There's a little bonus segment around 13:24 for those that watch the full video. Character in the thumbnail is from Fire Emblem Thracia 776, which was a Nintendo Power exclusive for several months. There's like 20 things i didn't know how to pronounce in this video 😮💨 FYI: Sim City was developed by Nintendo EAD under license from Maxis and published by Nintendo, so i considered it a first party title for this video
Finally getting around to this and man I am so sorry I missed it at launch - great job as always on the vid. I had no idea Nintendo ever did this!! This is wild!
This is one of those channels that consistently punch way above their weight. the production quality is above many much bigger players and i can't believe you do all the graphic work on top of everything else.
@@20sBurning I don't know anything other than what was in his statement about it. But he's still going to make videos, just not as his job anymore or as frequently.
I have several of these cartridges. It's pretty interesting seeing what games people put on their different cartridges. I also have one with the Fire Emblem game on it (even has the FE sticker on the cartridge). The guy I got it from (I live in Japan) said it was his favorite and he had lots of memories with it, so even with modern methods to rewrite these carts, I will keep this one preserved.
You think Nintendo 64 not doing well in Japan was another reason for this flash cart for the SFC? A way to keep generating sales in Japan? They were trying to compete with the second hand game sales by offering lots of titles via flash cart. Genres like Horse Racing dropped to only 2 titles for the 64 but there were 35 for the SFC. Fishing had 22 titles for the SFC but only 6 for the Nintendo 64.
I remember these games confusing young me on ROM sites, thinking they were connected to the American magazine. It is interesting how forward thinking some of the service was with the Internet manuals and guides way back then. I’m also amazed how long it lasted. The fact you could get SFC games written for real hardware after the Wii released is amazing. Same vibes as Dragon Quest X players playing together on Switch and Wii.
i mean once wii hit and they had the e-shop its basically the same concept, and they have ran a roms site ever since then. I usually dump on Nintendo when someone says they were the first at something, but they had that market nailed even back in the famicom days. It helped cut down on second hand sales and why rent when you can have RW media to play as long as you wanted. It was smart, think about it how many copies of super mario have we bought over the years lol
Great video, I remember having a R4 flash cart for the old DS, and trying to rip as many games to my 1GB microSD card as I could. I would later find out those DS games contained useless bloat data. After learning how to get rid of that bloat, I had more than twice as much space on that microSD. I bring this up because I wouldn't be surprised if Nintendo was bloating their games back then, facilitating the need to delete and repurchase games due to space limitations.
AKSHUALLY I think you might be pronouncing "Thracia" wrong. The kana read "to-ra-ki-a," and that's pretty much what people who live in real-world Thrace call their homeland.
WOW the amount of work you put into the presentation on this video is incredible! the graphic rendering and animation was so seamless and helpful to follow along with the narration. thank you for sharing another awesome story with us! 🤩🤩
I remember the first time I saw one of those machines on my very first trip to Japan in 1999 in, get this, a LAWSON. What are the chances of that happening! Still watching and enjoying the video, but I am very impressed with how far you have come with production.
I'm so stoked to have you back! You should consider making a $5 Patreon tier... I only have 3 other people I'm a Patreon of but now that you're back I could make some room for a fourth!
Thanks! Just saw your comments on the other videos, I appreciate you taking the time to watch those too. I'll probably be revamping my Patreon towards the end of the year/start of next year and have the thinking of doing a $5 tier. Great minds think alike. I've got a new video I'm working on now covering the making of/history of NBA jam. It should be out in about 2 weeks.
@@WrestlingWithGaming I can't explain how happy that makes me... glad you got your forearms issue fixed! The NBA Jam video should be a banger. You haven't skipped a beat in your production quality either!
It sounds like this service definitely had some issues, but I'm impressed that they got it to work reasonably well for a handful of years. The late 90s were a completely different era of technology and creating essentially a proto-eShop using physical flash carts is really cool stuff for the time. Thanks for the video, I hadn't heard of this at all and it was a really interesting watch.
I got a Thracia 776 NP cart. It's pretty neat! The service doesn't seem so nonsensical when you consider it as a successor to the Famicom Disk System's Disk Writer service, which did very similar functions for the FDS. The Satellaview also stored data in flash memory, although the distribution method was a bit more direct-to-consumer.
Thanks so much! I'm glad to see this video actually get recommended by TH-cam, it kinda bombed so I figured it was totally dead. Thanks again for the kind words.
Me posting two months in a row might be a sign of the apocalypse or something! But in all seriousness, I'm going to try to post at least once a month for the rest of the year.
