• grue@lemmy.world
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          10 months ago

          I don’t know what this gif is about; blowing in cartridges was an NES thing, not an SNES thing.

          Edit: you can downvote me, but I’ve owned a SNES since 1991 and have literally never felt the need to blow in a cartridge.

          Edit 2: By the way, blowing into the cartridge never actually worked to begin with, even on the NES. It only seemed like a thing because of the North American NES’s shitty push-in-then-down cartridge loading mechanism. Not only did top-loading consoles like the SNES and Sega Genesis not have the cartridge connection problems that led people to think they needed to blow on it, the top-loading revised NES didn’t either!

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            10 months ago

            I’m with you - I never had problems with my SNES games starting, whereas having to re-insert NES games was common. If other people had problems with SNES games, I never heard about it.

            It was shocking when I learned many years later that blowing on the cartridge did nothing.

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      10 months ago

      LOL, what load times? On old consoles, you hit the power switch and you’re instantly at the title screen.