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How to completely erase your CDs:

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crazy
 

coldmeat

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I would never get something as expensive as an iPhone for christmas from my parents, let alone a fucking car.

I did get Beats (~$220 on sale) but I will be returning them for some A900s probably.
 

alkemyst

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I would never get something as expensive as an iPhone for christmas from my parents, let alone a fucking car.

I did get Beats (~$220 on sale) but I will be returning them for some A900s probably.

maybe it's because you return the things they get you anyway ;)
 

CZroe

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In general, N64 games didn't need it. NES games did. Looks like a failed age test where people only experienced it in the last generation of carts and didn't know why (carried over habit that got passed around).
 

Newbian

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In general, N64 games didn't need it. NES games did. Looks like a failed age test where people only experienced it in the last generation of carts and didn't know why (carried over habit that got passed around).

Had it happened in n64 along with snes also so it works.
 

CZroe

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Had it happened in n64 along with snes also so it works.

Right, but it was generally something that could be solved through repeated insertions and removals alone. The act of removing it and blowing it before reinserting was rarely more effective than removing it and reinserting it without blowing and almost impossible to verify. Thus, it continued out of superstition. FWIW, Nintendo even said not to blow in NES game paks, as if that was the cause of the problem (moisture causing oxidation with no scrubbing contacts to remove). The problem was actually springy pins that would lose their springiness and create too light a contact when the cart was pushed against them. This often was made worse by inserting a second cartridge in an attempt to make the first work (forces it farther down) or by using an unofficial Game Genie, which had such a fat connector that it did not need to be pressed down.

Half-way through the SNES generation they stopped including dust covers and the Genesis switched to paper boxes with no storage case. Top-loaders did not really have the same problem as NES, as the redesigned NES attests to.
 
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Newbian

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So it happened so it is valid. :p

Plus it was more popular then compared to the nes early on so more people will get it.
 

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Lifer
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I never had it happen with my SNES or N64. Now with the NES, definitely.

We are talking with the cartridges and not the roms. :p

Plus the n64 ones were more unique shape and the nes ones could easily be confused with a lot other items as they were mostly square with the bottom just a bit different.

Now stop breaking the rules and post the funny images.
 
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Born2bwire

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We are talking with the cartridges and not the roms. :p

Plus the n64 ones were more unique shape and the nes ones could easily be confused with a lot other items as they were mostly square with the bottom just a bit different.

Now stop breaking the rules and post the funny images.

You first.
 

eits

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fail. n64 didn't need it... nes did.

edit: just read the other posts. yeah, sega games needed it, too. never needed it with n64 or snes. ALWAYS with nes... sometimes with sega (especially street fighter... wtf was that about?? didn't matter who's house i was at or if we got it from blockbuster... street fighter needed to get blown).
 
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