Absolutely fascinating and I had no idea this existed, so thanks! I was going to mention the FDS Disk Writer kiosks but - of course - you have that covered. 🙂
The Ring ni Kakero game is an interesting example for the Nintendo Power service, as the game was actually originally intended for a physical release in 1995, but never happened due to the incoming launch of the Saturn & PlayStation, so the NP release it got in 1998 was pretty much the only chance for the game to ever see release. Also, the NP service is how the final Super Famicom game, Metal Slader Glory: Director's Cut in 2000, ever saw release as it was also an NP-exclusive.
Thanks for this! Your animations are always top notch and consistently surprise me, although the research and delivery are even more impressive. Glad to see you posting again!
Thanks! I'm going to try to post at least one new video a month the rest of the year. I didn't go quite as crazy with the 3D animations for this one as I did last month's game boy video since I wanted to show a lot of the old Nintendo Power website I dug up.
the gameboy was capable of far better graphics and sound, nintendo tricked us into thinking the GB couldnt do more than simple blocky graphics, then donkey kong land dropped and instantly told me nintendo was lying to us.
Thanks! My goal is to upload at least one video per month the rest of the year. Hopefully it actually happens lol. In case you missed it, I did put out a video last month covering the crazy development of the Game Boy.
Hey Bro, I just wanted to Thank you for making this video!!!! For years now, I have seen these Carts up for sale. And I heard a lot of mixed information about them, some true and some false. But this video was awesome and answered all my questions!!! Thank you again🤩👍❤️ Also did you know Super Punch-Out came out on Nintendo Power and never got a physical in Japan? That's one of my favorite games!!🤩👍❤️
Fantastic video! Super cool. I did not have any idea this was a thing in Japan. Glad to see the SFC was still getting some support so late in the console life. I know if this was in the USA at that time I would have probably got one. Thanks and keep up the good work.
Thanks gonna try to post at least one new video a month the rest of the year. In case you missed it, I also posted a deep dive into the Game Boy's crazy development history last month.
I had both of these growing up! At the time to my pre-teen self it definitely felt very cool and cutting-edge to be able to "download" games. This is how I played Super Mario Bros. DX when it was released exclusively in this format in Japan. I seem to remember inserting the cartridge myself at the kiosk but not sure. 🤷🏼♀️ The writing of the games seemed to take forever (remember how long it took to write save files on PS1 memory cards).
Yeah, you'd insert the cart into the kiosk but then the clerk would do the writing. I actually found a few Japanese blogs where people mentioned that the writing could take longer, so I'm sure you're right. I originally had it in the original script but didn't want to include what someone "felt" they remember from so long ago.
The Everdrive before the ever drive. I'm surprised Nintendo maxed it out at 32Mb since by the time the Nintendo Power was released Tales of Phantasia came out with 48Mb.
No problem! Love comments like these. People learning about new stuff from my channel really makes it rewarding. Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment.
That's awesome to hear. Love when I can bring something people haven't heard of to them. It's getting harder to do these days as seemingly everything's been covered. Thanks for watching!
Yahel!! Always stoked to see you pop up in my feed. I had a brief amount of knowledge on this topic before but it’s always interesting to get more of a deep dive on such an obscure item. It would be super rad to come across these carts in the wild and see what games people kept on them over time and if there are any ROMs that maybe only exist because of them. Looking forward to more of your content brother.
Thanks a lot! Gonna try to post at least one video a month the rest of the year. As for finding these in the wild, I'm kind of surprised they don't pop up at retro cons more often. They're not particularly rare.
It took Nintendo a long time to realize people should have access to what they already purchased. Even as recently as the Wii, purchases were tied to the console. It breaks, you’re screwed.
I wish Nintendo would offer this service again. I wouldn't mind paying reasonable prices or even a retro service with leaderboards and community based features, like game of the week, or individual game challenges the community could play at the same time and bring back some fun stuff like pictochat.
Bro, I just saw your notification in the feed. I **want** to watch it now, but I am currently not in a place with a big ass TV. As such I will wait until I get home to enjoy the work that you put into it. 0:20 immediately, I see your fare for lighting effects, even the details on the Nintendo Power is dope! Volume 31? 0:08
As long as it gets watched at some point I'm happy lol. Yes, I do believe I used issue 31 for the Nintendo power cover in the intro. I'm case you missed it I put out a video last month too! I've had a lot of people tell me TH-cam didn't notify or put the videos in their feed. It's crazy. Thanks for watching (later).
