities), not to mention the disparity it would cause between physical and digital releases of games.
I had no idea about the NES adapter, back in the day You could find bootleg devices to do so, but an official adapter in new to Me, after so many years, nice tip!
that bit about the famicom cartridges using adapters is super interesting, and I've genuinely never heard of it before! You always manage to show off some super interesting tidbits and facts about video game history in your videos. Definitely one of the best youtubers out there.
I think the reason they didnt advertised the Super FX on Yoshi's Island was so they could make the Super Nintendo look more advanced compared to other consoles.
My personal favorites are when they secretly include extra games on the cartridge, hidden away with a code. The arcade conversion of Dig Dug on the Intellivision console had a hidden game - it was a modified version of Tron Deadly Discs, but using character graphics from the game Burgertime, specifically the little hotdog enemies. You'd push certain buttons on both controllers and then reset, and you could play Deadly Dogs. Another favorite was Battlezone 2000 on the Atari Lynx. The programmers made a nice little game but Atari's owners thought it went too far away from the original, and made them start over from scratch. But they secretly hid their original version in their new version, only accessible by a code. I could see why Atari didn't go for their original game, it had 2000 levels to go through and was a bit on the confusing side.
Hey Nintendrew, if you're interested in weird unique game features look into Bangai-O Spirits on DS. You share levels, high scores and replays with other DS players using sound. It's called Sound Load. It's a trip.
Judging by the amount of views on this original trailer not many people knew about it. Even though they simplify their tech in this explanation it still kinda blows my mind th-cam.com/video/J5hd3XlJ4AM/w-d-xo.html
I gotta say, its really neat to see GameHut get so much attention. There's PLENTY of behind the scene looks at these big famous popular studios making their own stuff... But there's a certain very captivating perspective to be found from the accounts of the people running a small-ish studio that mostly just made licensed tie-in games and ports on a low budget with some publisher breathing down their neck even more than the big-time studios.
Yes. I watched a seller with a $3 copy of Gyromite turn around and sell it for $28 as soon as I brought it to his and another shopper’s attention (I already had too many). It was the same guy who sold me two “heavy” NES cartridges for $10 that had over $22,600 worth of heroin inside, so he knows that when I bring something to his attention he should probably listen. ;)
Here's something that you may not heard of; The Game Boy version of Olympic Summer Games has a hidden feature when played on the Super Game Boy. The original 8-Bit music is replaced with 16-bit music! ;-)
I think you forgot to mention that 5th gen pokemon card alongside with heartgold and soulsilver also had this Bluetooth card. Also fun fact if you put these games near a security price sticker it will erase your save.
Liked this video! I remember some of the stuff you mentioned when I was a kid. Kids and magazines raved about how SMW2 used the FX chip to make the game look so good.
The Sonic 3D Blast level select can be accessed via an input code, too. At the startup screen of the game, press these buttons on your controller: B, A, Right, A, C, Up, Down, A. You can remember because it spells "baracuda". Then press start and you're there- no console abuse required!
When I clicked on the video, I was hoping you wouldn't bring up the SuperFX chip since everyone talks about it and Star Fox, but the fact you brought up Yoshi's Island instead of Star Fox was a pleasant surprise I wasn't expecting and honestly I had completely forgotten that game used the SuperFX chip. All in all, great and informative video.
Very cool information and well explained! I always wondered as a kid why some NES catridges I owned (Gryomite, Duck Hunt, and a few others) had tabs on top compared to other ones. That makes sense!
Trainer Blue GB Player did not support SGB enhancements but it did have some of its own. For example, some Game Boy Advance games supported force feedback when played with a GameCube controller. Also, it did not work with the GBA Video carts. IIRC, the GB Player holds opposing directions on the D-pad when the game first boots. Because normal GBAs can’t do this, the game knows it’s running on a GB Player. Majesco GBA Video carts will then display a message and refuse to play video since Majesco did not have home video rights.
