I considered it, but I would sort of miss collecting Genesis cartridges. That and collecting them is fairly cheap anyway. Flashcarts are cool I guess, but I don't like the idea of meddling with an old printer cable to write to them, though it might be worth the trouble.
No way, official and original stuff is worth something, and way better.
Nope.
If i had a flashcart i'd still be buying cartridges. Even on systems like the DS that I already have a flashcart for it just feels different playing a rom (not a particular game itself but just rather my will to want to play it), I know it's mostly in my head but it's enough to prefer the real thing. I'm mostly just interested in the more common games and I don't care about having them CIB so they're dirt cheap for the most part anyway. I wouldn't mind having a flashcart though to at least mess around with either.
I'd use a flashcart to play betas, hacks, and unreleased stuff.
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I use a flashcart to play anything I have a cart of, and for homebrew development, hacks, protos etc.
Agree with RsutyVenture, QuickSciFi and TmEE, and it would be very handy for a portable system. If on a regular console I'd just play carts. It may not require you to have as many carts, but then I wouldn't have that many carts! Carts are part of the fun.
I'd use a flash cart for anything that is economically impossible for me to manage.
I still prefer to use the original games though.
Well with a flash card you can play any game you want, but it won't be much fun since you have a choice of too much games to play at one time you probably go play some games for 5 minutes before going to the next one. Having and getting original carts will give you a smaller choice of games, but you're more likely to go play them all and more extensively, since in your mind they're more valuable than just a downloaded version.
Personally I think the same goes out for nowadays gaming (like PC-gaming, but X-Box 360 is also getting more and more popular for downloads)
If you buy two games or just download twenty...
EDIT: For beta's/unreleased or over-expensive and/or rare games it could be a good option though, since it's better than emulation :)
I'd rather have a modded Xbox with an expansion hard drive that contains every Genesis, 32X, and Sega CD game ever made, instantly available at my fingertips with a plethora of extra options and features not implemented on the original console.
Oh wait, I do. :)
But this is still very very true, believe me - I know from personal experience, as I have about 200 Dreamcast backups, 150 Saturn, 80 PSX, 50 GCN, 110 Xbox, and countless Genesis/SNES/NES/Atari/Intellivision/GB-C-A/DOS/CPS1/CPS2/NeoGeo/Mame...Quote:
Well with a flash card you can play any game you want, but it won't be much fun since you have a choice of too much games to play at one time you probably go play some games for 5 minutes before going to the next one. Having and getting original carts will give you a smaller choice of games, but you're more likely to go play them all and more extensively, since in your mind they're more valuable than just a downloaded version.
I think there's more, I can't remember right now.
I currently have 223 Megadrive/Genesis games all boxed with manual and i still ordered the Neo Flashcard.
why? simple, i really enjoy playing stuff on my real Megadrive so a flashcard is awesome for when i want to try out a cool hack
(russians love hacking megadrive games) or a translation (Bare Knuckle III here i come)
another reason is that a lot of later Pal games have been optimized,
which means i can not run them on 60hz fullscreen mode.
in this case its easy to just flash the US rom to my flashcard and then play it.
(though I'll still try to find the original)
But being a person with 2 modded xboxes with full romsets AND a Smartbross Copier
I think its safe to say that collecting was not just started because i wanted to play many games.
Its because i love my Sega and i enjoy seeing my shelf filled with games for it.
A flashcard is only going to allow me for some more fun.
The world would be a better place if their were more cartridge based systems in the world.
Flashcart any day! I prefer stealing stuff instead of buying it, that way I can spend my money on things that requires money to be obtained, such as whores.
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I'd prefer a flashcart right now, but that's because I just started collecting games and don't have many to play. ;)
Great forum BTW, full of good info.
I Prefer the original games though a flashcart would be nice for hacks, protos, and homebrew.
The only commercial games I used on a flashcart are ones that I owned on Virtual Console that I didn't own on console (don't sue me).
Other than that, I just use it for games that you can only get on the internet.
Flash Carts are cool, but I would never use them for anything more than awesome bootleg games.
I have a flashcart, but it didn't keep me from still buying games. But it comes handy for travel, that way I only have to pack my Nomad and one cartridge instead of many. And for tournaments it's perfect, because then you can play anything.
I think I'd only ever use it for, like everyone else has already mentioned, rare, unreleased or hacked games as well as a game I wouldn't be willing to take out of it's case were it factory sealed, or something fragile.
I'm pretty hardcore when it comes to collecting for my Genesis. I don't want every game for the system but there's a hundred plus titles I have on my "to buy" list. I insist on nothing but original mint CIB copies of Genesis games and I'm willing to pay through the nose if necessary. I am not interested in emulation or any such imitation. I only want the original games on the original hardware. :cool:
I like both. I have a CycloDS flash card for my DS, but I still buy all the games that I play.
I get the best of both worlds: the convenience of having all of my games in one simple to use, compact format, and I get to actually own my games.
I'd buy one just to play Eliminate Down and Gleylancer, but like *almost* everyone else said I would still collect carts. Movies, and music and tv shows are one thing, but I'll be damned if I don't own the original cartridge.