Your Game Boy is basically a movie!!! I always think your inclusion of somewhat worn things is such a dope choice. The used Game Boy boxes are such a striking reminder of my childhood. I doubt anyone else would show those smashed up boxes. Do you recall someone asking about a specific animation on your previous video? 5:42 Unsure if you remember, but I did ask about an animation that you included on the Game Boy video, was of two businessmen giving two handed handshake. This is to do with East Asian culture. If Japanese society is anything like Chinese society, it is a sign of respect to give and receive gifts, business cards, and Chinese New Year envelopes 🧧 with two hands Even though you said that including that animation ( of the Nintendo reps shaking the Citizen reps with two hands) was a choice of convenience, rather than being strictly deliberate, I do think it was a happy accident because ion shows a cultural insight on your part. 13:06 Nice work on the slightly dirty AC unit. and the lighting!! Your eye for showing actual spaces is so important. Also, I like how as your channel has grown, you include previously covered subjects from those videos. 12:36 Perfect Dark X-Band Power Glove
Unlike Nintendo Power, the FDS Disk Writer service didn't require bespoke media since all FDS disks were rewritable. This has resulted in some people buying used FDS disks and finding out the game on the disk wasn't the one on the label!
Thanks! I'm going try to post at least one new video a month the rest of the year. In case you missed it, I also posted a deep dive into the Game Boy's crazy development history last month.
Would have blown my mind to have been able to purchase one of these back in the day. Anyways, I must say this is an awesome documentary! Please keep these videos coming.
Great video, Yahel! I have a couple of the SFC carts (boxed) in my collection but honestly never bothered with them, I just thought they were cool collectibles. Now I know that there is a lot more to them, I'll be sure to investigate what is on my cartridges!
Mystery solved! I saw this in a random store in China Town in Toronto Canada back in the 90's but it had been modified to work with North American SNES carts. I had no idea what it was, as I'm sure they were essentially bootleggers for the games & I'd gone in to buy some Dragonball Z trading cards at the time & found it odd they didn't have actual games for sale but had this machine which clearly fit SNES carts.
Thanks! I'm pleasantly surprised it seems a lot of people hadn't heard of these, or at least not much about them. They've been covered before for sure but I felt like the videos I watched were all pretty surface level in the coverage.
That's awesome. Love to hear when I'm able to bring something new to someone. It's harder to do these days. It feels like every little thing has been covered sometimes.
I got one of these while looking for a copy of Thracia 776 in Japan last year. The game did original have a special edition retail release that came on the SF Memory Casette prior to the standalone cartridge release (which is much more rare given the late release date for a SNES game)
Ah yes, the business model that has them making money hand over fist. You sure got them there. Nintendo is a for profit company. Their goal is to... Make money. People buying and selling secondhand games means they don't make money. Like it or not, that's a problem for them. To be clear, I think once you buy it, you should be able to do whatever the hell you want with it, but this whole weird thing of "for profit company is evil because they don't like reselling of games" kind of ignores the fact that they're a for profit business. ಠ_ಠ
@@lookitskazzy I think it is okay for a company to make a product and sell it. However, once you buy the product then as the user you should be able to own that product. This means you can do whatever you want with it. The original company who created the product literally has no control over such product once they initial sale of the product has transpired. This is why now you see streaming services and software services where you cannot buy and own the product, but rather you can only rent the product. I would argue tho, that these practices are unethical and overly greedy. If you are a video game company, your job is just to make good games, and if you do that then people will buy your product. But the secondary market, that is not within a video game companies jurisdiction and they should stay out of that territory.
I wish I could remember how I learned about them a few years ago lol. It's easy to see why they're kinda unknown. Not only were they Japan exclusive but they didn't get a lot of marketing behind them. Plus if you search for Nintendo Power without adding "cartridge" you pretty much just get results about the magazine. Thanks for watching!
Pretty cool such flash card fron nintendo, but it’s sad there was no N64,gbc,gba or nes cartride of it because they could,ve sold economically more games that way as well. Eventrough there was the famicom disk system version of it the flashible disk, So consider those services as the precursor of the eshop service.
Thank you, Yahel. This is an awesome and informative video. Def a product that was a head of it's time but far from perfect. I wish they refined it more as it had a lot of potential... Good thing Everdrive did 😛
I heard about this service but didn't know the details. Wish we had something like this in the US. If the games were a little cheaper, they could have sold well.
Sigh. Can't say I'm surprised. In TH-cam analytics it says only 4k notifications were sent for the game boy video. I know not everyone has them on but I'm sure more than that out of my 108K subs have notifications on lol
would it have been worth it to buy multiple carts so you can keep your purchases on the carts and whenever it got full you just get another flash cart?
Sure do! I actually went pretty light on the 3D animations in this video. The one before this, a video about the crazy development of the three Game Boy, has away more animations that are a lot more complex. I kind of gave myself a bit of a break on this one and kept it simple.