They did. The SVP chip that was used in the Mega-Drive version of Virtua Racing. It was an incredibly powerful chip for what it was, quite a bit beyond the SuperFX chip. But it was also far too expensive to be practical on a per game basis. Though there were plans to make an SVP chip cartridge adaptor, so you only had to buy the chip once, and compatible games would just play through it, like a Game Genie.
I love your videos, and this one is very nice too :p I like the fact you own all these games to show us, it's a proof that you really like what you're talking about :)
For the Gameboy Space Invaders, it's one of several special Gameboy cartridges specially designed for the Super Gameboy, but still playable on the original Gameboy. Other games like this is Donkey Kong, which, when played on a Super Gameboy, had a 1981 Donkey Kong arcade cabinet border.
OMG I thought it was going crazy. I threw my controller at the mega drive in frustration in Sonic 3D and unlocked the level select. I thought I was going mad!
One thing you left out, on the yoshis island and star fox cartridges, the pins on the bottom of the cartridges have a “separate” pin set on the left and right. I’m assuming that’s where the fx chip comes into play but don’t quote me on that. I just know that games that used the fx chip had some weird “extra” pin sets on both sides that gave me the general idea that More was being read from the cartridge. Don’t know if I explained this properly, if anyone wants to chime in I’d appreciate it.
Yoshi’s island on the snes is a two player btw. If you hold the select and press X X Y B A on the map, you’ll unlock mini games and 2 mini games that are two players.
There is also a handful of Famicom cartridges that have additional sound chips which increase the number of sound channels for those games. My personal favorite was Akumajo Densetsu (aka. Castlevania III) which dramatically improves the music. Unfortunately not only would you require the physical Famicom cartridges but also a Famicom on which to play them since the extra chip used a set of pins on the board which do not exist on the NES.
Pokemon Gold and Silver are like this too! They're marketed as Gameboy Color games, but are actually fully compatible with the original Gameboy, with two full versions of the game loaded onto the cartridge, similar to what was done with Space Invaders
8:17, False, the cheat code for level select without damaging your cart is B-A-Right-A-C-Up-Down-A, it is a misspelling of Barracuda which is her Baracuda
I bought a copy of Gyromite specifically for the adapter. :) It's a bit off to say that the Sonic 3D Blast trick "worked" to trick its way through Sega QA; most likely it never even came up during certification. But it's cute that it was there and took 20-odd years to be found.
Wow that 3D Blast secret is awesome to learn. As a kid I would sometimes get to a level select screen, but I never knew how I did it, it just happened.
Many games for the Super Nintendo actually used enhancement chips such as the FX or SA1 (an accelerator chip) without advertising -- but there's a *VERY* easy way to tell if the game uses one of these: check the PCB slot on the cartridge. A standard SNES game will have one row of pins in the center. But a chip-enhanced game needs extra data connections, so you'll find two smaller additional rows of pins to the left and right of the main row. Google "Super Mario RPG PCB" vs "Super Mario World PCB" to see what I mean.
Nowhere near all chip-enhanced SNES games had those. DSP games, for example, like Super Mario Kart and Pilotwings. They were also used for extra power, clock signal, or cartridge audio. Super Game Boy 2 and MSU-1 used the audio pins, for example.
I new of the Gyromite adapter issue, but I did not know it could have been in potential all 5 screw NES carts. Damn Drew, you made me take apart my only 5 screw NES US game I have to check it out :D I am PAL collector btw :P
6:37 Fair, but from what I read, it's more common to find a Famicom adapter inside Stack-Up, another ROB the Robot game, as that was the only variant of that game ever produced for the NES.
I have the Space Invaders game for the original Gameboy and have been wanting to see this arcade version when plugged into the SNES! Loved seeing it in this video. Must get a SNES asap 😆
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Nintendo hates him! Learn how to find these hidden features with this simple trick!
Speedrunners hate him!
+Snakez FURST TRY, EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEDIOT.
Your Famicom info is wrong it came out in 1983 in Japan not 1985 like you said in video.
Number 5 will shock you!!
This is the shocking revelation that Nintendo DOESN'T want you to see. Hurry and watch before this gets deleted
Shaq Fu has a great hidden feature, where you can use it as a wedge on wobbly tables or chairs!
