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Blerk #1 10 years ago

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So the cards actually have complete NES games on them which are emulated on the GBA? Coooooooool! Except for one thing - price $4.95. Translate to European prices - �44.95. Possibly.
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Razz #2 10 years ago

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Nah, Nintendo's been quite fair with their prices recently, take Smash Bros Melee, decent game, decent price.

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Whizzo #3 10 years ago

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Hmm it's almost like the good old Mastertronic days with pricing like that...
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Razz #4 10 years ago

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OMG! I remember that. The er... card reader on the Master System I. Anyone ever use it?

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Jos #5 10 years ago

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I think it is cool that there are some interesting new ideas coming through. This card reading/cheap games thing, Sony's slightly mental webcam input interface (tried it at GameOn - bit clunky but very addictive), console/handheld links, managed internet gaming...

Not that they will all work or be successful but it's a nice counterpoint to the bitter taste of endless crappy formulaic copycat FPS's or MMOLRPG's etc..
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Groggen #6 10 years ago

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Just wait until they release the GBA add-on screen thingy so we can play Game&Watch Donkey Kong and Green House in their full glory.
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Sonics_Idiot_Brother #7 10 years ago

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Dont know why, but this reminds me of the awful barcode battler from the early 90s.
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DocX #8 10 years ago

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"Dont know why, but this reminds me of the awful barcode battler from the early 90s."

Yeah that's what I was thinking. Japanese kids invading supermarkets & scanning everything in sight. Some obscure brand of instant noodles became a brand leader overnight when they discovered its bar code gave you some super-robot or something.
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Gestalt #9 10 years ago

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I wonder how much the noodle company paid 'em for that privilege.
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otto #10 10 years ago

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We're not still talking about that flag are we?
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#11 10 years ago

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Barcode Battler.. urgh!

With NES & Game&Watch games on this thing I will get it for sure! Damn you for making me buy this Nintendo!

..and they BETTER make the G&W game vermin available. Best game ever.

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Sonics_Idiot_Brother #12 10 years ago

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http://www.jagaroth.freeserve.co.uk/articles/barcode/
Oh dear...

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Pirotic #13 10 years ago

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i wonder if you can just print off the barcodes rather than spending �5 on a pack of 4, and some games require you to swipe all 4 cards in before you can play which could get annoying.

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reto #14 10 years ago

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i wonder if you can just print off the barcodes rather than spending �5 on a pack of 4, and some games require you to swipe all 4 cards in before you can play which could get annoying.

The article above dosent state if its a barcode or magnetic stripe. I doubt it will be a barcode, to easy to copy as you suggested.
And checking IGN its not a barcode.

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Azule #15 10 years ago

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The article above dosent state if its a barcode or magnetic stripe

I'm not sure what they're calling it, but you can see for yourself. It's another one of those proprietary sytems Nintendo made up. I think it holds some small amount of data in the K's.

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Pirotic #16 10 years ago

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2k of data per card, which is why you need about 5 cards to get the names working on it.

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#17 10 years ago

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Holographic cards .. Why?

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otto #18 10 years ago

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why not?

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sickpuppysoftware #19 10 years ago

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Every day my piss-take idea of Bagatelle Advance comes closer to reality.

*Goes off to start writing Super Shove Ha'penny Advance

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