Buddy, an excellent documentary, I remember reading about these flash cards, but never got the chance to learn about it. Other than, I thought these were good ideas in my arcade-bound childhood. Anyways, now I know, and as GI Joe would say- ahem "Now you know, and that's just half the battle" 😜😁🤜🤛🖖👍
Glad you enjoyed it. I always loved the look of these carts too. The service itself is a bit janky as far as execution but it would've been cool to have gotten this in the US too.
There's a little bonus segment around 13:24 for those that watch the full video.
Character in the thumbnail is from Fire Emblem Thracia 776, which was a Nintendo Power exclusive for several months.
There's like 20 things i didn't know how to pronounce in this video 😮💨
FYI: Sim City was developed by Nintendo EAD under license from Maxis and published by Nintendo, so i considered it a first party title for this video
Great video! I had no idea such devices existed.
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it. These are cool little carts, just a bit odd.
typo in description - "Ninte Nintendo"
I typed in Lilgaman in Google. I got LIL' Guardsmen.
I search wizardry 123
Wizardry I•II•III: Story of Llylgamyn
EDIT
Nintendo : where u get that rom!?
Me : From you, in 1998
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@@WrestlingWithGaming 😆
Finally getting around to this and man I am so sorry I missed it at launch - great job as always on the vid. I had no idea Nintendo ever did this!! This is wild!
Thanks man!
Wizardry mentioned!
My self esteem will never recover
My fave canadian game that mostly the japanese liked
This is one of those channels that consistently punch way above their weight. the production quality is above many much bigger players and i can't believe you do all the graphic work on top of everything else.
Thanks so much for the compliments. Hopefully one day I'll work smarter and not make so much work for myself lol. I kid, I kid.
What is this? 2 videos in a year? 😳
lmao. I'm trying to get at least one video out a month going forward. We'll see if it actually happens lol
Take your time, I honestly prefer your videos due to their high quality
@@box7101 just for that, next video will be out tomorrow.
(No, it will not)
@@WrestlingWithGaming Don't rush ❤
@@WrestlingWithGaming Take your time, dude. Thank you, but try to do it to avoid getting burned out.
With Gaming Historian stepping back, it's good to see you making a comeback.
Thanks! Those are big shoes that can never be filled but I'm definitely happy to be able to make content again
Any idea on why Gaming Historian stepped back? I loved his content too
@@20sBurning I don't know anything other than what was in his statement about it. But he's still going to make videos, just not as his job anymore or as frequently.
@@WrestlingWithGaming Fill his pants instead.
@@20sBurningI heard @wrestlingwithgaming threatened to DDT him if he didn’t step aside.
I have one of these for the Super Famicom. It has a port of Super Mario Land for the SFC on it. )
Did the original owner actually use the label stickers? Seems like hardly anyone did.
@@WrestlingWithGaming Nah. But it was cool that the programmer of the Super Mario Land port was able to put it on one of these!
I have several of these cartridges. It's pretty interesting seeing what games people put on their different cartridges. I also have one with the Fire Emblem game on it (even has the FE sticker on the cartridge). The guy I got it from (I live in Japan) said it was his favorite and he had lots of memories with it, so even with modern methods to rewrite these carts, I will keep this one preserved.
It's a piece of history for sure
Thanks for your hard work and excellent Journalism.
You think Nintendo 64 not doing well in Japan was another reason for this flash cart for the SFC? A way to keep generating sales in Japan? They were trying to compete with the second hand game sales by offering lots of titles via flash cart. Genres like Horse Racing dropped to only 2 titles for the 64 but there were 35 for the SFC. Fishing had 22 titles for the SFC but only 6 for the Nintendo 64.
Glad to see you recovered man from your hand injuries. I missed the previous video but got this one! Nice to see one of my favourite channels back.
Thanks! I'm glad you have recovered too 😅
I remember these games confusing young me on ROM sites, thinking they were connected to the American magazine. It is interesting how forward thinking some of the service was with the Internet manuals and guides way back then.
I’m also amazed how long it lasted. The fact you could get SFC games written for real hardware after the Wii released is amazing. Same vibes as Dragon Quest X players playing together on Switch and Wii.
Yeah, how long it ran was the biggest surprise for me
i mean once wii hit and they had the e-shop its basically the same concept, and they have ran a roms site ever since then. I usually dump on Nintendo when someone says they were the first at something, but they had that market nailed even back in the famicom days. It helped cut down on second hand sales and why rent when you can have RW media to play as long as you wanted. It was smart, think about it how many copies of super mario have we bought over the years lol
Great video, I remember having a R4 flash cart for the old DS, and trying to rip as many games to my 1GB microSD card as I could. I would later find out those DS games contained useless bloat data. After learning how to get rid of that bloat, I had more than twice as much space on that microSD. I bring this up because I wouldn't be surprised if Nintendo was bloating their games back then, facilitating the need to delete and repurchase games due to space limitations.