I'll have to try this!
i was thinking of something else when you said wedge idk what i was thinking.
The Genesis/Mega Drive version is the better version with content compared to the SNES version.
Lol I've played worse sadly
Good one
You can't forget about the 3DS' secret function to play games in 3D. It's been long forgotten in time since not even Nintendo seems to care about it anymore.
I bet someone is not gonna get the joke
Pokemon Sun and Moon, playable in 2d
+MilesPrower1992 woosh
+MilesPrower1992 woosh
@@deniscobar8539 what did I woosh on
Re: Sonic 3D Blast - In The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past on SNES, the Chris Houlihan room is basically the same thing, if you would get sent to an invalid area, you get sent there instead. They're both error catchers. I'm sure there are plenty of other games with similarly disguised error catchers, too.
The Sonic 3D Blast trick is a sheer stroke of genius from the developer.
Yes. Jon Burton is a sheer genius with his work. I mean, he pitched his first game at 16.
@@that1lizardjamie There is a channel called "GameHunt" that let him go in detail about how he developed Sonic 3D blast and it's fucking amazing. He is a optimization god.
@@anaussie8714 You know what I say.
Mickey Mania for the Genesis does something similar
laziest developer ever,.
I'm still blown away that they could fit an entire SNES game into a Gameboy cart.
Never underestimate Nintendo.
@@MasterZebulin Absolutely!
Technically I can fit multiple of not all SNES, Gameboy and NES games on one cartridge.
Yes, with the help of modern technology. Back in the day you couldn't have.
Taylor Lee they are able to fit smash ultimate onto the small Nintendo Switch cartridge
Mario teaches typing DS when?
*never*
ProtoMario sorry I already made that joke on the ds peripherals video
@@Vwemmy 00000000F
at year 2250 or (most likely) never
Right after they release HD remakes of the CDi games.
Another one: The fifth generation Pokémon games have infrared built in to connect between them. That was a way to ensure that you are trading/battling using real cartdriges, since flash carts lack that feature.
That's not true
Pokemon HG/SS had a infrared connection to connect to the pokéWalker
why is that not true? I never said "only fifth generation".
You can use the infrared interface in white/black to trade or battle.
But you can also use the standard wireless connection without a infrared connection.
actually there there just to test if it is a real game the punishment actually applies to single player
You always have such interesting topics that I don’t think I’d care for, but than get hooked on, and research the hell out of lmfao
hehehe... i d o n t k n o w
Switch Stop but *then
You basically explained my life
Just want to mention that I like your topics. I like videos that focuses on more obscure things in gaming in general, there is already a million videos out there covering the most generic within modern and retro gaming. Going through more undiscussed topics is always more entertaining.
Tfw your favorite anime has a new episode
Hi
What's that anime? I'll totally watch with you guys!
HAHAHA ITS FUNNY BECAUSE ITS NOT ACTUALLY AN ANIME, YOU'RE SUCH A COMEDY GENIUS
Is it My Hero Academia?
not the sonic hater
I never knew about the Famicom adapter and the Space Invaders game on the SNES. Great video!
Me neithe- Wait...
*_We seem very similar..._*
JoDaEpicGuy YES!
This is one of my favorite TH-cam channels.
“So, enough intro, let’s head right into it”
*cuts to intro
All you people saying this don’t seem to know what an intro is.
I'm not a gamer, but the geeky side of me found this just fascinating. Thank you.
The room was more mesmerizing than the video. All these games and the designs! I really like it
The moment you said Yoshi's Island you play its music
My body wasn't ready, but my body enjoyed
Also the Gameboy Camera music at the beginning- Run run run! winners podium *feels*
You know whose body was ready? Reggie Fils-Aime
I found the sonic one myself, a book fell onto the Megadrive, unlocking the level select. Didn't realise it was ment to happen.
Their was also a code for level select, b,a,r,r,a,c,u,d,a when paused.
codes will never be as fun as
P E R C U S S I V E M A I N T E N A N C E
Your channel and also Gamehut are uniques!! congrats!!