AKSHUALLY I think you might be pronouncing "Thracia" wrong. The kana read "to-ra-ki-a," and that's pretty much what people who live in real-world Thrace call their homeland.
Absolutely love your content.
Thanks! Appreciate it!
SNES Flash Cart from the 90's: I can hold 7 games.
Chrono Trigger: Hold my beer.
I still have my SF memory cassettes! I have Estpolis Denki, Lennus 2, and Dracula X on them
WOW the amount of work you put into the presentation on this video is incredible! the graphic rendering and animation was so seamless and helpful to follow along with the narration. thank you for sharing another awesome story with us! 🤩🤩
Aww thanks. One of these days I'll work smarter and not spend so much time on the visuals 😅
Excited to see you upload again. I hope this means we’ll get more vids throughout the year
I'm glad to be uploading again myself lol. My goal is to upload at least one video per month the rest of the year. Hopefully it actually happens lol
I remember the first time I saw one of those machines on my very first trip to Japan in 1999 in, get this, a LAWSON. What are the chances of that happening! Still watching and enjoying the video, but I am very impressed with how far you have come with production.
Heck, Lawson loppi machines today still sell Nintendo stuff. Crazy. Good to see you!
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I'm so stoked to have you back! You should consider making a $5 Patreon tier... I only have 3 other people I'm a Patreon of but now that you're back I could make some room for a fourth!
Thanks! Just saw your comments on the other videos, I appreciate you taking the time to watch those too. I'll probably be revamping my Patreon towards the end of the year/start of next year and have the thinking of doing a $5 tier. Great minds think alike. I've got a new video I'm working on now covering the making of/history of NBA jam. It should be out in about 2 weeks.
@@WrestlingWithGaming I can't explain how happy that makes me... glad you got your forearms issue fixed! The NBA Jam video should be a banger. You haven't skipped a beat in your production quality either!
@livefreeprintguns thanks!
It sounds like this service definitely had some issues, but I'm impressed that they got it to work reasonably well for a handful of years. The late 90s were a completely different era of technology and creating essentially a proto-eShop using physical flash carts is really cool stuff for the time. Thanks for the video, I hadn't heard of this at all and it was a really interesting watch.
Glad you enjoyed it. I miss the experimentation we used to see from companies back then. Thanks for watching!
I got a Thracia 776 NP cart. It's pretty neat!
The service doesn't seem so nonsensical when you consider it as a successor to the Famicom Disk System's Disk Writer service, which did very similar functions for the FDS.
The Satellaview also stored data in flash memory, although the distribution method was a bit more direct-to-consumer.
I'm glad a last minute model i sent you made you do juuussttt one more 3d shot. That makes me happy.
I don't know whether to thank you for sending it or course you 😂. Thankfully it was only like 7 seconds long
This is why I love Yahel's videos. Great gaming documentaries that cover stuff I wouldn't have otherwise known about.
You're the man Yahel!
Thanks!
This is such a great channel, I'm glad this was on my feed yesterday, this guy is the man!!
Thanks so much! I'm glad to see this video actually get recommended by TH-cam, it kinda bombed so I figured it was totally dead. Thanks again for the kind words.
Glad to see more frequent postings
Me posting two months in a row might be a sign of the apocalypse or something! But in all seriousness, I'm going to try to post at least once a month for the rest of the year.
Absolutely fascinating and I had no idea this existed, so thanks! I was going to mention the FDS Disk Writer kiosks but - of course - you have that covered. 🙂
Had to mention it or I knew it'd get brought up in the comments lol. Which, to be fair, makes total sense. Basically the precursor.
The Ring ni Kakero game is an interesting example for the Nintendo Power service, as the game was actually originally intended for a physical release in 1995, but never happened due to the incoming launch of the Saturn & PlayStation, so the NP release it got in 1998 was pretty much the only chance for the game to ever see release. Also, the NP service is how the final Super Famicom game, Metal Slader Glory: Director's Cut in 2000, ever saw release as it was also an NP-exclusive.
Thanks for this! Your animations are always top notch and consistently surprise me, although the research and delivery are even more impressive. Glad to see you posting again!
Thanks! I'm going to try to post at least one new video a month the rest of the year. I didn't go quite as crazy with the 3D animations for this one as I did last month's game boy video since I wanted to show a lot of the old Nintendo Power website I dug up.
“This will solve the second hand problem” so Nintendo has always been pricks.
the gameboy was capable of far better graphics and sound, nintendo tricked us into thinking the GB couldnt do more than simple blocky graphics, then donkey kong land dropped and instantly told me nintendo was lying to us.