Yes. He's the founder of Traveller's Tales who created that game and Sonic R. He' also programmed both of those games just to tell you 387534,
well now I have to look him up
I used to subscribe to his channel but got creeped out by all the religious rhetoric he was injecting into his games/code.
Solís Music *unique
(Gets angry at sonic 3d)
AAAAHHHHH
(Punches cartridge)
wow I can just skip it now
3:06 “Rudimentary polygonal 3D graphics”
Favorite sentence of the day
Do you have Waluigis Taco Stand for the n64?
I got a copy of it
I did, but I just took it back to Blockbuster yesterday.
Super Duperest Blockbuster? Didn’t those all close down, like 10 years ago?
no
Luke Whitsell I was being an obvious bullshitter and tried to ensure people knew I wasn't being serious by mentioning Blockbuster. The only Blockbuster open is in Alaska I think.
"Enough intro , lets get into it"
- plays intro
Xd
good video tho!
Pokemon Typing Adventure is one of the games I'm trying to get for my collection, it's so unique!
I wonder if you could connect a new Logitech bluetooth keyboard to the module inside and it will work.
It should be easy to get in Europe as the title is really cheap 12 euro new.
I bought a used Japanese copy through Amazon. It runs fine on my new 3DS-XL.
My local gamestore sells a new copy for €12 and a used one for €10. I checked how much it costs in America and those prices are crazy!
Ive got one xd.
You inspire me so much, in fact I have bought some games you have recommended! (Also love the hair)
I love getting stoned and watching this guy. Thanks for helping me chill man. Great videos.
I wonder if any other standard Bluetooth keyboard will work with Pokemon Typing DS as well?
Hmm… an excellent question
Most likely not. It's probably hard-coded to pair with that specific model. They would've considered including a full BT pairing stack a waste of resources.
I never would have thought that discs weren't the way to go until now. Never have I thought of game units (discs and cartridges) as removable hardware not unlike that of a usb stick/thumbdrive. I always thought of them as just memory data file storage for reading and writing. In simpler terms, I always considered stuff you write a game onto to just be software holders. With this concept of games being hardware as well you can do so many more things with it. I just wonder if the switch cartridges will ever get any special treatment.
Woah, now I wanna hide an easter egg mini game that can only be played on pc saved on a ps4 game disc.
SNES cartridges in particular were always designed to be modular to expand the consoles capability, as part of keeping the cost of the base system down.
The SuperFX chip is the most well known, but there were over a dozen other enhancement chips embedded in cartridges that vastly expanding the capabilities of the original SNES.
This is laymans terms, but the SA1 chip in the Mario RPG cartridge essentially included an overclocked version of the SNES's own CPU inside it. About 3x the clock speed.
From Sega, you have the SVP chip used for the Mega-Drive version of Virtua Racing, which could draw more polygons at about twice the framerate of the SuperFX chip (but it was absurdly expensive as well). Or of course, Sonic & Knuckles, which could actively patch the data from a Sonic 2 or 3 cartridge to expand and change those games.
ValiantAleste _ It was common on the Dreamcast. Sonic Adventure, among others, included several wallpapers for your PC in the low-density part of the GD-ROM that could be read from a normal PC CD-ROM player.
Do you think that game disks and cartridges could be a secret BLUETOOTH adapter??? Do you think Pokemon games like X and Y are like that. That would be scary.
Fitting extra features on cartridges to meet the needs of specific games was definitely a cool idea, but in the case of modern consoles like the Switch, this is a practice that is no longer necessary. The console has all the features that these hardware extensions aimed to capture (like Bluetooth and 3D rendering capabilities), not to mention the disparity it would cause between physical and digital releases of games.
Thank you Nintendrew, very cool.
Thank you BadDynamic, very cool!
"... enough intro, let's check it out"
*Plays channel intro*
Always in the mood for a Playstasean video!