Best channel in whole TH-cam. Thanks for your amazing work!
So glad to be seeing more of your content, great video!
Thanks! My goal is to upload at least one video per month the rest of the year. Hopefully it actually happens lol. In case you missed it, I did put out a video last month covering the crazy development of the Game Boy.
@@WrestlingWithGaming yep I saw it!
Good to hear! A lot of people have commented on this one that they thought this was my return video. Good old TH-cam. Thanks for watching!
Great video. I really like your informative style and presentation. Thank you and I hope you upload more!
Thanks! Going to try to post at one new video a month the rest of the year. Sometimes it's a bit tough because the 3D stuff can be time consuming
Hey Bro, I just wanted to Thank you for making this video!!!! For years now, I have seen these Carts up for sale. And I heard a lot of mixed information about them, some true and some false. But this video was awesome and answered all my questions!!! Thank you again🤩👍❤️
Also did you know Super Punch-Out came out on Nintendo Power and never got a physical in Japan? That's one of my favorite games!!🤩👍❤️
Thanks for the kind words and for watching. Glad you enjoyed it!
What a great episode... Thank you!
I had never heard of this before. Fantastic video!
Thank you!
Fantastic video! Super cool. I did not have any idea this was a thing in Japan. Glad to see the SFC was still getting some support so late in the console life. I know if this was in the USA at that time I would have probably got one. Thanks and keep up the good work.
Thanks for the kind words! It's amazing to me how long the service lasted.
Always great to see a new video from you!
Thanks gonna try to post at least one new video a month the rest of the year. In case you missed it, I also posted a deep dive into the Game Boy's crazy development history last month.
Very cool! Thanks for your great work!
Thanks for watching!
I had both of these growing up! At the time to my pre-teen self it definitely felt very cool and cutting-edge to be able to "download" games. This is how I played Super Mario Bros. DX when it was released exclusively in this format in Japan. I seem to remember inserting the cartridge myself at the kiosk but not sure. 🤷🏼♀️ The writing of the games seemed to take forever (remember how long it took to write save files on PS1 memory cards).
Yeah, you'd insert the cart into the kiosk but then the clerk would do the writing. I actually found a few Japanese blogs where people mentioned that the writing could take longer, so I'm sure you're right. I originally had it in the original script but didn't want to include what someone "felt" they remember from so long ago.
A well edited and very well informative video :) I had heard of these, but never knew how it looks or how it works :D
Thanks!
What if Nintendo is suing themselves over these Official Nintendo Power Flash Carts?
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Really good to see you my friend keep up the good work hopefully I'll see you in a live stream again
Thanks. I'll probably stream tonight!
Okay cool look forward to that later
cool video, great topic and the presentation is top notch
Thanks so much!
The Everdrive before the ever drive. I'm surprised Nintendo maxed it out at 32Mb since by the time the Nintendo Power was released Tales of Phantasia came out with 48Mb.
Yeah. My guess was to keep it under a certain price point or they felt it would fail
Wow, I never knew about this! Thanks for the info, man!
No problem! Love comments like these. People learning about new stuff from my channel really makes it rewarding. Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment.
@@WrestlingWithGaming No problem, man!
That's soo cool! It would be neat if they did that for Nintendo Switch.
Never knew about these, great info as always!
That's awesome to hear. Love when I can bring something people haven't heard of to them. It's getting harder to do these days as seemingly everything's been covered. Thanks for watching!
So glad you are making videos again… 😊
Thanks! Glad to be back!
Yahel!! Always stoked to see you pop up in my feed.
I had a brief amount of knowledge on this topic before but it’s always interesting to get more of a deep dive on such an obscure item. It would be super rad to come across these carts in the wild and see what games people kept on them over time and if there are any ROMs that maybe only exist because of them. Looking forward to more of your content brother.
Thanks a lot! Gonna try to post at least one video a month the rest of the year. As for finding these in the wild, I'm kind of surprised they don't pop up at retro cons more often. They're not particularly rare.
It took Nintendo a long time to realize people should have access to what they already purchased. Even as recently as the Wii, purchases were tied to the console. It breaks, you’re screwed.
Right when dinner is ready this video drops?! Let’s go!!! I know what I’m watching right now.
I wish Nintendo would offer this service again. I wouldn't mind paying reasonable prices or even a retro service with leaderboards and community based features, like game of the week, or individual game challenges the community could play at the same time and bring back some fun stuff like pictochat.
Imagine if publishers partnered up w/ analogue to create cartridges like this or manufacture on demand games.
I really enjoyed the content keep up the hard work
Great editing!
Thanks! I try!