TriggeredFatMan idk if this is a joke but you are a big dummy
TriggeredFatMan it's a joke of ninten drew (combo of Nintendo and drew) with playstasean (PlayStation and Sean) LOL
r/woooosh
Reminded me of that cringy April fools video he did.
Andrew Ravadan
It is. He made a April fools video about him leaving nintendo to switch to PlayStation.
I had no idea about the NES adapter, back in the day You could find bootleg devices to do so, but an official adapter in new to Me, after so many years, nice tip!
Sonic 3d blast one is a devs equavalent of a shoveling everything under a carpet, so nobody notice.
that bit about the famicom cartridges using adapters is super interesting, and I've genuinely never heard of it before! You always manage to show off some super interesting tidbits and facts about video game history in your videos. Definitely one of the best youtubers out there.
I think the reason they didnt advertised the Super FX on Yoshi's Island was so they could make the Super Nintendo look more advanced compared to other consoles.
My personal favorites are when they secretly include extra games on the cartridge, hidden away with a code. The arcade conversion of Dig Dug on the Intellivision console had a hidden game - it was a modified version of Tron Deadly Discs, but using character graphics from the game Burgertime, specifically the little hotdog enemies. You'd push certain buttons on both controllers and then reset, and you could play Deadly Dogs.
Another favorite was Battlezone 2000 on the Atari Lynx. The programmers made a nice little game but Atari's owners thought it went too far away from the original, and made them start over from scratch. But they secretly hid their original version in their new version, only accessible by a code. I could see why Atari didn't go for their original game, it had 2000 levels to go through and was a bit on the confusing side.
Great video. Crazy about the Sonic game... wonder if I can access the level select whilst striking my GPD when running it on emulation ? 🤣🤣🤣
Try running a different save state while running the Rom. Should produce the same effect as cartridge tilting.
@@pikachufan06 Lol I'll do that 😊
Hey Nintendrew, if you're interested in weird unique game features look into Bangai-O Spirits on DS. You share levels, high scores and replays with other DS players using sound. It's called Sound Load. It's a trip.
Interesting 🤔
Judging by the amount of views on this original trailer not many people knew about it. Even though they simplify their tech in this explanation it still kinda blows my mind th-cam.com/video/J5hd3XlJ4AM/w-d-xo.html
Nintendrew: enough intro, lets begin
*intro plays*
Was just about to comment that.
This was entertaining, informative and not padded for time. I thought that combination wasn't allowed on TH-cam.
Great video as always, Drew!
I gotta say, its really neat to see GameHut get so much attention. There's PLENTY of behind the scene looks at these big famous popular studios making their own stuff...
But there's a certain very captivating perspective to be found from the accounts of the people running a small-ish studio that mostly just made licensed tie-in games and ports on a low budget with some publisher breathing down their neck even more than the big-time studios.
Do the Famicom Converters go for more money?
Likely they would, if the seller is aware of it.
Yes. I watched a seller with a $3 copy of Gyromite turn around and sell it for $28 as soon as I brought it to his and another shopper’s attention (I already had too many). It was the same guy who sold me two “heavy” NES cartridges for $10 that had over $22,600 worth of heroin inside, so he knows that when I bring something to his attention he should probably listen. ;)
Here's something that you may not heard of;
The Game Boy version of Olympic Summer Games has a hidden feature when played on the Super Game Boy.
The original 8-Bit music is replaced with 16-bit music! ;-)
cool so if i throw my genesis out the window i will unlock the level select code
0:26 'So enough intro, let's check it out."
*Plays intro*
I love your Content! more Gamecube Please?
GameHut is one of my favorite youtube channels. Nice to see him getting some recognition!
I'm so impressed with your collection :o
So cool, dude. keep it up :) 🐻
PSP: "It's not a defect, it's a feature!"
Sonic 3d Blast: "Hold my beer."
These hidden features are pretty cool. Thank you
One of the only channels where I can find straight to the point information, and not being super cringey like other channels!
*Slaps top of Sonic cartridge*
This baby can hold so many secret level menus.
that sonic bit is one of the most amazing things i've ever learned. had to check the date wasn't april 1st! Thanks, Nintendrew!