Bro, I just saw your notification in the feed. I **want** to watch it now, but I am currently not in a place with a big ass TV. As such I will wait until I get home to enjoy the work that you put into it. 0:20 immediately, I see your fare for lighting effects, even the details on the Nintendo Power is dope! Volume 31? 0:08
As long as it gets watched at some point I'm happy lol. Yes, I do believe I used issue 31 for the Nintendo power cover in the intro. I'm case you missed it I put out a video last month too! I've had a lot of people tell me TH-cam didn't notify or put the videos in their feed. It's crazy. Thanks for watching (later).
@@WrestlingWithGaming Bro, I saw it! Fantastic work on the Gameboy. I thoroughly enjoyed learning about the Citizen - Nintendo stuff.
@@Doo-l5x thanks! The Game Boy's development is so wild. It'd make for a great movie.
Your Game Boy is basically a movie!!! I always think your inclusion of somewhat worn things is such a dope choice. The used Game Boy boxes are such a striking reminder of my childhood. I doubt anyone else would show those smashed up boxes.
Do you recall someone asking about a specific animation on your previous video?
5:42
Unsure if you remember, but I did ask about an animation that you included on the Game Boy video, was of two businessmen giving two handed handshake.
This is to do with East Asian culture. If Japanese society is anything like Chinese society, it is a sign of respect to give and receive gifts, business cards, and Chinese New Year envelopes 🧧 with two hands
Even though you said that including that animation ( of the Nintendo reps shaking the Citizen reps with two hands) was a choice of convenience, rather than being strictly deliberate, I do think it was a happy accident because ion shows a cultural insight on your part.
13:06 Nice work on the slightly dirty AC unit. and the lighting!!
Your eye for showing actual spaces is so important.
Also, I like how as your channel has grown, you include previously covered subjects from those videos.
12:36
Perfect Dark
X-Band
Power Glove
Unlike Nintendo Power, the FDS Disk Writer service didn't require bespoke media since all FDS disks were rewritable. This has resulted in some people buying used FDS disks and finding out the game on the disk wasn't the one on the label!
Nice to see you back
Thanks!
@@WrestlingWithGaming just realized I missed last month's Game Boy video...I'm watching that now =)
Great to See You are back ❤
Thanks! I'm going try to post at least one new video a month the rest of the year. In case you missed it, I also posted a deep dive into the Game Boy's crazy development history last month.
Would have blown my mind to have been able to purchase one of these back in the day. Anyways, I must say this is an awesome documentary! Please keep these videos coming.
Yeah it sucks that we didn't get these outside of Japan but I suspect they felt there would be a greater risk for piracy elsewhere
Great cameo from St1ka
Great video, Yahel!
I have a couple of the SFC carts (boxed) in my collection but honestly never bothered with them, I just thought they were cool collectibles. Now I know that there is a lot more to them, I'll be sure to investigate what is on my cartridges!
Nice! Maybe you've got some NP exclusives on there.
St1ka is awesome. Great video
Thanks! Totally agree about St1ka. Great guy and makes awesome content.
Another video so soon? Awesome, thanks man!!!
Shocking, right? lol. I'm trying to get at least one video out a month.
Mystery solved! I saw this in a random store in China Town in Toronto Canada back in the 90's but it had been modified to work with North American SNES carts. I had no idea what it was, as I'm sure they were essentially bootleggers for the games & I'd gone in to buy some Dragonball Z trading cards at the time & found it odd they didn't have actual games for sale but had this machine which clearly fit SNES carts.
awesome video, had no idea as much as I know about obscure nintendo.
Thanks! And I hear ya. It's harder and harder to find obscure stuff to cover these days. Feels like everything's been covered
Really love your videos, man
Thank you! I appreciate you watching.
Man. So glad you're back in the content game homie. Another educating video that taught me a bunch of things I did not know. Bitchin. 🤘
Thanks! I'm pleasantly surprised it seems a lot of people hadn't heard of these, or at least not much about them. They've been covered before for sure but I felt like the videos I watched were all pretty surface level in the coverage.
stuff I didn't know for once!
very cool
That's awesome. Love to hear when I'm able to bring something new to someone. It's harder to do these days. It feels like every little thing has been covered sometimes.
These are so awesome and make my imagination run wild with what it must have been like in 80s/90s Japan...🤔🍊🤙
I got one of these while looking for a copy of Thracia 776 in Japan last year. The game did original have a special edition retail release that came on the SF Memory Casette prior to the standalone cartridge release (which is much more rare given the late release date for a SNES game)
Thinking back on it I'm so lucky the original owner never erased the copy of Thracia from the cart
The fact that Nintendo ( a company ) thinks that the second hand market is " a problem " says a lot about their business model.
Ah yes, the business model that has them making money hand over fist. You sure got them there.
Nintendo is a for profit company. Their goal is to... Make money. People buying and selling secondhand games means they don't make money. Like it or not, that's a problem for them.
To be clear, I think once you buy it, you should be able to do whatever the hell you want with it, but this whole weird thing of "for profit company is evil because they don't like reselling of games" kind of ignores the fact that they're a for profit business. ಠ_ಠ
@@lookitskazzy I think it is okay for a company to make a product and sell it.
However, once you buy the product then as the user you should be able to own that product.
This means you can do whatever you want with it. The original company who created the product literally has no control over such product once they initial sale of the product has transpired.
This is why now you see streaming services and software services where you cannot buy and own the product, but rather you can only rent the product.
I would argue tho, that these practices are unethical and overly greedy.
If you are a video game company, your job is just to make good games, and if you do that then people will buy your product.
But the secondary market, that is not within a video game companies jurisdiction and they should stay out of that territory.
I had no idea! Japanese convenience stores were always amazing!
Just in time for Gaming Historian leaving.
Awesome job Yahel!
Thanks Vanessa :-)
Great video man.
Thanks! I appreciate it!
It's basically a sneakernet eShop. Nowadays, the flashcart is built into the console.
Fuck yes. So happy you did this topic
I am a game nerd, and I have never heard of this before. What a cool and interesting topic!
I wish I could remember how I learned about them a few years ago lol. It's easy to see why they're kinda unknown. Not only were they Japan exclusive but they didn't get a lot of marketing behind them. Plus if you search for Nintendo Power without adding "cartridge" you pretty much just get results about the magazine. Thanks for watching!
@@WrestlingWithGaming Really cool. And the irony of Nintendo selling ROMs is certainly not lost! I shall always watch - your videos are great!
Damn you for bringing another piece of gaming history to my attention that I will have to add to my collection!!! Damn you to hell!!! 😊
Haha . Well, at least these carts can still be found relatively cheap on eBay 😅
Great video!!!
Thank you!!
Ohhh that's why some roms are labeled (NP). Very cool.
Yep!
Hello Wrastlin, great to see a new video. Looking forward to watching this. See you hopefully on Nerds stream. 😁
CDi posse!
Thanks! I might stream myself tonight
A+ content as always
Thank you!
Pretty cool such flash card fron nintendo, but it’s sad there was no N64,gbc,gba or nes cartride of it because they could,ve sold economically more games that way as well.
Eventrough there was the famicom disk system version of it the flashible disk,
So consider those services as the precursor of the eshop service.
Your back!!
Sure am! Technically this is my second video back. I put out a deep dive into the game boy's development history in April too.
@@WrestlingWithGaming Cool I'll check it out. I had a Game Gear myself instead of Game Boy due to it being in colour.
Now I regret not buying one of these at a convention that had DKC 2 and Shin Megami Tensei 2 😭
Thank you, Yahel. This is an awesome and informative video. Def a product that was a head of it's time but far from perfect. I wish they refined it more as it had a lot of potential... Good thing Everdrive did 😛
Thanks! Yeah, it's an interesting product but I feel like it was someone's pet project at Nintendo that somehow got to market.
I heard about this service but didn't know the details. Wish we had something like this in the US. If the games were a little cheaper, they could have sold well.
Enjoyed watching this, never even knew nintendo did this.
Didn't get a notification for the gameboy video, and I've got the Bell belling O_o
Sigh. Can't say I'm surprised. In TH-cam analytics it says only 4k notifications were sent for the game boy video. I know not everyone has them on but I'm sure more than that out of my 108K subs have notifications on lol
would it have been worth it to buy multiple carts so you can keep your purchases on the carts and whenever it got full you just get another flash cart?
This goes a long way toward explaining why Thracia 776 is the way it is. Super interesting video.
It really does. And thanks! Always nice to see you in the comments
Do you do all the animations yourself? They're lovely!
Sure do! I actually went pretty light on the 3D animations in this video. The one before this, a video about the crazy development of the three Game Boy, has away more animations that are a lot more complex. I kind of gave myself a bit of a break on this one and kept it simple.
Ironically the technology of these and the various copier machines around at the time showed people how to creat the flash carts we enjoy now
Buddy, an excellent documentary, I remember reading about these flash cards, but never got the chance to learn about it. Other than, I thought these were good ideas in my arcade-bound childhood. Anyways, now I know, and as GI Joe would say- ahem "Now you know, and that's just half the battle" 😜😁🤜🤛🖖👍
Glad you enjoyed it. I always loved the look of these carts too. The service itself is a bit janky as far as execution but it would've been cool to have gotten this in the US too.