You need to make a video on how you get your hair to look so good
??
I think you forgot to mention that 5th gen pokemon card alongside with heartgold and soulsilver also had this Bluetooth card.
Also fun fact if you put these games near a security price sticker it will erase your save.
3:35 Is that a 8 bit remix version of Ore Burgh City?
Yes
Its Loeder.
no
It definitely sounds like it
Liked this video! I remember some of the stuff you mentioned when I was a kid. Kids and magazines raved about how SMW2 used the FX chip to make the game look so good.
How can I learn typing with Pokémon when half of them don’t even have hands or fingers to type with?
Also for the DS there is a personal trainer walking game with a pedometer that syncs to the DS with an infrared receiver in the cartridge.
I swear drew you’re the smartest person when it comes to video ideas
I would love to see more videos like this i was throughly intrigued from start to finish
4:50 walk with me also uses Bluetooth for the walk with me device
Was surprised not to see Kirby Tilt N' Tumble on this list, but I still enjoyed learning about theses titles that I'd never heard about!
Super Game Boy is the switch back then.
Good nintendrew good work keep it up!!!!
you are like a calm chadtronic
The Sonic 3D Blast level select can be accessed via an input code, too. At the startup screen of the game, press these buttons on your controller: B, A, Right, A, C, Up, Down, A. You can remember because it spells "baracuda". Then press start and you're there- no console abuse required!
5:45 2 years, not 2 months. The famicom was first launched in 1983.
Tom L maybe Gyromite came out in Japan 2 months before the American NES? Or was it a Japanese launch title? I dunno.
@@gamersinacontainer, When he said "system," it sounded like as if he were refering to the console itself.
Nah, that fact was referring to Gyromite's JP release
Nintendrew I thought so
When I clicked on the video, I was hoping you wouldn't bring up the SuperFX chip since everyone talks about it and Star Fox, but the fact you brought up Yoshi's Island instead of Star Fox was a pleasant surprise I wasn't expecting and honestly I had completely forgotten that game used the SuperFX chip. All in all, great and informative video.
BRB Time to Punch my Sonic cartridge
Very cool information and well explained! I always wondered as a kid why some NES catridges I owned (Gryomite, Duck Hunt, and a few others) had tabs on top compared to other ones. That makes sense!
Holy shit i love how perfect his hair is every video
???? Bitch where
Love this sort of info. Very much in favor of a part 2.
@Nintendrew What if you run the Game Boy game in GameCube player port will it still run the SNES game version⁉️
J I'm not Nintendrew, but no, it won't. The Gameboy Player uses the GBA's hardware, so it won't have the Super Gameboy features implemented.
Trainer Blue GB Player did not support SGB enhancements but it did have some of its own. For example, some Game Boy Advance games supported force feedback when played with a GameCube controller. Also, it did not work with the GBA Video carts. IIRC, the GB Player holds opposing directions on the D-pad when the game first boots. Because normal GBAs can’t do this, the game knows it’s running on a GB Player. Majesco GBA Video carts will then display a message and refuse to play video since Majesco did not have home video rights.
Always happy for a new NintenDrew. I love all your stuff man. Keep it up!
But do any of these have Blast-Processing Technology?
Sonic 3D Blast maybe? I mean, the word "Blast" is in the title.
Maybe Sonic Boom has it an upgraded version of the Blast-Processing Technology
Nope. Sega never created an enhancement chip for the Genesis, unlike Nintendo for the SNES. They put them in the 32x and SegaCD.
They did. The SVP chip that was used in the Mega-Drive version of Virtua Racing. It was an incredibly powerful chip for what it was, quite a bit beyond the SuperFX chip. But it was also far too expensive to be practical on a per game basis.
Though there were plans to make an SVP chip cartridge adaptor, so you only had to buy the chip once, and compatible games would just play through it, like a Game Genie.
I thought the 32x was the SVP chip cartridge adaptor? i could be wrong though
Things like this is why i wish cartridges were still around, not just for storage, but for extras that can add onto a game
I love your videos, and this one is very nice too :p I like the fact you own all these games to show us, it's a proof that you really like what you're talking about :)
For the Gameboy Space Invaders, it's one of several special Gameboy cartridges specially designed for the Super Gameboy, but still playable on the original Gameboy. Other games like this is Donkey Kong, which, when played on a Super Gameboy, had a 1981 Donkey Kong arcade cabinet border.
OMG I thought it was going crazy. I threw my controller at the mega drive in frustration in Sonic 3D and unlocked the level select. I thought I was going mad!
One thing you left out, on the yoshis island and star fox cartridges, the pins on the bottom of the cartridges have a “separate” pin set on the left and right. I’m assuming that’s where the fx chip comes into play but don’t quote me on that. I just know that games that used the fx chip had some weird “extra” pin sets on both sides that gave me the general idea that More was being read from the cartridge. Don’t know if I explained this properly, if anyone wants to chime in I’d appreciate it.
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“Enough intro, lets check it out!”
*Another intro plays*
Yoshi’s island on the snes is a two player btw. If you hold the select and press X X Y B A on the map, you’ll unlock mini games and 2 mini games that are two players.
There is also a handful of Famicom cartridges that have additional sound chips which increase the number of sound channels for those games. My personal favorite was Akumajo Densetsu (aka. Castlevania III) which dramatically improves the music. Unfortunately not only would you require the physical Famicom cartridges but also a Famicom on which to play them since the extra chip used a set of pins on the board which do not exist on the NES.
Pokemon Gold and Silver are like this too! They're marketed as Gameboy Color games, but are actually fully compatible with the original Gameboy, with two full versions of the game loaded onto the cartridge, similar to what was done with Space Invaders
8:17, False, the cheat code for level select without damaging your cart is B-A-Right-A-C-Up-Down-A, it is a misspelling of Barracuda which is her Baracuda
I bought a copy of Gyromite specifically for the adapter. :)
It's a bit off to say that the Sonic 3D Blast trick "worked" to trick its way through Sega QA; most likely it never even came up during certification. But it's cute that it was there and took 20-odd years to be found.
9:05 omg I discovered that as a kid! I also discovered the Chaos Emerald farming method in Emerald Hill Zone Act 1 of Sonic 2.
Wow that 3D Blast secret is awesome to learn. As a kid I would sometimes get to a level select screen, but I never knew how I did it, it just happened.
Many games for the Super Nintendo actually used enhancement chips such as the FX or SA1 (an accelerator chip) without advertising -- but there's a *VERY* easy way to tell if the game uses one of these: check the PCB slot on the cartridge. A standard SNES game will have one row of pins in the center. But a chip-enhanced game needs extra data connections, so you'll find two smaller additional rows of pins to the left and right of the main row. Google "Super Mario RPG PCB" vs "Super Mario World PCB" to see what I mean.
Nowhere near all chip-enhanced SNES games had those. DSP games, for example, like Super Mario Kart and Pilotwings. They were also used for extra power, clock signal, or cartridge audio. Super Game Boy 2 and MSU-1 used the audio pins, for example.
I new of the Gyromite adapter issue, but I did not know it could have been in potential all 5 screw NES carts.
Damn Drew, you made me take apart my only 5 screw NES US game I have to check it out :D
I am PAL collector btw :P
Definitely would like to see a part 2! Great finds, Andrew
I’m new to your channel but just subbed, I like the quality of the production
Cool! When ever I watch one of these videos of yours I always learn something really awesome! Keep it up!
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Fair, but from what I read, it's more common to find a Famicom adapter inside Stack-Up, another ROB the Robot game, as that was the only variant of that game ever produced for the NES.
Nice touch with the Mario Kart DS music. Love your channel Nintendrew!
Awesome as always :D you should do more of these I'm sure there are more interesting cartridges if you dig deep enough
I have the Space Invaders game for the original Gameboy and have been wanting to see this arcade version when plugged into the SNES! Loved seeing it in this video. Must get a SNES asap 😆
Woah! Did you get a new camera? This video looks great!